LunaHidesHerFace/HouseRules

House Rules for LunaHidesHerFace

Based on LunarHouseRules/ExpandedHeartsBlood, the first dot of the Heart's Blood background gives your shape-library a full complement of mundane animals. The second adds superpredators such as Tyrant Lizards and siaka.

Scab rolls do sometimes come up, when there's something at stake but not anything particularly worth spending lots of time on.
- See toward the end of Session 3, where a scab roll decides how Jesya responds to Shadow Weaver's... overt affection.

Noncombat conflicts play out as suggested in the Wuxalted rules, but with the following modifications:
- When conflict begins, set stakes. What's to be achieved by bringing your Abilities to bear? Whoever beats the others in the conflict wins what's at stake.
  - In Session 3, a conflict with Tradewind Wanderer had the stakes "Does Wanderer join the rebel cause?"
- Noncombat conflict in Exalted is less draining than physical--you're dealing with Willpower and small amounts of Essence, overall, not copious Essence / Willpower / HLs. So after a noncombat conflict, you regain all Essence lost to "hits" (unopposed Scarlet successes) in that conflict. Essence spent on Charms and anima powers remains lost.

Nemeses and PCs can gang up against each other.
- Multiply a beleaguered Nemesis' Essence (pool, not Detail cap) by the number of his attackers.
  Note: needs some work. This looks a little ridiculous if the PCs have less Essence than the guy they team up on.
- Consolidate multiple Nemesis opponents into a single gestalt Nemesis with the total Essence pool of its members, and a dice cap equaling the highest of its members. If they're fighting in concert, as is standard procedure for Dragon-Blooded, add bonus dice equal to the leader's War Ability. Take the best, not total, values of each other type of dice bonus (Artifacts, Lunar DBT Gifts--Offensive / Defensive overlap makes "general" bonus dice--etc).
- Separately resolve each exchange of an individual PC vs. a single or gestalt Nemesis.