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 === Summary ===
-|| ||||||'''Castes'''||||'''Artless'''||||'''Art Use'''||
+{| class="wikitable"
-|| ||'''Solar / Abyssal'''||'''Sidereal'''||'''Terrestrial'''||'''Penalty'''||'''Charms'''||'''Free'''||'''Benefit'''||
+! !! colspan="3" | Castes !! rowspan="2" | Artless Penalty !! colspan="3" | Art Use
-|| '''Athletics''' || Night / Day || Serenity || Fire || -0 || no Dodge or Thrown || one || access to additional charms ||
+|-
-|| '''Awareness''' || Night / Day || Endings || Earth ||||||||arts not used||
+! !! Solar / Abyssal !! Sidereal !! Terrestrial !! Charms !! Free !! Benefit
-|| '''Bureaucracy''' || Eclipse / Moonshadow || Endings || Water || -3 || cost double || one || standard charm cost||
+|-
-|| '''Craft''' || Twilight / Dawn || Serenity || Earth || -2 || none allowed || one || standard charm use||
+| '''Athletics''' || Night / Day || Serenity || Fire || -0 || no Dodge or Thrown || one || access to additional charms
-|| '''Dominion''' || Dawn / Dusk || Journeys || Wood ||||||||arts not used||
+|-
-|| '''Fight''' || Dawn / Dusk || Battles || Water || -2 || none allowed || per dot || charm use within style||
+| '''Awareness''' || Night / Day || Endings || Earth || colspan="4" | arts not used
-|| '''Instruction''' || Eclipse / Moonshadow || Endings || Air ||||||||arts not used||
+|-
-|| '''Integrity''' || Zenith / Midnight || Journeys || Earth ||||||||arts not used||
+| '''Bureaucracy''' || Eclipse / Moonshadow || Endings || Water || -3 || cost double || one || standard charm cost
-|| '''Investigation''' || Twilight / Dawn || Secrets || Water ||||||||arts not used||
+|-
-|| '''Larceny''' || Night / Day || Secrets || Water || -0 || any || none || lowers difficulty||
+| '''Craft''' || Twilight / Dawn || Serenity || Earth || -2 || none allowed || one || standard charm use
-|| '''Linguistics''' || Night / Day || Serenity || Air || -4, +3 diff || any || per dot || fluency||
+|-
-|| '''Lore''' || Twilight / Dawn || Secrets || Air || -4 || any || per dot || eliminates penalty||
+| '''Dominion''' || Dawn / Dusk || Journeys || Wood || colspan="4" | arts not used
-|| '''Medicine''' || Twilight / Dawn || Endings || Wood || -0 || any || none || reducing difficulty||
+|-
-|| '''Occult''' || Twilight / Dawn || Secrets || Air || -0 || any || none || +2 dice||
+| '''Fight''' || Dawn / Dusk || Battles || Water || -2 || none allowed || per dot || charm use within style
-|| '''Ordinance''' || Dawn / Dusk || Battles || Fire || -2 || none allowed || per dot || charm use within style, with warstriders||
+|-
-|| '''Performance''' || Zenith / Midnight || Serenity || Wood || -2 || none allowed || one || standard charm use||
+| '''Instruction''' || Eclipse / Moonshadow || Endings || Air || colspan="4" | arts not used
-|| '''Politics''' || Eclipse / Moonshadow || Endings || Fire ||||||||arts not used||
+|-
-|| '''Presence''' || Zenith / Midnight || Battles || Fire ||||||||arts not used||
+| '''Integrity''' || Zenith / Midnight || Journeys || Earth || colspan="4" | arts not used
-|| '''Profession''' || Eclipse / Moonshadow || Journeys || Water || -2 || none allowed || one || standard charm use, additional trees||
+|-
-|| '''Ranged''' || Dawn / Dusk || Journeys || Wood || -2 || none allowed || per 2 dots || charm use within style||
+| '''Investigation''' || Twilight / Dawn || Secrets || Water || colspan="4" | arts not used
-|| '''Resistance''' || Zenith / Midnight || Battles || Earth ||||||||arts not used||
+|-
-|| '''Socialize''' || Eclipse / Moonshadow || Serenity || Fire ||||||||arts not used||
+| '''Larceny''' || Night / Day || Secrets || Water || -0 || any || none || lowers difficulty
-|| '''Stealth''' || Night / Day || Secrets || Air ||||||||arts not used||
+|-
-|| '''Survival''' || Zenith / Midnight || Journeys || Wood || -3 || double cost || one || standard cost||
+| '''Linguistics''' || Night / Day || Serenity || Air || -4, +3 diff || any || per dot || fluency
-|| '''War''' || Dawn / Dusk || Battles || Earth ||||||||arts not used||
+|-
 == Abilities ==

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−	Exalted's skill system works fairly well for a high-combat, occult kung-fu, demigods-looking-cool style game. My[[Wordman~~/AbilityRedesign~~/AbilityExpansionSystem]] provides general mechanisms for tweaking the cost and scope of skills to tailor them to any campaign. The rules that follow use my ability expansion system to radically overhaul Exalted skills. The result is not intended for general consumption (though certain pieces of it might be useful to people), but instead work well for those desiring a more "gritty", detailed skill system. This system might work well, for example, in a purely mortal game, where lack of charms would make a slower and more varied skill progression desirable. Those wanting more realism and less stylization might find it useful as well.	+	Exalted's skill system works fairly well for a high-combat, occult kung-fu, demigods-looking-cool style game. My[[Wordman/AbilityExpansionSystem\|Ability Expansion System]] provides general mechanisms for tweaking the cost and scope of skills to tailor them to any campaign. The rules that follow use my ability expansion system to radically overhaul Exalted skills. The result is not intended for general consumption (though certain pieces of it might be useful to people), but instead work well for those desiring a more "gritty", detailed skill system. This system might work well, for example, in a purely mortal game, where lack of charms would make a slower and more varied skill progression desirable. Those wanting more realism and less stylization might find it useful as well.

	The basic design idea is to tweak all skills until each one covers essentially the same "breadth" of knowledge or training for the same cost. Thus, some of the abilities that are intrinsically more broad, such as Lore, become effectively more expensive. More narrow abilities, such as Dodge, become either effectively cheaper, or are merged into broader skills. In canon Exalted, there are usually game mechanical reasons treating skills like Dodge and Lore as equivalent expenditures: in a high-combat game, it makes sense to cut the combat skills finely and allow non-combat skills to cover an extremely wide area. By breaking this sensibility and adjusting all skills to be equivalent in terms of breadth rather than cost, other changes were needed to maintain some semblance of game balance. Even so, balance under these rules is much less combat-centric than canon, and is the main reason these rules will only be useful for a small set of games.		The basic design idea is to tweak all skills until each one covers essentially the same "breadth" of knowledge or training for the same cost. Thus, some of the abilities that are intrinsically more broad, such as Lore, become effectively more expensive. More narrow abilities, such as Dodge, become either effectively cheaper, or are merged into broader skills. In canon Exalted, there are usually game mechanical reasons treating skills like Dodge and Lore as equivalent expenditures: in a high-combat game, it makes sense to cut the combat skills finely and allow non-combat skills to cover an extremely wide area. By breaking this sensibility and adjusting all skills to be equivalent in terms of breadth rather than cost, other changes were needed to maintain some semblance of game balance. Even so, balance under these rules is much less combat-centric than canon, and is the main reason these rules will only be useful for a small set of games.

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-Exalted's skill system works fairly well for a high-combat, occult kung-fu, demigods-looking-cool style game. My Wordman/[[AbilityRedesign/AbilityExpansionSystem]] provides general mechanisms for tweaking the cost and scope of skills to tailor them to any campaign. The rules that follow use my ability expansion system to radically overhaul Exalted skills. The result is not intended for general consumption (though certain pieces of it might be useful to people), but instead work well for those desiring a more "gritty", detailed skill system. This system might work well, for example, in a purely mortal game, where lack of charms would make a slower and more varied skill progression desirable. Those wanting more realism and less stylization might find it useful as well.
+Exalted's skill system works fairly well for a high-combat, occult kung-fu, demigods-looking-cool style game. My[[Wordman/AbilityRedesign/AbilityExpansionSystem]] provides general mechanisms for tweaking the cost and scope of skills to tailor them to any campaign. The rules that follow use my ability expansion system to radically overhaul Exalted skills. The result is not intended for general consumption (though certain pieces of it might be useful to people), but instead work well for those desiring a more "gritty", detailed skill system. This system might work well, for example, in a purely mortal game, where lack of charms would make a slower and more varied skill progression desirable. Those wanting more realism and less stylization might find it useful as well.
 The basic design idea is to tweak all skills until each one covers essentially the same "breadth" of knowledge or training for the same cost. Thus, some of the abilities that are intrinsically more broad, such as Lore, become effectively more expensive. More narrow abilities, such as Dodge, become either effectively cheaper, or are merged into broader skills. In canon Exalted, there are usually game mechanical reasons treating skills like Dodge and Lore as equivalent expenditures: in a high-combat game, it makes sense to cut the combat skills finely and allow non-combat skills to cover an extremely wide area. By breaking this sensibility and adjusting all skills to be equivalent in terms of breadth rather than cost, other changes were needed to maintain some semblance of game balance. Even so, balance under these rules is much less combat-centric than canon, and is the main reason these rules will only be useful for a small set of games.
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 * A new ability, Ordinance, governs use of warstriders and heavy weapons.
 * A new ability, Instruction, covers teaching others, pulling functionality from a number of other abilities (mostly War and Lore), and becomes more important when learning new things.
-* Sail is replaced by Profession (inspired by [[FrivYetiWordman/AbilityRedesign/Profession]]), with Sail becoming one of Profession's arts.
+* Sail is replaced by Profession (inspired by [[FrivYeti/Profession]]), with Sail becoming one of Profession's arts.
 * A new ability, Politics, is to social combat what War is to unit combat, pulling functionality from a number of other abilities (mostly Bureaucracy, Socialize and Awareness). It is not about governance, but skill in understanding and manipulating large groups socially at both a tactical and strategic level.
 * The difference between Occult and Lore is made more specific, with a few rules changes.

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-Exalted's skill system works fairly well for a high-combat, occult kung-fu, demigods-looking-cool style game. My /AbilityExpansionSystem provides general mechanisms for tweaking the cost and scope of skills to tailor them to any campaign. The rules that follow use my ability expansion system to radically overhaul Exalted skills. The result is not intended for general consumption (though certain pieces of it might be useful to people), but instead work well for those desiring a more "gritty", detailed skill system. This system might work well, for example, in a purely mortal game, where lack of charms would make a slower and more varied skill progression desirable. Those wanting more realism and less stylization might find it useful as well.
+Exalted's skill system works fairly well for a high-combat, occult kung-fu, demigods-looking-cool style game. My Wordman/[[AbilityRedesign/AbilityExpansionSystem]] provides general mechanisms for tweaking the cost and scope of skills to tailor them to any campaign. The rules that follow use my ability expansion system to radically overhaul Exalted skills. The result is not intended for general consumption (though certain pieces of it might be useful to people), but instead work well for those desiring a more "gritty", detailed skill system. This system might work well, for example, in a purely mortal game, where lack of charms would make a slower and more varied skill progression desirable. Those wanting more realism and less stylization might find it useful as well.
 The basic design idea is to tweak all skills until each one covers essentially the same "breadth" of knowledge or training for the same cost. Thus, some of the abilities that are intrinsically more broad, such as Lore, become effectively more expensive. More narrow abilities, such as Dodge, become either effectively cheaper, or are merged into broader skills. In canon Exalted, there are usually game mechanical reasons treating skills like Dodge and Lore as equivalent expenditures: in a high-combat game, it makes sense to cut the combat skills finely and allow non-combat skills to cover an extremely wide area. By breaking this sensibility and adjusting all skills to be equivalent in terms of breadth rather than cost, other changes were needed to maintain some semblance of game balance. Even so, balance under these rules is much less combat-centric than canon, and is the main reason these rules will only be useful for a small set of games.
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 * A new ability, Ordinance, governs use of warstriders and heavy weapons.
 * A new ability, Instruction, covers teaching others, pulling functionality from a number of other abilities (mostly War and Lore), and becomes more important when learning new things.
-* Sail is replaced by Profession (inspired by FrivYeti/Profession), with Sail becoming one of Profession's arts.
+* Sail is replaced by Profession (inspired by [[FrivYetiWordman/AbilityRedesign/Profession]]), with Sail becoming one of Profession's arts.
 * A new ability, Politics, is to social combat what War is to unit combat, pulling functionality from a number of other abilities (mostly Bureaucracy, Socialize and Awareness). It is not about governance, but skill in understanding and manipulating large groups socially at both a tactical and strategic level.
 * The difference between Occult and Lore is made more specific, with a few rules changes.
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 *''Penalty to use general skill without an art, and charms cannot be used in situations where a known art does not apply''. These abilities are extremely broad, with arts generally defining a large subset of the ability. Such abilities are: Craft, Performance
 *''Penalty to use general skill without an art, and arts allow access to particular charm trees.'' Abilities like this tend to have a large number of separate charm trees. These are: Fight, Ordinance, Ranged.
 == Abilities ==
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 * Magitech: Described in ''Wonders of the Lost Age'', knowing the science of magitech allows use of Craft skill on magical devices. Anywhere rules call for a Craft (Magictech) roll, use plain Craft ability (plus any magitech specialties) as the pool. The rating in this science acts as a limit: characters can only use the magitech science on artifacts, manses or devices with a rating equal to their magitech science rating or less. This science requires the Air and Fire arts and cannot be higher than the character's Lore rating.
 * Genesis: Also described in ''Wonders of the Lost Age'', this science works just like magictech does, but replacing Craft (Genesis). This science requires the Wood art and cannot be higher than the lowest of the character's Lore, Medicine or Occult ratings.
-* Necrosurgery: Introduced in ''Abyssals'' and expanded in the ''Book of Bone and Ebony'', necrosurgery is the science of assembling and animating dead flesh and harnessing necrotic energy. Anywhere rules called for Craft (Necrosurgery), use plain Craft ability (plus any necrosurgery specialties) as the pool. The rating in this science sets an upper limit on the size class (''BoBE'' 97) or artifact rating of an item created using this science. Necrosurgery does not require knowledge of a craft art, but its rating may not exceed the lowest of the character's Lore, Medicine or Occult ratings.
+* Necrosurgery: Introduced in ''Abyssals'' and expanded in the ''Book of Bone and Ebony'', necrosurgery is the science of assembling and animating dead flesh and harnessing necrotic energy. Anywhere rules called for Craft (Necrosurgery), use plain Craft ability (plus any necrosurgery specialties) as the pool. The rating in this science sets an upper limit on the size class (''[[BoBE]]'' 97) or artifact rating of an item created using this science. Necrosurgery does not require knowledge of a craft art, but its rating may not exceed the lowest of the character's Lore, Medicine or Occult ratings.
-* Perfection: This science deals with creating exceptional weapons and other creations and represents the dedicated knowledge of metallurgy, heat and other minutia that are need to forge exceptional weapons, armor and other items. It requires an art for creating such equipment (usually Fire). The first dot of this science allows objects to be made up to the level of "Exceptional" (see ''Players Guide'', pg. 145). The second allows creation of "Perfect" items. Generally learning this science beyond this is pointless. The magitech science may also be used for the creation of exceptional items, so this science is rare among exalts; however, the requirements for this science are less stringent, so mortals (and some exalts) may prefer this path.
+* Perfection: This science deals with creating exceptional weapons and other creations and represents the dedicated knowledge of metallurgy, heat and other minutia that are need to forge exceptional weapons, armor and other items. It requires an art for creating such equipment (usually Fire). The first dot of this science allows objects to be made up to the level of "Exceptional" (''Ex2'' 365). The second allows creation of "Perfect" items (''Ex2'' 366). Generally learning this science beyond this is pointless. The magitech science may also be used for the creation of exceptional items, so this science is rare among exalts; however, the requirements for this science are less stringent, so mortals (and some exalts) may prefer this path.
-* Permanence: This lost science contains the secrets to making self-sustaining items (see ''Wonders of the Lost Age'', pg. 7). No one knows it any more but, in theory, it's rating would define a limit on what level of artifacts could be made permanent.
+* Permanence: This lost science contains the secrets to making self-sustaining items (''[[WotLA]]'' 7). No one knows it any more but, in theory, it's rating would define a limit on what level of artifacts could be made permanent.
 === Dominion ===
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 === Ordinance ===
-Ordinance allows the character to use all manner of heavy weapons both in combat and in other areas, such as design or field assembly. Weapons covered by Ordinance are generally those too large for a man to carry, including mundane siege weapons like catapults, mounted direct energy weapons and magically powered weapons of mass destruction. Ordinance also covers implements of warfare of any size that are not, strictly speaking, weapons, such as mines or other explosives, Wall Eaters (''WotLA'' 130) and Essence Battlements (''WotLA'' 133).
+Ordinance allows the character to use all manner of heavy weapons both in combat and in other areas, such as design or field assembly. Weapons covered by Ordinance are generally those too large for a man to carry, including mundane siege weapons like catapults, mounted direct energy weapons and magically powered weapons of mass destruction. Ordinance also covers implements of warfare of any size that are not, strictly speaking, weapons, such as mines or other explosives, Wall Eaters (''[[WotLA]]'' 130) and Essence Battlements (''[[WotLA]]'' 133).
 Ordinance is also used in place of the Fight, Ranged and Athletics abilities for tests made while piloting warstriders.
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 == Comments ==
-This is astonishing, and I'll have to comment more comprehensively when I have time to read through in the detail it deserves. At first glance, though, it seems very, very nice. As a minor note, the new Craft arts seem somewhat superfluous - musical composition is listed already under Air, sculpture could be readily considered a component to Earth, and painting, drawing and drafting are all so thematically similar to calligraphy I'd personally bundle them in there. Well picked up, though; I'm surprised WW didn't notice the need for them...DeathBySurfeit
+This is astonishing, and I'll have to comment more comprehensively when I have time to read through in the detail it deserves. At first glance, though, it seems very, very nice. As a minor note, the new Craft arts seem somewhat superfluous - musical composition is listed already under Air, sculpture could be readily considered a component to Earth, and painting, drawing and drafting are all so thematically similar to calligraphy I'd personally bundle them in there. Well picked up, though; I'm surprised WW didn't notice the need for them...[[DeathBySurfeit]]
 Me too. Since I never liked the feel of the additional Craft arts, I've spread them around the various "elemental" arts. There is definitely more than one way to do so (which is why I initially made them separate), so season to taste. - [[Wordman]]

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-Exalted's skill system works fairly well for a high-combat, occult kung-fu, demigods-looking-cool style game. My /AbilityExpansionSystem provides general mechanisms for tweaking the cost and scope of skills to tailor them to any campaign. The rules that follow use my ability expansion system to radically overhaul Exalted skills. The result is not intended for general consumption (though certain pieces of it might be useful to people), but instead work well for those desiring a more "gritty", detailed skill system. This system might work well, for example, in a purely mortal game, where lack of charms would make a slower and more varied skill progression desirable. Those wanting more realism and less stylization might find it useful as well.
+Exalted's skill system works fairly well for a high-combat, occult kung-fu, demigods-looking-cool style game. My [[/AbilityExpansionSystem]] provides general mechanisms for tweaking the cost and scope of skills to tailor them to any campaign. The rules that follow use my ability expansion system to radically overhaul Exalted skills. The result is not intended for general consumption (though certain pieces of it might be useful to people), but instead work well for those desiring a more "gritty", detailed skill system. This system might work well, for example, in a purely mortal game, where lack of charms would make a slower and more varied skill progression desirable. Those wanting more realism and less stylization might find it useful as well.
 The basic design idea is to tweak all skills until each one covers essentially the same "breadth" of knowledge or training for the same cost. Thus, some of the abilities that are intrinsically more broad, such as Lore, become effectively more expensive. More narrow abilities, such as Dodge, become either effectively cheaper, or are merged into broader skills. In canon Exalted, there are usually game mechanical reasons treating skills like Dodge and Lore as equivalent expenditures: in a high-combat game, it makes sense to cut the combat skills finely and allow non-combat skills to cover an extremely wide area. By breaking this sensibility and adjusting all skills to be equivalent in terms of breadth rather than cost, other changes were needed to maintain some semblance of game balance. Even so, balance under these rules is much less combat-centric than canon, and is the main reason these rules will only be useful for a small set of games.
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 * A new ability, Ordinance, governs use of warstriders and heavy weapons.
 * A new ability, Instruction, covers teaching others, pulling functionality from a number of other abilities (mostly War and Lore), and becomes more important when learning new things.
-* Sail is replaced by Profession (inspired by FrivYeti/Profession), with Sail becoming one of Profession's arts.
+* Sail is replaced by Profession (inspired by [[FrivYeti/Profession]]), with Sail becoming one of Profession's arts.
 * A new ability, Politics, is to social combat what War is to unit combat, pulling functionality from a number of other abilities (mostly Bureaucracy, Socialize and Awareness). It is not about governance, but skill in understanding and manipulating large groups socially at both a tactical and strategic level.
 * The difference between Occult and Lore is made more specific, with a few rules changes.
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 * Magitech: Described in ''Wonders of the Lost Age'', knowing the science of magitech allows use of Craft skill on magical devices. Anywhere rules call for a Craft (Magictech) roll, use plain Craft ability (plus any magitech specialties) as the pool. The rating in this science acts as a limit: characters can only use the magitech science on artifacts, manses or devices with a rating equal to their magitech science rating or less. This science requires the Air and Fire arts and cannot be higher than the character's Lore rating.
 * Genesis: Also described in ''Wonders of the Lost Age'', this science works just like magictech does, but replacing Craft (Genesis). This science requires the Wood art and cannot be higher than the lowest of the character's Lore, Medicine or Occult ratings.
-* Necrosurgery: Introduced in ''Abyssals'' and expanded in the ''Book of Bone and Ebony'', necrosurgery is the science of assembling and animating dead flesh and harnessing necrotic energy. Anywhere rules called for Craft (Necrosurgery), use plain Craft ability (plus any necrosurgery specialties) as the pool. The rating in this science sets an upper limit on the size class (''BoBE'' 97) or artifact rating of an item created using this science. Necrosurgery does not require knowledge of a craft art, but its rating may not exceed the lowest of the character's Lore, Medicine or Occult ratings.
+* Necrosurgery: Introduced in ''Abyssals'' and expanded in the ''Book of Bone and Ebony'', necrosurgery is the science of assembling and animating dead flesh and harnessing necrotic energy. Anywhere rules called for Craft (Necrosurgery), use plain Craft ability (plus any necrosurgery specialties) as the pool. The rating in this science sets an upper limit on the size class (''[[BoBE]]'' 97) or artifact rating of an item created using this science. Necrosurgery does not require knowledge of a craft art, but its rating may not exceed the lowest of the character's Lore, Medicine or Occult ratings.
 * Perfection: This science deals with creating exceptional weapons and other creations and represents the dedicated knowledge of metallurgy, heat and other minutia that are need to forge exceptional weapons, armor and other items. It requires an art for creating such equipment (usually Fire). The first dot of this science allows objects to be made up to the level of "Exceptional" (''Ex2'' 365). The second allows creation of "Perfect" items (''Ex2'' 366). Generally learning this science beyond this is pointless. The magitech science may also be used for the creation of exceptional items, so this science is rare among exalts; however, the requirements for this science are less stringent, so mortals (and some exalts) may prefer this path.
-* Permanence: This lost science contains the secrets to making self-sustaining items (''WotLA'' 7). No one knows it any more but, in theory, it's rating would define a limit on what level of artifacts could be made permanent.
+* Permanence: This lost science contains the secrets to making self-sustaining items (''[[WotLA]]'' 7). No one knows it any more but, in theory, it's rating would define a limit on what level of artifacts could be made permanent.
 === Dominion ===
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 === Ordinance ===
-Ordinance allows the character to use all manner of heavy weapons both in combat and in other areas, such as design or field assembly. Weapons covered by Ordinance are generally those too large for a man to carry, including mundane siege weapons like catapults, mounted direct energy weapons and magically powered weapons of mass destruction. Ordinance also covers implements of warfare of any size that are not, strictly speaking, weapons, such as mines or other explosives, Wall Eaters (''WotLA'' 130) and Essence Battlements (''WotLA'' 133).
+Ordinance allows the character to use all manner of heavy weapons both in combat and in other areas, such as design or field assembly. Weapons covered by Ordinance are generally those too large for a man to carry, including mundane siege weapons like catapults, mounted direct energy weapons and magically powered weapons of mass destruction. Ordinance also covers implements of warfare of any size that are not, strictly speaking, weapons, such as mines or other explosives, Wall Eaters (''[[WotLA]]'' 130) and Essence Battlements (''[[WotLA]]'' 133).
 Ordinance is also used in place of the Fight, Ranged and Athletics abilities for tests made while piloting warstriders.
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 == Comments ==
-This is astonishing, and I'll have to comment more comprehensively when I have time to read through in the detail it deserves. At first glance, though, it seems very, very nice. As a minor note, the new Craft arts seem somewhat superfluous - musical composition is listed already under Air, sculpture could be readily considered a component to Earth, and painting, drawing and drafting are all so thematically similar to calligraphy I'd personally bundle them in there. Well picked up, though; I'm surprised WW didn't notice the need for them...DeathBySurfeit
+This is astonishing, and I'll have to comment more comprehensively when I have time to read through in the detail it deserves. At first glance, though, it seems very, very nice. As a minor note, the new Craft arts seem somewhat superfluous - musical composition is listed already under Air, sculpture could be readily considered a component to Earth, and painting, drawing and drafting are all so thematically similar to calligraphy I'd personally bundle them in there. Well picked up, though; I'm surprised WW didn't notice the need for them...[[DeathBySurfeit]]
 Me too. Since I never liked the feel of the additional Craft arts, I've spread them around the various "elemental" arts. There is definitely more than one way to do so (which is why I initially made them separate), so season to taste. - [[Wordman]]

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 '''Artless Penalty:''' Using craft without a relevant art or science imposes a -2 penalty. Worse, no charms of any kind may be used in areas of Craft for which the exalt does not have an applicable art, aspect, focus or science.
-'''Arts''': Knowing an art allows Craft charm use for tasks within the domain of the art. Seven standard arts cover ''all'' possible creative crafts available to mortals. These are the five defined in the core book (pg. 107) and two additional arts:
+'''Arts''': Knowing an art allows Craft charm use for tasks within the domain of the art. Five standard arts cover ''all'' possible creative crafts available to mortals. These are the five defined in the core book (pg. 107), with some additions:
-*Air: calligraphy, jewelry-making, creating precision instruments, glassblowing and composing music (making small, decorative or high-precision items)
+*Air: calligraphy, jewelry-making, creating precision instruments, glassblowing (making small, decorative or high-precision items). Air also covers drawing, drafting and the creation (but not performance) of new instrumental pieces (filling silence with sound, communicating emotion musically). Tying lyrics to new instrumentals requires the Linguistic art of Poetry.
-*Earth: masonry, stone cutting, creating earthworks (creating buildings and large objects with stone or earth)
+*Earth: masonry, stone cutting, creating earthworks (creating buildings and large objects with stone or earth). Carving sculpture out of stone is also covered by Earth.
-*Fire: blacksmithing, making ceramics (forging and casting large metal objects and creating objects using fire)
+*Fire: blacksmithing, making ceramics (forging and casting large metal objects and creating objects using fire). Pottery and creation of bronze statues or other metallic sculpture is also covered by Fire.
-*Wood: carpentry, weaving, paper-making, flower arranging (carving, weaving and manipulating natural materials)
+*Wood: carpentry, weaving, paper-making, flower arranging (carving, weaving and manipulating natural materials). Wood also covers painting, sculpting from clay and most textile work.
-*Water: cooking, brewing, leather working, pharmacy and poison-making (boiling and cooking plants, chemicals and animal materials)
+*Water: cooking, brewing, leather working, pharmacy and poison-making (boiling and cooking plants, chemicals and animal materials).
 A number of esoteric arts are also available, usually limited to certain character types. Often these arts have their own systems and/or require skills or costs to use (e.g. Colleges, gossamer, etc.), but learning the art works as outlined in these rules. Feats made possible with esoteric craft arts are not generally possible without knowing them. Esoteric arts include:
 *Fate (''Sidereals'' 104)
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 This is astonishing, and I'll have to comment more comprehensively when I have time to read through in the detail it deserves. At first glance, though, it seems very, very nice. As a minor note, the new Craft arts seem somewhat superfluous - musical composition is listed already under Air, sculpture could be readily considered a component to Earth, and painting, drawing and drafting are all so thematically similar to calligraphy I'd personally bundle them in there. Well picked up, though; I'm surprised WW didn't notice the need for them...DeathBySurfeit