Pyramid: Pyramid Review: Deliria: Faerie Tales for a New Millennium

Pyramid Review

Deliria: Faerie Tales for a New Millennium

Published by Laughing Pan Productions, Inc.

Written by Phil Brucato

Cover by Audré Vysniauskas & Elizabeth Leggett

Illustrated by Phil Brucato, Jeff Holt, Mark Jackson, Elizabeth Leggett, Marrus, Lucinda Maberry, Heather McKinney-Chernik, Kees Roobol, Ruby, Christopher Shy, Andy "Hobbit" Simmons, Nènè Thomas, & Audré Vysniauskas

324-Page Full Color Hardback; $39.95

What grabs you first about Deliria: Faerie Tales for a New Millennium is its look. It is, in a word, eyecatching. Physically, Deliria is a breathtaking wash of color behind its glossy black cover. A chaotic array of styles and techniques are used to illustrate the book to an arresting effect. This really imparts the setting's sense of wonder and mercurial nature, from the whimsical and the magical to the dark and the dream-like. This continues with the writing, heavy on the "purple prose," works to pull the reader into a world and setting that is all of these things and more. A world woven of song, but enamored and maddened of mankind's cacophony; a world wherein the fey are as fascinated by us as much as we are of them.

That Deliria: Faerie Tales for a New Millennium is designed to be more than a game of hack 'n' slash is no surprise. The creation of Phil Brucato, the designer of the well-received Mage: the Ascension Revised Edition, this is a storytelling game focused on the modern and the adult faerie tale. It is mechanically light, designed to be card driven rather . . .
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Article publication date: August 4, 2006

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