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Post by smubee on Dec 26, 2016 7:45:52 GMT -6
It's interesting to be on a forum with people of varying ages.. Everywhere from the late teens to late 70's I believe. But we're all bonded by a love for gaming and D&D in particular.
So the question I pose to you is this :
What did you get (gaming related) for Christmas?!
Myself, I was very fortunate. I got a copy of H.G. Wells "Little Wars".. Very fun read. "Playing at the World", haven't cracked this open yet but it's MUCH larger than I expected it to be.. A D&D t shirt with the classic Mentzer red box art on it. I got my grandparents to print out a PDF of "Chainmail" (for reading purposes only.. I can't stand reading on a laptop or tablet) that a gaming friend was nice enough to send me. I also got a D&D Dungeon Master's satchel, specifically for when I'm going to Gary Con. I can't stress this enough.. This bag is AWESOME. Has so many compartments for notebooks and dice and rule books..
More modern stuff.. Volo's Guide to Monsters for 5th Edoition D&D. And the card game Boss Monster, plus two of its expansions! Can't wait to start reading and playing some of this stuff!
More to come (hopefully!) as there are still a few more relatives houses to visit and present exchanging to happen.
Side note : I purchased the Minecraft card game for my 8 year old cousin and it is an absolute blast if you enjoy Minecraft. Simple to learn through play, and very true to the nature of the actual computer game.
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Post by smubee on Dec 26, 2016 7:49:37 GMT -6
D'oh.. How could I forget my absolute favourite present.. If anyone is familiar with the show "Stranger Things", my girlfriend got me the minis from the show. m.imgur.com/gallery/vzwEz#kt4TYpa
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Post by archersix on Dec 26, 2016 8:52:33 GMT -6
I didn't get anything gaming related, but my wife did get me a Hawkman T-shirt! I'm very happy, you never see any Hawkman related geek stuff :-D
I got my daughter her first set of D&D dice to call her own and an expansion deck for Marvel Munchkin. Got my brother the Firefly boardgame. It's just as good to give gaming stuff as it is to receive!
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Post by bigjackbrass on Dec 26, 2016 16:53:33 GMT -6
I bought a copy of the Lost in R'lyeh card game for my girlfriend, but my own gift was only obliquely game-related: Megastructure: Urban Futures of the Recent Past by Reyner Banham.
It's a terrific book about a very specific school of speculative architecture, particularly prominent in the 1960s (the book was published in 1976: it's out of print and absurdly hard to find at an affordable price; I'd been hunting for a copy for years). The gaming connection comes via Marcus L. Rowland's wonderful Forgotten Futures RPG, which features it in the bibliography. It's a brilliant resource for science fiction and alternative history gaming.
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Post by foxroe on Dec 27, 2016 6:11:41 GMT -6
Santa (aka Best-Wife-Ever) done good this year!
- White Box: Fantastic Medieval Adventure Game - Astonishing Swordsmen and Sorcerers of Hyperborea (1ed box set) - El Raja Key Archive (standard ed) - Featherstone's Wargames - Talisman, 4ed - Dice (who doesn't need dice?)
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Post by cadriel on Dec 27, 2016 10:39:15 GMT -6
These were the gaming-related things I got:
- El Raja Key archive (standard edition) - DC Adventures: Heroes & Villains, vol 1 and vol 2 - Mutant Year Zero
I also got a very nice photographic reproduction of the Voynich Manuscript, which is not a gaming thing, but is something of a thing of wonder.
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Post by xerxez on Dec 27, 2016 19:01:25 GMT -6
The only thing gaming related I got was a new set of polyhedral dice and a cube of colored tiny sixers for wargaming. My wife set me up with an instant camera that prints mini polaroid type pics and a ton of film and batteries and a new quality filter for my aquarium. But as usual, the fun was in giving! I bought everyone in our house a cool set of gaming dice among other things! Hope everyone has a great 2017.
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Post by welleran on Dec 28, 2016 8:48:09 GMT -6
I did not get any D&D-related stuff, but I did get a lot of miniatures for Saga (Scots, Welsh, and Irish starter armies from Gripping Beast, plus some loose figures). I also got a copy of the GMT's Germantown (Vol 7 from their American Rev War series) and an expansion for Descent. Not too shabby, though I'll be painting minis for along time to come!
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Post by bigjackbrass on Dec 28, 2016 12:08:10 GMT -6
... I'll be painting minis for along time to come! My girlfriend backed the Conan Kickstarter and keeps suggesting I might enjoy painting the hundreds of minis included 😁
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Post by scottenkainen on Dec 28, 2016 13:24:01 GMT -6
I got the Oregon Trail card game. It's simple, but surprisingly fun.
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Post by ritt on Dec 29, 2016 1:29:18 GMT -6
The first three issues of Wormskin, which I had vaguely heard of yet had never read. Good stuff. A nice Lord Dunsany feel and great graphics and art for a fanzine.
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Post by welleran on Dec 29, 2016 7:46:02 GMT -6
... I'll be painting minis for along time to come! My girlfriend backed the Conan Kickstarter and keeps suggesting I might enjoy painting the hundreds of minis included 😁 Nice! I have the Ral Partha Kickstarter coming any day now, as does my dad who decided to send them to me instead of him. That'll give me several hundred more figures to paint, as we both went in pretty heavy on this one!
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Post by skars on Dec 29, 2016 14:21:07 GMT -6
My wife and family surprised me with a vallejo game color suitcase paint set as I have been getting back into painting models again and my old paints were starting to dry out. Pretty darn excited
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Post by MormonYoYoMan on Dec 29, 2016 14:28:40 GMT -6
Stacks of history data, the further pulp-type adventures of Michael Vey, but you want to know Fan-related? Nothing game-related, but a box of random 1980s All-Star Squadron issues from my youngest grandson.
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Post by smubee on Dec 31, 2016 14:29:30 GMT -6
With Christmas money, I was able to pick up :
Gloom Betrayal at the House on the Hill Munchkin : Nightmare Before Christmas
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Post by ffilz on Jan 3, 2017 0:27:10 GMT -6
I didn't get anything gaming actually for Christmas, but we did agree to spend some money on ourselves and in that vein, I took advantage of Far Future Enterprises 443 sale and got the following CD-ROMS:
Classic Traveller Apocryphia - 1 Classic Traveller Apocrypgia - 3 Mega Traveller GURPS Traveller Disk - 2 Ships
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Post by kesher on Jan 3, 2017 14:52:41 GMT -6
I got the Oregon Trail card game. It's simple, but surprisingly fun. I almost bought that last week! Man, I loved that game on the flickering amber screens of my childhood...
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Post by ritt on Jan 3, 2017 17:00:38 GMT -6
OK, this is only tangentially related to gaming, but the best really was saved for last...
I have this great friend who is a HARD-***KING CORE movie buff. He has all kinds of connections and really good taste and discovers some really obscure, fascinating, mondo-bizarro cool stuff (Like, one year, as his idea of a "Gag gift", I got a Pakistani terrorist recruitment video for Christmas). I'm used to surprises with this dude... but this year he outdid himself.
When I was a little kid in the 70's, there was this VERY short-lived TV show called Cliffhangers. It was an homage to old 30-40's serials, a few years before Raiders of the Lost Ark would make that idea fashionable. It lasted less than a season and sunk without a trace. No re-runs, no DVD box set, nothing. BUT it left a really big impression on me as a kid. All of my love for old-school pulp can pretty much be traced back to that show (And, of course, E.R. Burroughs). I tried to find copies of it a few years ago and couldn't scare up anything other than a single blurry thirty-second ad for it on YouTube. It seemed gone forever down the pop-culture memory hole.
He somehow found DVD-R copies of the whole d*mn series. Including the episode that only aired in Europe.
So that's what I'm watching tonight.
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