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Questions tagged [exalted-3e]

The 3rd edition of the Exalted RPG published by Onyx Path Publishing. Use for Questions specifically about the 3rd edition rules and background.

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Best way for a Solar martial artist to block lethal damage barehanded?

My Solar is our only unarmed martial artist at the moment. We had generally just assumed that a Solar martial artist would have little difficulty blocking unarmed attacks barehanded or at a minimum ...
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Can a mortal use an artifact in Exalted 3e? If so, how?

Motivation for the question We are running into questions around whether and how mortals can use artifacts in Exalted 3E. My Twilight has now twice wanted to make artifacts to give to mortals, once to ...
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In Exalted 3E, can Dragon Blooded reasonably integrate with celestial exalted?

As I understand the lore of Exalted 3E, the Dragon-Blooded are supposed to be explicitly less powerful than Celestial Exalted such as the Solars and the Lunars, but drastically more numerous. I do not ...
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Is there anything special about the children of the Solars?

In Exalted 3e, each of the major types of exalted that I have the books for has at least a chance of passing on supernatural traits to their children, except apparently the Solars. The children of the ...
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Is there a way for an Exalted sorcerer to learn more shaping rituals?

Shaping rituals can be very useful for a sorcerer who needs to occasionally cast spells quickly. They come for free when you initiate into a new circle of sorcerery. See e.g. E3, p. 361. But Solars ...
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Artifact & Evocation creation guidelines?

At the moment, I am playing a Twilight "inventor" Exalted in a campaign. As it progresses, I would like to start to dabble in the art of making Artifacts, especially with evocations. So as a result, I ...
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How to scry in Exalted 3e

The Exalted 3e rules books mention scrying repeatedly. It gets mentioned as a way to to familiarize yourself with a place for Travel Without Distance (E3, p. 480). Wards against Scrying are mentioned ...
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Does the situation in which one Exalts in have a bearing on their caste?

I am aware that rising up to the occasion is how one earns a Solar Exaltation but does the situation have a bearing on which Solar caste the newly Exalted will be a part of? For example would someone ...
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What are the limits on combining Martial Arts with other attacks?

Exalted does not allow the use of Martial Arts and other attack abilities such as brawl, melee, etc. (E3, p. 426). The rules say: In short—Martial Arts Charms are not compatible with Brawl, or any ...
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How are "enemies" defined for spells in Exalted 3e?

There are a couple of spells that refer specifically to enemies in Exalted 3e. Death of the Obsidian Butterflies (P. 472) for instances states that "She rolls (Perception + Occult) as an ...
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In Exalted 3e, are Solar and Lunars well balanced?

We are relatively new to Exalted and have only used Solar PCs thus far. We are looking at restarting and incorporating Lunars along with Solars. Before we do that, we would like to know if they are ...
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In Exalted, can a sorcerer choose to cast a distorted spell?

In Exalted, one sorcerer can under some circumstances distort another sorcerer's spell. In most cases, this is massively problematic for the sorcerer casting the spell. But the distortion for the ...
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How Does the Lore Differ Between Exalted 2e and 3e?

I am acquainted with Exalted's second edition lore, but am about to sign up for a game that uses third edition of the lore as a base. (It uses mechanics of neither, but this isn't a question about ...
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Can you take Brawl as a favoured ability without taking the Martial Artist Merit?

According to the Core book (p.122) if you take Brawl as a Favoured ability Martial Arts also becomes Favoured. All Favoured abilities must start with at least 1 dot. However, Martial Arts has a ...
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Why is it benificial to split initiative pool on Decisive attacks?

I have noticed a few charms that have some variation of the same mechanics, but I don't understand why it is beneficial. One example: Thousand Razor Wind (Dragon Blooded p278) The mechanic lets you do ...

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