Heaven help me but I’ve been eyeballing self-Santa deals on getting the core 5E books. Is it really $105ish at a minimum (via CSI or Amazon)?
I have no idea what’s wrong with me. I should go see my doctor, get a full blood panel or something.
What’s on your self-Santa list now that the holidays are over?
#selfsanta
The Expanse board game. Maybe a new graphics card.
some retro-looking lightweight fog-free running sunglasses that the hubs didn’t hear me say in the store “Santa should get me these in blue!”
Amy Davison Tinder oh bad move, hubs.
Bob Ross boardgame
boardgamegeek.com – Bob Ross: Art of Chill Game
There’s a couple soundtrack CD’s/MP3s that cry out to me, a traveling watercolor paint set, and the Mutant: Year Zero core book.
Oh, and new friends what love the same games as me. But I don’t know if that’s something money can buy…
Self-Santa: I do this all year round, so I’m trying to hold off until February. Unless you count the at-cost print of SWN I ordered yesterday.
D&D: Have you read the Basic PDF? Was it not enough to put you off?
Adam Day you can absolutely buy them!
Just move. Easy. 😉
Mark Delsing oh you should point me there so I’m disinfected.
Paul Beakley dnd.wizards.com – Basic Rules for Dungeons & Dragons | Dungeons & Dragons
GeneSys RPG book.
Brian Kurtz same!
The 5e PHB is maybe the best PHB ever, so that’s something, as D&Ds go.
Don’t buy 5E, it’s a trap!
If you’ve got the completist urge, buy the 5e DMG. Otherwise, you can largely skip it. If you ever play and need magic items, roll your own or use the ones in the 5e SRD that Mark pointed to.
Self-Santa: Xbox One X
My self santa is year round
$130 on board games and it would have been more but a couple were sold out.
Picked up the survey and quick play cards for Durance and a soft cover of Barbarians of Lemuria
I feel like I’m the only nerd not excited for Genesys
Clint Shulenski you know, I’m mostly interested for bad sunk cost reasons: I want to find a use for my zillion Star Wars dice.
On the tabletop front, I’m thinking a GM screen for Star Trek Adventures. Beyond that, I’ve already got a whole mess of tabletop stuff… maybe Moonicorn, or the Burning Wheel Codex?
I’m much more likely to get video game stuff, since I saved up for a PS4 finally. I’m looking at Rime (fox best friend adventures), A Way Out (two player narrative prison escape), Nier Automata (android vs robot apocalypse).
Clint Shulenski oh man, I sooooo don’t care about GeneSys.
Adam Day I find emotional blackmail works well for me. Give it a shot.
Aaron Griffin good to know I’m not alone.
Getting a job.
Dark Heresy Bundles of Holdings
Clint Shulenski has was initially excited for Genesys then some realization set in and I’m passing on it as well. Though a couple people in my group did pick it up and I’ll gladly play it. I just no longer feel a need for it.
We went to Vegas and the Grand Canyon for ours, so not bad. 🙂
XBOX, Tomb of Annihilation for 5e and the core books, waiting for many many Kickstarter completions such as Mechatron
Birthday coming up next weekend, so if I don’t get the Fallout boardgame for that, it’s on my list.
Also the birthday is after all the sales close on Steam and WinGameStore (and others), so I’m getting some things from my wishlist now: Life is Strange: Before the Storm and two completed Telltale Games I didn’t have: Guardians of the Galaxy and the latest Walking Dead one. I like my story games. Debating one or two other more traditional games, but I’ve got such a backlog I can wait until the summer sales for them.
I already did this, what with 7th Continent and Forbidden Lands. I’m doing this now, with a mimosa and ground beef scramble.
I’m always doing a self-santa, actually. It’s how I live my life now.
Next on the list is my own tiny studio downtown so I don’t have to take the bus to work and I can take long-ass showers whenever I want.
I’m going to go with Legacy of Dragonholt from FFG. I want to see if there have been any innovations in the choose-your-own-adventure genre. I otherwise have zero familiarity with the games and setting this game is based around (I want to say it is the Runebound game setting?).
On the video game front, a Nintendo Switch keeps calling my name. However, Steam sales have provided me with all kinds of new games to play, sooooo… I don’t know what to do. A lot of their games have been getting good reviews, so it could be moving up to the short list.
Nate Parker I picked it up some weeks ago and a group of us are weirdly excited about it. Fantasy is my favorite, but since they keep mentioning that it’s the first game of the “Oracle system”, I hope we see games set in the Android, Arkham Horror, Star Wars, and especially Middle Earth universes.
Jesse Coombs you will have to let us know how it plays with a larger group. A lot of info I have seen on it is solo play, so I wonder how it holds up with a group.
I’m a get a new rug for my home office, on account of this one has a giant hole worn into it.