Zaramis
Senior Member
Hey everyone. Just thought I'd share this very funny episode of .. well, stuff. In Exalted 2:nd Ed.
Ill start from the beginning. I had just picked up 2:nd Ed, and we'd been looking over the pictures, the charms, the cool new combat systems for almost an entire day, me and a friend. We decided, sometime at 2 am, to start trying out the combat system by doing some staged fights.
We start with a typical Dragon Blood from the STC, played by my friend. He is a Wood aspect, with some fire charms as well, boosting his melee.
He starts to beat the crap out of my Tyrant Lizard. He then whoops me with his artifact glaive versus a dragon blooded of my own wielding a reaper daiklave. Then, he kicks my butt again using a Grand Daiklave ( even if he rolls worse than me, he had much better stuff )
So, we decide to make some longer fights, and roll two mortals each. I equip my mortal with a chain shirt and a mace + buckler. He starts with equipping his with a big sword of some kind. I decide to call this mortal of mine "Falkner". It soon turns out that the Mace ( piercing, +8B damage, +1 defense +1 accuracy ) is one -awesome- weapon, combined with a shield for +1 DV.
Falker handily beats three different compositions of my enemy, including dual hooked swords and a heavy armor spear wielding fellow. NOteworthy is that my friend was upgraded after each fight, too, with better stuff.
So, my friend promptly states "Well, time for your pesky Falkner to die. Im bringing out my DB that I used earlier".. Great. That's a wood aspect, with plenty of melee and athletic charms, using a GRAND DAIKLAVE and an armor soaking -13- bashing, with 4 in all his physicals.
He allows me to get the first punch. I hit him since his DV isnt all that fancy, and somehow manages to roll really well. THe piercing mace halves his armor, and I manage to score 4 health levels ( and this was a mortal, no double-0's etc ).
He gets pissed, and swings his gigantic sword. Misses versus my DV of 5. Swoooop.. miss. So I hit him again, for 1 health level through another miracle. He then swings, and hits me. ugh.
My friend brings out 22 ( twenty-two! ) damage dice after my soak of mighty 3 is over with, and rolls. One success. One in 22. I take one health level of damage, and continue to spend willpower like crazy. Next round I hit the DB in another miracle move for 2 health levels, and he gives up.
So, by this point we're laughing like madmen over the situation, and my friend exclaims that his character in my campaign is hiring this mace-wielding fellow to be his bodyguard. We pull out a proper character sheet and fix the character, and he's now going to be an important NPC in a campaign.
Voila! The story of Falkner, who survives everything!
Ill start from the beginning. I had just picked up 2:nd Ed, and we'd been looking over the pictures, the charms, the cool new combat systems for almost an entire day, me and a friend. We decided, sometime at 2 am, to start trying out the combat system by doing some staged fights.
We start with a typical Dragon Blood from the STC, played by my friend. He is a Wood aspect, with some fire charms as well, boosting his melee.
He starts to beat the crap out of my Tyrant Lizard. He then whoops me with his artifact glaive versus a dragon blooded of my own wielding a reaper daiklave. Then, he kicks my butt again using a Grand Daiklave ( even if he rolls worse than me, he had much better stuff )
So, we decide to make some longer fights, and roll two mortals each. I equip my mortal with a chain shirt and a mace + buckler. He starts with equipping his with a big sword of some kind. I decide to call this mortal of mine "Falkner". It soon turns out that the Mace ( piercing, +8B damage, +1 defense +1 accuracy ) is one -awesome- weapon, combined with a shield for +1 DV.
Falker handily beats three different compositions of my enemy, including dual hooked swords and a heavy armor spear wielding fellow. NOteworthy is that my friend was upgraded after each fight, too, with better stuff.
So, my friend promptly states "Well, time for your pesky Falkner to die. Im bringing out my DB that I used earlier".. Great. That's a wood aspect, with plenty of melee and athletic charms, using a GRAND DAIKLAVE and an armor soaking -13- bashing, with 4 in all his physicals.
He allows me to get the first punch. I hit him since his DV isnt all that fancy, and somehow manages to roll really well. THe piercing mace halves his armor, and I manage to score 4 health levels ( and this was a mortal, no double-0's etc ).
He gets pissed, and swings his gigantic sword. Misses versus my DV of 5. Swoooop.. miss. So I hit him again, for 1 health level through another miracle. He then swings, and hits me. ugh.
My friend brings out 22 ( twenty-two! ) damage dice after my soak of mighty 3 is over with, and rolls. One success. One in 22. I take one health level of damage, and continue to spend willpower like crazy. Next round I hit the DB in another miracle move for 2 health levels, and he gives up.
So, by this point we're laughing like madmen over the situation, and my friend exclaims that his character in my campaign is hiring this mace-wielding fellow to be his bodyguard. We pull out a proper character sheet and fix the character, and he's now going to be an important NPC in a campaign.
Voila! The story of Falkner, who survives everything!
