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KarenCravens
Karen Cravens

Sat

Dec 24
2005

14:12Z

Merry Christmas!

Since we have two families (his 'n' hers) here in town, Christmas is (at 
least) a two-day affair for us, so the festivities have begun (well, soon 
as I wrap the last of the gifts and we drive over there) here.

So there are two obvious gaming-relating questions.  The first is always 
"What gaming-related presents are you giving/did you get this year?"  I'll 
forego answering this myself for now since: it'd spoil the surprises/I 
don't know yet.

The other question is, do your games ever involve Christmas or other major 
holidays?  We've had The Big Spring Trade Fair in a fantasy game, but 
that's all that comes to mind right off the bat.  Our current campaign, 
modern supers, is presently taking place in mid-summer.

-- 
Karen J. Cravens  silver@phoenyx.net

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CarlCravens
Carl D Cravens

Mon

Dec 26
2005

03:53Z

Merry Christmas!

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, Karen J. Cravens wrote:

> "What gaming-related presents are you giving/did you get this year?"

I bought myself _The Mountain Witch_, _With Great Power_ and _The 
Burning Wheel_.  I blew my entire check I got for writing "Just 
Fudge It" on them. :)  _The Burning Wheel_ is a game that Karen wants 
to check out as well, so it's kind of for both of us.

Karen bought me four wooden, curved playing card holders...

http://www.wherethewindsblow.com/images/mah_jongg_wherethewindsblow_cardholdersl
g.jpg

... but I won't put playing cards in them.  I use 3x5" index cards for 
notes, developmental work, all kinds of things.  I keep almost all my 
working game information on them... so I can set these up at the game 
table and get a lot more of my notes up where I can see them at once.

My printer, a Canon PIXMA iP3000, will print directly to individual, 
cheap index cards.  I can put pictures on one side of a card for the 
players and notes on the other for me.

I don't know why I didn't think of this before.  These are a low-rent 
substitute for Levenger's "Index Card Bleachers," which I've wanted 
for some time.

I'll also use them when doing design work for the same reasons.

> The other question is, do your games ever involve Christmas or other major
> holidays?

> We've had The Big Spring Trade Fair in a fantasy game

Was that the week-long Festival of the Fool in that campaign?  In the 
Miramer game I ran back when Guy was playing with us, that's what it 
was... a week-long new-year celebration, which was celebrated in 
Spring.  (Why do we mark the new year at the beginning of Winter? 
Spring seems to be the time of new beginning, to me.)

When I set up the Miramer calendar, all of its months are 28 days 
long, and there are four week-long celebrations that mark the 
beginning of each season, which are not part of the months. 
Week-long parties provide opportunities for all kinds of mischief.

-- 
Carl D Cravens (raven@phoenyx.net)                Gamers List Owner
     [        The Fudge List -- http://fudge.phoenyx.net/        ]
Old beta-testers don't die, they just crash to DOS.
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KarenCravens
Karen Cravens

Mon

Dec 26
2005

15:35Z

Merry Christmas!

On Sun, 25 Dec 2005, Carl D Cravens wrote:

CDC>... but I won't put playing cards in them.  I use 3x5" index cards for 
CDC>notes, developmental work, all kinds of things.  I keep almost all my 
CDC>working game information on them... so I can set these up at the game 
CDC>table and get a lot more of my notes up where I can see them at once.

Of course, our five-year-old will borrow it for when he's playing Uno and 
Shanghai...

CDC>I don't know why I didn't think of this before.  These are a low-rent 
CDC>substitute for Levenger's "Index Card Bleachers," which I've wanted 
CDC>for some time.

It's either because you're not as brilliant as I am, or because you don't 
waste time going through Miles Kimball catalogs at Mom's house.  Take your 
pick.

CDC>Was that the week-long Festival of the Fool in that campaign?  In the 

Yep, that's the one.

Lessee... my gaming gifts this year included a 6-qt Crock Pot (real name 
brand one this time, since I dropped the crock from my $15 WalMart one a 
few weeks back, and could no longer make Large Quantities of Pre-Game 
Lunch with it), some bookbinding stuff (which will inevitably be used to 
make game-type stuff), and... uh... chocolate, which I'll need to share 
with the group because it'd take me forever to eat that much sugar.  
There's probably more (like, say, our five-year-old's Army Men, which 
might get co-opted for miniatures once in awhile...) but I can't think of 
it all right now.

PBeM/GAMERS-related stuff:  Two copies of Perl Best Practices (next year 
I'm going with a wishlist service that lets people check off "I bought 
this offline"), a copy of the mod_perl Developer's Cookbook, and an 
absence of gainful employment (on purpose!) so I can finish the new 
Phoenyx software.  (Okay, technically it's "so I can get the house ready 
to go on the market," but Gamehawk gets in there too.)

-- 
Karen J. Cravens  silver@phoenyx.net

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