The Road Between Light and Dark: Hunter and Hunted (Exalted)

Hello there, folks, hope everyone's doing well. Got an Exalted session for you, no complicated bells or whistles or big announcements unless I think of something later and go back and edit this.

So let's get to it.

The Road Between Light and Dark: The Broken Antler (Exalted)

Hey there, folks, hope everyone's doing okay at the moment and that the world hasn't ended in the time between me starting this post and putting it up. We've got another Exalted Essence session for ya as my mixed-Exalt Circle of PCs continues on their trek to Gethamane.

I don't have any big announcements, but in case you missed it, I did another character build, this time for Cyberpunk RED, a game that doesn't use fistfuls of d10s for once! And I've got another build in the works, but wanted to get this up first to break them up a bit (and, also, y'know, to get it up some time before the last-minute, which lately has led to me forgetting to link my posts on social media).

But with that out of the way...

Building a Character: Cyberpunk RED

Greetings, programs!

So as I begin writing this, I just recently wrapped up first drafts for the third edition Exalted Alchemicals book, and between that and the Exalted Essence game I'm running, I need a bit of a palate cleanser.

In this context that means building a character, and to change things up a bit I'm doing a system I've neither run nor written for before -- nor even played, for that matter. I picked up the Cyberpunk RED core book for cheap in a sale a while back, and as you may or may not be aware I've always been a fan of the genre. I've even been vaguely aware of the setting since long before the recent video game, as a fan of the old WotC version of the Netrunner card game, which explicitly took place in the Cyberpunk 2020 setting. While the card game didn't deal with a lot that happened outside the Net, it touched on enough that I might've said "Oh shit" out loud when Spider Murphy showed up in the "Love Like Fire" mission in Cyberpunk 2077, not to mention various other names prominent throughout the game.

That's not meant to be a brag about 'old-school' cred, but as with my Trinity Continuum character builds, I enjoy talking about my history with a given game (or, in this case, world). That said, sometimes I do wonder what effect it would have had on me had Cyberpunk been my first non-D&D game instead of Trinity/Æon.

Anyhow, below the cut, I'm gonna get into a character build for Cyberpunk RED.

The Road Between Light and Dark: A Threat of Mammoth Proportions (Exalted)

Greetings in this era of ominous omens, between the recent New York earthquake, the even-more-recent solar eclipse, and a plague of cicadas on the horizon (some of which are apparently going to be hypersexual zombies). I'm making sure to mention all this to 'date' this post in case future generations of wasteland explorers find it and it somehow winds up being an important clue in their journey to reclaim some macguffin or simply serves as background lore fodder.

Yes, I am in a weird mood today. But that's alright, because weird moods can always be of benefit when I'm writing about an Exalted session.

So we're getting into that below the fold!

The Road Between Light and Dark: Burning Daylight (Exalted)

Hey there, folks, welcome back! It's been quiet here because RL issues have prevented us from playing, and I just haven't had the time or the energy to write up the last session we did play before now due to a combination of issues, one of those getting the first draft of my work in on the new Alchemicals book.

But now that that's out of the way, I'm gonna relax and unwind from writing Exalted stuff by...

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...by writing a blog post about Exalted. Frig.

All kidding aside, I do have some other content planned for the blog, but I wanted to get this posted before my next session. That said, I've been neck deep in Exalted core mechanics and I have to make sure to get my brain back into Essence mode before our next session. Here's hoping.

Speaking of which...

The Road Between Light and Dark: Moving Onward (Exalted)

Hey there, folks, hope everyone's doing well, so on and so forth. I know a few folks have had a rough time of it as of late, and just know that my thoughts are with you whether you're reading this or not. (I'm not sure how you'll know my thoughts are with you if you're not reading this, but just don't think too hard about it.) 

I've been running at a little less than peak efficiency myself, which is why it's been quiet around these parts, but hopefully I'll be back up to speed soon enough.

Anyhow...

The Road Between Light and Dark: The Territory is Not the Map (Exalted)

Greetings and salutations and all that, welcome back! Once more unto the breach and all that.

I can't really think of anything special to add here, other than repeating -- for those who may have missed it -- my announcement from the previous post that I'm working on the Alchemicals 'fatsplat' for Exalted Third Edition. There's not a whole lot of detail I can get into other than that I'm writing a few things for a few different parts of the book. But there's lots of gears turning and things interlocking (that's an Autochthonia joke) and I'll get into more detail when I can.

And now, let's get into it as we start our next 'episode.'