Gaming Related Stuff:

• 4 paizo terrain flip mats (ship, island, forest, desert)
• A few miniatures I had been looking for that my wife snagged while on travel.

More or less gaming related:

• A network hard drive to back up all my PDFs, utilities, and campaign notes that have been a pain to manage using my USB hard drive.
• A card shuffler (for when we play killer bunnies).

Other stuff

• "Network" blu-ray player (to my chagrin, requires an $80 part to connect to wi-fi! :gnash: )
• BDs of Bourne Trilogy and Fantasia
• Burn Notice Season III on DVD
• New flashlights and multi-tool.

Nothing game related.

I got "Couple's Gifts' this year.

An electric griddle. (My wife makes great pancakes so..)
A ceramic chef knife.


My wife is a capable chef of her own, trained in the best way possible, by her granny.

I'm just a competent grunt cook. Give me a recipe and away I go, but she's got intuitive talents that overshadow my functionality completely.

Quote from: ColonelHardisson;428630Not only have I seen that ad, but my bottle was signed by him. I love that commercial. You can see him barely holding off laughter as he talks about it being filtered through diamonds. Oh, it's actually pretty good vodka. There really is a hint of vanilla in the flavor.

That's very cool. I've had it - it's good stuff, but it's expensive for what it is.

Quote from: Cole;428635That's very cool. I've had it - it's good stuff, but it's expensive for what it is.

I hope he's making decent money from it. It dovetails nicely with his interest in the paranormal. I watched the UFO interview that's on DVD; I got a genuine kick out of it. He seems serious about it all, but there's a hint of self-deprecation to it.

Quote from: Broken-Serenity;428598Just got handed a copy of planscape torment by my brother who fond it in a charity shop near where he lives and remembering i'd been after a copy for a couple years picked it up for my xmas gift :0)

Awesome, that can't be easy to find, although I still have mine, along with the first NWN and Grim Fandango, my fav PC game ever. Grats on the find and gift

Received:

MRQII
MRQII Empires
MRQII Vikings
A usb controlled NERF rocket launcher
A BAZINGA lunchbox
A titanium spork
A set of collapsable chopsticks
A "Come to the Dark Side, we have cookies... - V" t-shirt
A magic d20 of Destiny (it's like a magic 8-ball only it's a d20 and has rpg related fortunes)
A critical hit d20 (it's larger then normal and if it rolls a "20" it starts flashing red
A t-shirt that has the periodic table of the elements symbols for barium, cobalt, and nitrogen on it, which happens to spell out "bacon"
A new digital camera
A Linux fish (I use Linux at work)
A new very plush reversable hooded robe
A stuffed nerve cell (it's related to what I do at work)
and finally a portrait of my son and I framed identically to the one I sent him for Christmas (which was a surprise and, honestly, my favorite gift of the bunch of very cool gifts)

Let's see Twilight Sector for Traveller.
Mutant future with the new art.
all kinds of junk food
A couple of fruit baskets.
a Dozen jars of my aunts homemade jelly. (trust me this stuff is gift enough alone)
a big paper cutter, like you see in schools.
Hard Light supplement for Stars without Number
Starships& Spacemen
Village of Larm for Labyrinth Lord.
Swords&Wizardry complete rules.
and I still have one more gift exchange to go to.

This is the game/fantasy/sf related loot:

Wow, lots of people got lots of cool stuff!

I used my B&N cards to get the Eccleston season of Doctor Who on DVD. It was on sale, so I couldn't pass it up.

RPG-related: Serpent Kingdoms, Lost Empires of Faerun and The Silver Marches for D&D 3.5. Some military history books, a book on post-industrial photography from an ex-girlfriend (it is an hobby of mine), and - the biggest surprise (in every sense, size included) - The Element Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells from a relative living in Canada.

My parents surprised me with a nice check, but I still haven't decided how to invest it.

Quote from: Reckall;428753RPG-related: Serpent Kingdoms, Lost Empires of Faerun and The Silver Marches for D&D 3.5. Some military history books, a book on post-industrial photography from an ex-girlfriend (it is an hobby of mine), and - the biggest surprise (in every sense, size included) - The Element Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells from a relative living in Canada.

My parents surprised me with a nice check, but I still haven't decided how to invest it.

As an aside, what is the book about photography you received? Photography is a past and current interest, as well as a past career (commercial photography), and I'm always interested in reading about and viewing photography.

Quote from: danbuter;428750Wow, lots of people got lots of cool stuff!

Yeah, I was probably a bad little gamer this year. Not even coal! Damn you, Claus! *shakes fist*

Quote from: Reckall;428753My parents surprised me with a nice check, but I still haven't decided how to invest it.

I'm torn between getting Essentials, MRQII goodies (Empires, Elric), Traveller goodies (Central Supply Catalog, Traders & Gunboats, Spinward Marches) or Savage Worlds goodies (Deadlands Reloaded, Super Powers Companion, Kerberos Club). And maybe I'll throw in BASH UE here somewhere, and/or those shiny Day After Ragnarok PDFs.

Damn. Not nearly enough money.

Quote from: The Butcher;428762Yeah, I was probably a bad little gamer this year. Not even coal! Damn you, Claus! *shakes fist*

It's not the Claus you have to watch out for if you're bad, it's the Krampus.  

Quote from: Sigmund;428760As an aside, what is the book about photography you received? Photography is a past and current interest, as well as a past career (commercial photography), and I'm always interested in reading about and viewing photography.

Detroit Disassembled, by Andrew Moore. The contents are rather chilling.

Quote from: Reckall;428808Detroit Disassembled, by Andrew Moore. The contents are rather chilling.

Curses, out of stock I'll keep an eye out for it, looks very cool, photographically anyway.