HighSocialDB

a Game of Dragons

A rules modification for Exalted: the Dragon Blooded -- with an emphasis shift away from combat, and toward the social realm. The game of schemes, sex, and politics!

the High-Social Ability set

 AIR:  Lore, Occult, Performance,HighSocialDB/Ranged, Stealth
 EARTH:  Awareness, Craft, Martial Arts,HighSocialDB/Rhetoric,HighSocialDB/Toughness
 FIRE:  Athletics, Melee, Presence, Socialize,HighSocialDB/Tactics
 WATER:  Bureaucracy, Investigation, Larceny, Sail,HighSocialDB/Subterfuge
 WOOD: HighSocialDB/Culture, Medicine,HighSocialDB/Romance, Ride, Survival

New Abilities

Ranged: This represents all ranged-combat, and is a merger of Thrown and Archery. It likely, thus, demands special attention for that reason since it combines two very different charm-sets into one. Less of a problem for DBs than it would be for Solars.

Rhetoric: This ability measures one's ability to form and communicate solid arguements based on well-reasoned logic, convincing others and defending your own points.

Toughness: This measures pure damn toughness, and is a mixture of Endurance and Resistance. A tough character can stay up all night, drink a case of the strongest ale in Mnemon's private stash, and wear out a dozen concubines!

Tactics: This is represents a mixture of logic, luck, and knowledge of the situation around you -- everything from leading troops into battle, to deciding how to handle any combat situation, to playing out a game of Gateway. In this game set, the last is probably the most important.

Subterfuge: This takes all the sneaky stuff from Socialize, and gives it it's own place -- it's lying, slipperyness and otherwise being tough to figure out and even harder to catch! A good water-ability.

Culture: This is knowledge of the finer things in life, and is a component of any DBs education. Someone with culture knows about the Arts, Poetry, other Cultures in the Threshold, and likely speaks a few languages. Consider this Linguistics+.

Romance: The ability of looooove! It covers seduction, the ins and outs of maintaining a relationship and keeping your partner happy, and the ever important arts of pleasure! A must for any DB, but especially for those Wood aspects.

Changed Abilities

Lore: This is pure scholarship and various academic details:) A good education, lots of knowledge of various things not of an Occult nature.

Martial Arts: This ability represents all unarmed combat, including simple streetfighting styles and more elaborate and structured fighting styles. This is really kind of a small change, all things considered, but one worthy of note.

Performance: This covers various forms of entertainment engaged in by the Dragon-Blooded -- it's been switched to air, representing the fact that most forms of DB entertainment -- singing, acting, costume, etc -- are rather elegant and sophisticated. It can still represent slumming to an extent.

Socialize: This ability is refocused and now pretty exclusively deals with making friends and contacts, getting along with people, etiquette, proper behavior at parties, and such. More underhanded stuff demands Subterfuge, and a lot of the other parts have been subsumed into Romance.

Comments

This is cool.