Sponsored by Cadbury The circle is assembled! Together they: bully gods in Yushan for land, attempt to resolve the complex political relationships of the Autochthonian nations, set a cunning trap for one of the Infernal masterminds, and visit Four Hundred Rabbits. Everything goes better than expected, except for the part with Four Hundred Rabbits: That is an unceasing nightmare they will never awaken from.

Sponsored by ShowBiz Pizza Place We finally get Orpheus back off the ground. The Crucible, Warm Bodies, gets a contract to give a hip new bar a once over. Freddie's, a converted child's amusement centre complete with vintage animatronics. Things Go Wrong.

Sponsored by Small Soldiers The Majestic has his own solo session. He sets up breeding programs for Mayan dinosaurs, Conquers Denandsor, finds an unspeakable horror inside a piece of ancient artifice, the Countess makes her triumphant return to power, and Majestic and Shockwave reconcile and begin working together to further the ancient plan of immortality setup by the previous incarnations of the Solar.

Sponsored By Youtube Personalities This episode is a primer on the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise. It's history, creator and how its impact on the gaming community. Then we discuss how it relates to our upcoming Orpheus season which takes place in a very familiar location. Stay tuned because the first Orpheus arc is coming up next!

Sponsored by A Series of Unfortunate Events     This episode is old, Ian began going back to school so we never met up after this to do our finale session stuff. This lead to delays in uplaoding and posting this episode. We had recorded an earlier episode that got eaten by the TASCAM. That one was "Scalpels Edge" and was pretty fun. This episode is "White Knight" and the last of the Year One adventures. For some reason the background music got eaten. Why do you hate us TASCAM! The gang tries to save a superhero. Everything is on fire.   The next episode for AMP will be a series review where we go over what we liked and disliked of the game regarding our first dive into it.

Sponsored by Nothing? In this solo session The Wolf makes deals with Mountain Folk, enables tr  He kills the Bull of the North. Okay? Fuck Spoilers, don't care. I was there and it was ridiculous. He spent like ten years gaining Yurgen's trust, bonding with his circle, becoming a member of the community and then murders him. Unbelievable! Un-fricking-believable. Whatever! 

Sponsored by You, the Listener This Off Topic the topic is: You.     We produced this episode as a response to the amazing amounts of positive feedback from the Greater Exalted community. We had suspected that Exalted fans held the same opinions of the third edition and were not only delighted to have this confirmed by an overwhelming majority but also stunned at how much traffic it directed to our little Actual Play.     In this episode we give out a personal thank you to all our fans and listeners who have contributed to this podcast and encouraged us to continue production. We also ask some fairly open ended questions about what you would like to see us in the future from Sponsored By Nobody. Feel free to respond!     Places to get in touch:     Twitter Onyx Path Forum RPG.net

Sponsored by Lizard People who Control the Government The second of a series of solo sessions that deal with the solars lives during the 15 year time skip. The Killer Queen has a grand adventure, gathers a team of specialists, goes on an easter egg hunt, has 6 children, uncovers a yozi conspiracy. So about average for her.

Sponsored by RPG.net   I was asked to give insight into what our thoughts on both systems were. So we did a takedown and final reflection on Ex3 and our appraisal of Godbound. In this episode all 6 of us go over the experience we had with about 5 months of Exalted 3rd edition and the about 5 months we have had with the Godbound system. We lay everything out: what worked, what didn't, our observations and personal beliefs and what really rubbed us the wrong way. This covers everything from Mechanics, Flavour, Setting info, Art direction, Layout, Editing, Some off camera Drama from the Kickstarter and the nature of IP and how sticking to old copyright methods will damage your brand. Major props go out to Godbound and Sine Nomine for the rock star levels of production values, ethics, consumer friendliness, communication and solid art direction. With a few critiques along the way.    If you are looking for a takedown of what Exalted 3rd is like from 6 people (1 of which had prior experience and 5 who were total newbies for both systems) then this is the Episode for you.

Sponsored by Grace and Frankie ----more---- The first of a series of solo sessions that deal with the solars lives during the 15 year time skip. The Royal heads all over the world making deals and negotiating with foreign entities.

Sponsored by the Takeshi Kovacs series ----more---- The circle continues their odyssey into the Wyld to save Swan Dragon from the Rain Princes. They must contend with alien fey creatures, strange daemonic entities and a hungry earth. 

Sponsored by like fairy tales or something----more---- The circle begins its odyssey deep into the Wyld to find Swan Dragon and rescue him! They hang out with the Lapis Court, hang out with Raksha, buy slaves and fight over child murder! The Wanderer and Seawolf get into a fistfight.

Sponsored by Final Fantasy 7 ----more----   A new season begins! The circle revels in victory! The Killer Queen escapes from her Sidereal prison. The gang makes a deal with Tepet Arada. They go to hang out with Grandmother Bright. The Butcher returns! Deals are made with the Court of Orderly Flame. The Solars are going to make creation great again.

Sponsored by Hideo Kojima ----more---- The Season Finale is upon us listeners. The circle makes a mad dash to activate the penitant and seize the lap while realm forces swarm the area. The Wanderer proves that none are stronger then him. We get a bunch of closure. The Killer Queen gets another cup for her tchotchke  collection.

Sponsored by Airplanes ----more----   The circle prepares to assault the Lap and deal with the Blessed Isles meddling in their affairs once and for all. Admiral Sand and Lookshye are brought on board. Doomsdays are planned and at least one set into motion. Fight scenes occur. The Killer Queen gets her clock cleaned. ----more----   Community shout out to Omicron for Gilded Blossoms of Determination Style. We have a Godbound conversion whipped up based on their original 3rd ed write up. http://forum.theonyxpath.com/forum/main-category/exalted/811646-gilded-blossoms-of-determination-style-ex3-sma-peach

Sponsored by VisitSeattle (You've seen the best, now visit the rest!) ----more----   Our friend Stephanie comes up from Seattle to visit us and hang out for the weekend. We run a one shot Dynast adventure on the Blessed Isle. The group of Dynasts investigate suspicious happenings and work to uncover a dangerous conspiracy that could shake the foundation of the Realm's stability.

Sponsored by Flip Flops ----more----   The circle finishes their business with the Bull of the North. Listeners you know how this is going to go down. Its a complete mess and the party spends most of the time fighting themselves. Its pretty amazing.

Sponsored by Terminator 2: Judgment Day ----more----   We do two adventures in one. First is the university adventure which is pretty straightforward. Then we do the Soccer adventure and things get weird. Fairly heartbreaking episode where you take the victories you can get.

Sponsored by The Wicker Man ----more----   The gang tackles Attack of the Buzz! They go somewhere in America and meet up with an agent of the Seekers of Enlightenment. Who appear to be the villains of Amp? Then some crazy stuff happens. It continues to be a nightmare!

Sponsored by the Free Godbound rules ----more---- So we continue with the circles assault on the Bull of the North. They decide that the key to conquering the ancient solar is to drop everything and investigate Gethamane, the city under the mountain. Also they drop by and say hi to Vanileth. Then they kill like 10,000 soldiers because....war is hell? The most important thing is that they still are keen on fighting Yurgen Kaneko. Even if it is in the most roundabout way possible.

Sponsored by NyQuil ----more----   We open this episode with new announcements! Piotr is onboard as the 5th member of the circle. The Royal has joined the party!    Also the final Exalted 3rd edition was released in the passing week. In celebration of 3 years of waiting for the official rules to go gold we have transitioned to the Godbound ruleset. It wasn't worth the effort muddling through a 700 page 2.5 edition of exalted. Better luck next time?   In this session a new circlemate arrives. Then for some insane turn of fate they decide to go North and attempt to assassinate the Bull of the North. After attempting to shirk that particular promise they made to Tepet Ejava for months the circle has come around to killing Yurgen Kaneko. They also go to Malfeas for a while to prepare and gamble with a Cenobite. Just a very surprising turn of events.

Sponsored by Four Loko! ----more---- We find our Hero....our Protagonists in the beginning of an adventure, the Roadtrip adventure to be specific. We go through three RV's, a Mississippi Mob, a future KKK hit squad (only in America) and everyone finds out how great a parent Wrath is...probably. 

Sponsored by Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome ----more----   Today we have a new guest drop in, Piotr, who plays a DragonKing Pterok while he settles into the rules and the setting. The main focus is the Wanderer infiltrating Rathess to murder Filial Wisdom, the Predator of Rathess. Its a pretty great session where Anthony takes control of the combat that inevitably happens and pulls off a tactical engagement all on his own. Session is a little short due to a godamn summer cold.

Sponsored by UFO Hunters: A History Channel Original  ----more---- We begin Orpheus proper with an introductory mission. The crucible investigates mysterious happenings at a haunted community centre. Ghosts are hunted, we learn about Macbeth, legitimate ghost hunting techniques and that Gentrification is bad, or good, or bad....or good? 

Sponsored by Law & Order ----more---- The circle gets arrested and sticks together, corroborates their story and doesn't give in to the man. They then unify under a common goal to overthrow the shady legal dealings of a corrupt system and purge the criminal element out of Yu-Shan. In the process they resist the urge to indulge in self destructive behaviour and do not conspire with the forces of Oblivion. Did you believe any of that? Your so stupid.

Sponsored by The Net Gun Store ----more----   We return to AMP with episode 2. Its a bit of an intense trip. We did the Year One adventure, uh...Apex Ascending? The rise of Apex? I dont know. Stuff gets revealed. Someone shoots a child in the face, spoiler that child is Nod. So godamn crazy.

Sponsored by our Twitter Account ----more---- Our full session after the break! The circle gathers back together and assesses their situation. They decide its time to deal with the Censor of the South. This entails a comically inept, overcomplicated, meandering and insultingly confusing plan to bring Wong Bangerok to heel.  

Sponsored by Godbound ----more---- The final solo episode. The Majestic has goals to complete and only the C-listers to aid him. Gotta track down Five Days Darkness and The Traveller. Also Ma-Ha-Suchi makes an appearance.

Sponsored By RedLetterMedia----more----   Solo Session TWO! The Killer Queen goes to Nexus, the laziest setting element in Exalted.

Sponsored By Burger Heaven ----more---- The first solo session. Longhorn Seawolf takes his army and decides to conquer Rathess the first city. It goes alright!

Sponsored by Amp: Year Three ----more---- We have another game. I suckered Ian into running this so i can play for goddamn once. It is a superhero game where you play mutants on a meta plot that is unfolding over the course of five years as society copes with the concept of superhumans rising up from the populace. Its very similar to White Wolf's Aberrant but with a cleaner system, better writing and not piloted by pretentious hack writers. Amped has had three successful kickstarters and the current one is just running out as we launch this episode. Try it out if your inclined, its pay what you want on Drive Thru RPG.   Oh crap, im going to have to set up this game on all the websites we usually peruse. Dammit.

Sponsored by SmallMoves Vancouver ----more----   Oh Christ we had to move and it was the worst. Anyway...the circle confronts that old dragonblood soldier, with hilarious results. Then they find our that corrupt politicians from heaven are fucking with Wan Mei. Then they all plan to commit regicide, deicide, genocide, and terrorism. They're all pretty great and not at all acting like 80's cartoon villains.

Sponsored by Squaresoft----more----   The circle meets up with Shockwave, and hangs out with Righteous Optimal Solution. Then the ghost army returns and they outfit them with equipment and ancestor cults. The Majestic begins monetizing his brand. The Killer Queen  acts friendly. The Wolf dodges responsibility. The Wanderer holds a fighting tournament. Then they all go artifact hunting in an ancient dragonking city. Final Fantasy 6 is referenced. As is Mass Effect.----more----   Note: several laptop fan issues tainted the recording. So i did my best to filter it out but it dampened the background music a bit and made the voices more tin-ey

Sponsored by Mattel----more---- The hits keep coming in season 3. The Killer Queen and The Wolf are missing several organs and find, unconventional, ways around the problem. Void has a project for the Majestic. The Wanderer finds a hill to metaphorically die on. Yet another Alchemical is revealed, seriously its getting old: who writes this crap? Some more history lessons and moral debates get thrown around. The Killer Queen marshals all of the circle's resources together and attempts a truly epic sorcerous working. The South of Creation gets a major paradigm shift.  

Sponsored by Lucas Films----more---- Season 3 begins with a bang! The circle calls up Admiral Sand to help him with the favour hes owed. Then they decide to go to Thorns and confront the Mask of Winters. That .... goes pretty much as expected. The session ends with several characters in intensive care and a shockingly high civilian death toll.----more---- Community shout out goes again to Irked from the OP Exalted forum. They really knocked one out of the park this time by compiling the exalted 3rd charms into a plain document and simplifying the charms into plain english mechanics. Just outstanding work Irked. The readability, clarity and straightforward presentation they put to PDF highlights the poor design choices the Ex3 team stuck to with how the charms are written currently. The book versions make the game near inaccessible to new and casual players. Irked's version is something we are currently looking into for using in our game once we see the final PDF being released and compare the two.    http://forum.theonyxpath.com/forum/main-category/exalted/833007-complete-ex3-solar-charm-rewrite  

Sponsored by White Wolf Magazine----more---- We are now launching our podcast of our Orpheus game with this introductory episode. We cover the origins of the game Orpheus, the player characters, our games inspirations and talk a bit about the Wraith Curse.  Something weird happened to the recorder and it got switched from default settings to manual. so this episodes quality is a tad wonky. My Bad! UPDATE! Wraith: The Great War is about World War 1! Not World War 2 as indicated in the podcast. Oops.

Sponsored by Deadpool----more---- We rap up Season 2 this session. The circle finds a slice of untouched society from the Shogunate era. Its Idyllic. Then they go back to their nation capital to Murder/Death/Kill the creature wearing The Traveller's skin. An old friend drops in to reminisce with The Wanderer about how great sequels are! ----more---- Shout out goes to the Onyx Path Exalted forum for, again, having a thread dedicated to the Sex charms in Performance and conflating sexuality with predators and creepiness. Keep on bringing the hobby into 2016!

Sponsored by Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain----more----   The circle assists Shockwave with completing her plans. Wait no, that didnt happen! The Majestic throws a limit break temper tantrum and destroys everything. The party gets divided and yells at each other. Explosions happen. The entire point of going to the north is rendered moot. Maybe?   We also have a casual conversation about Metal Gear.    

Sponsored by Honda Civic----more---- After several weeks we're back with a succinct session. Remi breaks into her home and steals back her cat. The group finds a weird bar that has a dracula looking guy who loans them a car. The police get called. Then the group gets into a fistfight!   Huzzah for party dynamics.

Sponsored by IDW Publishing----more---- We have a special guest, Austin, who plays Nerro; a retainer to Void-Within-Without. The two reunite with the circle. We get a story from Void, the group bully each other and everyone meets up with another god damn alchemical. The circle is closer then they have ever been to getting the nightman his needed healing. Can they accomplish their goals after so many setbacks?    

Sponsored by the 2003 Pontiac Grand Am.----more---- This episode is an entire extended fight involving the circle and a Wyld Hunt lead by Immaculate Monks and a Bronze Faction Sidereal. Word of warning, the role playing is a little lighter than usual but is still fairly creative and robust. We also give a bit more time to a previously sponsored fan created home-brew. If you want to see a comprehensive fight between 4 experienced solar, 3 large battle groups, a sidereal and a group of immaculate monks...then this should be pretty neat.----more---- Osseous Hour of Misfortune http://forum.theonyxpath.com/forum/main-category/exalted/794785-osseous-hour-of-misfortune-style-ex3-sma-peach  

Sponsored by Dorito's Jalapeno Cheddar Chips ----more----   A new player this episode, Ian joins the game. His character goes through an ordeal before rising up under the light of the sun. Also famous NPCs from exalted show up. Another Assembly of the Nightman shows up. People talk about destroying all of the north because its just too cold. Also now the party wants to murder the Bull of the North. ----more----   Community shout out to Irked from the exalted forum for his Lunar 3e conversion. http://forum.theonyxpath.com/forum/main-category/exalted/773992-homebrew-lunar-charms-for-3e  

We discuss the implications of Flame weapons in Creation, the fact that they are a common tool for mystically inclined individuals and how the common person would perceive them as magical despite their mundane-ish origins. This spun off from an interesting forum discussion of the impact flame weapons have in creation.

Sponsored by Pall Mall Cigarettes, a flagship brand of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, a subsidiary of Reynolds American Inc, a division of British American Tobacco ----more----   The Wanderer loses another child put under his care. The Circle kills time on a 90 hour trans-directional flight. The Killer Queen gets into the most epic of buzzkill conversations with the Nightman about his whole, you know, being partially to blame for ruining the world. Then the group walks into an Arctic mining town and conquers the strongest warriors for the purpose of dominating the local indigenous population.   ----more----   Shout-out to Omicron for his martial art style: Osseous Hour of Misfortune http://forum.theonyxpath.com/forum/main-category/exalted/794785-osseous-hour-of-misfortune-style-ex3-sma-peach  

Sponsored by Tunnock Snowballs----more---- Session 2 happens. They meet a bunch of fairies then kill an ice giant. Changeling stuff!  

Sponsored by Delta Airlines----more---- The Majestic and Killer Queen delegate, discuss trade negotiations, debate the nature of religious morality among directional tribes, muse on the ethics of building WMD's, host a children's musical production, and decide that a good boy should probably be put to sleep.

Sponsored by TASCAM----more---- Our first OffTopic episode. We talk about the PC city of Wan-Mei and how its culture began and where it may be going. First episode using the TASCAM DR-22WL

Sponsored by Hummer----more---- The first session of our Changeling The Lost game. We have Nicole, Kevin and Gayle playing.