Exalted Second Edition front cover, featuring the images of the characters (from left to right) Arianna, Swan, Panther, Harmonious Jade, and Dace.,,,,,, and Richard Thomas and (game direction first edition) (game direction second edition) and (game direction third edition core) and (game direction third edition) (art direction), and many others Publisher(s) Publication date 2001 (1st edition) March 13, 2006 (2nd edition)/April 20, 2016 (3rd Edition) Genre(s) System(s) Storyteller Game System Design by Website Exalted is a published. The game is classified as and it was inspired by a mixture of world mythologies as well as Japanese. The game is currently in its third edition. First Edition was originally created by, and.

The original core rulebook was published in July 2001. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Influences [ ] The setting is strongly influenced by 's, 's, 's and 's. Other influences include 's; 's,, and; 's, the Bible, and 's. System [ ] The game uses ten-sided and a variation of the to arbitrate the action, and, as with many other RPGs, requires little beyond the rulebooks themselves, dice, pencil, and paper.

The Exalted version of the rules were derived from the trilogy of White Wolf Publishing games Aeon (Trinity), Aberrant, and Adventure where the idea of a fixed target number of 7 or higher was first introduced. Characters may be frequently presented with challenges that normal human beings, even within the context of the game, would find difficult, deadly, or simply impossible. However, as the chosen champions of greater powers, each Exalt possesses Charms, which may either enhance their natural capabilities or manifest as shows of great power.

An Exalt with low-level archery charms might find her arrows hitting with preternatural accuracy, while greater faculty might allow her to shoot without difficulty to the edge of her vision, or turn a single arrow into a deadly rain of ammunition. The Exalted frequently power their charms with accumulated Essence, a universal energy that flows through and comprises Creation and other worlds. While normally their Essence recovered slowly through rest, in the first two editions they could also regain it more quickly by performing stunts, actions given special description and embellishment by the players. In the third edition stunts no longer regenerate Essence, but combat automatically causes Essence stores to refill quickly. However, stunts continue to exist, and their primary benefit—adding extra dice to the actions they describe, thus enhancing the possibility of success—remains. History [ ] Exalted has mechanical and thematic similarities to White Wolf's previous game series, the old, but exists in its own product line, called the Age of Sorrows. The game has a sales record on par with the company's flagship title,, the second edition core rulebook achieving a sales ranking at #23,558 on Amazon.com with a 4.5-star mean user review rating based on 13 user reviews as of January 2009.

The initial advertisements for Exalted placed the Age of Sorrows as the pre-history of the. However, once the game was released such connections became uncertain: names and themes from the World of Darkness line run throughout the material, but rarely in a way that suggested a direct connection between one and the other. Meanwhile, some oWoD supplements also supported this; the Hunter Apocrypha gave a vision of the past that said that Hunters gained their power from the broken shards of the souls of great heroes of a lost age. Which seems to suggest that hunters carry fragments of Solar Essences. Likewise, the Kindred of the East supplement gave a structure of the Wheel of Ages (mirrored in Exalted first edition books as the Ages of Man) that seemed to accommodate the integration of Exalted and the classic World of Darkness, the former the first and second age, and the latter being the fifth age. However, per the commentary of multiple developers, the connections are deliberately tenuous, allowing players to be free to treat it as a prehistory or as its own world as it may suit their individual game. The similarities between Exalted and the new edition of the World of Darkness are even weaker.

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The Second Edition seems to imply that its story is the prehistory of our own world on its back cover, but this idea is not explored in any depth past that book; while the last book of Second Edition would posit a modernized world with the Exalted, it was clearly a technologically advanced version of Creation – the world of Exalted – rather than Earth. Shards of the Exalted Dream, the final 2nd edition product, was published in January 2012. Development of Exalted 3rd Edition was officially announced in October 2012. A campaign for Exalted 3rd edition ran in 2013 from May 9 to June 8, reaching its $60,000 funding goal within 18 minutes, and raising a total of $684,755 and breaking 's record for the most funded tabletop RPG Kickstarter. Promotions [ ] In March 2008, White Wolf Publishing unveiled a promotion that would allow 2,500 players to exchange their copy of their Edition 3.5 Player's Handbook for a copy of the Exalted Second Edition Core Rulebook. The promotion was called 'Graduate your Game' and has received mixed reviews from fans of both games. The success of this promotion was not revealed.

Setting [ ] Background [ ] In Exalted, the are chosen by a deity and imbued with their powers (thus, 'exalted', or 'raised high'). There are numerous varieties of Exalted, each chosen by a different deity or group of deities; however, the core game is based around the Solar Exalted, Chosen of the Unconquered Sun, with the Core Rulebook covering the Solars' abilities, powers, and place within the setting. While the core rulebook mentions and discusses the other Exalted to the extent necessary for them to appear as supporting characters in Solar-themed games, additional sourcebooks provide the depth of detail necessary to stage other Exalted as playable characters. According to the core sourcebooks and the supplementary materials, the history of the setting begins with the Primordials: vast entities akin to or the of 's works, even going so far as to use similar epithets to the latter. They shaped Creation – a flat world of finite extent – from the, and placed the gods (numberless immortal spirits resembling the of ) to watch over it. In time, the, the greatest of the gods who represented great celestial objects such as the sun and moon, decided to end the rule of the callous and destructive Primordials and claim the Games of Divinity for their own, but they were forbidden from taking arms against the Primordials themselves.

Instead, they imbued exceptional humans with their power (the titular Exalted) to fight for them. After a cataclysmic struggle, the Exalted finally triumphed over the Primordials, slaying many and then forcing the others to surrender. Upon victory, the gods retreated to the city of Yu-Shan to oversee from on high, and granted the Exalted the as a boon for their service to the new order. The surrendered Primordials were banished to/became the known as Malfeas, the Demon City. Now they are half-remembered only as the Yozis: ill-understood and impersonal cosmic deities whose continued worship is reckoned among the highest of heresies. The slain Primordials are known as the Neverborn, quiescent monsters whose impossible ending resulted in the formation of the. Common to all of 's games, the primary character archetype, the Exalted, suffer from a systemic character flaw.

In this case, this flaw is represented by a 'Great Curse', uttered upon the dying breaths of the slain Primordials. This Great Curse manifests itself in a variety of ways and causes the 'heroes' of the setting to be. In the game's history, the Solars eventually grew decadent and corrupt from this influence. After centuries of plotting, the Solars were slaughtered in a massive insurrection known as the Usurpation by the Terrestrial and Sidereal Exalted, their servants and advisors. After the Usurpation, the majority of the Exaltations of the Solar Exalted were locked away, and an organization known as the Wyld Hunt was organized by agents of the Sidereals and Terrestrials to kill all the others, and drive the Lunar Exalted from the civilised lands of Creation. During the intervening age, the Terrestrial Exalted became the rulers of the world, ruling in a system not unlike the of.

After the Great Contagion (a plague engineered by the Neverborn to swell the population of the underworld and weaken Creation) and the Balorian Crusade (a war with the, who seek to return the world to Chaos) wrought devastation across Creation, a young captain of the Dragon-Blooded armies gained access to powerful weapons of the First Age. With these, she first beat back the Balorian Crusade, and then asserted her rulership over much of the world, dubbing herself the Scarlet Empress. Nearly eight hundred years later—in the present day of the game—there are eleven Great Houses of the Realm, nearly all of whom claim direct descent from the Empress. Five years prior to the default starting point of the game, the Empress vanished. While she had temporarily disappeared before, by the present of the game it is believed she will not return, and the Realm stands on the brink of civil war. Simultaneously, the Solar exaltations held in the Jade Prison have returned. With the Houses ignoring the threat of the Celestial Exalted to position themselves to take control of the Realm, the number of Solar Exalted in Creation is slowly growing.

Thus, the backdrop to the setting sees the newly arisen Solars (among various other heroes and villains) struggling to survive their enemies in this time of tumult long enough to make their mark upon the fate of Creation, for good or for ill. The flat world of Creation is the primary setting of Exalted. Creation has two continents, the Blessed Isle and the unnamed super-continent which covers the northern, eastern and southern edges of Creation, populated by many nations and tribes, with the settled regions along the inner coast of this super-continent being known collectively as the threshold. The Blessed Isle is located in the center of Creation. The Realm rules the Blessed Isle and its proximate archipelago directly, and indirectly rules numerous tributary states known as satrapies along the threshold. • ^ Chambers, John; Alan Alexander; Rebecca Borgstrom; Carl Bowen; Zach Bush; Joseph Carricker; Genevieve Cogman; Dawn Elliot; Michael Goodwin; Conrad Hubbard; Peter Schaefer; John Snead; Andrew Watt; William Wulf (2006). 'Chapter One: Setting'.

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