Guen Plan
Some possibilities for Guen. These make use of the costs and training table, the Monsoon Needles and the Mark of Autochthon.
Guen has a lot of unspent experience. He should be able to use the Mark to train for things quite quickly.
Martial Arts
Leopard Style
Some time ago, I reworked the charms in Leopard Style based on some internet feedback and things I noticed in play. One of the issues of the original style was "speedbumps", where charms higher in the tree would be such you would never have a reason to use their prerequisites. So the newer versions change the prerequisites to be more functional. I will attempt to draw attention to some of these in the "combo" section below.
There are two charms in this style that Guen doesn't yet know; however, they are not particularly compelling given Guen's other abilities.
Tiger Style
You have a number of charms to learn in tiger style. Since this style matches the notion of your totem form, by our house rules, you only need to pay 8xp per charm for these.
- Raging Tiger Pounce (8xp)
- Spine Shattering Bite (8xp, req. Raging Tiger Pounce)
- Stalking Cat Movement Meditation (8xp)
- Leap From Cloaking Shadows Attack (8xp, req. Stalking Cat Movement Meditation)
- Angry Predator Frenzy Style (8xp, req. Spine Shattering Bite, Leap From Cloaking Shadows Attack). This charm requires a trainer.
Hungry Ghost Style
You are starting to learn Hungry Ghost Style. You have a way to go if you want to master the whole thing:
- Shrouded Claw Attack (12xp)
- Hungry Ghost Form (12xp, req. Shrouded Claw Attack)
- Unnatural Shambling Deftness (12xp, req. Hungry Ghost Form)
- Lunging Phantom Method (12xp, req. Unnatural Shambling Deftness)
- Consuming Entropy Strike (12xp, req. Hungry Ghost Form)
- Blood Freezing Technique (12xp, req. Consuming Entropy Strike)
- Power Reaping Prana (12xp, req. Hungry Ghost Form)
- Charm Smothering Technique (12xp, Power Reaping Prana). This is one of the few charms in Exalted than can mess with other people's charms.
- Soul-Flaying Strike (12xp, req. Lunging Phantom Method, Blood Freezing Technique, Charm Smothering Technique)
Mixing Styles
All of the styles you know use tiger claws and have forms that prevent the use of armor. (You get around the armor restriction in beastman form thanks to Shaping the Silver Skin.) One of the benefits of learning different styles is that you can combo charms of compatible styles together. Even better, lunars do not have to match the ability or attributes of charms within a combo like other exalts do, so they can combo their own charms with martial arts charms.
Unlearning Charms?
Guen can use the Mark to unlearn charms, in reverse order.
Defenses
Flowing Body Evasion Snake Body Technique.
Monsoon Needles
Embodiment of Full Moon's Dexterity.
Shapeshifting
Archery
Familiar
- Binding Companion Connection
- Favored Companion Feeding
- Rushing River of Return
- Sympathetic Companion Transformation
Increase Something
If you want to use the mark's Deep Resonance, you could spend four Willpower and gain a dot of Precision to go into a training trance the compresses the 384 hours of untrained learning into an eight-hour vision quest. If you want to describe this vision quest to the rest of the players (not necessarily the characters), you gain an immediate test to regain Willpower at the end of it (i.e. roll Conviction, gain willpower for each success).
Alternatively, you could burn a point of Source to provide training. If you do this and use Deep Resonance to compress the time, trance only needs to compress 192 hours, so only costs two Willpower instead of four.