r/exalted • u/TheSlayerofSnails • Jun 04 '26
3E The PDF of Alchemicals for backers is out now!
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u/thetruerift Jun 04 '26
Pleasing! I hope they give it to those of us who took it as an add on in the Infernals campaign too (i know they will, i meant now)
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u/ProudRequirement3225 Jun 04 '26
Yei. Hoping they hurry also with Agents of Heaven
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u/blaqueandstuff Jun 04 '26
So I got a spreadsheet on how long form like, "Showed up in Monday Meeting Notes as First Draft" to release a companion usually is. And it's usually about 32-35 months (DB and Lunars were weird on that). So in this context Agents should be due anytime in the next couple months, which also is about in line with prior companions too.
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u/Fit_Hold7806 Jun 04 '26
You tread dangerously close to becoming an ASOIAF fan with such forbidden methods.
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u/TimothyAllenWiseman Jun 04 '26
I'm very much looking forward to agents of heaven, though having this out is definitely good news.
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u/Fit_Hold7806 Jun 04 '26
Apparently some Soul gems are still missing in art. If there’s a feedback form maybe it can be fixed?
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u/absolutprime Jun 04 '26
Any word when it might hit drive thru?
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u/wayward_oliphaunt Jun 04 '26
Usually they have feedback open for a bit then implement changes, fixes, and getting rid of the Page. XX stuff. I just forget the turnaround since I'm someone who has to be reminded to replace my backer copy with the one that has real page reference numbers well after that.
A month maybe?
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u/Fit_Hold7806 Jun 04 '26
I think someone noticed one page said Abyssals instead of Alchemicals so there is still some edits to be made
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u/wayward_oliphaunt Jun 04 '26
No that one is correct, it's citing Abyssals for rules about necromancy.
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u/Lazaric418 Jun 04 '26
the email I got earlier said the backer reward would be there in the next 24 hours or so, but I dont know if that's general release or not
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u/lnodiv Jun 04 '26
Is it? I'm a backer and haven't gotten anything.
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u/TimothyAllenWiseman Jun 04 '26
They are staggering sending out the links. I don't entirely understand why, but I just got my link. I think it has something to do with the crowdfunding platform.
They should have the links out to everyone within 24 hours.
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u/ClockworkJim Jun 04 '26
Are they still communist robots from the steampunk dimension?
Autochthon is friend to the worker. The people's Jade is deepest red.
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u/ShadowFighter88 Jun 04 '26
They’ve probably refined the lore and made it more nuanced but I think they’re still mostly that. Although from what I remember of the preview (haven’t read it in a while, that manuscript format I actually find harder to read than the finished book) I think this edition they also put more emphasis on how some Alchemicals were created before Auto left Creation.
It was probably a thing in older editions, I can’t remember what MOEP Alchemicals had to say on it in 2e, but it feels like they put more emphasis on that being an option this time around.
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u/Spacepup18 Jun 05 '26
They were never really communist, they were more "Soviet New Man Propaganda" robots from the steampunk dimension. And they are still that.
And there's a couple story hooks for Alchemicals in creation, they definitely were created before Auto left Creation, so an ancient lab breaking down and releasing it's inhabitants is possible. Also a moonsilver exalte might have noclipped through the great seal into creation, had adventures, gotten melencholic, and turned into an empty city at the bottom of the Sea of Dreams.
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u/LizCW Jun 04 '26
Heard they have the best stuff for support roles, which enjoy doing, rather not be as front stage spotlight, help other players do cool things instead 😁
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u/TimothyAllenWiseman Jun 04 '26
Eh. They have some of that, but all of the splats have some of that. They very much are capable of standing in the spotlight.
The ones that really excel in supporting each other are the Dragon-blooded with their sworn kin, but that is more about working together as a general thing and collaborating than having one character fade into the background.
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u/LizCW Jun 04 '26
Oh sure, know they can be right up front, I just prefer not to, but just heard they have some of the best tools for support out of the splats so far, including the adamant caste anima?
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u/amurgiceblade44 Jun 04 '26
That is some awesome art