Psion
Adventurer
Just thought we might all share what we broke our backs bringing home, perhaps with a sentence or two about initial impressions about each.
I'll attach a picture of my dice so you understand what I am talking about.
- Thieves world - Haven't read it yet, but I have much faith in Robert Schwalb.
- The Freeport Trilogy. Having given up my quest to get the first two, a nicely collected and updated version is just what the doctor ordered.
- Order of the Stick, On the Origin of PCs - It made me laugh like the good old online strip did. Good stuff.
- Fiery Dragons Future Tiles - Starships. It took me about two seconds of playing with these before I knew I had to have them. I have a few Skeleton Key starship likes products, but it was so much nicer to have ready-to-go tiles on nice cardstock.
- Dawning Star - Nice book. Read a little of it at breakfast. Has a real Alpha Centauri feel to the backstory.
- Altantis: The Second Age - A blast from the past, but so far I am not liking the organization. Frex, it says to roll 8 stats, but to see which stats there are, you have to flip back several hundred pages to the beginning of the book.
- Shackled City - Very pretty book. Paizo is, to me, channeling the company that I feel wizards should be, and the nice big foldout of cauldron renewed my feeling of annoyance that WotC put out Sharn without a fold-out map.
- Book of Templates 3.5 hardbound - As some of you may know, I used the original extensively. Great stuff. It was also interesting hearing Frilf's wife talk about how she tortured the poor, baffled players with a creature from the book.
- A Magical Society: Beast Builder and Monster Geographica: Forest. Monstery goodness. Not read much of beast builder yet, but Joe's intro makes some astute observations about why monster books are so popular.
- Gambler's Quest - the first 1-on-1 adventure by XRP. I might adapt it and run it for my daughter.
- Mitica: Paths of the East - A preview copy of a Brazilian-published d20 Asian-style setting. Interesting stuff, though the English translation is a little rough. The art shows a fairly strong Anime influence, but the classes are pretty straight-laced.
- GURPS Traveller stuff - Starports, and Deckplans for the Far Trader and Scout. GURPS had it going at fire sale prices. The deckplans were especially cool because, while on one side they have those passe GURPS hexes, on the other side they have squares. Viva la T20!
- T-shirts. In addition to a cute dragon t-shirt I got my daughter, I got the Dragon t-shirt I was trying to steal off of Truth Seeker last year, and an AC/HP t-shirt (In the style of the classic AC/DC t-shirt, but with a d20 and the slogan "For those about to roll... we salute you.)
- Replenished my dice collection. Added a few new novelty dice, including a d10 and d20 that had a smaller version of the dice in the interior. Great for percentile and multiple attacks, respectively (or, for having a pre-rolled crit confirmation.)
- A few gifts for the daughters.
- Faeries - not much of a d20 book (it has 1 creature), but getting the book was my total fanboy moment for the con. I saw Stephani Pui-Mun Law at the con, and saw the ENnie medal for Blue Rose hanging over a print of the cover. I went over and congratulated her (she had not known she had won until that morning) and saw a stack of books there with her art and the offer that, if purchased, she would do a sketch on the spot in the book. It was awesome. Considering that there are a number of RPG designers and developers that would know me on sight (reactions vary...), I don't so much have fanboy syndrome with RPG professionals. But I was such a total fanboy at that moment.
I'll attach a picture of my dice so you understand what I am talking about.
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