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[Greenfield]

What are some good gifts for gamers?

To make this meaningful, we need to "role play" the part of a parent, brother, sister or friend who isn't a gamer, and doesn't have intimate knowledge of the proposed recipients' library of books and accessories.

Gift cards are the "I'm clueless" fall back, but let's try to aim a little higher than that.

And to get the ball rolling:

1) Good leather or (better yet) chain mail dice bag.

 

[Mercutio01]

2) Pound o'dice (because a gamer can ALWAYS use more)

 

[Croesus]

You could always use the old reliable - food.

Offer to fix "your" world famous coffee cake, queso sauce and chips, grilled hamburgers, or whatever. And if you can't cook, there's always Tippen's pies, Lamar's donuts, etc.

 

[Deset Gled]

Randomized miniatures (the randomness takes some pressure off the gifter).

D+D board games or video games.

Novelty t-shirts: Amazon.com: dungeons and dragons Novelty T-Shirts

If the non-gamer is savvy enough to know the preferred game of the gamer, get the gamer a franchised RPG other than their main game (i.e. I know Bob plays D+D and likes Buffy the Vampire Slayer, so I'll get him a Buffy RPG book).

A girlfriend. Bazinga!

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Noble Knight, RPG Now or Amazon gift certificates. Pizza place gift certificates. Shirts from ThinkGeek.

Actually, I just typed in "RPG" into ThinkGeek's search engine and got all this, which all appears appropriate and probably good choices for most gamers.

 

[Visigani]

Skyrim.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

DVDs of classic genre movies and TV shows.

Genre-related collectibles & memorabilia...such as the Dr. Who sonic screwdriver ball-point pen I just saw.

 

[Greenfield]

I found an old AD&D book in my local game shop's back room. It had a green cover and gold lettering, and said it was an historical reference on the Celts.

I glanced at it and was happily surprised by what was there. Yeah, it was a "campaign source book" for 1st Edition AD&D, but the bulk of the material was translatable to just about any system that dealt with the period and culture.

The owner mentioned that he thought they'd published three such works, so I looked some more, but that was the only one he had.

I went on line and found more, one on "The Glory of Rome", one on the Vikings, another on the Crusades, and many others. Each had maps (which are worth getting the books for by themselves), and a raft of cultural and historic information.

My game group was delighted at their Christmas presents, and each swore to use the gift against me in game.

<sob> What have I done?!? <sob>