During the 90s, a lot of the small-market games were about trying to fix one issue that the author had with basement-ready games from the 70s. By 2002 a renaissance was required! No longer were games just for mega-nerds programming Scorched Earth into their graphing calculators! Now the games were for normal people, like baristas, ravers, hackers, and burners. Nothing encapsulates this era of special-snowflake appreciation better than the fairy tale LARP enabler, Deliria. Do you ever get the feeling that you’re special? That there’s magic in the world? That your eyes would really be grey flecked through with shards of gemlike amethyst if you had your way? This is the game for you!
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Editor’s note: Special thanks to Grant at Saving The Game for this book submission. Visit his show at savingthegamepodcast.com!
System Mastery 
Discovered this podcast series recently and I always get a good laugh out of it. This week was no exception. Great job, guys!
So, Vampire: the Masquerade is a blind spot in your RPG knowledge, huh? Perhaps it’s time to fix that with another podcast…
Well, it’s in one of our blind spots. I think Jon’s played it a bunch even. It’s on our list for sure though!
Speaking of obvious things that should be on your list, what about old Shadowrun?
I think it may be. I’ll make sure it’s on our work list though because it’s a good one to talk about.
A little after 04:30 mark there’s a weird audio overlap.
Thanks I’ll take a look at that.
How literal were you being when you said there are no rules prior to page ~170?
Completely. The first actual rule is Character Creation which starts on page 170.
Jesus, the editor(if there was one) had to have had a stroke when they saw that.
I literally never found that section. Or maybe I was just numb by the time I got there, and didn’t recognize it.
Somewhere an editor is still telling the story of Satyros Brucato and his insistence on keeping the book organized like that. Someone probably buys him drinks to get him to tell the story again.
“Phil! – I mean, “Satyros!” Where are the layout specs for this book?!?”
“They exist ONLY within your MIND!… Or perhaps in a DREAM?!?”
*plays pan-flute, vanishes in a puff of smoke*
Glad you guys enjoyed the book. (Well, for some value of ‘enjoyed’.) I gotta be honest—I never even cracked open “Everday Heroes”. I’m surprised you even tried after reading most or all of the core Deliria book. Thanks for the review; you’ve finally given me value from my investment in those books.
Oh, and my wife is still laughing over “it’s Willow, except everyone plays the village.” Good work.
Thanks again for the generous gift! We absolutely hated it, which is System Mastery for “It was perfect!”
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To be honest, the only way I could see Fairies working in an RPG is if it was the Fairly Odd Parents RPG. Now that could be interesting!
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