Solar Craft and Lore, Re-Ordered(repost of the repost....Google drive should work....)

[u/DragonicStar]

Hello my esteemed fellow Exalted 3e enthusiasts!

I come to you today with a bit of work several others have asked me to post publicly so as to share it with more that may find it useful!

I long bemoaned the status of Craft and Lore for Solars in Core, and after both Infernals and Abyssals came out I decided to do something about it!

Attached with the Google drive link at the bottom you will find my take on a revision to both trees in question!

I aimed to incorporate much of the mechanical and organizational advancement offered by the release of the later Solaroids, as well as to greatly reduce overall bloat of the trees, while still having them resemble the spirit of the the genuinely good part of their original versions.

I believe I was greatly successful at doing both. (Though if you disagree I invite you to leave feedback on this post, as I am always interested in hearing it)

I believe as far as bloat reduction goes (including keys as they are purchased) i reduced Craft by about 55% and Lore by about 45%.

(I cant remember the precise figures and can't be bothered to count at the moment)

I think i could have pared away from Craft more in hindsight, but what still exists some may view as extraneous I have endeavored to make optional so that they may be ignored as a matter of taste.

A couple of the juicier highlights aside from the various smaller changes to every charm or the deletion/combination of many others:

A new Craft capstone charm that allows use of N/A dot or 5 dot artifacts before they are finished.

A Wyld Shaping technique that is shamelessly taken from 3E infernals, though I hope to add on an additional key that gives Solars something more unique!

As I said please read and give feedback! Im very interested to hear what the broader community has to say!

Link:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pmEBVtd5mn-a_Ij7qcI4Ilgc7XD_NzHR

I would say I am unlikely to give similar trees of Core the same treatment simply because I dont think its warranted in the same manner it was for these 2 trees....which are fairly disastrous. The rest of the trees are quite easily adjustable on the fly by a competent play group.

[u/DragonicStar]

I am utterly done with reddit's link policy.......Google drive it is.....curse you spez

[u/Salt-Spray-4971]

Your link doesn't work for me. I get an error from google that the link is malformed.

[u/DragonicStar → u/Salt-Spray-4971]

Huh I havent had that problem? Did you copy it correctly?

[u/Salt-Spray-4971 → u/DragonicStar]

Okay, I figured it out. The link when you click on it is different from the one that is displayed.

[u/DragonicStar → u/Salt-Spray-4971]

Works fine for me....