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Homebrew Exalt - The Font; Henshin or bust
Topic Started: May 22 2015, 06:57 PM (2,170 Views)
SporkMaster5000

So Highwind made an exaltation, T_A made a different exaltation, Eisenritter made some edits to it, and they both got into book 3 despite stepping on each other's toes. Then it all went to shit and I started from square 1.

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Edited by SporkMaster5000, Jan 4 2016, 01:18 AM.
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I think limiting to something like just one free combo wouldn't be... enough? Perhaps to play up the 'instant expert' part, you could take this bit:
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When buying or improving a trick shot or special attack, if it applies to an action associated with your Signature style, or uses an advantage or restriction from your signature style, you do not have to spend experience for a number of style points equal to your Channel (this does not reduce the minimum 50xp)

From Signature Style and use it for the asset, if that's what you'd want to go for.
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This feels like it's getting too henshin and not enough magical girl... I kind of don't want to dive too hard into the whole big argument/shitstorm revolving around this exaltation, especially since with all you Americans or Australians or whatever, it mostly happens while I'm asleep, but wouldn't it be good to follow the tradition of DtD and incorporate mechanics and content from Magical Burst and Magical Fury?
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That's not a bad idea. Have you guys ever heard of Princess: The Hopeful? It's a homebrew of magical girls in World of Darkness. We can go through books like Magical Burst and Princess for inspiration on mechanics.
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This feels like it's getting too henshin and not enough magical girl

I didn't realize that "I transform and do things" didn't encapsulate both henshin and magical girl, but whatever.
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We could make a few Exalt Talents that make it feel more magical girl-esque. Flowers, sparkles, cute animals, the works.
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The problem with that being that anybody can just say that's how they transform, or whatever effects they have on their stuff, or whatever et al. Horned Hero - being the explicitly magic asset - is just as much magical girl as it is transforming into some spell-slinging Power Ranger or whatever.
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May 24 2015, 02:27 PM
I didn't realize that "I transform and do things" didn't encapsulate both henshin and magical girl, but whatever.
The core concept is compatible, obviously. But right now it's all about being hot-blooded and punching people – or for some variety you can shoot them. Or whatever. It's compatible with the old precures, but there's nothing really conducive to more evocation-oriented stuff, nothing to support the use of magic in general. The downsides present in recent stuff are also missing, there's no allowance for things like magical fallout and any traumatic results of magic are going to be purely freeform. There's also nothing to do with a tsukaima/familiar, which are pretty much ubiquitous for magical girl shows. It feels more like a henshin exaltation that could be repurposed to be magical girl than like an actual combination of the two.
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there's nothing really conducive to more evocation-oriented stuff, nothing to support the use of magic in general.

Getting a free Magic School isn't conducive for general use of magic? Coulda fooled me. :-/
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There's also nothing to do with a tsukaima/familiar, which are pretty much ubiquitous for magical girl shows.

Obtain Familiar is a feat that exists already, and not even necessarily an element that pervades magical girl stuff. Some stuff has it, not all.

That said, fitting Obtain Familiar into an asset could be cool, but it shouldn't be a base feature of the Exalt.
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May 24 2015, 02:51 PM
Getting a free Magic School isn't conducive for general use of magic? Coulda fooled me.
It's in there, yes, but it basically comes across as an afterthought, especially since no assets reflect it.
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Except Horned Hero?
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