Pyramid Review: The Lunars (for Exalted RPG)

Pyramid Review

Exalted: The Lunars (for Exalted RPG)

Published by White Wolf Publishing

Written by Bryan Armor, Chris Hartford, James Kiley, Malcolm Sheppard, Ethan Skemp, and Scott Taylor

Edited by John Chambers

256-page b&w hardcover; $29.95

Exalted: The Lunars is the third hardback release for White Wolf's Exalted game line of anime high fantasy. After the success and strength of two previous hardbacks, the main book and one covering the Dragon-Blooded, it seemed inevitable that the line stumble. This book is that stumble. The Lunars just isn't as good as its predecessors. After strong releases for the game over its first year, the first major release of its second year proves the line's lost a little steam.

The book itself looks like the other hardbacks of the line, and following the trend set by the other hardbacks, the inside covers sport a full-color (or in this case, sepia-tone) map, this time one of Creation with the names of all of the significant barbarian tribes marked on their piece of the geography. A nice touch is the runic translations of the tribe names underneath the English versions. Sadly, as with the Asian-style characters of the Realm displayed in all of the Exalted books, no alphabet or translation guide is provided for these runic characters that crop up throughout the book, which precludes any use of the language other than repeating the given tribe names.

Perhaps the most obviously dismaying thing about the book for fans of . . .

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Article publication date: January 3, 2003

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