Please be a genuinely good person who live. Exalted does not have many of those that don’t wind up dead, actually evil, go insane, or some combination of the three.
The setting is a dick: The cosmology is defined by successive revolts against crazy assholes who turn almost as bad as the last batch, human beings are crunchy and nutritious to alarmingly many and various things in the setting, the people who are supposed to give a shit and solve the problems are all some combination of apathetic, imprisoned, arm-twisted, incompetent and dead, and the general situation is so dire that insufficiently-supervised, violent teenagers walking around with superpowers may actually be an improvement.
Generally speaking “Good” people don’t become Abyssals. People on the edge of death offered a chance at a second life for pledging themselves to killing the world.
In theory they can be fixed and become Curseless Solars, but Lance doesn’t seem the sort. The “hero” thing he plays at is as much a way to get some free murdering in to appease the Neverborn as it is to play a game.
Please be a genuinely good person who live. Exalted does not have many of those that don’t wind up dead, actually evil, go insane, or some combination of the three.
Then again maybe my GM is a dick.
The setting is a dick: The cosmology is defined by successive revolts against crazy assholes who turn almost as bad as the last batch, human beings are crunchy and nutritious to alarmingly many and various things in the setting, the people who are supposed to give a shit and solve the problems are all some combination of apathetic, imprisoned, arm-twisted, incompetent and dead, and the general situation is so dire that insufficiently-supervised, violent teenagers walking around with superpowers may actually be an improvement.
That’s a very good summary of Exalted. 😀
Generally speaking “Good” people don’t become Abyssals. People on the edge of death offered a chance at a second life for pledging themselves to killing the world.
In theory they can be fixed and become Curseless Solars, but Lance doesn’t seem the sort. The “hero” thing he plays at is as much a way to get some free murdering in to appease the Neverborn as it is to play a game.