What is on your christmas list?

[Jasper]

For me-

Herscape figures (Great game and the newst expantions sets have new lanscape options)

d20 Cyberscape (Im hooked on everything d20 modern)

The newst Discworld book (Discworld addit since 2003)

[alhoon]

Miniatures
Stormwrack
jars of Brains (prefered these of my enemies).

[Drinnik Shoehorn]

The newst Discworld book (Discworld addit since 2003)

Thud! rocks.

[Dominique]

A batch of boardgames including: Ricochet Robots, Blokus, Alhambra: Vizier's Favor, Carcassonne: Princess & Dragon, Mexica, and a few others.
and Sirius satellite radio...

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Dude. Let me know how Princess & Dragon is. My family just got Carcassonne a few weeks ago, and we're completely hooked.

Haven't played yet, but I read the rules. It's... interesting. I dunno if I like it or not. The Dragon runs around and eats your meeple. (sorry, I mean "returns the followers on the tiles he visits to their owner's supply") the Princess chases away Knights. On the bright side, there's a fairy that protects one tile from the dragon, and gives you points the longer you keep her, and there are magic portals that let you put a meeple on any tile already on the board. But I don't know if I like the destruction aspect. Carcassonne has always been about building, not destroying. If you don't have Inns & Cathedrals yet (it comes with the gold box set) it's a must have expansion. Traders & Builders, King & Scout, and the River are fun, but not essential. The Count I have but haven't played yet. Looks really mean. I highly recommend Carcassonne: The City, though. It's not an expansion, but a stand alone game. Very good, very beautiful. Only downside is it only plays with 4, and it's pricey (but you get what you pay for.)

While I'm talking about the stand-alones: haven't played Ark of the Covenant. The Castle is good for 2, but I only played it once, and I don't really see why it's better than just playing regular Carc or the City with 2 players instead. Hunters & Gatherers is very good. Much easier to teach, without a lot of the rule exceptions, and with some interesting new rules.

Nifty. Thanks for the recommendations. We got the river expansion free with our game, which is pretty neat, but we haven't tried it yet since we're still getting the hang of pure Carcassonne.

[Catman Jim]

I received a surprise today, but I don't know if it can be considered a "Christmas gift". One of my employees, Lexie, the sweetest girl I think I have ever known, told me that the pictures that her biker boyfriend convinced her to pose for will finally see print next week. She is the cover, feature article, and centerfold of {a famous motorcycle magazine}. Hot dang, I just saw the preview pictures online. I hired her when she was just a teen, she's been a great employee (not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but she does work hard), heck, I've even had her house-sit for me before. Quite a shock to see her in 'just heels'! My wife is livid, and says she won't be sitting here again. (She was also mad the day Lexie got her lower back tattoo and showed it to me) I asked Lexie how she would feel about having people she knows see her, she claimed that she didn't mind as she felt they were not vulgar. I told her that I am old enough to be her father, and have known her for about 6 years now; would she mind if I was to see them? She said that she would even sign a copy for me if I was to buy it. Yeah, I know I'll be getting a copy when it gets to the newsstands.

[Gonzoron of the FoS]

Herscape figures (Great game and the newst expantions sets have new lanscape options)

I love heroscape. The new bridge set is definately worth getting (possibly even in multiples, for extra trees). It allows for such cool new setups. I also love the new heroes set (with the shotgun guy, and the new angel) and the "Big heroes" set. (Grug, who gets stronger the more he gets hurt is a big favorite, as is Brunak, the taxicab centaur (we call him Bruno.)) The heroscape setup at Gencon was amazing. Looks like we might have castles and ladders in the future.

[Jasper]

Looks like we might have castles and ladders in the future.

I would love to see both a cave expantion (Making then yourself uses far too many tiles) and a way to buy large sets of tiles without having to buy another master set.

[Fido]

A lot of literature, really.

Steven GREENBLATT - Will in the World (biography of Shakespeare)
and Oscar WILDE stuff...

[Boccaccio Barbarossa]

A lot of literature, really.

Steven GREENBLATT - Will in the World (biography of Shakespeare)
and Oscar WILDE stuff...

Are you me? i think you're me...

I have Greenblatt on my list as well. As for Oscar Wilde, I pretty much own everything he's ever written... except, come to think of it, those dialogues...

Okay, so I have MOST of what he's written.

Will and the World: that's a bio of Shakespeare, right? Isn't that the book where he sets out to tell us ONLY THE FACTS? Like, none of the conjecture that generally surrounds Bill's life, but only the verifiable stuff?....

[Brandi]

Because of my husband's USPS work schedule, we basically had Christmas this week as it was the only time we could get away to spend with our families (who live about 420 and 520 miles away, respectively).

No RPG stuff, but we did get the complete Calvin and Hobbes and Far Side collections, some needed car repairs, and a few other interesting things (like a beautiful new knife set-- I better start cooking more...).

[Gonzoron of the FoS]

No RPG stuff, but we did get the complete Calvin and Hobbes and Far Side collections,

Aren't those great? We got the Far Side one as a wedding present, and the Calvin one as an early birthday present. Haven't has time to crack them open yet, but man, they are HEAVY!

[Brandi]

Haven't has time to crack them open yet, but man, they are HEAVY!

Heck yeah. All our cartoon and comics collection were on the top shelf of one of our bookshelves, but there is NO WAY we could put even one of those on there without a collapse. And the Far Side set is very tall as well...

[Jonathan Winters]

Boccaccio!

What university are you going to?
Just curious. I got my Literature BA at UQAM. Small world...

Here is my long list of stuff...

Novels:

- Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman.
- The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
- La Mystérieuse flamme de la reine Iona by Umberto Eco (Don't know what it's called in English, sorry.)
- Hellboy : On Earth as it is in Hell, by Brian Hodge (Hellboy is so much fun!)
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (Can't believe I never read this!)

Comic books I might never buy... :

- From Hell, by Alan Moore
- Sin City livres by Frank Miller
- Torso by Brian Micheal Bendis
- Alias Volume by Brian Micheal Bendis
- Avengers by Kurt Busiek.
- The Ultimates, Vol I
- Ultimate X-Men, Vol I, 1, 2, 3, etc.
- Daredevil: Underboss

DVDs :

- X-Men
- X-Men 2
- Kill Bill
- Frankenstein with Robert De Niro
- Dracula by Francis Ford Coppola
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Steamboy
- Trilogy (long version) Lord of the Rings


Clothes...

CDs :
- Matamor by Mickey 3D (Great French band!)
- Un disque de Mes Aïeux (Québec band, folkore-inspired...)
- Les Charbonniers de l’Enfer… (ditto)
- Chill’em all by Champion (Montreal DJ)
- Buck 65 (Canadian rapper from somewhere...)
- Guerolito or Midnight Vultures by Beck


- Dictionnary with word etymology...(Is that an English word?)

- Weights

Dungeons & Dragons

- Anger of Angels
- Cry Havoc
- Chaositech
- Heroes of Horror
- Heroes of Battle
- The Expanded Psionics Handbook

I will never get all of this!

Patrick

[alhoon]

Go for the expanded psionics handbook then.

[Boccaccio Barbarossa]

Boccaccio!

What university are you going to?
Just curious. I got my Literature BA at UQAM. Small world...

I'm doing my BA at Concordia right now, actually, in English Lit... And somehow I feel I should know you...

I used to have these long lists but recently, there's either too much I want, or too much I OWN which I haven't read...

Pillars of the Earth is pretty good, actually. I don't generally go for Ken Follet But I have to give this one my backing. (I haven't actually read an entire other book of his but the little bit I DID didn't impress me or anything...)

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (Can't believe I never read this!)

I don't know if we can be friends!

Well, I guess I know many who haven't read the book... and they're okay, so...

If I HAVE to make a list of books (which is about as hard to convicine me to do as it is to convince an alcoholic to make it a double), I'd go with these, maybe?

. all five books of Aki Shimazaki's 5 book series... (French). In fact, this one is killer - the books are TINY and cost like 20$ each.... the one I read is called "Tsubame."
. Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf.
. Mailer's "Quick and the Dead"
"Moby Dick" (Why have I not read this yet?...)
. Stories and Essays by Jorge Luis Borges (I only own "Labyrinth")
. Random poets (though a lot of this is avaialable free online, it's not the same...): Yeats, Donne, Blake's "Albion" (I think that's what its called), Hopkins, T.S. Eliot, Philip Larkin, Baso and Issa's Haikus would be nice, Neruda, Plath, WALLACE STEVENS!!!, Dylan Thomas, etc... (Essenetially, anything. I have lots of anthologies/textbooks, but few collections.)
. Drama: Amadeus (Peter Shaffer - Have you read "Equus? AWESOME!), Christopher Marlowe (Except "Faustus" which I already have.), Ibsen, etc.
. Just about anything which is literary criticism (Eco is nice, so is Calvino, Greenblatt... whatever. I don't know that many yet.

Once I get started it's hard to stop... Hmmm. I should clean up this list and send it to my mom. In case she has last-minute shopping to do.