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Merry Chirstmas and Happy Holidays

December 25, 2009 by The Chatty DM

It’s X-mas morning and my family is doing geeky things.

My daughter asked to play on the CBC kids website right after watching the Disney Parade.

My son and wife are playing Wii Sports Resort and I’m just checking a few things online before joining back the fun.

I just thought I’d take a few minutes and wish you all a Merry Christmas (if it means anything to you) and a happy holiday period.

Posting on Musings will be a little more scarce because I have a magazine article deadline looming (as well as a new 4e campaign to jump start).

I’ll be around, but not to write a 5 parts, 6000 words epic about the piece of lint I found under my game table.

In other news, I’ve obtained another official Game Design achievement!  I was one of the winners of Wizards of the Coast’s Winter Holiday Encounter contest (along with my buddy Dave: the Game).  You can see our entries here and we should see how each entry was played in the Staff blogs next week over at the Wizbook website.

(I’m real curious to see who at Wizards played our encounters)

Anyway, see you all after the break!

Image credit: Wizards of the Coast and Graham Poole

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  1. DNAphil says

    December 25, 2009 at 3:45 pm

    Merry Christmas to you. My son and I have been playing Wii Sports Resort all morning as well.

  2. Michael Harrison says

    December 25, 2009 at 9:09 pm

    Merry Christmas, Phil! Looking forward to seeing more of your gaming stuff in 2010!

  3. ChattyDM says

    December 26, 2009 at 7:21 am

    Thanks guys. 2010 will be about name building and kicking project butts into completion!

  4. Zubair Khan says

    December 26, 2009 at 12:20 pm

    ya happy holidays to all of you as well this time in this holidays will be more fun and enjoyment. i am new to this site one thing i have to say about the site that i am really impressed its going pretty good wow and i hope i will continue with this site in future also thanks! cheers…

  5. Spenser says

    December 27, 2009 at 9:25 am

    Congrats on your latest Game Design Achievement! And Merry Christmas!

  6. Andy says

    December 27, 2009 at 4:00 pm

    Hehe, love the Gibbering Santa. Also disappointed that we won’t be getting the Great Lint Epic. 😉

    Merry Christmas to you!
    .-= Andy´s last blog ..The Twelve Days of (D&D) Christmas =-.

  7. Scott says

    December 27, 2009 at 6:01 pm

    Merry christmas and happy New Year Chatty.

    Congratulations on all your achievements for 2009 and all the best for 2010 and the future.

    Best Wishes Scott
    .-= Scott´s last blog ..The Itty Bitty Creepy Crawly Squrimies =-.

  8. ChattyDM says

    December 28, 2009 at 5:21 pm

    @Andy: The Gibbering Santa was so popular in the contest judges that it became a screensaver over at WotC. And don’t worry about the Lint post, it will come one day.

  9. Julie Hodges says

    December 29, 2009 at 3:21 am

    Its nice to know that you spent most of your holidays with your family and having fun, me I’m still stock at work. BTW congrats with your achievement, i used to play MTG but because of my work I cant find anymore time to cope up with the latest expansion.
    .-= Julie Hodges´s last blog ..Can I avoid child support by signing over my rights? =-.

  10. Graham says

    December 29, 2009 at 3:47 pm

    @Andy –

    Thanks! I’m quite proud of that Gibbering Santa, too. And also that Phil decided to attach it to this post.

    Yay my crappy photoshops!

  11. Andy says

    December 29, 2009 at 4:33 pm

    @Graham *grins* Well, it was a very fun photoshop, whatever quality it was. The concept is hilarious, and the execution carries.
    .-= Andy´s last blog ..The Twelve Days of (D&D) Christmas =-.

  12. Andrew Keir says

    December 31, 2009 at 10:53 pm

    That’s some Santa you got there…

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