PDA

View Full Version : [Exalted] Vote Up A Charm II, Round 5: Vote on a Charm!



The Demented One
2009-11-01, 06:16 PM
With the last Vote Up A Charm completed, we now have its winner: Haunting the Hen House (http://wiki.white-wolf.com/exalted/index.php?title=Charms:Haunting_the_Hen_House)! Given how well the first one went, let's have us another.

Rules of Voting and Submission (Read before Posting!)

1. Only a single vote per person per aspect is allowed. Multiple voting will not be counted.

2. Post all votes in this thread.

3. Please do not criticize or disparage the votes of other forum members. Let the votes fall where they may. Just be patient, and allow other voters to voice their own opinions.

4. Changing of votes is not permitted. Just because something has a lot of votes at some point, doesn't mean you have to hop on the bandwagon.

6. If your vote cannot be tallied due to violation of any of these rules, I will post to inform you of that before voting ends. I will also ask you to modify your vote, so that it may be changed.

7. Unless otherwise stated, each poll's result will be winner-takes-all.

8.Upon commencing each vote I will announce the deadline by which time votes must be in. Voting rounds will last about a week, submission rounds will last until I get a goodly number of submissions. All times are by the Central Time Zone.

Past Rounds

Round 1: Charm Type
For starters, let's figure out what type of Charm we should be making. Since last contest's winner was a Lunar charm, they're out. Your choices are:

• Solar
• Dragon-Blood
• Abyssal
• Infernal
• Other (Spirit, Ghost, Fair Folk, Alchemicals, and so on).

Voting ends on Wednesday. Ready? Go!

{table=head;sort=2d]Charm|Votes
Solar|5
Dragon-Blood|1
Abyssal|7
Infernal|0
Other|0
[/table]

Round 2: Ability Voting
It's an Abyssal! Now, vote for what Ability the Charm should fall under. Since there are so many, each person can cast three votes for three different Abilities. Your choices are:

• Archery
• Athletics
• Awareness
• Bureaucracy
• Craft
• Dodge
• Integrity
• Investigation
• Larceny
• Linguistics
• Lore
• Martial Arts
• Medicine
• Melee
• Occult
• Performance
• Presence
• Resistance
• Ride
• Sail
• Socialize
• Stealth
• Survival
• Thrown
• War

{table=head;sort=2d]Ability|Votes
Archery|2
Athletics|1
Awareness|1
Bureaucracy|3
Craft|2
Dodge|2
Integrity|4
Investigation|0
Larceny|0
Linguistics|3
Lore|3
Martial Arts|2
Medicine|8
Melee|1
Occult|1
Performance|2
Presence|2
Resistance|1
Ride|0
Sail|0
Socialize|0
Stealth|2
Survival|0
Thrown|1
War|4
[/table]


Round 3: Essence
So, we're making an Medicine charm! For this round, vote on what Essence level should be required for the Charm.

• Essence 1: Minor tricks, difficult to distinguish from ordinary competence or luck. Abyssal Charms let you be a supernaturally skilled doctor, diagnose injuries, and perform similar feats at this level.

• Essence 2: Heroic, nigh-superhuman feats. Abyssal Charms let you drain disease out of a victim, heal the undead, and perform similar feats at this level.

• Essence 3: Powers that are almost unquestionably magical, beyond all mortal human reach. Abyssal Charms let you spread disease with a touch, create zombies from corpses, and perform similar feats at this level.

• Essence 4: World-destroying powers of true Exalted might. Abyssal Charms might let you spread plague with your very presence, render an ally temporarily invincible by annihilating their own weaknesses, and perform similar feats at this level.

• Essence 5: The power of a Lord of Death. Abyssal Charms might let you spread supernatural diseases as plagues, create horrific undead abominations and perform similar feats at this level.

• Essence 6+: Beyond all power imaginable to the Exalted of this Age. Abyssal Charms might let you age someone to death with a touch, perform grotesque medical experiments on souls, and assume unholy power through modifications to your own body.

{table=head;sort=2d]Essence|Votes
Essence 1|1
Essence 2|0
Essence 3|4
Essence 4|3
Essence 5|7
Essence 6|1
[/table]

Round 4: Submit Ideas

So you've picked Essence 5–power to shake the world's foundations, and bring tears to the Maiden's eyes. Now, we're in the penultimate phase: voting up a concept for the charm to be!

PM me your submission, which can be any of the following

• Just mechanics of a charm, and I'll make the fluff.
• Just fluff of a charm, and I'll make the mechanics
• Just a cool name, and I'll do the rest.
• A complete, fluff-and-mechanics charm, and I'll sit around lazily.

Ready? Go!

Round 5
We've got the charm concepts–now vote on your favorite!

Becoming the Taint: Carry plague wherever you go!

Black-Veined Convalescence Surgery: Drain the very blood from your victim's veins!

Bloody Cannibal Maw: Devour the still-living bodies of your victims to take on their strength!

Dance of Stitching Shadow-Maggots: Conjure up hideous spectral worms to heal the worst of wounds or devour your enemies from within!

Neverborn Essence Heart: Rip out a mortal's heart, leaving behind a shadowland that poisons their flesh and soul!

Spiteful Savior Betrayal: Work medical wonders...and undo them with a mere thought!

Stitched-Flesh Panoply: You can rebuild mere mortal flesh...you have the necrotechnology!

Void-Defying Youth Treatment: Draw the corrosive force of age and entropy from your patients...and then turn it on your foes!

{table=head;sort=2d]Charm|Votes
Becoming the Taint|1
Black-Veined Convalescence Surgery|0
Bloody Cannibal Maw|0
Dance of Stitching Shadow-Maggots|2
Neverborn Essence Heart|3
Spiteful Savior Betrayal|1
Stitched-Flesh Panoply|7
Void-Defying Youth Treatment|2
[/table]

Tavar
2009-11-01, 06:20 PM
Go-go standard solars!

Krimm_Blackleaf
2009-11-01, 06:22 PM
I am predictable. Abyssals!

lesser_minion
2009-11-01, 06:42 PM
OK, I'll add this one to the index now.

Are sidereals and martial arts out?

If not, I'll go with Sidereal.

Otherwise, I'll vote Abyssal

Madmal
2009-11-01, 06:52 PM
Solars, i'll go for Solars.

Weimann
2009-11-01, 06:54 PM
I feel evil. Abyssals.

The Demented One
2009-11-01, 06:56 PM
Are sidereals and martial arts out?

Sidereals are out because they don't get have new charms. Martial arts...we'd have to do a whole style, and that'd be a bit much.

lesser_minion
2009-11-01, 07:02 PM
Sidereals are out because they don't get have new charms. Martial arts...we'd have to do a whole style, and that'd be a bit much.

OK, thanks.

The Tygre
2009-11-01, 07:41 PM
Secret! It's Abyssals time!

The_Snark
2009-11-01, 09:20 PM
Dragon-Blooded!

... what? I can hope. It'll happen eventually, if only by process of elimination.

horngeek
2009-11-01, 09:23 PM
Solar!

Because I want to see what can be made. :smalltongue:

The Rose Dragon
2009-11-02, 04:53 AM
Predictable Khan is predictable.

Abyssals, of course.

Vadin
2009-11-02, 11:56 AM
SOLAR!

A charm for one of my villains would be cool, but the Solar ones...they're just pretty dang fun. That being said, a Martial Arts style would be my favorite result.

Saint Nil
2009-11-02, 01:24 PM
Lets go solar!

Raz_Fox
2009-11-02, 01:42 PM
Oh... ah... er...

Fine! Abyssals just because of Secret-itude.

TheLaughingLich
2009-11-02, 01:52 PM
I think Abyssal would be interesting.

The Demented One
2009-11-03, 10:26 AM
I think we can call this one early–it's Abyssal!

The next step is to vote on the Ability the Charm will belong to. Everyone can cast 3 votes for 3 different Abilities. Voting will end Thursday.

ZeroNumerous
2009-11-03, 10:38 AM
I vote Martial Arts, Integrity and Bureaucracy

The Rose Dragon
2009-11-03, 10:40 AM
The next step is to vote on the Ability the Charm will belong to. Everyone can cast 3 votes for 3 different Abilities. Voting will end Thursday.

Might I suggest an alternate way of doing things? Instead of 3 different Abilities, we could first vote for Caste and then for Ability.

However, I do vote for Stealth, Athletics and Lore.

The Demented One
2009-11-03, 10:41 AM
Might I suggest an alternate way of doing things? Instead of 3 different Abilities, we could first vote for Caste and then for Ability.

Considered it, didn't want to deal with the extra time delay.

Tavar
2009-11-03, 10:51 AM
Dodge, Awareness, and War.

The Tygre
2009-11-03, 11:27 AM
I vote for Performance, Presence, and War. There aren't enough Charms out there for the modern sexy Abyssal dilettante.

Raz_Fox
2009-11-03, 11:29 AM
Once again, The Tygre sways my opinion.

Performance, Presence and Archery.

The Demented One
2009-11-03, 11:41 AM
Once again, The Tygre sways my opinion.

Performance, Presence and Archery.
Damn high-App social characters...

Revlid
2009-11-03, 11:53 AM
Medicine, Occult, and Lore. Weird (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bulcNidIR6Y&feature=fvw)undead science (a.k.a. Necrofiddling) is where it's at!

Madmal
2009-11-03, 11:59 AM
Medicine, War and Integrity.

ScIaDrd
2009-11-03, 12:09 PM
Craft,Buraucracy and Medicine all get my vote.
I´m looking forward to the results!

Weimann
2009-11-03, 12:10 PM
I will cast my votes on Medicine, Linguistics and Lore.

Vadin
2009-11-03, 12:57 PM
Linguistics! Integrity! Martial Arts!

Krimm_Blackleaf
2009-11-03, 01:03 PM
I'll hop aboard the Medicine bandwagon, why not. Also Melee and War.

lesser_minion
2009-11-03, 06:00 PM
Dodge, Stealth and Archery

Not thinking of anyone in particular, of course.

The Demented One
2009-11-03, 06:12 PM
Dodge, Stealth and Archery

Not thinking of anyone in particular, of course.
And if you were, I'm sure you'd keep it a secret.

lesser_minion
2009-11-03, 06:26 PM
And if you were, I'm sure you'd keep it a secret.

Not exactly a very well-kept one, but yes, I'm pretty sure it's a secret.

The Rose Dragon
2009-11-03, 06:28 PM
Contrary to popular belief, Dodge charms aren't the answer to everything, lesser. :smallwink:

lesser_minion
2009-11-03, 07:06 PM
Contrary to popular belief, Dodge charms aren't the answer to everything, lesser. :smallwink:

But...But... they are the answer to everything. :frown:


We seriously need a 'Bambi eyes' smily

The Demented One
2009-11-03, 07:21 PM
Contrary to popular belief, Dodge charms aren't the answer to everything, lesser. :smallwink:
Duck Fate would disagree with you.

flabort
2009-11-03, 08:29 PM
I'll reinforce this with a vote to medicine.

and maybe a vote for resistance & thrown.

an undead guy flinging pills at people sounds hillarious. =D

TheLaughingLich
2009-11-03, 10:16 PM
I'll vote for Medicine, Linguistics, and Craft. This is looking interesting.

The_Snark
2009-11-04, 12:54 AM
Bureaucracy, because what's more soul-destroyingly evil than that?

Integrity or Medicine would be fun too.

The Demented One
2009-11-04, 04:55 PM
Voting's closed, Medicine wins! Now, vote on an Essence level for this Charm!

Weimann
2009-11-04, 05:48 PM
I vote for Essence 4. Let's put some omph in it.

The Rose Dragon
2009-11-04, 06:02 PM
Essence 5. I would say Essence 6+, but that would be too much work for TD1.

The Tygre
2009-11-04, 06:05 PM
I vote for Essence 3. Nice and steady, right there in the middle. Hard to go wrong, really.

Vadin
2009-11-04, 06:25 PM
Essence 1! When there's somethin' strange, in your neighborhood, who ya gonna call? Low-level Abyssals! Doo doo da doo doo doo da doo da doo doo doo da da da doo doo doo, A-byssals!

TheLaughingLich
2009-11-04, 07:31 PM
Can't go wrong with "horrific undead abominations . . . and similar feats". Essence 5.

The Demented One
2009-11-04, 07:37 PM
Essence 5. I would say Essence 6+, but that would be too much work for TD1.
Heh, wouldn't be the first elder charm I'd made. And with Glories out, my blood burns with manly homebrewing spirit!



Re: [Exalted] Vote Up A Charm II, Round 2: Pick an Essence Level!
Can't go wrong with "horrific undead abominations . . . and similar feats".
Hehe. There are no Abyssal Medicine charms that require an Essence of 4 or higher in canon or PoHanon, so I sorta just winged those.

lesser_minion
2009-11-04, 09:34 PM
I'll go with Essence 3.

Because I'm boring like that.

Tavar
2009-11-04, 09:44 PM
Essence 4 sounds good.

Madmal
2009-11-04, 11:44 PM
Voting for Essence 3

The_Snark
2009-11-05, 12:29 AM
No Essence 4+ Medicine charms yet? That needs to be fixed. Essence 5.

Sir Homeslice
2009-11-05, 12:54 AM
Essence 5 up in this Deathlord.

ScIaDrd
2009-11-05, 10:20 AM
Essence 5 because that´s bound to be some serious awesomeness.
...
Um, and why did we vote fo three Abillities if there´s only one winner? That´s not fair. Henceforth I humbly demmand the other two to be made too
:smallbiggrin::smalltongue:
Who´s with me?

Raz_Fox
2009-11-05, 10:39 AM
I'll toss in a vote for Essence 3.

The Demented One
2009-11-05, 12:08 PM
Essence 5 because that´s bound to be some serious awesomeness.
...
Um, and why did we vote fo three Abillities if there´s only one winner? That´s not fair. Henceforth I humbly demmand the other two to be made too
:smallbiggrin::smalltongue:
Who´s with me?
Because with 25 abilities to vote from, getting a clear winner would be annoyingly tricky without multiple votes. :smallyuk:

Don't worry, though. This is going to be the last iteration of Vote Up A Charm, because there's something better coming that'll replace it.

The Rose Dragon
2009-11-05, 12:16 PM
Don't worry, though. This is going to be the last iteration of Vote Up A Charm, because there's something better coming that'll replace it.

But... but... there are so many Charms we could do. Think of the Solars, the Yozis, the Alchemicals! By gods, the Alchemicals!

You better include a way of generating Charms in that better thing.

((Though if I could offer a replacement, we could do a Vote Up an Exalt Type.))

wadledo
2009-11-05, 12:23 PM
Essence 5.

Krimm_Blackleaf
2009-11-05, 12:45 PM
Essence 10!

Revlid
2009-11-05, 01:00 PM
AHAHAHA!

Having begun the Medicine Charm revolution, I return to further my dark remedial aims!

Essence 5.

I'd actually like to vote Essence 4, to keep it usable, but that ain't gonna win.

Sanguine
2009-11-05, 01:42 PM
Essence 4 Because I don't care if my vote will win and that's what I want.

The Demented One
2009-11-05, 04:38 PM
You better include a way of generating Charms in that better thing.

Homebrewing charms are my Games of Divinity, man. I can't stop, only find better ways to play.

The Demented One
2009-11-05, 04:42 PM
Looks like we've locked it down at Essence 5. So for the penultimate step, send in your charm ideas! A one-line description of what it does, a bit of fluff, a cool name–give me the seeds to grow a full-blown charm.

The Rose Dragon
2009-11-05, 05:29 PM
Sent a good chunk of information about my suggestion to TD1.

When are we going to learn about the other suggestions on this thread?

The Demented One
2009-11-05, 05:31 PM
Sent a good chunk of information about my suggestion to TD1.

When are we going to learn about the other suggestions on this thread?
Check the first post.

The Rose Dragon
2009-11-05, 05:40 PM
I still like my idea the best. :smalltongue:

Revlid
2009-11-06, 08:27 AM
Idea sent. It'd also help with stitching (and maybe animating) corpses together, methinks.

EDIT:
...
Actually, most of these submissions (including mine) don't seem to be Essence 5 level. I guess some buffing's going to go on. :smallbiggrin:

Weimann
2009-11-06, 09:03 AM
And I sent one as well.

About voting rules, I take it you can't vote on your own charm? Because that would be kind of pointless :P

The Demented One
2009-11-06, 09:28 AM
Idea sent. It'd also help with stitching (and maybe animating) corpses together, methinks.

EDIT:
...
Actually, most of these submissions (including mine) don't seem to be Essence 5 level. I guess some buffing's going to go on. :smallbiggrin:
Don't worry. End result will be something to make the Maidens cry.


About voting rules, I take it you can't vote on your own charm? Because that would be kind of pointless :P
That's perfectly legal.

The Demented One
2009-11-06, 09:29 AM
We've got a good bunch of submissions, so on to the next and final step: voting on an idea! Go look at all the submitted concepts in the first post, and vote for your favorite!

TheLaughingLich
2009-11-06, 11:06 AM
This was a tough choice, but I'll vote for Spiteful Savior Betrayal.

Tavar
2009-11-06, 11:17 AM
Stitched-Flesh Panoply sound good.

ScIaDrd
2009-11-06, 11:51 AM
Ugh, I hate you people.... seriously, with this many brilliant ideas, its very hard to choose just one. :smallconfused::smalltongue:However I´ll have to go with Neverborn Essence Heart because it is quite similar to the concept I tought of when I saw your ideas ( If you would like to see what it was,just PM me and I´ll let you know.)

Vadin
2009-11-06, 11:58 AM
Stitched-Flesh Panoply! Because I will be the prettiest necromantic princess!

Madmal
2009-11-06, 01:38 PM
Void-Defying Youth Treatment looks interesting

The Tygre
2009-11-06, 02:28 PM
Dance of Stitching Shadow-Maggots

You had me at 'hideous, spectral worms'. :smallcool:

Weimann
2009-11-06, 03:34 PM
I will vote for Becoming The Taint, because I really like that concept. Plague-bringer, hell yeah.

lesser_minion
2009-11-06, 04:16 PM
Neverborn Essence Heart seems quite interesting.

That was a really difficult choice though.

Revlid
2009-11-06, 04:24 PM
Ah, hell, might as well go for broke.
I like the looks of Taint, Maw, Betrayal and Void-Defying, but I'm voting for Dance of Stitching Shadow-Maggots.

EDIT: Wow, the cannibalistic charms are getting no love at all.

The Demented One
2009-11-06, 04:58 PM
EDIT: Wow, the cannibalistic charms are getting no love at all.
I think it should be noted that while the base Charms are gonna all be Essence 5, they're all getting upgrades that scale pretty high up. Think about what an Essence 10 Charm that revolves around consumption of others' power might let you do.

Emong
2009-11-06, 05:10 PM
Stitched-Flesh Panoply, because that's how I roll.

Sanguine
2009-11-06, 05:34 PM
All awesome but my vote goes to.

Neverborn Essence Heart

The_Snark
2009-11-06, 06:00 PM
"Zey called me mad, Herr Dace—can you believe it? But zey will sing a different tune soon—once ve haff finished rebuiltink you into ze perfect engine of destruction! Ahahahahahahaha!"

Which is to say, Stitched Flesh Panoply.

Krimm_Blackleaf
2009-11-07, 05:38 PM
I'm rather fond of Stitched Flesh Panoply.

Revlid
2009-11-07, 08:06 PM
Curses! A consensus is forming. I should have included a link (http://www.onemanga.com/Naruto/326/05/)in my vote, to sway the braying masses!

waterpenguin43
2009-11-07, 09:32 PM
Void-defying youth treatment please.

vegetalss4
2009-11-08, 06:33 AM
I vote for Stitched-Flesh Panoply

horngeek
2009-11-08, 06:35 AM
Stitched-Flesh Panoply.

Revlid
2009-11-08, 07:09 AM
Damnation! With every vote my defeat becomes only more humiliatingly crushing!

End this farce, I beg you. SFP has won.

The Demented One
2009-11-08, 11:28 AM
And it looks like we have a clear winner: Stitched-Flesh Panoply! (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=7275096#post7275096)

Weimann
2009-11-08, 03:59 PM
That charm is kind of cool, I must admit, even if I'm still not convinced Becoming The Taint wouldn't have been cooler.

One thing I like about it, though, is that it borders on Craft. I feel that a problem (in this case, building undead stuff) that can be approached from two direction (crafting and medicine) shouldn't be restricted to one approach just because it will result in two charm sets with charms that do essentially the same things. One could be better, of course, but that's not the point.

Now I'm not knowledgable enough about Abyssal charms to know if there are such craft charms or not, so the point might be moot.

NEVERTHELESS. You were talking about something more awesome replacing this thread. What was that all about?

The Rose Dragon
2009-11-08, 04:08 PM
Also, are we going to get the Charms that didn't win?

Cause I wanna see what my idea would look like.

The Demented One
2009-11-08, 04:21 PM
Also, are we going to get the Charms that didn't win?

Cause I wanna see what my idea would look like.
*Chuckles knowingly.*

EDIT: Muahahaha. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=7276669#post7276669)