So... did anybody get any fun gaming gifts for Christmas? I rarely want actual gaming stuff myself anymore, but I got some indirectly-related stuff: O'Reilly's mod_perl book, which will help in Phoenyx programming; coupla gift certificates to hobby stores (craft and hobby, not actual gaming hobby, but sometimes that works out better), things like that. Of course, between Amazon and my mother-in-law's "gift registry," I picked that sort of thing out myself, so I'm not sure if that counts. -- Karen J. Cravens silver@phoenyx.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Karen J. Cravens wrote:
> So... did anybody get any fun gaming gifts for Christmas?
I got a shotgun.
No, wait... I _didn't_ get a shotgun. I got a Rubik's Homer Simpson Head
instead. (You think my mother-in-law would come through on something like
a shotgun, but nooooo.)
I got a gift certificate to the Leather Factory, which is extremely useful
when combined with their last-three-days-of-the-year clearance sale.
Stamping tools were $3 each instead of $7-8. This is good for my renfaire
hobby, which is marginally related to gaming. Going to have to upgrade my
social status when I start wearing tooled leather, though.
I would _like_ gaming stuff for Christmas, but I never ask for it... it's
just too weird for my non-gaming family to consider. I've got a wishlist
over at RPGNow and I can't imagine letting my family browse through that,
let alone ask them for stuff. If Funagain.com had wishlists, I'd point my
family toward the board games I'd like to have. (Heck, I _have_ a game
wish list on my Wiki, with links into Funagain's catalog. I should have
given my mom that. Except then she'd have gone to Wal-Mart and wondered
why she couldn't find Ricochet Robots, Puerto Rico or Entdecker.
I got an Atari 10-in-1 joystick.... retro 80's video gaming. _Adventure_
seems so much smaller than it used to.
Nothing directly usable with gaming, though I'll use the leather tools to
make myself a custom leather 3-ring binder for my gaming stuff.
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On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Carl D Cravens wrote: > On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Karen J. Cravens wrote: > > > So... did anybody get any fun gaming gifts for Christmas? > > I got a shotgun. > > No, wait... I _didn't_ get a shotgun. I got a Rubik's Homer Simpson Head > instead. (You think my mother-in-law would come through on something like > a shotgun, but nooooo.) ... because LARPing isn't the same without a shotgun. :) The closest I got to a gaming gift was another Hirst Arts mold. Perhaps after I finish building this fountain I'm working on, I'll use them for some gaming terrain or something. -Bill Hamilton ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Bill Hamilton wrote:
> ... because LARPing isn't the same without a shotgun. :)
Heh.
> The closest I got to a gaming gift was another Hirst Arts mold. Perhaps
> after I finish building this fountain I'm working on, I'll use them for
> some gaming terrain or something.
I wish I had time for those. I wish I had time for a lot of things. Like
gaming. :( Oh well... less than a year to finish my degree and things get
relatively back to normal.
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> So... did anybody get any fun gaming gifts for Christmas? We got a LOTR chess set. I hate chess. My husband is wondering "with all the board games out there, why did it have to be one of my least-favorite games?" (The other is Stratego.) >I would _like_ gaming stuff for Christmas, but I never ask for it... it's >just too weird for my non-gaming family to consider. > One of my brothers and I each got a D&D boxed set from the Sears Wishbook, around 1979-80 or so. That's how we got started in gaming. For several years, my husband and I gave each other GW miniatures. One of those years, the whole dang family was together at my parents' house. Of the bunch of them, only two people understood when I explained that the minis were, basically, toy soldiers that you put together and paint before you play battles with them. My six-year-old niece figured it out. The brother I'd started gaming with didn't quite get it. But my 86-year-old grandmother did. The rest of the family? Clueless. ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Ananda Stevens wrote:
> One of my brothers and I each got a D&D boxed set from the Sears
> Wishbook, around 1979-80 or so. That's how we got started in gaming.
I bought my first D&D set from the Sears catalog. Looking back, it seems
really weird that you used to be able to buy Dungeons & Dragons stuff from
Sears. If I drove half-an-hour to Hays, KS, I could find it in the mall
book store and at a chain department store (can't remember the name). It
was the department store I bought all of my AD&D hardbacks.
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Carl D Cravens wrote: > On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Ananda Stevens wrote: > I bought my first D&D set from the Sears catalog. Looking back, it seems > really weird that you used to be able to buy Dungeons & Dragons stuff from > Sears. Back then, no one realized it caused Satanism. Steve -- http://www.stevebarr.com "Your lips should remain unmoved." All 100% my own opinions. ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Steve Barr wrote:
> > I bought my first D&D set from the Sears catalog. Looking back, it seems
> > really weird that you used to be able to buy Dungeons & Dragons stuff from
> > Sears.
>
> Back then, no one realized it caused Satanism.
Yeah... then Sears started up those big call centers and started employing
thousands of telephone slaves. Once it became obvious what a bad
influence Sears was on people, TSR was right to rid themselves of such
diabolic ties.
Hey, I've seen how young minds can obsess over the contents of the
Wishbook with my own eyes. It's evil, I tell ye.
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>Carl D Cravens wrote: >>On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Ananda Stevens wrote: >>I bought my first D&D set from the Sears catalog. Looking back, it >>seems really weird that you used to be able to buy Dungeons & >>Dragons stuff from Sears. > >Back then, no one realized it caused Satanism. This actually reminds me of a priest I saw in the telly sometime in this last half a month, who was really positive about the fantasy genre and roleplaying/LARPing and all of this jazz. It was really nice listening, I miss having sensible people in the television :) I actually took part in a somewhat Christian LARP too, a while back, which took place in a church. The priest who let us in and let us back out was also rather positive about roleplaying. So obviously not everyone has discoveret it... yet... =) -- Freso # Jabber ID = freso@jabber.com aka Frederik S. Olesen # PGP/GPG key = 0xAF0D01D6 Web: http://freso.dcginternet.co.uk // Personal info, misc. LJ : http://freso.livejournal.com // Diary, thoughts DA : http://freso.deviantart.com // Writings ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
> I actually took part in a somewhat Christian LARP too, a while back, which took place in a church. The one and only LARP campaign I was ever in was a Vampire game, and they played in a church basement. I always wondered if they knew what we were playing. ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Ananda Stevens wrote: AS>The one and only LARP campaign I was ever in was a Vampire game, and AS>they played in a church basement. I always wondered if they knew what we AS>were playing. I've mentioned this here before, but I learned roleplaying in college, in the Baptist Student Union. It shared a building with the Tulsa [Southern] Baptist Convention, and occasionally various preachers would wander through our side to see how the next generation was doing, look at our hex maps and whatnot with mild bewilderment, and wander back out, having decided we were harmless geeks (it was an engineering college, so they expected that). Just Traveller, though, nothing eeevil like D&D, and vampires hadn't been invented yet. -- Karen J. Cravens silver@phoenyx.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
