Exalted OCC

[Hymusia]

10th post is up. I'll be looking into investing my points in something soon.

Also for those who don't know what it is, this is an aye aye.

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Edit: Added her languages on her CS.

[Informatix]

Yay, Points!

I'd suggest putting them into defense / abilities, too. Or, in my case, bump up offensive power or spell repertoire .. Essence is comparatively cheap to buy with XP, abilities and attributes aren't.

[Hymusia]

I'm thinking of buying her the aye aye, but we'll see. Since I only spend points and exp in accordance to my characters actions/ personality and all that ( I find it better to rp out why they get their new skills and such rather than jsut say they have them) so I don't know what else she'd personally choose.

[Arthera]

Well, as mentioned, it's "retroactive" bonus points, so you can spend them as if still in character creation. Ideally spent just with character concept and initial plan, not with knowledge of what's currently going on or location, etc.

Edit: Lunars are slightly more costly in the charm department, knacks are a step above and Essence a full multiplier more, current x9 instead of x8. In this case, the 10 BP are way more cost-efficient than buying that next Essence dot with XP, despite my desire to buy up a few other things. Essence being the building block and the limiter on a lot of other things.

So officially, I'm buying Essence 3 with those 10 BP, and will modify my sheet to reflect that, recalculate my Essence pools and get another mutation for rawr rawr form.

Edit #2: Made the changes to my sheet.

[Nigawatts]

I just put a few more points in some abilities that needed some love. Major thing I got was Seven Shadow Evasion. Which I'll be using the 2.0 cost, since 2.5 seems a little extravagant.

Feel free to call me on any bullshit while I use it to DODGE EVERYTHING!

[Arthera]

Yeah, my perfect dodge needs essence 3 and a bunch of other charms AND costs 4m each. On the other hand, I have enough accuracy on the average day to flurry efficiently.

[Informatix]

Preface: I'm just discussing mechanics out of interest, not to imply that I'm advocating either side.
As far as I understand it, the point of the cost increase was specifically to avoid "4m dodges everything", which in turn required fighty characters to keep their offense below 4m per strike in order not to be pointless.
Catching a stray hit is dangerous with the new costs, though. That would be why it's so fashionable for serious fighting characters to have armor or Resistance charms these days.

As for myself .. torn as always. More spells for more utility? Lightning Speed? Choices, choices! I'll incorporate my choice in a training sequence of some kind. Need to attend a course in the afternoon and all that, but I'll try to be done by today.

I should also point out that your post described pretty much what I had envisioned Crane would do, Arthera - nice one!

[Hymusia]

Anyone link me to the exalted books?

[Nigawatts]

There are a few free PDF's on White Wolf's Official page. They aren't for playing a whole game though, and only really adjust current rules.

The wiki actually has a pretty compehensive list of most charms woth descriptions.

As for finding the books? Local game stores should have them. Also online stores.

If u don't want to spend money, but have a question the wiki doesn't answer you can always ask us for free. Always happy to help ;D

[Arthera]

@Informatix: I built upon what we spoke of, trying not to go into too much detail. Glad you like the result!

I also have a bunch of paid pdf on my computer(s) which I use, including pretty much everything Lunar. As Nigawatts said, if you have a question or request for some form of info, I'll be happy to share.

As for defensive means, Anya sports rather high soak and good hardness. I have a shopping list of charms to get, but it's going to take a while.