So What'd You Get?
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The holidays, and Boxing Week thereafter, are a time of stuff. Much stuff. New stuff! Interesting stuff!
The question is, what tabletop gaming-related stuff did you get, either received as a gift or bought for yourself during Boxing Day or some such? What did you get for your friends?
My playgroup (four of us currently) went to our FLGS (Friendly Local Gaming Store, for those of you new to the hobby) and decided that instead of guessing what everyone wanted, and since we were all going to be playing the games as a group anyway, we would just buy ourselves $60 worth of stuff—the equivalent of getting $20 presents from each of the others. I must say it worked out beautifully. I ended up with Kult—a kick-ass modern-day horror/occult RPG from Sweden that's an old classic—and Dragon Dice. (Dear God, Dragon Dice. We thought it would be a fun little game, but found ourselves curling into fetal positions by the time we reached page 40 of the 150 page rulebook.) Another friend got Exalted Second Edition (another dear god moment because we know getting the first book will result in a wallet-destroying need for the others) and another got Ars Magica 5th Edition (a gorgeous game, I've talked about it before, that we're playing now) and a White Wolf card game called Vampire: Dark Influences that seems quite fun. The last friend is holding out, because he is indecisive. His loss.
So I repeat, dear readers—what'd you get? Show off your swag in the comments!
Mad Pawn
Posted to Hot Stuff, Industry News on 27 December 2007
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Not so much what I got as what I bought myself with my moneys. Namely, Warhammer Fantasy RPG and the Bestiary for it, a bunch of units for my brand new Tyranid army for Warhammer 40k (specifically a box of gaunts, a box of genestealers, and a hive tyrant), a copy of Codex: Tyranid, and the core rules for Promethean: The Created. Because, honestly, who DOESN'T want to be Frankenstein's Monster?
Winter Masques and a classic out of print Black Dog game, HOL (Human Occupied Landfill). I've been wanting that one for so long just for the book itself. All handwritten text, no typed. God it's screwed up just to read. Love it!
I got Requiem for Rome as a Christmas gift.
I'm waiting for my big juicy paycheque for all that overtime I worked around Christmas to pick up a few game books.
Only gaming related things I got were the Dragonlance map packs for age of mortals and legend of the twins (already had war of the lance). I actually own every 3.x dragonlance supplement (not counting printed adventures), now. I suppose the USB thumb drive I received in my stocking is also gaming related, since I'm using it to tote information on the campaign I DM and a couple of PDFs.
I'm all set for tromping through the World of Darkness now. I got the Vampire, Werewolf, and Mage core books. Good times await!
Nothing too exciting, but I did get Axis and Allies from my Dad. I had friends who played it constantly in high school, but I never got too into it until the newer edition came out and I think made the game a lot more fun, so I'm excited to have that, and to be able to get some friends together sometime soon to play.
My next tabletop related purchase will probably not actually be a purchase but a bit of a craft project.
Since they don't currently publish Diplomacy in the US (bastards!), and it's not only difficult to import (amazon.uk will not ship it to the US), but also increasingly expensive with the weakening dollar, I've embarked on a plan to make my own copy to use to play face to face games.
I'll be using one of the publicly available maps one can find online, and blowing it up to small poster size. I'll then probably laminate it. Then I plan to collect beer bottle caps for a while until I have enough of 7 different kinds to be the pieces for each country. Each country will be represented by a different brand of beer! How fun is that?!
I'll tell you how fun. Very.
Having actually discovered Exalted in its second edition, I bought a whole bunch of first edition books for my boyfriend for Christmas.
I also got him this jigsaw puzzle: http://www.areyougame.com/interact/item.asp?itemno=BG801