Very creative and classy. "Bureaucratic Gods" are a key feature in Chinese mythology which have been underutilized in western fantasy. Sidereals takes them and makes them cool. Interesting rules and a setting that's easy to use in a game.
An immensely cool setting and perhaps the most flavorful and cool charms of the entire Exalted line, it unfortunately suffers from confusing and cumbersome astrology rules.
The Sidereals are a cool concept, but this book left me feeling that they were both too mysterious, and too powerful. For a setting that places Solars at the pinnacle of Exalted power, Sidereals seem to have a bit too much pull
Not the best of the line. This book radically changes the Exalted setting in all sorts of ways, the Sidereals are hideously powerful and the Astrology rules are just plain hideous.
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