On Sun, 26 Dec 2004, Karen J. Cravens wrote: > 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. > Heheh. I introduced my brother and my sister and her husband to Carcassone at Christmas. I got looks that said something along the lines of "This will suck, but we'll humor you," on Christmas Eve. Christmas Day, my sister was bugging me constantly to play again. Of course, they should know better. Last year my sister asked for board games, expecting Monopoly and the like. I got them "Apples to Apples", and she and her husband looked at me like I had a second head. We played it later, and they loved it, couldn't wait to play it with her husband's parents. As for party games, some are ok and some are not. My friends have a game called Moods, and I refuse to play it. It involves saying things in completely opposing tones of voice, and I just can't do that. Hours of fun for everyone but me, though. > 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. > Well, there are those specialty dice. > 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. Yes, it's odd. Probably half the music I own is folk music, and I try to attend every (rare, unfortunately) performance of one of the local Irish bands. As for gaming presents I got, let's see. Karen gave me one of those dice bags mentioned in another thread. I got a model airplane I intend to use to kitbash starship miniatures. (And my parents knew that's what my plan is, so it counts! :) I got a copy of Pente, which I haven't played in forever. My brother gave me some ships for "Pirates of the Spanish Main", which is an odd but interesting game. And, I think that's it. All in all, some interesting stuff. ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
