The Gaming Den

Erich_Zahn is not a dev to the best of my knowledge.

It's certainly possible I was mistaken. Fairly sure the other poster was, though.

Holden is a dev, EricZahn is not a dev. And the moderation at SA is evidently shit.

Lago PARANOIA wrote:Dammit I can't find my Dragonblooded book and I haven't read it in a few years, but I was under the impression that the book, you know, was pretty tame about the vomit-inducing shit in the faction.

Comparatively, yeah, it is. And of the exalted books, dragonblooded 1e is my favorite, because you can make a functional game out of it with a group. But it still has the cognitive dissonance hump somewhere in the middle where the writer is clearly getting off on having 'deliciously dark' shit on pedophilia plopped down in the middle of game supplement. It is clearly there to be the edgy and 'dark alternative' thing that WW always felt compelled to jam in their books so they wouldn't be 'main stream.'

As for the quotes from SomethingAwful: I don't know if it just speaks to my ignorance, but I didn't really see Holden being particularly terrible and banworthy in most of his posts, although EricZahn, whoever he is, the only surprise there is how long it took to ban him.

I am rather distressed, however, at Holden's apparent attitude that being urged not to repeat the same mistakes as previous editions of Exalted somehow equates to paying for those mistakes. It just doesn't seem a good stance for a developer to take, considering he still asserted that he wanted 3e Exalted to escape that same stigma.

Silent Wayfarer wrote:Borgstrom's work seems unnecessarily obtuse. Is this an accurate observation or am I a lazy casual?

You're not wrong.

I'd describe it as baroque instead, because I actually like her writing, but you're not wrong.

Sorry, I've been skipping those posts and will continue to do so-- if I read their specific ideas, I can't write anything that looks remotely like them, for legal reasons. I get the gist, though.

Argh.

Voss wrote:
And family, but... yeah, they were a large part of the point. I kind of hope that you aren't saying because they didn't offer their child sex slaves to everyone that it was somehow OK that the house as a whole had child sex slaves. That one of the noble houses' 'thing' was pedophilia and orgies (consensual and non, since a lot of their business was also slaves) was my point.

That would be a bad way to phrase it, yes. To me it was more like some shit was so vile that even a Great House of the Empire with dirt on everyone through their illicit trade can't even practice it with any degree of open-ness. Anyway, if it was House Cynis stuff, then I must have glossed over it at some point, because my eyes glaze over when people do edgy tryhard crap like that.

There was also the whole Bride of the (not)Devil thing with the Empress, or next Empress or whatever (I honestly thought the official backstory was crap and horridbad for no reason so I largely ignored it and don't remember the details.

I honestly don't remember pedophilia as being a 'no-no' for the Dragonblooded. The one that really stood out as the ultimate crime (at least if you didn't go for martial arts) was 'not having children,' and more particularly not having children with another dragon exalt. You could fuck whoever/whatever on the side as long as you made minimal efforts to be discrete, but not breeding a child [by spouse, at least in theory] every decade or so was a punishable offense. (first socially, then family pulling resources, and ultimately legally).

Yeah, it's the duty of all DBs to perpetuate the bloodline. Not doing so is essentially treason against Creation because the DBs' duty is to defend Creation (fun fact, most of them are too slack, lazy and dissipated to do this).

Fucking unExalted is kind of bad because it dilutes the bloodlines, even if you get more (weaker) Exalts in the process. Also, there's huge inheritance issues and if a Dragon-Blooded bastard decides to make trouble because he feels shafted, it won't end well. Lookshy gives zero fucks because they breed for numbers, instead of the Realm which breeds for power.

Avor, you didn't post the most important bit of info: what was his avatar changed to?

Sadly, your avatar also gets changed when you are banned. I tried an avatar history check, but he's been removed from the database apparently. It will forever be a mystery.

I can quote the Rap Sheet, if you like.

BAN 05/30/13 01:39pm Holden_Shearer You know if having to endure the slings and arrows of the outrageous accusations of the steaming herd bothers you that much, I can give you a hand in getting away from all of this.

PROBATION 05/30/13 01:37pm Holden_Shearer Now is not the time to "double down" as they might say on being a tremendously shitty poster. User loses posting privileges for 6 hours.

Avoraciopoctules, I will eat your soul with ketchup.

Every day is repost day!

What is this, an image for ants?

here's a bigger one. I'm currently running OCR on it to try to turn it into text.

EDIT: My OCR software is apparently pants, so no plaintext for you.

http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Exalted#Backstory It's here.

So. How's the fucking Exalted 3E coming along? Good?