General Exalted Discussion II: No Longer Mortal

[TheCountAlucard]

I'd have to spend nearly all the points just on the physical stats.

Not necessarily - IIRC, a lot of the Charms later in the book can serve as mutations, so you can literally give it the ability to always succeed on a Dex+Martial Arts+Bite Specialty roll, and other such things.

Plus, they also share abilities. And somehow, the behemoth being able to speak three languages fluently... strikes me as kind of odd

Why is that? It's a behemoth, not a mindless animal. Isn't it more silly that a yeddim can sneak, or how a Strix has about the same MDV as most starting characters, or how all these animals seem to be able to reconstruct crime scenes?