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Whether you are a soak monster you not you will die to a flurry. Hence all characters should have a flurry breaker. Hence the reason flurries had to go. A soak monster in my book is basically any character that can reduce all damage to ping. Anything more then that is shitty mechanics that breaks th...

In the original 2e - yes, in 2.5 - no. The Twilight anima ability allowed them to spend motes to reduce damage. Which led to the following scheme: 1. Stack enough soak to reduce the average charmless attack to ping. 2. Activate Essence Gathering Temper against the ping. Gain pile of motes. 3. Activ...

(1)Does it unnecessarily slow down basic task resolution, for example by making people roll 11+ dice routinely? (2)Is its math so obviously fucked, that results which the book implicitly or explicitly presumes and actual results of a character generated by simply concentrating on areas in which he ...

I have now idea how I stumbled on this forum. I was searching for something ex3 related for certain. Anyway here is my opinion on the new edition based on the leaked playtest, which we have played for about 15 sessions now, including 4 fights. Good +Combat is simple and steamlined. People who have n...