I got $300 in gift cards and two bars of goatmilk soap.
Already ordered a blu-ray drive for my pc. Thinking about picking up one of the nicer Google Cardboard kits (Colorcross?). Going to wait for a good deal on a motherboard/cpu combo upgrade to match the new power supply & graphics card I got myself on Black Friday, and a USB hub if I have enough left over.
And handful of random cheap game giftings on Steam.
Telling Tawarochir to forget DnD seems remarkably futile.
Not that Pathfinder and CoC are bad.
At least they aren't using 4th edition. I can't say one way or the other for fifth. 3.5 was okay, there's just better and supporting the game companies that aren't WOTC is the bees knees.
5th edition is seriously the best iteration of D&D so far. I say this as someone who grew up with parents who played D&D since the 70s, has played every edition, been going to Gencon for 14 years, and has a rather large collection of tabletop rpgs. I gave up on D&D for about 10 years, and 5th edition has brought me back, thoroughly enjoying it.
It's still D&D at its core. It's designed for combat-oriented fantasy adventuring. You will still be more attracted to other systems if you want a different style of roleplay (I would still prefer Burning Wheel for serious character-driven interaction and dramatic storytelling).
But it's achieved a very impressive balance between versatility and simplicity that is very fun, and it's even eliminated horrible core mechanical premises that have been with the franchise for decades. It doesn't even feel like a corporate product designed to make as much money as possible, the way 3.5 and 4th did. It genuinely feels lovingly crafted. I would label it the best at what it tries to be.
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