Giltch is the latest installment of Jenna Moran's Nobilis IP, presented using a new ruleset. Glitch contains all of the virtues of her previous work - that strange energy that pervades the worlds she describes, the example of play that aptly communicates the intended experience, the diceless mechanic that provides meaningful restraints on activity even while it enables fantastical activities.

It is also sharply improved by being more accessible than many of her previous works. I've enjoyed Jenna's work since Nobilis 2e, but I've never been impressed by the apologetics by people who insisted that anyone who had difficulty grasping her designs was simply reading it wrong. Her previous work could be abstruse. This is not. She clearly communicates the shape of things. Even when an underlying setting element is abstruse, her writing makes the nature of that abstruseness clear to the reader, so that they do not worry that they are simply failing to grasp some concept.

Now, I'm giving this a 5 star review, but that's because it's very good at what it is trying to do. Glitch is not for everyone - it's a very specific game, for a very specific setting, and many people will simply not be interested in what it's selling. If you're interested, I strongly recommend you read the full-size preview - if you like what you see there, you'll probably eat up Glitch like popcorn. If it makes you furrow your brow, Glitch is probably not going to do much for you.

If you play Nobilis, or if you just read it, this is a worthy investment of your funds. It transforms the Deceivers from a cypher to a mandala of meaning, explaining what they do and why they do it in a way that doesn't spoil mysteries, but spawns them. It will enlarge the scope of your game and the ease with which you can include Deceivers in it.

Finally, bureaucracy rules!

If this product can't get you pumped up about the power of commerce in Creation, there's no hope for that topic for you.

MY NAME IS IN THIS THING, AND MY JOY AT STATING THAT IS PROFOUND. I know all the people who wrote this and they worked their asses off :D

A top quality product, clearly a labor of love by talented writers.

While the original boxed set version suffered from serious flaws - incoherent Solar charms, poor quality binding that led to books falling apart over time, and the usual complete lack of index - the PDF version solves all of these.

Extensive errata and completely re-written Solar charms not only repair the broken Solar charm section, but increase the length by 20 pages with exciting and high-quality new charms from Holden Shearer and John Morke.

A PDF obviously never falls apart.

The PDF is also both thoroughly bookmarked and searchable, allowing easier use as a reference document.

In short, a great product. If you've never bought Dreams of the First Age before, or you've been making do with a pirated scanned PDF, now is the time to upgrade. If you bought the original Dreams of the First Age, but want to encourage the White Wolf alternative publishing team to continue to upgrade and revamp their flawed earlier works with high quality new material, buy it again!

This book covers several major mysteries (ambiguities, really) of the Exalted setting, and resolves them in a way that opens new, more exciting questions.

In addition to the stats of the Maidens themselves, which are full of mystic import illuminating their relationship to Fate and causality beyond it, it contains stats for the many creatures that dwell in the heavens - not in Yu-Shan, but in the vast and starry spaces of the sky. It also has a totally sweet Crane Style by Nephilpal, and the miraculous and cataclysmically dangerous Astrological Charms of the primordial war. These new powers are largely well balanced and frankly are some of the strongest mechanical additions to the line in a while.