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Turns out I'm in this year. Hooray! Gift Preferences: I love love love getting old, awful role playing games from the eighties, especially if no one has ever heard of them. Occasionally I run them for nerds who can't run away fast enough. Old terrible games of any stripe that no humans want to play are a guilty pleasure of mine. I also enjoy collecting board games, although I've been a bit busy lately and the only game I've physically bought that came out in the past two years was Mechs Vs Minions. All board games are rad... euros, ameritrash, kinetic, whatever. Finally, I've been told that all of my paintbrushes are inappropriate for painting minis. I have been told this every time I have ever bought paint brushes. I have given up on buying paint brushes, and if anyone knows anything about them, I would appreciate them taking over paint brush buying duty as a christmas gift. General Location: Philadelphia, USA Solemn Vow: I will not ruin anyone's Christmas.
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Nov 18, 2017 18:38
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The gift was chosen because of thematic reasons, and also because it's a pretty good game. It's in the mail! The slow, cheap mail.
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Nov 22, 2017 07:33
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 C'mon, guys. Christmas is on the line here.
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Nov 30, 2017 02:35
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Leperflesh posted:Today is December 9th! The following people as far as I know or can glean, have not shipped a gift yet: Niemat claims to have sent out a gift on December 1st. And to have received a gift on the same day. And that pictures will come later. And it's been like a week where are the goddamn pictures.
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Dec 10, 2017 04:20
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aldantefax posted:I received a package, it is an article of clothing. Unfortunately, I do not believe I can post it, as it is a hoodie that is covered in anime pornography and probably has placed me onto an FBI watch list. Ah, goons.
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Dec 16, 2017 03:30
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I got a package this afternoon! Amazon does really nicely wrapped gifts. So, who sent this?  Apparently a wizard did!  As far as I can tell, it's an offbrand Arkham Horror adventure cardgame--it comes with individual campaigns based on each of the novels, which is honestly super cool. I'm pretty sure no one in my playgroup has read them, so the twists and turns of the story will be an endless series of surprises! Or completely confounding. One of the two. I'll be back with a play report on this thing once I get a chance--it may be a bit, as apparently everyone I know is dying of a medley of plagues and misfortunes. But certainly within a month I'll tell all ya'll if this thing is a radical detective wizard adventure or a pile of references to books I haven't read. Also sorry for not including the cat, she decided she didn't want to be photographed and is hiding in the closet.
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Dec 18, 2017 01:58
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That Old Tree posted:I hope it's not poo poo! I couldn't figure out a good dumb RPG to get you, because the very first thing I thought of after reading your gift preferences turned out to be a game you did a Fatal & Friends of, and everything else that came to mind was $300 collector's garbage. I'm not really into board/coop card games, etc., but I've heard really good things about this one and it was pretty new so you probably didn't already have it. That's very kind of you, but I assure you, I like kinda poo poo games if they come with an excuse to make my friends play them. And secret santa is that excuse! Also, I'm guessing Fantasy Wargaming? That was such a clusterfuck of a book.
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Dec 18, 2017 15:57
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To be fair, it would have been a fine choice. Without a doubt, it was the most staggeringly sexist RPG supplement ever produced, and there's some fierce competition. Also I'm pretty sure all the gamemastering sections were written for a book about a completely different RPG. You have fine taste! Fine, awful taste. Mystic Mongol fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Dec 18, 2017 |
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Dec 18, 2017 20:40
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So I spent much of today in my counting house, measuring out tiny square wooden cubes for the meeples gathering resources for me. The rules said every coal cube I didn't play would cost me 1 victory point, but who's the game designer to say what victory is? I have all the goddamn money, because I don't waste money on nonessential purchases, and because I'm the only guy actually playing. Meeples who don't like the wages I pay can shut up about it, because they have no mouth. And then I got a knock at the door--someone in a high visibility jacket, delivering out of the back of an unmarked white van. Holiday deliveries are a weird scene, man. The package came with a note! quote:A gift for you Whoah! I better change my ways before the game ends and my player token is put into an afterlife in the box surrounded by ghost chains! I shall take a goose meeple from the box, and pay for it by also taking more money tokens from the box. It's post-scarcity utopia time for my tiny wooden men!  As I requested upthread, Santa has given me a box (!!) of excellent paintbrushes, shown here adjacent to a cat who absolutely has refused to get involved with any Christmas gift this season. I've already got a set of paints set aside, so I'm spending this weekend painting up my Infinity squad. Thanks, Santa!
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Dec 20, 2017 01:31
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Niemat posted:...also, I’m a bad Santee, and I have not yet posted pics of my gifts (I received a second one yesterday!), but those pictures are coming... Are they, now.
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