Alchemicals are created to defend and uplift the peoples of Autochthonia and sometimes Autochthonia itself. Chazz, Monica, and Terry talk machine saints, castes, gremlins, and the philosophical implications of going from person, to walking small house, to opinionated city.
What's happening in the Dreaming Sea? How's Fortitude these days? How many dumplings exist in Creation? Lauren and Eric join to talk Across the Eight Directions and its over 300 pages of additional setting for Exalted 3rd edition.
Across the Eight Directions - This book on DTRPG
Why is there a giant sword in the Underworld? Who are the deathlords and what are their agendas? Will we get a goth version of Strawmaiden Janest? These and more answered in 3d Abyssals dev interview!
Exalt characters need Exalt-level foes and Adversaries of the Righteous provides them in spades. Chazz and Terry talk sneak peaks at Exalt types, earth elemental apocalypse cults, and so so so many charms. Adversaries of the Righteous – This book on DTRPG
Hundred Devils Night Parade – Another book of things
How does Creation run? What is Yu-Shan like? How do you kick someone so that their spleen falls out? The Sidereals Kickstarter answers these! Vance and Elliott join to talk Sidereals in 3e.
Sidereals Kickstarter - Go back it! Or don't! You do you!
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Who are the Architects? What were the Umbral Exalted? How do you make your own Strawmaiden Janest? Elliot and Vance, devs for Exigents, join to talk custom charms, Exigence, going partsies on an Exalt and apocryphal Exalts.
What annoys Monica about Exalted maps? What's Terry's problematic fav? Does Chazz curse? These questions and more are answered in this, our final regular episode.
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Heirs to the Shogunate outlines cadet houses, forest witches, outcastes, notable Dragon-Blooded, new charms, a civil war, and more. Chazz and Terry discuss it in a preview of their upcoming project, Pain in the Dice.
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Autochthonia hosts strange creatures and places in the electromechanical god-body of a comatose Primordial...which we know little about so we asked Neall to join and he said yes. Autochthon! *jazz hands*
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Created when the unkillable Primordials were slain by the unstoppable Exalts, the Underworld is a strange show of Creation. Monica, Chazz, and guest Lauren discuss the Dual Monarchy, grief-bees, and endless seas.
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The opening theme is Return of the Solar Exalted, and the closing theme is The Sidereal Exalted – Lesser but Safe from Fanfare for the Chosen by James Semple and is used with permission.
Banished from Creation, the Yozis live in the inverted body of Malfeas. They are angry, but their souls, the 3rd circle demons are remarkably smoochable. Chazz and Monica talk which to court and which to avoid.
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The opening theme is Return of the Solar Exalted, and the closing theme is The Sidereal Exalted – Lesser but Safe from Fanfare for the Chosen by James Semple and is used with permission.
The gods oversee almost all aspects of Creation in their continent-sized city. Meanwhile elementals manifest in manifold and strange forms. Join the cast plus Elliott to talk gods, elements, and Yu-Shan. Just a warning, lotta sex talk in this one.
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Discord: BXP Discord (when joining, ask for access to the SUoE chat)
The opening theme is Return of the Solar Exalted, and the closing theme is The Sidereal Exalted – Lesser but Safe from Fanfare for the Chosen by James Semple and is used with permission.
Creation is an island of stability ringed by the marches that mark the transition to the dreamlike energies of the Deep Wyld. Monica, Chazz, and special guest H talk beefcake raksha, shaping charms, and how to Fair Folk in Essence.
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The opening theme is Return of the Solar Exalted, and the closing theme is The Sidereal Exalted – Lesser but Safe from Fanfare for the Chosen by James Semple and is used with permission.
In the West lies an ocean prowled by city-ships, ghost castes, unblinking shark-gods, and the Plentemonite priesthood...also...too-smart dolphins. Monica and Chazz talk pirates, demon sea wyrms, and non-sensical sexism.
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The opening theme is Return of the Solar Exalted, and the closing theme is The Sidereal Exalted – Lesser but Safe from Fanfare for the Chosen by James Semple and is used with permission.
A circle may have to investigate a herd of yeddim, steal a herd of yeddim, throw a herd of yeddim, fall from a yeddim, or face the enviromental hazard of a herd of yeddim. Monica and Chazz talk other systems in the last of our mechanics shows.
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The opening theme is Return of the Solar Exalted, and the closing theme is The Sidereal Exalted – Lesser but Safe from Fanfare for the Chosen by James Semple and is used with permission.
Monica, Chazz, and Terry talk about the combat and Charms rules from the Kickstarter preview and Terry continues storytelling a miniature session of Essence where Template and Han get to build some power. Next week, back to Exalted 3e!
Essence simplifies many of Exalted's core systems and today Terry storytells and Monica and Chazz play as they kick the tires on Essence's ventures and social influence systems.
I wanted to share Chazz and mine closing thoughts having played and run a few hours of Essence. The play recordings will be out over the next two weeks or so and then we go back to our normal schedule. Back strong!
Bonus fact: This is also our only episode without an explicit tag.
Dixie, Monica, Chazz, and Terry go through their closing thoughts on the Kickstarter, what else is coming for Exalted after Essence, and our experience with Essence so far.
AAAAAH THE ESSENCE CHAPTER CONTAINING ALL THE EXALT TYPES IS OUT! Monica, Chazz, and Terry go through ALL TEN EXALT TYPES, their advantages and neato powers, and how to make one.
