The Warring States of NPF - The Burning Horizon (Exalted) RP Sign Up/Discussion

Far to the South, where baking deserts turn to pristine glass stretching into the geometric impossibilities of creation, beyond the bordermarches of the Raksha lords, beyond even the deep Wyld, beyond and apart from the birth of all, slumbers one of the last remaining Titans, the sole free Primordial adrift in a sea of nothing...

and He is dying.

His people, industrious and inventive, scrounge and scamper about his slowly decaying body in hopes a miracle, as their world grinds to an inevitable halt. Pushed by desperation and desire, they make a choice to rejoin a continuity they forsook millenia ago, they have broken the seals that kept them separate from the verdent, chaotic realm of Creation.

They march now, as locusts. A plague of devouring interlopers set on domination and subjugation to their own brand of industrialized rule.

Now is the time of conquest and glory, of heroes and villains and singular personalities not fir to wear either title, but remembered through the ages all the same.

Now is the time of the Locusts, and the ending of an Age.

Well folks, it's that time again.

Time to put pen to paper and sword through rampaging barbarian with a 3 dice stunt bonus. Time for heroes to rise and fall for a myriad causes. Time for Phoenix Flame to prove that she knows more about this system than I ever will.

*cough*

Anyways, the setting will be a spin off the locust crusade campaign from The Autochthonians source book. Don't expect a direct translation however, as I've got enough bleeps and bloops planned out to make sure you can't just use the Exalted: Cliffs Notes to get ahead.

I'm going to make character selection narrowed down to only Celestial exalts. It's going to be 1st edition rules (sorry!) but don't worry too much about how off some of the mechanics were, because I'll be making all the rolls (which means I'll be making very few actual rolls and just dictating the outcome based on dramatic effect or whim... but you didn't hear that part) this will also allow access to Abyssal exalted, as well as saving me some monkey work in converting Alchemicals to 2e.

If you don't have to 1st edition books, you are fired.

Seriously though, I'm sure you can find them somewhere and the less I know about it the better. (Blood Apes like the blood of the innocent, by the by)

So, free reign on which celestial type. Expect a lot of fiddling from the St (ie: me) if you choose Abyssal or Sidereal, but Lunars and Solars will be on their own. No renegade Abyssals (you must at least be nominally devoted to your Deathlord at the start of play, we can negotiate later as to whether you stay that way) and no Ronin Sidereals (because that's just stupid and I have no idea why they even included the option in the sourcebook...) Untattooed Lunars are right out too. Solars, well Solars do whatever the fuck they want and make you think it was your idea, except they did it better.

Ok, now that the restrictive nasty bits are out of the way, here's the good news.

500xp

Yeah, that's right. Make a starting character, use up your bonus points, and then configure him/her/herm to your hearts content. Use the xp rules and not the bonus point rules though, or I'll have your guts by Luna! Use the text format that's oh so popular around these parts with an accompanying text file that runs down your bonus point and xp point expenditure. So yeah, it's going to be a little book keeping, but chances are if you're still reading this the prospect of scribbling stats and points excites you as much as it does me.

no pics please Krylo. It would upset the girl friend.

This campaign is going to start hot and heavy and just get more dangerous as it goes along. Character death will be considered as a story hook (I won't just kill your character off for no reason though, unless you work something out with me in advance and then you want to reroll a new character or something like that I'm not going to off your baby... unless you do something real stupid like slap The First And Forsaken Lion across the giblets or some such nonsense.) So make sure your character can handle himself in a fight (relevant combat/defense stats at 3 minimum, MINIMUM GOD DAMN IT!)

No blatant min/maxing shall be countenanced! Your concept must follow through your stats, and your stats must represent your character as conceived and played. If that confuses you turn back now, for only death awaits ye!

Also, no N/A artifacts to start, and all 5dot artifacts require my approval, so think twice before devoting a lot of dots to that game breaking doo dad. Chances are I'll give you the presidential veto and tell you spend the points elsewhere at best, or let it slide until I can find a suitable method of having it backfire on you in game at worst. (depends on my lunar cycle, I get cranky when my mpms kicks in...)

If I missed anything I'll be sure to let you know alter IN BIG LOUD NASTY TEXT LIKE THIS!

So, get to crunching numbers and have some fun creating your godlings me hearties, for tonight, we dine in Malfeas!

(last 300 reference this thread, I promises)

The First and Forsaken Edit: Oi! Sorry I forgot to mention this, since there is no option to improve backgrounds through xp (typically they are raised by rp) I am giving everyone a one time bonus of 15 background dots. Use them like bonus points, except only for backgrounds. So dots after 3 cost more. Use the normal amount of background dots for your starting character type first, then bonus points (if any) and then apply the bonus BONUS points. K?