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GenCon shopping bag
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So... what do I find in my shopping back after I've come home from GenCon and Indianapolis?



  • Luke Crane's Magic Burner, signed (actually two copies, one for me, another for a friend)
    I simply must have all the Burning Wheel stuff. Even if I don't play the system, it's so well written and thoughtfully designed, it contains tons of ideas and inspirations for my games.


  • The deluxe edition of Trail of Cthulhu signed by both Ken Hite and Robin Laws... what a precious
    One of these days I'll manage to put my Chtulhu in Weimar campaign into writing


  • The Pirate's Guide to Freeport from Green Ronin Publishing
    Hey, it won the gold ENnie for best cartography. Talk about inspiration for my work.


  • Shelly Mazzanoble's Confessions of a part-time sorceress, another ENnie winner
    What, you say I'm not a girl so why do I buy a "girl's guide"? I say ... it's for Stef.


  • Literally in the last five minutes of the convention I acquired the new Descent add-on Tomb of Ice
    That should put some new life in our Road to Legend campaign.

  • A handful of pretty d6 from Q-Workshop
    Another attempt to cure Stef's six-sided dice curse. No luck though, she's rolling only 1s and 2s with these either.


  • A copy of the comic Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi ... also for Stef
    We've seen the movie and it was brilliant, so I thought the comic would make a great coming home gift. It worked.

  • The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. An impulse buy for my sister who celebrated her birthday while I was in Indy.
    Unfortunately it turns out she already has it. Well, everybody tells me it's great. so I'll just keep it.


  • A license for both Hero Lab and Army Builder by Lone Wold Productions
    Mainly out of professional curiosity for other rpg software products.


  • And one other book that I can't tell, since it's an upcoming birthday present for someone who might be reading this...


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