> 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.

That's just about the position I'm in, though my brother and
sister-in-law used to game (and my brother has recently been pulled into
a Forgotten Realms PBEM by the gentleman who was his best man at the
wedding).

I did get the soundtracks for both Two Towers and Return of the King, so
that gives me Music To Write Adventures By -- if I'm trying to
concentrate on something, I prefer instrumental music, as I find vocals
distracting.  Despite all the e-mailing back and forth by my family, I
wound up with two copies of Two Towers, so one of them will be traded in
as soon as I decide where and for what.  I also got the newly restored
_Metropolis_ (the one with the original 1927 music and the phenominal
picture quality), which could be stretched into a gaming gift if I
run/write another pulp SF adventure.  Oh, yes, and I got the second of
Joanne Hayes' WWII cookbooks.  I'm running a Golden Age Champions game
currently, so once we get to the actual start of the war (they're busy
fighting off the Martian invaders in 1938 at the moment) I'll have all
sorts of period-appropriate stuff for the group to eat.

Leah
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