Awwwwwwwwwww!

So cute!

Mmm. Other than that, so far a good weekend, what of it we've seen. And our zoo membership cards came. The cards are pretty.

Dad will stop by a bit later, and pick up the old printer to go be reused or recycled. I dreamed about the printer last night; I was doing something to fix it, and it didn't, and it printed out garbage again, in some different way. I can't remember what it was that was so different, though, just that it was interesting.

After that, off to the library to return a couple books and pick up a couple books. I think I need to be cautious with holds for a while: the incoming books are actually outstripping the pace at which I'm reading them. I haven't even started The White Dragon, I'm still only halfway through The Riven Shield, and then there's three or four more stacked up behind those. Eep. Good thing I can renew online, I guess. But if I remember to take notes on the couple things I want to, the beading magazines and books can go back. I don't know why I am so pleased or want to note-take; I'm very aware that I'll probably never do anything. It's been a while since I've done any beadwork, after all.

Getting the zoo card gives me an urge to go to the zoo. Why on earth, I have no idea. Oh, well.

Deliria Review: Part I

I'll start this the simplest way I know how: I want to say, go buy Deliria. If you love anything remotely related to urban fantasy, to myths, to faeries, to world where certainty is anything but real...go buy Deliria. However - some of the things that I consider nuisances or even the pieces I love, might kill it for another person. So there's a more detailed review below, even a nit-picky one. I just want you to understand that none of the nit-picking below means I don't like the game. Actually, it's there because I like it very, very much. I don't care if there are minor problems in White Wolf's new system, or if there are any problems in its books, because the major problems have already led me to hate and avoid it. I care passionately about what I see as smallish flaws in Deliria, because I like it so very very much.

( The setting )

( System, or 'the crunchy bits' )

Deliria Review: Part II

( Book Organization )

Conclusion

I really like the game. I really, really do. The flaws I see are by and large flaws of presentation (such as the order of the sections toward the back of the book, or the favor-point cost of things requiring a guessing game or a dissection of the example - at least the example is detailed enough to be sure you have it right!). The rest are addressable with optional rules or house rules. The setting is incredible.

There's a lot of potential here, and they've mostly lived up to it. Not quite completely, but mostly. That's a lot more than many games do.

But I'd still like to see a second printing some day, that fixes some of the flaws of clarity, and if we're lucky flaws of order. And the occasional typographical snafu - any good reprint worth its name will introduce new typographical errors, so it's necessary to eject the old ones if you don't want them to stage a coup. (I've only spotted two so far, though. One was where a dash should have been, and instead a few random letters including a couple'a f's were added to the end of the word before it; the other had a degree sign where a sentence ended, and I'm still not quite sure which piece of punctuation was supposed to end the sentence in question.)

Meanwhile...I gotta figure out the best way to get my Deliria fix, because playing this once a year at GenCon is not frequent enough.