Exalted (role-playing game)

Exalted

Exalted Second Edition front cover, featuring the images of the characters (from left to right) Arianna, Swan, Panther, Harmonious Jade, and Dace.
Designer(s)	Robert Hatch, Justin Achilli, Stephan Wieck, Andrew Bates, Dana Habecker, Sheri M. Johnson, Chris McDonough and Richard Thomas Robert Hatch and Geoffrey C. Grabowski (game direction first edition) John Chambers (game direction second edition) John Mørke and Holden Shearer(game direction third edition core) Robert Vance and Eric Minton(game direction third edition)
Illustrator(s)	Brian Glass (art direction), UDON Comics and many others
Publisher(s)	White Wolf Publishing
Publication date	2001 (1st edition) March 13, 2006 (2nd edition)/April 20, 2016 (3rd Edition)
Genre(s)	High fantasy
System(s)	Storyteller Game System Design by Mark Rein•Hagen
Website	[1]

Exalted is a role-playing game published by White Wolf Publishing. The game is classified as high fantasy and it was inspired by a mixture of world mythologies as well as Japanese Anime. The game is currently in its third edition. First Edition was originally created by Robert Hatch, Justin Achilli and Stephan Wieck. The original core rulebook was published in July 2001.

The setting is strongly influenced by Tanith Lee's Tales from the Flat Earth, Michael Moorcock's Hawkmoon, Lord Dunsany's The Gods of Pegana and Yoshiaki Kawajiri's Ninja Scroll. Other influences include Glen Cook's The Black Company; Sean Stewart's Resurrection Man, The Night Watch, and Galveston; Homer's Odyssey, the Bible, and Wu Cheng'en's Journey to the West.

The game uses ten-sided dice and a variation of the Storyteller System to arbitrate the action, and, as with many other RPGs, requires little beyond the rulebooks themselves, dice, pencil, and paper. The Exalted version of the rules were derived from the trilogy of White Wolf Publishing games Aeon (Trinity), Aberrant, and Adventure where the idea of a fixed target number of 7 or higher was first introduced.