Editing Lunar Exalted (section)

===General Advice:===

First off, one essential piece of advice: whatever you feel about the barbaric nature of the vast majority of Lunars (admittedly, a subject often complained about), do not shackle them isn't explicitly indicated in their book. Even those limitations (real or perceived) that exist in the book can be cast aside, if they don't fit your idea of a fun game. Just try to realize that playing a character from a barbaric background is not, in any way, more limiting than playing a character from a civilized background. It's just a shift in focus, and change of perception.

The second point I'd like to bring up is that the majority of any advice that applies to Solars, applies also to Lunars. They may not have been the god-kings of the First Age, chosen by the leader of the gods' rebellion against the Primordials, but Luna's Chosen are by no means impotent. Keep the scale of the game appropriate to the power level of the characters: raw survival on the edge of the Wyld may work for a session (though even that's a stretch; such a situation is probably only minimally challenging to most Lunars), but in the long term, the Exalted exist to accomplish things, indeed, to change the world. Make sure that NPCs are not overshadowing your PCs - it is, after all, their show. It's true that some of the Elders of the Silver Pact are survivors of the First Age, and that if they wanted to they could eat your characters for breakfast. But instead of worrying that they will, figure out why they won't. As Kasumi so eloquently points out in other parts of this work, the powerful NPCs in Exalted share one basic trait: they are incredibly powerful, but markedly imperfect. They are all wrong, somehow - whether through lack of focus, lack of clarity, too much drive towards the wrong goal, or some other factor, none of them has what it takes to change the world the way your characters are going to. They may have, at one point in their lives, but not any more.

Lastly, don't forget that while the majority of Lunars may be barbaric members of the Silver Pact, there do indeed exist both Lunars unaligned with the Pact and so-called "city Lunars," those who managed to impress Luna with their will to survive outside of a wilderness setting. These characters can be just as fun, interesting, and viable as a standard Silver Pact Lunar. If you're worried about what to do with these characters, treating them largely like Solars (due to their "loose canon" nature and lack of defined societal structure) is far from a bad idea.