Christmas Cards, Fortune Cookies, and Kringle’s Deception
Posted November 5th, 2009 by Howard TaylerFirst, a holiday comic for you.
Too early? Not if you’re ordering Christmas cards! Pre-orders are open for 5-packs, 10-packs, and individual “Merry XDMas” cards featuring this cartoon on the front, and the XDM Fortune Cookie Magic System on the back. The interior of the card is blank and awaiting personalization… like an invitation to get together for some holiday-themed role-play during the solstice…
There is absolutely no better way to get the gamers back together for the holidays than to send the invitation along with an adventure hook AND a magic system.
We’ll be making the print run early next week, and we’ll order some extras, but if you want to be guaranteed enough cards to send to your gamer friends, please pre-order this weekend. We will have the cards in hand the week of the 16th, and you should receive your order shortly thereafter — in plenty of time to send cards out for Christmas.
(Sorry for the late notice. This was one of those ideas that kind of snuck up on me at the last minute. I only knew I had to do it once I realized that Kringle has been deceiving us for decades.)
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November 5th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
huh. I would have pegged santa as being more a gnome, myself. and his assistants could be gnomelings!
November 5th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
hrmmm…I checked the store and there appear to be *two* entries for a 5-pack of cards. One is $9 and the other is $15. The 10-pack is no where to be found. Could the $15 one be the 10-pack?
November 5th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
That cut-n-paste will get you every time. :) Yeah, the description says 10-pack even though the title does not. (I should probably say “did not” as I suspect Sandra will get that fixed right quickly).
November 5th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
Fixed!
November 6th, 2009 at 5:20 am
Funny, I was just getting ready to ask you if you were doing Christmas cards this year, and here they are. YEA!
November 6th, 2009 at 5:22 am
Oh and by the way, the links for 5 packs and 10 packs are reversed.
November 6th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
On #2, is it lighting, or lightning? Either way, sounds fun.
November 6th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
I feel like my previous question probably got lost in the massive commenting on the last post, I think I will re-ask it here:
How intentional was the a’sploding of Lota coinciding with the anniversary of the gunpowder treason? Maybe I’m just a crazy Anglophile who reads too much into things, but it seems too perfect to not be intentional…
: D
Sorry for the repeat, but I’m curious!
November 6th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
@itsybitsyu: Purely coincidental. Sorry!
November 7th, 2009 at 12:25 am
Still, it provides the Author’s Note for the book, doesn’t it? :)
November 7th, 2009 at 7:08 am
As Mary Robinette Kowal mentioned, “Happy Accidents”.
The matching of the date, not the blowing up of the king, I don’t know of anyone who was happy about that.
November 7th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Remember remember the Fifth of November! How could you have forgotten the fifth of November, there’s a whole poem about not forgetting some Guy trying to blow up the king, and Parliament. (Just kidding, you wouldn’t expect a brit to know the significance of the 24th of July.)
I didn’t expect to see a Mary Robinette reference here.
I think Lota was happy about the whole blowing up thing.
November 8th, 2009 at 9:54 am
Uhhh, Pyre? It’s the 4TH of July. Not the 24th.
November 8th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
And big (though not epic) fail for jkcarroll, beautifully proving the point.
July 24th is a huge holiday where I live, but you don’t know about it.
Pioneer Day!
November 9th, 2009 at 12:41 am
And speaking of Explosions:
YES! YES! A FART JOKE IN _SCHLOCK MERCENARY_! GLORIOUS DAY!
[FX: sound of large crowd singing "God Save The Queen"]
November 9th, 2009 at 10:06 am
In order to tell that particular fart joke I had to consult several different sources to determine the explosive force of a sneeze. And people think that the peepee-poopoo humor is EASY.
November 10th, 2009 at 12:11 am
Toilet Humor is Easy — *GOOD* Toilet Humor is Hard.
Let’s face it, where would _Blazing Saddles_’s Campfire Scene be
without the ending lines:
“How ’bout s’more beans, Mr. Taggert?”
“I’d say y’ had *enough!”
Good Toilet Humor, like all Good Humor, has to actually *go*
somewhere (so to speak), or else it just sits there and rots.