On Sat, 25 Dec 2004, Frederik 'Freso' S. Olesen wrote: FFSO>Apart from having the items on the wishlist I sent out, no prompting was FFSO>required - none of them are against gaming as such, and have all had a FFSO>few years by now to get to know the local dealers and such ;) Most of our relatives aren't "against" gaming so much as they are "clueless about gaming," so it's likely just as well they don't buy anything, or we'd probably end up with weird Rifts books or something. Some years one family member or another will decide "Hey, they play games" and buy us the latest "party game;" I think we have Cranium and a few others collecting dust, unopened. They just don't get the difference between that and, say, Carcassonne. Maybe we should have taken Union Pacific or something down there to play with them, I dunno. FFSO>1) Dragonologi (orig. title: "Dragonology"), by Wayne Anderson, FFSO> Douglas Carrel, and Helen Ward. FFSO> Okay, so maybe this isn't technically neither a gaming item, nor a FFSO> Christmas present, I still didn't get it before yesterday (we usually FFSO> exchange gifts on the eve of the 24th here in Denmark) - being a FFSO> month after my birthday. And it does seem to be pretty handsome, FFSO> look-wise. Very interesting graphics and other kinds of FFSO> ornamentation. Have yet to actually read it to see if the information FFSO> on dragons is worth anything :p I think I may have seen this before; searching Amazon turns up a book on concrete reinforcement (no, I didn't follow the link to see exactly how "Wayne Anderson" matched it) but also _The Dragon Machine_, which I might have to look at getting for our son. FFSO>2) Vampire: the Requiem dice set. (10 D10's with small bag/pouch.) FFSO> Well... dice are always nice, aren't they? :D Sigh. Playing Fudge means having nearly no excuse to buy nifty new dice. FFSO>3) The new World of Darkness core book. FFSO> I've talked with my parents though, about their purchase of it, and FFSO> they agreed to take it back to the store (Fantask) and switch it for FFSO> the Changeling Player's Guide - I may have a better chance of getting FFSO> to play the new WoD than I have of playing C:tD, but... I really like FFSO> Changeling, and it's out-of-print whereas the new system will FFSO> probably be available next year as well... (I probably won't be able FFSO> to wait for winter next year to get the new WFRP anyway :p) I'm not sure what, if any, in-print stuff I actually want right now. I don't play any WoD (though I own the first editions of Vampire and Werewolf, at the least, probably a bit more). Carl's bought some Mutants & Masterminds, since he's currently running a Fudge supers game, but otherwise there's not much we really need. Maybe some of the new GURPS stuff, just to take a look at it, but it's been a bajillion years since I've actually played GURPS, versus just swiping sourcebooks from it, and I'm not sure I need any of the new sourcebooks. The new Fantasy, maybe. FFSO>Hm... and then I got some folk music (Danish + Irish, trad. + contemp.), FFSO>but I don't know how much they would relate to gaming in your eyes :p Gamers seem to fall into the sort of demographic that likes folk music. I don't really know why. My family did attempt to buy music we like, so we each got discs from the department-store kiosks full of various sorts of music; sometimes those are pretty good (usually discs we already own, though), so we'll have to see if the ones we got this time are good. And Carl got a Trout Fishing in America disc, so that's always good. (Oddly, we didn't own any TFiA before now. I'm not really sure why.) -- Karen J. Cravens silver@phoenyx.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
