Anathema: We've started!

Those are mutually exclusive? I need to make artifacts to make an N/A, do I not? Reguardless, yes, I'll go for genesis. Though that'll be harder to get started doing. And what can I do with that?

So, you like the thought of being stripped of everything for the plot?

It's not mutually exclusive, but it will be easier to focus in one rather than the other, since the equipment and skills are different (and they'll take different plot hooks). For instance, craft (genesis) and craft (magitech) are two different specialties, which will require separate XP investments. If you want to find equipment you don't build yourself, you'll have to pay for it, and so on. A bit of both will be useful, but specialization will be your friend. Also, you'll need to check the ability minimums for craft (genesis) in wonders of the Lost Age. I don't think you have them all yet, but you're close.

Crafted species are rated as artifacts according to how many mutation points went into them, as so: wiki.white-wolf.com/exalted/index.php?title=User:Plague_of_Hats/The_Art_of_Biothaumaturgy

Pretty much, you start with a base race, then add stuff onto it. For instance, in a previous game, I was going to start with Beastmen and dragon-blooded, engineer both of them into artifact 5 subspecies, then breed them together to make an artifact N/A race of Exalted nagas that would pretty much steamroll the entire South once I got enough of them.

Alternately, I could have made gunpowder-producing plants, inexhaustible horses, and so on. I also applied the "short gestation" mutation to a batch of rice and tripled the Lap's agricultural output.

Basically. We can do whatever we want whenever we want.

Pretty much, so long as you're intelligent about it, and you will of course have your common goals. There will be consequences, rest assured, but you're definitely a cut above most other things in Creation.

Hm... magitech is starting to sound better, if only because I'm more partial to building some large combination of assorted artifacts into some ungainly creation that I don't even fully understand. Genetics work is a bit... not my style, really.

Have you looked into warstriders?

(you do have Wonders of the Lost Age, yes?)

No, no I do not. I should, shouldn't I?

Getting the PDF now.

I would assume that my character wouldn't really craft things, but I have to admit that genesis would be amazingly awesomefun.

Wolfji: Check the appendix. If you're looking for "giant thing that may or may not go horribly wrong," that's probably your ticket.

Midnight: No, not really. As I recall, you're a bigger fan of breaking things.

Hot. Damn. I will be at the helm. All will cower before me. Oh, I forget what this button does, let's press it.

That is also really fun.

I'm of course, going to need to make an improved design, of course. Gonna need to to be N/A levels of awesome.

Indeed, and indeed.

Now, how to go about making one... likely gonna need to just start churning out artifacts, make some money, up my resource level as high as I can. And how would I get my strength up to two, because that's important to my driving it.

To raise strength, spend... 3xp, I think?

I'm thinking an N/A warstrider would be capable of independent operation somehow (I'll figure out mechanics later) and be able to assume warform with you.

Now, is that hard, or easy, to aquire?

An advanced AI could probably run itself. I wouldn't put those silly safeguards the solars did.

I still need an option to drive it myself though, it's more fun to choose to blow things up.

Since 2 is the human average, it will be pretty easy.

Getting backgrounds is generally harder.

AI: Now you're talking.

The normal way of pilotoing one is to strap yourself in and use it like a mecha. You could still do that, but the AI could be able to work by itself.

Good, good.

It's not like the AI would turn on it's creator or anything...

Well yes, I read, it's just sometimes fun to pilot your death robot yourself. Besides, that way I can aid in supplying essence to the large amount of weaponry that MUST be installed.

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I am so glad that Red Cape is a relatively simple character. Although all that crafting stuff sounds pretty awesome and fun...

Wait, AI? Aren't we a little to far back to have such evil stuff?

I resent the implication that my AI is anything but benevolent.

Rule-wise, it's a touch more complicated, but it can be rewarding. As can a lot of things.


Jac: The current culture is Bronze Age, but that's only after falling from the magically inclined equivalent of the High Silicon Age.

I've always loved just making things, especially when the end result of what I'm making is rather unknown to me until I finish. That just makes me work for whatever it is.

Obviously, my warstrider will at the very least, need an implosion bow.

Those are fun.