JesseLowe/CampaignCreation

This page is temporary -- it's a handout I'm working on for new players. (New to roleplaying, even.)

Sum up, in one sentence, what you want out of this game.

Choice of Campaign Frameworks:

• Martial Arts Tournament
• Military Campaign
• Community Leaders
• Celestial Agents
• Wandering Heroes

Choice of Character Types (in descending order of power):

• Celestial Exalted (Chosen of the Celestial Incarna; there are three kinds)
  • Solars: Chosen of the Unconquered Sun. Paragons; expressions of human perfection.
  • Lunars: Chosen of Luna. Survivalists and shapeshifters par excellence.
  • Sidereals: Chosen of the Five Maidens. Seers and kung fu masters.
• Abyssal Exalted: Chosen of the Deathlords. Agents of death and despair.
• Terrestrial Exalted (Dragon-Blooded): Chosen of the Five Elemental Dragons. Soldiers and rulers of the Realm.
• The Dragon Kings: Sapients who existed before humanity and now are all but vanished from Creation.
• God-Blooded: Mortals blessed or cursed with a lineage descended from a ghost, Exalt, god, or demon.
• Ghosts: Dead mortals who dwell in the Underworld.
• Mortals: Average humans.

Choice of Antagonists (One primary, which all players must agree on, and one secondary, which may be different for each character):

• The Realm: The colossus that bestrides creation, now bereft of leadership and descending into civil war. An ancient and corrupt tyranny or the last, best hope of the world, depending on who you ask.
  • One of the Great Houses: The Realm is controlled by Houses descended from children of the Scarlet Empress, which vie for power and the empty throne. (Excellent enemies for scions of the Realm.)
  • The Immaculate Order: The religion that buttresses the Realm, and a particular foe of Celestial Exalted.
• The Fae: Creatures of unbridled chaos who take form inside Creation and feed of emotion and souls.
• The Yozis: Demon princes who wish to take back Creation
• The Deathlords: Agents of the Malfeans, who wish to drag Creation into Oblivian
  • A particular Deathlord (Of whom there are 13, and none are nice.)
• The Guild: The largest mercantile concern in the world, traffickers in drugs, slaves, and all else.
• Anathema: The Realm's name for Celestial and Abyssal Exalted, usually as targets of the Wyld Hunt.
  • The Silver Pact: Lunars who want to bring down civilization and replace it with barbarism.
  • Rogue Solars: Reborn god-kings who will inevitably go mad. (from a certain point of view)
• The Locust Crusade: Mysterious invaders bent on conquering the South.