1) Yes, evocations will take up charm slots.

2) Custom evocations?!  Ooooh, gimme gimme!

ROFL

In reply to Loom of Fate (msg # 61):

thank you for confirming, can evocations bedevloped with xp or at creation only? if we can use xp i will consider my weapon to be recently aquired and so not yet unlocked its spicy goodness. otherwise i shall review my charms and try to shave some off :D

Well...yes and no.  Mechanically, can you propose Evocations to me, and if approved, purchase them with XP?  Yes, indeed!

Fluff-wise, any weapon with Evocations is old enough and powerful enough to have had 'em all along, and Rain is just awakening them as she grows.

In reply to Loom of Fate (msg # 64):

cool, i will think of a few evocations to eventually be unlocked but meanwhile i can finish my sheet :)

Evocations are a fun challenge, very much the way to make your artifact yours.

yeah problem i have is that i have always been confused by scale in exalted as always told i think way too small for goals etc and honestly never know where the line between balanced and broken is haha

Well Exalted is not Pathfinder/D&D that's for sure. Scale is tricky in Exalted, you can be a King or Queen straight out of Chargen, and that's a different way of thinking from the clearing out the next lair of goblins.

I say start with the broken goals, then just scale them back a little rather than starting with the basic goal and trying to scale it up. Shoot for the moon and even if you fail you will land among the stars and all that.

In reply to Aiyana Silverbow (msg # 68):

yeah trying to be a little too big on this one but still it translates to artifacts as i look at 3e evocations and some of them are fine but some seem pretty strong so just goign to figure out what i want them to do and see if i can haha

Hey!  There will be absolutely no shooting at Luna!

We only shoot with Luna...

In reply to Unfurling Zephyr Dreaming (msg # 70):

Luna will be fine with it i am sure XD

In reply to Rainbow of Iron Ravens (msg # 72):

If you want some help workshopping your Evocations shoot me a PM, I've got a little practice at designing them.

In reply to Aiyana Silverbow (msg # 73):

Thankyou :) gonna try to decide on a through theme first then develop form there :)

I think my sheet is done... Now just need to write up a description. And an artifact. And a horse.

The horse is named Mr. Clip-clip. He looks delicious…

I'm getting close. Pinning down intimacies and the last handful of merits and bonus points...and then going in to calculate all the derived values and make sure that the charms get into the sheet properly.

Is Finding the Needles's Eye good for defense?

In reply to Cathak Raiyah (msg # 78):

Description of the Familiar merit refers to an "omen dog", but I can find no other reference.  What is an omen dog, please?

my understanding is a large wyld corrupted dog

Ah, so "no" then.  I can imagine Salmon with a creepy little dog that hides in his sleeves, or a huge, semi-magical guard dog that follows him everywhere, but "corrupted" is probably not in the works.

In reply to Seven-Tailed Salmon (msg # 81):

corrupted doesn't mean evil, omen dof woul literally fit the semi-magical guard dog. they can be tamed etc and if you are a merchant with wealth you could have purchased it or raised it from a puppy. omen dogs are essentially a breed of creature so no reaosn you can't have one i would think. My old zenith farmer turn saviour of the people had an omen dog.

Remember you are a demigod, if you can ride into town on a giant dinosaur like lizard  in this world you can have an omen dog haha

Here is a snippet for omen dog from my second ed rulebook.

Its a big dog that can take down horses :) couyldn't find a version in 3e

Thanks for taking the time to dig that up!  I think that it would be tough to pass that off as "normal", though.  Seriously leaning towards picking up a monumentally ugly, ill-tempered lapdog named "Num-Num", just for the Bloefeld vibes.
This message was last edited by the player at 12:56, Thu 03 Mar 2022.

Good for your defense?  No, it’s of offense charm. Good for getting past someone else’s defense?  Definitely helpful!