Help Fundraise & Make Exalted 3rd Edition A Reality
May 22, 2013 by brennon
The Onyx Path have another Kickstarter in the works that has already bust it's goal. They have achieved funding for their Deluxe Exalted 3rd Edition Rule Book and are forging on to lots of great extras...
"This is the tale of a forgotten age before the seas were bent, when the world was flat and floated atop a sea of chaos. This is the tale of a decadent empire raised up on the bones of the fallen Golden Age, whose splendor it faintly echoed but could not match. This is a tale of primal frontiers, of the restless dead, of jeweled cities ruled openly by spirits in defiance of Heaven’s law. This is a tale of glorious heroes blessed by the gods, and of their passions and the wars they waged in the final era of legends.
This is your tale. This is Exalted. What legends will they tell of your deeds?"
The game is a highly successful pen and paper fantasy role-playing game by the folks who also bought us many of the epic stories from Werewolf and Vampire in the World of Darkness. Now they are moving things on with a new system, new background and plenty of new powers to explore.
Backers will be able to get their hands on either the Deluxe Edition at the top which is hard bound or the bottom image which is the Metal Bound (yes, metal plated) edition of the rulebook. As well as that numerous source books and other additional pledge rewards are on offer.
I myself have never played Exalted but it does sound like a rich world full of interesting goings on. I'll be checking this one out more closely I reckon.
Have you played Exalted?
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It could be worth it if, in the next edition, there were less dice to throw and a combat initiative system that doesn’t want to make me murder everyone on sight…
That’s kind of a theme with White Wolf games in general. Interesting settings, great background development, deeply flawed game systems. Remember the first edition of Mage: The Ascension? It was almost completely unplayable. I think even WW realized it when they rebooted the World of Darkness franchise and did a near total rewrite of Mage.
Always loved the artwork.
Exalted was always a great concept, but it’s execution was so clunky our group could never stomach it for more than a session or two without getting a complete headache from it’s hopeless overcomplicated powers system.
If this new version can streamline that and get it right – and D&D 4E and Iron Kingdoms have proved that you can do streamlined combat-heavy RPGs with easy-to-understand rules – they could be on to a winner with Exalted.