State Fair. And a funny.

I went to the state fair today, because I could. I even went on a ride. I'd have gone on more, but the selection sucked from my perspective. Apparently putting you way up in the air (often upside-down) is even more popular now than last time I went to stuff like this. Oh well!

I had more fun wandering the booths, the artisan's alley, the various other stuff being shown off.

However, my favorite moment, bar none, came in the commercial vendors hall (which I almost didn't go into, 'cause there's much more interesting things at the fair; but I had plenty of time so why not? I'm so glad I went in, just for this moment).

I was passing a booth that was selling little shower-sized plug-in saunas. And an older gentleman was just walking away from it, shaking his head and saying to his companion something on the close order of, "Those things are hot! Why would they do that? It's August!"

It is August. I wouldn't've stepped into a demo sauna in August, even if I were interested in one at all, most likely. But ... what did he expect? *boggles*

Changeling: The Lost

Disclaimer: I have now read bits of this including bits of character generation, but not everything, and I have not played it, run it, or constructed a character in it.

The book is readable, printing-wise, and still looks nice. I didn't know WW knew how to do that. Yay!

The setting is gloriously fascinating.

And it is hamstrung by the rules, as per usual. Start with a world that is malleable and flexible and magic could have done almost anything. And then create patterns of magic so rigid that it's like slamming iron bars (metal chosen on purpose!) around your characters. Never this without that, never this at all, etc. It's begging to be house-ruled. Or just discarded entirely and run in some variant of Hero. (I say that, btw, as someone who doesn't enjoy using Hero, at least for Champions, because I find the flexibility of character creation daunting. But it would be appropriate to this setting.)

I'd say Deliria, but Deliria would need a slathering of house rules to do this as well (or more accurately, new Legacies, Wyrds, and possibly Accords).

This may, in part, be my mind taking games where they was not meant to go, the same way I can happily envision using Deliria to recreate the world of Jane Lindskold's Changer. It may be intended for urban fairy-tales, but it can do urban myth. Only in this case, I went drifting off into the setting, and then got yanked back to reality (not quite the one I'd expected) by the anchor-chain of the rules. *frowns* I suspect it's very playable as-is, but it doesn't fit its setting as well as I'd hoped.