Foreword

The approach taken with this expansion is not that of a game that looks at Exalted and tries to make it more like Burning Wheel. Rather, it recontextualizes things, injects a bit of insight, and hacks together some lifepaths and traits to make running Exalted with the core Burning Wheel mechanics more feasible. To a certain degree, this entire wiki just lays out a series of suggestions and houserules so that you can just get on with actually running the game. (It’s almost just an Exalted-themed errata for BWG. But there are some new mechanics too.)

If you’re coming from a background in Burning Wheel, this add-on makes Burning Wheel feel a little more forgiving and a lot more flashy (and perhaps even silly). If you’re coming from an Exalted background, it will feel a lot more grounded and real. Burning Wheel is about struggling to accomplish your goals, and its core mechanics gives that statement some weight. This add-on really makes the exalts face the music!

So unless a newly introduced rule says otherwise, assume the basic BWG rules stay the same. If you’re reading this and you’re completely new to Burning Wheel, I recommend that you at least go and read the Hub and Spokes first before continuing (it’s free).

Footnote: For me, Exalted is about deep character development, and slowly changing a rich and complicated world. And although much of the fiction that’s presented in Exalted gives it that feeling, the mechanics do not. Of course, this is personal taste. But that is exactly why I made this add-on. I like the idea of that. You may not.

Notation:
Throughout this document/ wiki I will try to stick to the following notation:
 * BW or BWG - Refers to the Burning Wheel: Gold Edition.
 * Codex or BWC - Refers to the Burning Wheel Codex.
 * Exalted or Ex# - Refers to the original Exalted material (and the # refers to an edition).
 * exalted - Refers to the exalts themselves. Similarly the exalt-types (solars, lunars, dragon-bloods, etc.) and castes (zenith, full moon, fire, etc.) will not typically begin with capital letters. Spheres and similar special mechanics will begin with capitals though.
 * Footnotes - Footnotes are personal touches and commentary from me, Seraaron. You can ignore them most of the time, but sometimes they function a bit like Luke's imps.