This is top of the line stuff. Art, story, scope! The subclasses provided range from solid to amazing (the Amazonian Conclave ranger character is what locked one of my kids in, once she saw the picture of the Amazon, we were playing this game, or else.) In addition to all the usual, the story includes Epic Paths for each character, foretold destinies they can meet head on. The epic paths each include story hooks deeper in the game, and help tie the characters into the overall story of titans, gods, dragons, and doom.

I've got two campaigns going now - one with my suspicious, untrusting, crusty old gaming friends from college, and one with a crew of kids who read a lot of YA fantasy with dragons on the cover. Both groups are enjoying this adventure a lot.

This book is a tremendous tool for the DM/world-builder. Every trait in here (and there are hundreds and hundreds) comes with descriptive text written in the standard D&D tone. They all have point values so you can mix and match and have some expectation of balance. (Or know just how out of balance you're going to get.) The lore generation tips are very helpful if you want to write backgrounds from scratch, but there are also helpful random tables that cover several pages of potential background information if you need a boost.

The huge collection of example races is full-featured, with traits, backgrounds, and sometimes spells for each. There are some great NPCs at the end, spells, feats, all kinds of good stuff. This book is full of flavor!

My one recommendation: don't try to print the whole thing for use off-line, you'll use a lot of toner. I did print the random trait tables as a reference section, for use on the fly, and because they list the traits by point value, super useful for working out a species.