FrivYeti/PowerCeilingExalted

Power Ceiling Exalted

So, as many of you have endlessly heard, I have minor issues with certain aspects of Exalted. Perhaps it's just that my brain doesn't go all the way to 11, the way that Exalted is supposed to. It only goes to 10. I like 10. 10 is a comfortable number.

Maybe, it's that the gulf between the weak and the powerful is something I always imagined as smaller, but as time went on it became clear that my imagination vis a vis Exalted was not, strictly speaking, lining up with the reality.

The result of all of this is my new project: Power Ceiling Exalted. Power Ceiling Exalted, hereby referred to simply as PCE, has three simple goals:

1) Make it so that starting characters remain as badass in my revisions as they are in the real game.
2) Make it so that powerful characters (hereby defined generally as Essence 6+ folks) are significantly weaker in my revisions than in the real game.
3) Make it so that the setting still makes sense (very important point).

I recognize that this is not everyone's cup of tea, nor will I require you to drink it. That said, if you approve of my goals, or at least consider them interesting, I encourage you to post comments below, as to whether you think the changes I am making support or undermine these goals. Thanks!

The Revisions

House Rules

Power Ceiling Exalted uses a variety of house rules, mostly ones designed in early runs through the Exalted 2e ruleset. They are as follows:

• Artifact Creation
• Charm Rules
• Experience Growth
• General Rules
• Mass Combat (Still Under Revision)
• Size Modifiers
• Strength Ratings

Trait Revisions

• Backgrounds
• Combo Construction
• Merits And Flaws
• Virtue Expansions

• Character Creation

Exalt Revisions

Many of the revisions to different Exalt types will be very similar or the same, but they still get their own pages.

• Solar Exalt Revisions
• Lunar Exalt Revisions
• Sidereal Exalt Revisions
• Terrestrial Exalt Revisions
• Abyssal Exalt Revisions

• Exalted Elder Charm Examples

Other Essence-User Revisions

The other major forces of Creation are also restricted or altered, to prevent them from running roughshod over the Exalted.

• Godly and Elemental Revisions
• Demon Revisions
• Ghostly and Deathlord Revisions
• Fair Folk Revisions
• Dragon King Revisions
• Mountain Folk Revisions
• Mortal Essence-User Revisions
• God-Blooded Revisions

The Martial Arts

Martial Arts revisions do not include the Hero Styles (including Violet Bier of Sorrows), which are found in their respective Exalt Charm sections.

• Terrestrial Martial Arts
• Celestial Martial Arts
• Sidereal Martial Arts

Setting Revisions

There aren't very many setting revisions to Power Ceiling; that's not the goal. A few such revisions do, however, exist - mostly in the realm of frequency of supernatural beings, and to make the general quietude of the Lunar Exalted make more sense.

• The Jade Prison explains that there aren't as many Lunars around before 764 as you would think.
• The Celestial Bureaucracy is a lot smaller.
• The Terrestrial Bureaucracy might also have shrunk.

Miscellaneous Revisions

A few other forces need to get toned down in little ways, with the same ultimate purpose.

• Mundane Weapon and Armor Revisions
• Artifact Weapon and Armor Revisions
• [[[FrivYeti/PowerCeilingExalted/PCEArtifacts]] | Artifact and Hearthstone Rule Revisions]]
• [[[FrivYeti/PowerCeilingExalted/PCESpecificMagics]] | Specific Magical Object Revisions]]