[Exalted 2E] Irrepressible Bladedancer Style

[MandibleBones]

At risk of my bandwidth on my homepage exploding, allow me to present Irrepressible Bladedancer Style (http://www.musal.us/gaming/ibds2.pdf), a Celestial Martial Art geared towards Solars and (Gold Faction) Sidereals, based on the harmony between fighting, dancing and the roar of the adulant crowd.

It's all kinds of a PDF.

[Lord Iames Osari]

I will take a look! Perhaps you could reciprocate with one of the Styles in my sig? Pretty Soldier Style is particularly starved for attention.

[Lord Iames Osari]

Well, first off I note that this seems to be a Marital Arts style.

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k177/LordIames/Miscellaneous/th_MaritalArts.png (http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k177/LordIames/Miscellaneous/MaritalArts.png)

Mars and Venus Stance and Crowd-Pleasing Killer Prana seem a bit too powerful for entry charms. I like them, but I'd move them back.

Seizing the Day Assault is way too strong. I would have it enhance Join Battle actions in some way and then give a bonus to attacks if you go first.

Irrepressible Bladedancer Form: I would drop the specialties part. One thing you might think about, in terms of drawing power from a crowd of spectators, is a pseudo-Cult rating that lets you respire Essence faster. Perhaps a charm that lets you roll Charisma + Martial Arts and gain a mote or two for every success.

Block Shattering Victory: Drop the willpower cost and make it 5m.

Everyone Loves a Winner: You need to specify that you mean his unarmed PDV.

Hero Overcomes Villain: I have no complaints. Very nice charm.

Love of the Crowd: I would cost this one up a bit; 2m per success added brings it into line with the 2nd Excellency.

Sun Backs Mars: ... Not sure about the mote cost for converting lethal to aggravated. I'd make it free against CoDs and 1m per level against everyone else.

[Sanguine]

Well, first off I note that this seems to be a Marital Arts style.

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k177/LordIames/Miscellaneous/th_MaritalArts.png (http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k177/LordIames/Miscellaneous/MaritalArts.png)

Mars and Venus Stance and Crowd-Pleasing Killer Prana seem a bit too powerful for entry charms.

I would disagree with you on Mars and Venus Stance as Essence Recovery charms are generally considered a waste of a Charm use as Stunting can usually get you near the same amount without using your Charm for the action.

[wadledo]

Well, first off I note that this seems to be a Marital Arts style.

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k177/LordIames/Miscellaneous/th_MaritalArts.png (http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k177/LordIames/Miscellaneous/MaritalArts.png)

Mars and Venus Stance and Crowd-Pleasing Killer Prana seem a bit too powerful for entry charms.

Crowd-Pleasing Killer Prana is actually a bit underpowered (drop it to three motes, max), as it's essentially a more expensive version of the first Strength excellency, with a max of Martial Arts, at that.

Mars And Venus stance is, however, very overpowered.

Boost Seizing the Day Assault up one mote,

Everyone Loves a Winner is ridiculously overpoweringly broken.

Hero Overcomes Villain would be better as a scene long charm that lets you channel Valor in place of your other virtues as long as you fluff it as being 'for' Valor (That evil person just kicked a puppy! I use one of my compassion channels to hit him with my righteous FURY!).

No auto success stunt dice.:smallmad: Just increasing the pool to Essence would be more than enough.

Sun Backs Mars is the weakest charm in this style by far. And by far, I mean that it isn't really worth getting.

A decent attempt, but aside from the problems here, you also need to actually give the style overall some fluff. Even a few paragraphs before the charms showing where it came from, who the stylists are, etc, would be nice.

[Lord Iames Osari]

I edited in my review of the rest of the style.

[MandibleBones]

Wadledo,

I'll get back to working on the rest of the criticism, but first, the simple question: would Iames' fix make Sun Backs Mars worth taking?

[wadledo]

Yes, probably.