Exalted Dreams of the First Age [Box set] [Hardcover]

John Chambers (Author)

Book Description

Series: Exalted | Publication Date: May 14, 2008

Before There Was an Age of Sorrows, There Was an Age of Awesome Splendor
Given the Mandate of Heaven to rule Creation following the Primordial War, the Exalted fashioned a Realm of unsurpassed power and glory from the world's war-rav-aged remains. Though the seeds of its downfall were planted in the hearts of all the Exalted by the Great Curse, the First Realm would stand for millennia, and its rulers would shape the future of the Exalted world. At last, the secrets of that lost time stand revealed, as you adventure as one of that era's Exalted masters. Will you strive to preserve this halcyon time-or help to destroy it?
A boxed set for Exalted , Second Edition, featuring:
Details of Creation during the High First Age
Everything players and Storytellers need to generate First Age Exalted characters, including high-Essence Charms for each Exalt type
Stats for prominent Exalted from the period

Product Details

• Hardcover: 315 pages
• Publisher: White Wolf Publishing; 2nd edition (May 14, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1588466205
• ISBN-13: 978-1588466204
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 8.8 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,044,963 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars First Age Fantastic!, June 27, 2008

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David M. Hubbard "gaymer extraordinaire" (DFW, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Exalted Dreams of the First Age (Hardcover)

Exalted is my favorite setting from White Wolf, and after years of waiting and wondering what the First Age truly had to offer its inhabitants, now we get a glimpse of the grandeur and power that existed before the Usurpation. The ideas this accessory spawned for my own games as innumerable and I can't wait to put some of these ideas in motion for my players! I highly recommend this boxed set to Exalted fans everywhere, it's got just what you've been looking for!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A reprint is on its way, May 20, 2010

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S. Cap. "Scappe" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Exalted Dreams of the First Age (Hardcover)

This book has been out of print for a long time, and was made in very limited numbers. Also, the binding was notoriously bad, so many copies have fallen apart. Additionally, no official PDF of the product was ever released. Getting your hands on a copy is exasperating to say the least.
Wonderfully, that is all going to change. The book is scheduled for a reprinting sometime in the coming months (though without a known deadline, it may be up to a year or longer before it hits shelves). It will be accompanied with a full PDF. Both the book and the PDF will be fully errata'd versions of the original box set.
The original box set was mostly fantastic, though it suffered from the above and also from the charm set. While Dragon Blooded charms were fantastic, and most Lunar charms were as well, the Solar charms were horrendously bad. They were thematically boring, mechanically incompetent, and, in the case of Zeal (a charm whose name has become a buzzword for awful charm design), setting breaking.
This will all be changed in the upcoming reprint (thanks to the errata), so rather than spending your money on this heavily inflated artifact of a source book, just give it a little time. You will be rewarded with a book that will be everything this was meant to be.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, But has some problems, September 19, 2008

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Gerd Walter "walterge" (Ann Arbor, Mi United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Exalted Dreams of the First Age (Hardcover)

In general I enjoyed this product very much and anybody who is into Exalted would also enjoy it. I'm dinging it a bit in it's score because of problems with the editing. I've noticed a number of places where it actively contradicts some other exalted books. Also while it set up some interesting setting info it's an era of peace so you are going to have to work to create some drama and adventure, this product doesn't give much guidance in that regard.