I full expected to not enjoy Exalted. I'm mostly a fan of simpler systems, because I'm quite interested in quickly telling interesting stories, and only leaning on the mechanics when it's interesting to fail; I'm not one to enjoy a long slew of fights in most systems, and I thought I was just going to see some anime conflict. But a friend was running, so I got the book.

This book blew me away. I got interested in the setting almost immediately, and the system spoke volumes to me. Although it has a lotof content in it, the game leans on those mechanics to make thing interesting. Even its combat system is, relatively speaking, a breath of fresh air which does a better job of simulating a bustling fight than it does a tactical battlemap. It made me think of Ip Man.

In this book, you get the rules for playing the game, and for making Solars, the most powerful type of Exalt, and the system's flagship splat. It has a host of Martial Arts, some cool Artefacts, and it introduces the entire setting, including giving basic, short, descriptions of what each of the other Exalted are like, and a quick look at how they'll differ.

I browsed through the other reviews to see why some people gave this book such a low rating. They seemed, at a glance, to have two different flavours.

1) This book is too full of stuff. (it's 700+ pages) 2) This book doesn't have particular stuff. (Only one type of Exalt)

I'm going by the law of averages, and saying that if both sides are unhappy, then things could be worse. Too long? They're not fleecing you for three books, this is a PHB, DMG, Setting Guide, and MM all in one! "Only one type of Exalt"? That Exalt has a list of unique abilites ("Charms") that takes up about 200 pages, and would be the equivalent of an entire type of splat in Chronicles/World of Darkness.