I'm moving forward on this, but haven't yet decided on concrete theme ideas. I purchased hosting space, and will be trying this with AresMush as a code base, because I do think the web integration and tools will be extremely helpful. I've got a theme staffer set up who I trust implicitly and who knows the Exalted theme inside and out.

There are some good points made in other posts here, regarding XP creep and the rest- but that's something I'll have to handle a bit later on. I'll keep updating as I go.

I love it when I find a new game and it has a friendly, welcoming community.

I think a lot of long time Mu* players will know what I mean by "The Feel" of a game, it's 'texture'. When those are just right, and you feel part of things from day one.

I had an idea kicking around in my head for a couple of weeks, a concept really. I'm looking to gauge interest in and test the waters with a couple of ideas. I am, of course, also hoping to have further conversation on the topic.

I'm looking to try my hand at opening and administrating a game. I hope to learn new skills, and see a more in-depth side of just what it takes to administrate one of these games I've enjoyed for so long on a higher level than my previous staff forays.

The concept is, as the title suggests, a game based in Creation of Exalted 3rd Ed.

Due to the size, and ease of integration for logs, wikis, and online play I'm thinking Ares might work really well in terms of server. I also just really enjoy Ares.

In terms of theme I've got two concepts that are somewhat mutually exclusive: The first idea I'm thinking something based specifically on the Realm in the Blessed Isles and with the Dragonblooded as the standard PC.

There's a lot of potential for a pretty adventure heavy, wuxia inspired, fantasty lords and ladies sort of feel to the culture I think would really work well. The Grid could be a major city of the Realm, allowing for family alliances and all the rest within the area around the Imperial Manse/City. I'm still not 100% set on the WHEN it would take place, but I'm thinking either shortly after the Scarlet Empress' disappearance or sometime before, keeping her as a potent NPC/ST character.

It would also allow the Celestial Exalted Spats (Solar, Lunar, and/or Sidereal ) to remain as higher tiered characters for players interested in advancing and telling stories. The Abyssal, Infernal, and Alchemical Exalted would remain as NPCs only. Other Exalted splats would be considered once we got a look at the rules.

The second idea is far more open, in that it would allow people to play Celestial Exalted as well as Terrestrial Exalted. In this case, I was thinking the main grid would be set in somewhere like Nexus. I have less fleshed out ideas on this alternate concept. In this case, I'd probably want to explore Nexus' unique character and location as a powerful, largely unaligned city where almost anything goes if you can scrape the coin together.

Anyways, I'm really looking forward to hearing from anyone who might be interested, and chatting out ideas or concepts. While I'm in the beginning stages of this particular concept I've wanted to try my hand at admining a game for a while now and figured why not now?

Thanks!

We've decided on a location, something new to 3rd Edition: The Empire of Prasad. This will make the game more Dragonblooded Focused.

The Empire of Prasad is very much inspired by mythical India- with a caste system ruled by dragonblooded. Technically a Realm satrapy, they're distant enough that they're a power in their own right- so powerful that the Realm's immaculate religion doesn't even hold sway there, instead having been pulled into their own religion.

We're still working on how we'd want Solars and Lunars to work within the theme, as I'd like to lean towards them being playable characters albeit perhaps with some limits in play as the Prasadi DO have wyld hunts and hunt down various Anathema.

In that same vein Abyssals are also likely to be allowed, but highly regulated. There are only 100 of them in all of Creation, a precious commodity of the Deathlords. They will likely be given out to trusted players who can create RP as they will absolutely be antagonists.

This is all subject (and even likely) to change as I hire on staff, and more of the theme and concept is worked out, along with how we're looking to balance things.

I can't remember them all.. as such, this is an exceedingly incomplete list.

Currently:

Parvati @ Gray Harbor
Ruan @ Trelawney Cove
Sarah @ Astonishing Tales

I am also working on an as of yet untitled 3rd Edition Exalted game (Also in Ares.)

Updated Jan. 26th 2021

Previously:
Cesare@Arx. Faora & Cindy Moon@unitedheroes

Zephirn @ NOLA.

*Firan:
Battimus (The first person who played him, I think.)

*Some Battlestar Galactica game who's name I can't recall:
Phoenix
Diomedes

*Various Hero/Comics Games:
J'onn J'onzz
Miles Morales
Shade The Changing Man
Benjamin Enoch Williams (OC, Speed-force Shooting cowboy.)
Anole

*Star Wars NJO:
Dorian
Tillik
Others I can't remember.

*Blood and Fog
Fionn

*Metro 2.0
Sunny (Changeling)
Kahlil (Werewolf)
Various wraiths who's names escape me. Kern? Amarilla?

*The Realms Adventurous (Pre and post move)
Talfryn
Maelgwn

Edit: I remembered some more:

Alabama @ SerenityMush

And, of course, the others I don't remember- I'm possibly your Israeli friend who lives in Tel Aviv!

Anywho, hope to reconnect with some old friends!

@greenflashlight I agree. Exalted is very much character driven imho. People who see it ONLY as getting to be a god-powered destroyer might be missing the point.

Henlo Ferret Friend. It is Ruan here @ Trewlawny Cove. Haaai~

@insomniac7809 I really do agree with you, and I feel like playing primarily in the Realm would allow for a more easily focused plot, and more RP opportunities within the society at large while also allowing PCs to have both a wide range of backgrounds and also giving them a common thread of connection.

@runescryer I'm also playing at X-Men Divergence. Can't say enough how friendly and nice the folks are at that game. I love it.

@Jennkryst I agree. I've enjoyed political play in the past, and still do. I think the DB are just friggin' awesome, and I love how 3rd Ed handles them. I'm also a big fan of L&L games, or at least that sort of dynamic and I feel the Realm allows for that far easier than a more wide open game in terms of splats.

I've, personally, never been a fan of spotlight hogs. I'd rather give each PC a chance to shine and be the star here or there if I'm able, and would request of any plot runners to try and do the same.

I love it when I find a new game and it has a friendly, welcoming community.

I think a lot of long time Mu* players will know what I mean by "The Feel" of a game, it's 'texture'. When those are just right, and you feel part of things from day one.

@jennkryst It is really neat stuff. Not sure I love it, but there's some stuff there worth checking out.

My cat. Birdhouse von Clawvitz of Renshire

Hey there,

It's me again with my whole Exalted Mu thing- we're doing work as we can. 2020, and 2021 have been weird ( I think we can all agree on that, at least.)

If someone is interested in helping out, we could use someone who's fairly knowledgeable in CoD- both mechanically and lore wise.

I'm sure some of you can get some ideas from just the question, but if you're interested in helping us try to make something that's probably a little weird, but hopefully fun let me know! I'll toss you a discord invite to our planning server.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

-Surasanji

There has been a lot of work done in terms of concept, so far, as an update.

Speaking of which, I'm looking for someone who's really familiar lore and system wise with CoD. I don't want to say TOO much for fear of spoilers, but if you're interested in helping us out with this, please contact me and I'll invite you to our planning discord.

@packrat Yes, it is! We've changed up our theme a bit, and are working on rules and whatnot. I admit, this is something of a longer term project for me because what we have planned will take some work.

@jennkryst Very cool, thank you!

@lotherio Hey, maybe I can help. I play Alani there, next time you're on give me a poke. Given how friendly everyone has been here at the game, I'm pretty sure this is some kind of oversight. I don't know, obviously, as I am not staff.

But, at least I can give a hand to my fellow nerd, yeah?

@runescryer I'm also playing at X-Men Divergence. Can't say enough how friendly and nice the folks are at that game. I love it.

So, I've been discussing with staff how we can implement the Celestial Exalts.

So far, we're tossing around the idea that the Celestial Exalts have a place within 'The Pure Way' the religion of The Empire of Prasad.

They're not quite so 'Burn the Anathema' as the Realm Proper, and are allowed to handle their own affairs- so why not include them somewhere within the religious structure?

We're still not decided on how exactly to work them in, but I'm hopeful we'll figure out a way that'll be engaging and fun.