The Widening Gyre: House Rules
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Abyssal House Rules
- The Abyssal Charm, 'Void Avatar Prana' does not exist.
General House Rules
- Be courteous one to another. Take your turns, and be patient. Also, have fun.
- No player killing unless it's a plot point (and both discussed with and approved of by both the DM and the player of the character in question). No exceptions.
- The Great Curse works differently than in a standard game of Exalted. The DM believes that his players are fully capable of achieving previously unheard of heights of hubris and abuse of power without any need for a rules-enforced system to make them do so. Limit is not gained, nor are there limit breaks. Each player is encouraged to incorporate their virtue flaw into the way their character responds to specific forms of stress, and will receive rewards for good roleplaying of such.
- Training time works as follows: you put in the training time first, and then you are eligible to spend the XP. Training may take many forms, depending on the stat in question, and there are as many ways to train as you can think of. Raising your strength might be represented by long months of weight lifting, but it might also be represented by working for months as a miner, or engaging in some other long activity that requires strength. Raising your dexterity might involve months of doing nothing but learning how to juggle, or it could involve working as an acrobat or other circus performer for a few months, and so on. All that to say, there are many ways to justify raising attributes in character. Be creative. Obviously, it will be easier to justify raising attributes that your character makes extensive use of in his or her every day life, on screen and in character, as it requires less 'downtime.'
Lunar House Rules
- The Lunar knack, 'Twin-Faced Hero' does not exist. Its effects are fully subsumed into the 'Changing Plumage Mastery' knack: if you have 'Changing Plumage Mastery,' you can do anything that 'Twin-Faced Hero' would have otherwise let you do.
Skill Related House Rules
- 'High Realm' and 'Low Realm' work differently than they do in the base setting. Rather than being two separate languages, they are within this game two dialects of the same language.
