>>95921737
I think this is exactly how The Great Curse came about. Grabowski was probably playing with people who heard the sales pitch I was talking about and took it to heart. I can imagine that players being being “too good” was what set him off. After all, most people will gravitate towards being good unless deliberately playing evil for the novelty and he couldn’t be so inexperienced as to not know this. Rather, what I think caused him to sperg out was that his players kept trying to “fix” things. Because Exalted makes the players explicitly powerful enough to enact world changing events, I’m guessing players kept looking at all the conflicts and problem that are meant to be inherent to the setting and went “sure, but I can fix that.” So he went back and created The Great Curse because “No, fuck you, you can’t just completely upend the thing I created and ruin the POINT I was trying to make that you are obviously missing. So instead have this incomprehensible, inescapable, unstoppable thing that will make sure that no matter what you do it the status quo will reassert itself.