Exalted: Ink Monkeys

[marworth]

So Ink Monkeys is officially making my brain hurt. There are so many new charms, keywords, errata, etc that I'm having trouble absorbing it all. I'm not even reading the stuff that isn't for Solars and Lunars and it's still too much. What I'm absorbing I mostly like. The new char gen rules are a little min maxy but at the same time most of them

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[marworth]

Ok I found something I hate more than Overdrive. Engagement Range. What the fuck guys?

[voey]

Overdrive is wonderful, because it gives you a motivation not to perfect-turtle, and makes offense at least a little bit viable. Nobody was using their awesome death-combos because they cost tons of motes and would just get perfected away. Overdrive lets you be badass offensively without being stupid.

Engagement range is wonderful, because it gives you a reason to get in close enough for your enemy to hit you, thus making the Invincible Solar Archer Build (which is no fun for anyone) slightly more interesting.

[marworth]

Overdrive adds another level of bookkeeping to combat which most players can't keep up with anyways. The flavor behind it is terrible and the fact that it allows you to use any charm you can pay for out if it not count as charm activation is just fucking broken

[zimboptoo]

I personally find that if you're playing with people who power-game that much, you need to find a different gaming group.

[marworth]

Also Martial-Ready is dumb and I've replaced it with something better.