Cheap RPG-themed gifts?
- Thread starter MadLordOfMilk
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renau1g
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My group always does a gift exchange, our "Secondhand Santa" if you will.
The rules:
1) The item must be used.
2) The Item must be useless.
3) The item must be under $5.00
Given these rules, the whole thing has devolved into a debauched game of oneupmanship, each of us prowling garage sales, thrift stores and flea markets for the most bizarre or tacky gift possible.
I'm kicking myself, as I passed up an opportunity to purchase for only $1 a "Last Supper" on black velvet. The only reason I passed was that we hadn't drawn names yet. Ah well.
The rules:
1) The item must be used.
2) The Item must be useless.
3) The item must be under $5.00
Given these rules, the whole thing has devolved into a debauched game of oneupmanship, each of us prowling garage sales, thrift stores and flea markets for the most bizarre or tacky gift possible.
I'm kicking myself, as I passed up an opportunity to purchase for only $1 a "Last Supper" on black velvet. The only reason I passed was that we hadn't drawn names yet. Ah well.
Thunderfoot
Hero
Hey, those are both pretty clever!
I'd suggest that you make them nibble their PCs as they take damage, but I don't know what you'd do when they got healed...
Well, it involves a peacock feather and a vomitorium...
Minis, dice, dice bags, custom artwork (assuming you know an artist who works cheap), character themed notebooks, and custom coupons are all great ideas that I've used as quick gamer gifts in the past.
Another, which seems quite mundane, but if thought out is no less appreciated are the consumable gaming supplies in kit form - mechanical pencils, composition notebooks, graph paper, maybe a retractable measuring tape (if you do wargames), etc. in a lightweight carrysack (basically a cloth bag) can be appreciated as much as anything else. The real trick is trying to feel out what they REALLY want that you can make happen on your budget.
weem
First Post
Oh, that is a really cool idea. Most of my players have 2 sets at most. I think I'm going to have to do this now, thanks
jdrakeh
Front Range Warlock
Some of that black velvet art is actually quite collectible depending upon the artist. I have a friend who collects velvet Elvises (is that the plural of Elvis?) and another who collects 1960s-era panther prints on velvet.
TheAuldGrump
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Custom made initiative cards - with a place to record name, a picture of/for the character, a place for the various modifiers for initiative, and the initiative itself. Laminate, then write the information in using dry erase or wet erase marker.
For that matter - there are sometimes cheap portrait artists at malls, etc.. Have sketches drawn of the players as their PCs. Even cheaper is some paper 'costumes'(Or even just a picture of the character with his/her face cut out so the player can stick his/her own face in place) and taking pictures of the players as their characters. If you have a digital camera then putting them into an appropriate background is also pretty easy.
The Auld Grump
For that matter - there are sometimes cheap portrait artists at malls, etc.. Have sketches drawn of the players as their PCs. Even cheaper is some paper 'costumes'(Or even just a picture of the character with his/her face cut out so the player can stick his/her own face in place) and taking pictures of the players as their characters. If you have a digital camera then putting them into an appropriate background is also pretty easy.
The Auld Grump
