Ah yes, Exalted, the brilliant phoenix which ends and renews over and over yet remains essentially it'self. While my admiration for third edition is distinctly less than yours I too would love to celebrate the fractured but glorious masterpiece that is 2nd edition (2.0 or 2.5 versions.)

I have a game which I run which fits the majority of your requirements, but not all: yet that is no matter, the game was always intended to hold more than one group using slightly altered rules, and this allows me to offer to host your idea within it!

Some words of caution and probing questions ere I link you to the game to which I refer however:

1: My 'real' life is chaotic and disordered and having time and attention to post on any given day or even week is far from assured. That said I always come back to RPoL and pick up again, taking time to re-familiarize myself with the situation and start up the conversation once more. Would you be willing to work with this erratic behavior in exchange for getting the game you desire?

2: A Secondary Hurdle: in order for it to be worth my time to start up a second plot line in the game I would need to have more than one player participating: in specific my minimum threshold is 3. Do are you willing to find and/or wait-for 2 more people to join?

3: I am unclear by what you have in mind for this Scourge? I don't run evil games, it's not fun for me, so how much evil is 'a little evil'?

Please respond, I hope very much to be able to work with you.

Hello and well met, Alexei!

I think we can all empathize with the chaos of life, and of course life's gotta come first. It's not ideal, but nothing is ever ideal, and I can work with the erratic.

Second hurdle: No hurdle at all! That's basically what this thread is for, rallying people to the cause. Anybody who's interested is very welcome to join in. (This is the time to mention that!)

And third point, I guess like, sometimes bad things will happen to bad people, and weird things will happen to good people? I don't want to eat the world or anything, but if someone was like "I want everyone to live in peace and unity and that means you have to give up your mortal cult because it's wrong to want to be worshipped" I might eat them. Or if they were like "I want everyone to live in fear and suffering and that means you have to give up your mortal cult because it's wrong for mortals to be happy" I'd eat them too. Is that too evil, would you say?

Consider me rallied. Since this Solar friend might be getting involved, would I be correct in assuming that the Infernal is... less than loyal? I'd like to know what side we're on before choosing from my vast library of orphaned yet beloved character concepts.

Oh, yeah. Screw the Yozis. Dude or dudette, imagine you're in Creation with all the powers of a nascent god and these giant evil demi-sentient balls of horrorscape were like okay, now how about you hop back through the nearest Gate of Inauspicious Passage and we'll have a party to help you not think about how we want you to literally ruin everything forever so we can come out and set it on fire and then set the ashes on fire. And then, and this part isn't explicit, but it's not too terribly well-veiled that then they're also going to set you on fire. Stay signed on to that?

Nuh-uh. Not this chick.

Dude, but I prefer to play dudettes. Gaming superstition pertaining to character life expectancy. It's backed by SCIENCE!

Let's see... A desire to keep apace with the group says Solaroid, but a desire for interesting story says either a Lunar or a bastard Terrestrial. I suppose it'll depend on what houserules are in play and, perhaps more substantially, how much the other players tend to powergame. Plenty of options either way, but I'd like to get a feel for the group.

I would totally join, but I've actually never played Exalted. Would you mind one more person and an inexperienced player?
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@ Ganurath: I am unclear on the group dynamics just yet, but there are some houserules I can share with you that might influence your choice:

1: Everyone uses their own costs or Solars whichever is better.

2: Health levels are increased to avoid the typical 'rocket tag' problem of exalted, X2 for normal levels and X4 for Ox Body and equivalent. More information can be found here: http://exalted.xi.co.nz/wiki/T...t_Play_Rocket_Tag_v2

3: Dragonblooded and other non-celestials are specifically disallowed as PCs unless there were to be an all DB group: this is a celestial exalted and solaroid game at the moment. (That still leaves you with your Lunar option though.)

4: We will be adventuring primarily in the scavenger lands, possibly in the vicinity of Nexus.

5: Character creation will be improved for non-solar PCs by using the best of 2.5 solar and their own splat.

@ ColinBeck: Always happy to bring new players into the system, you would indeed be welcome.

@ Everyone: That looks to be 3 players but there is one final issue that I forgot to mention until now: the game in question is 'Adult', if that's not a problem for any of you I will put up the link in my next post.
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Not a problem!

Also not a problem.

Currently leaning toward a Sun King Seneschal, most likely a No Moon generalist unless there's a niche in need of filling.

Not a problem at all. I can't wait to get started! Thanks for letting me noob it up with y'all.

If it isn't too late, I'd also be interested in joining. I'm pretty new to Exalted myself, my first game is in a modern setting and here on Rpol but it is currently moving very slowly. I have a vision of a spear weilding warrior but otherwise not much of a character concept.

Then welcome to the game one and all! Here is a link to the first thread in the game which you should read: link to a message in another game

(I know the rules thread says 'read first' but it is horribly out of date and needs to be re-written in it's entirety, for which I need Player input at some point in the near future.)

I will await all of your RTJs! (Which are housed in another thread and you will need to look at separately.)

Please note that as this is a wholly new group a lot of the house rules are different than are listed in the house rules thread and we will need to talk things over in the game before characters are finalized: and in point of fact I hope to do much of char gen collaboratively, so try to keep your RTJ's flexible and don't get your heart set on one character right away: in point of fact something to the tune of the last poster's idea would be for the best.

See you all there!

PS: Do remember that the game is 'Adult': age statements will be required.
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Acknowledging the posting limitations of a busy ST (and what ST doesn't like a shot at playing from time to time, also!) I am re-declaring interest to see if we can round up a second game.
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While I appreciate the sentiment and do indeed enjoy the ability to play from time to time I have to bow out of this new game, I am over committed as it is and in point of fact am already playing in one Exalted game.

After an extended startup period, the game was moved to indefinite hiatus.

Re-opening the search for an ST. :\

I still run 2.5. I ran primarily Exalted on RPoL in the past. But I'm in the process of working out the details of restarting my games.

Most of my 2.5 games, I won't convert to 3 due to what you mentioned OP. There will be no conversions any time soon for some of my favorite splats (Lunars and Sidereals being my favorites.)

Also a freaking huge fan of Dragon-blooded, which does have a planned book but again, who knows.

I refrained from answering this thread earlier because the only NEW Exalted game I'm thinking of starting is going to be a purely Solar game, because I actually tend to avoid the 'classic' Solar Circle game and kind of wanted to take a shot at it. Not sure I want to do another mixed-Celestial game ATM (I already have a couple of those and would rather reboot/rework them).

Also I only GM on RPoL and never play, if that matters.
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if ever an anthing-goes exalted game was put up in the spirit of OPs suggestion, oh, how i would love to Infernal. i don't know how or why, but i could shoehorn a green sun prince in there somewhere. it would be glorious.

S.D. What day is it? You would think the special holiday theme on the site would have clued you in.

You would think, but you'd be SO WRONG. I shouldn't even go online today! It's everywhere!

I'd like to hear about any rework/reboots coming up - but you know what? I haven't done classic Solars in a long time either. I'd give it a shot if you ran it!

Dark Siren Sally, if you're starting a new game, can I join in? I recall the DotFA game you used to run. :)

I'm lousy at running games otherwise I would volunteer to run one.

Yay! I wanted to do classic Solars cause it's actually been a couple years since I ran Exalted and going with the 'basics' (if you could even call Solars basic, I mean REALLY ;) ) would help me get back into it and put more effort into my other Ex games.

I will be working on a game and post it next week ish. Very likely it will either be in the North or the East. The first scene will involve how the Solar Circle meets for the first time and then we'll go from there.

You will be playing a newly Exalted Solar*. You will need to come up with how you Exalted. You will also need to provide a writeup of your First Age incarnation as well, as you all will have known each other in the FA before meeting again in the present. I want to be able to play up those past bonds, good or bad.** (That's half the fun of Exalted!!)

You will need to have good writing/grammar; there will be a fairly sizable amount of writing in the RTJ due to the above requirements, and enforcement of a "no one-liners" rule. I will post roughly every other day (more if time allows); I also expect you to keep up with this base frequency.

Game will be Mature rated. I MIGHT go Adult, but with the caveat that I will always "fade to black" with NPCs (personal preference).

*IF I accept more players than 5, then the possibility of playing someone's Lunar mate is there too (It has to be a PC, I want to avoid having too much NPC duties here). But I'll be accepting Solars before Lunars.

**There may be a partial RTJ to begin with so you can discuss how characters are related in the First Age through OOC chat. Also because I'm playing up the past lives stuff, characters whose players leave the game will be taken over by others OR killed so that their shard can Exalt a new PC.

As for the reboots please RMAIL me if you want the details for those, or search my username in the RPoL game list. Being good for the sake of the forum mods. ;)

AND yes Morninglight I remember you and you or anyone is welcome to send a RTJ when game is ready. :)
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In reply to Dark Siren Sally (msg # 23):

I always have an idea or 7 kicking around in my head. So working out a co-op character build is fairly easy. Never had the chance to actually play a PC Solar. Would like to do so with a group of players that I don't get to play with on a so regular basis that I know their psych profiles.

Is this still planned?

If still in the works and there are five Solars, I might be interested in playing a Lunar character.

I haven't heard back from her yet. :\