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EXALTED: The Tournament of All Time! Learn to Play Perfect Draw!
Grab your cards, shuffle your deck, and prepare to be EXALTED beyond your wildest dreams! The Tournament of All Time begins now!
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$25.00
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Bi-weekly / Sunday - 4:00 PM UTC
May 3 / Session 1
Session Duration / 2–3 hours
Campaign Length / 5–10 Sessions
4 / 5 Seats Filled
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Meet your party members
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About the adventure
In EXALTED, you'll create a card combatant and prepare your own unique deck of cards to battle it out in the Tournament of All Time! Engage in fierce card battles against other combatants to win the ultimate prize: your very life! EXALTED is perfect for players of all ages and experience levels! It's for you, specifically, if you've ever played games like Yu-Gi-Oh!, CARDFIGHT!! Vanguard, Magic the Gathering, Legend of the Five Rings, Pokémon, Lorcana, Magi-Nation Duel, or Force of Will, or watched shows like Yu-Gi-Oh!, Bakugan, Pokémon, or One Piece and wanted to engross yourself in wild worlds of danger and mystery where life-and-death hung in the balance of a Perfect Draw!
Game style
Roleplay Heavy
Rule of Cool (RoC)
Theater of the Mind
Game themes
Meet the Game Master
5.0
(48)
4 years on StartPlaying
675 games hosted
Highly rated for: Creativity, Teacher, Inclusive
Average response time: Under 1 hour
Response rate: 100%
About me
A writer, poet, and anthropologist, I love to introduce new players to the fantastical worlds I grew up in and love even more building new worlds with players of all experience levels (including no experience!) DMing is a passion of mine, something I am always striving to improve at: the physical world around me is littered with sourcebooks, notebooks, guides, print-outs, Post-Its, dice, half-painted miniatures, and other paraphernalia related to this incredible hobby. All of my games are LGBTQ+ friendly, and my tables are safe spaces where everyone is welcome, so long as they believe that everyone is welcome.
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Creating your character
Players will create characters and their 8-card decks during Session 0, with guidance provided by the Judge (game master). Players will be able to chat, look through playbooks, and discuss character ideas on Discord leading up to Session 0, but communal creation is the way to go. Players starting after Session 0 will still be able to chat with other players to discuss character ideas and look through playbooks, but will be guided through character creation 1-on-1 with the Judge. For the Tournament of All Time Arc, only core rulebook playbooks are allowed to be used.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
Players will need a free Discord account (https://www.discord.com) for communication and voice calls, as well as either a printer or program capable of filling in form-fillable PDFs for character sheets. Players will also need some way to replicate their deck of cards, such as small tearable sheets of notebook paper.
What Gerald brings to the table
I will have the rules needed for the game available to players, as well as any other materials we'll need. I bring years of experience (and the experience of having run over 600 games on StartPlaying alone!) to the table, many of which were spent at in-person and online conventions, teaching new players! I also bring just... terrible character voices. Just the worst. 😃 Additionally, I bring with me a gaming community full of great weirdos. My Discord channel is full of fun people who love gaming in all its forms and fun conversations take place daily.
Equipment needed to play
Internet
Microphone
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Safety
How Gerald creates a safe table
This game contains fantasy violence. Character death is on the table, as EXALTED is a game of life-and-death. Content warnings are non-comprehensive, due to the nature of a bunch of people coming together to hang out together while playing a game. If something comes up that makes you uncomfortable, there are many ways you can make that known, including X-Cards and Lines & Veils. You will never be expected or pressed to share your trauma history with anyone else at the table; simply saying "X this" is enough to change direction of the session.
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