Beadle & Grimm's 2024 Holiday Gift Guide
The holiday season is a time when some of us dive into the joys and wonders of purchasing gifts for all the heroes in our lives, while others of us cringe at the thought of slashing through a wilderness of gift options for people who we’ve never really understood.
Whichever holiday shopper you are, we have the Holiday Gift Guide for you! Find that Hero gift that elicits a gasp.* Maintain your title of “Greatest Gift Giver of All Time”.**
Here to solve all of your holiday shopping puzzles is our Gift Guide. No matter who you’re shopping for, we have a gift that says, “I will pull you kicking and screaming into my obsession with gaming.”***
The “uber-competitive best friend” Gift
Ring of Chaos board game. $45 (Standard) or $95 (Platinum)
Screw them over with nasty card combinations while you battle to the death at your holiday party. Watch them beg you to stay for a rematch. Endlessly.
The “NOBODY DOESN’T LIKE DICE!” Gift
Character Class Dice Sets. $25 (Standard) or $60 (Epic)
Your wife plays a rogue? She’ll adore you when she unwraps her Rogue Dice. Your co-worker plays a paladin? Show that you’ll tolerate the self-righteous blowhard by sending them Paladin Dice. Your friend plays a soon-to-be-dead wizard? Show your belief that they can survive with an Epic Wizard Dice Set. They won’t… but you know they’ll try again.
The “Wednesday-loving, Lestat-obsessed, goth cousin” Gift
Curse of Strahd Artifact Pack. $39
They’re all set for their next rave or Con, but be prepared to converse with their Strahd finger puppet.
The “mature D&D fan” Gift
Classic Module Dice Collections. $45 (per set) or $225 (Set of 6)
If they were around in the 80s, they’ll weep in fond remembrance when they open this felt-lined box full of dice, cards, coin, and sweet, sweet reminiscence.****
Purchase each set individually or the Collector's Set of 6!
Younger D&D players get street cred for owning.
The “let-me-check-my-notes gamer” Gift
Player and GM Journals. $29.99
They remember that esoteric clue the GM gave them in Session 1. They can recite that 10 stanza poem found 2 months ago. They’ve mapped out their character’s home base.
Every group needs them. Time for you to reward them.
The “Magic: the Gathering player with verve” Gift
Mana Token Tin. $55
Their opponents will quake with fear (or envy) when they slap this badass tin on the table before a match. Pick a Mana. Watch them love you.
The “extroverted Aunt Ginny who will-talk-to-anyone-in-the-grocery-line” Gift
“I Make Irrational Choices” T-shirt. $25
They might not be a gamer, but they have a gamer attitude and they want to show it. Great ice breaker.
The “I-work-tirelessly-to-DM-you-ungrateful-wretches-and-I-never-see-an-ounce-of-thanks” Gift
Beadle & Grimm’s Premium Edition boxed set.
Just get your DM the boxed set they don’t already have, okay? Vecna: Eve of Ruin? Quests from the Infinite Staircase? Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frost Maiden? Whatever!
“But it’s hundreds of dollars!” you protest. Let’s do the math.
Legendary Edition of Quests: $349
4 players: $89.75 each
Campaign lasts 20 sessions: $4.49 per player per session.
C’moooooooooooon. Your DM is so worth it.
The “I know you… but I don’t know you THAT well” Gift
Beadle & Grimm’s Pandemonium Warehouse gift card. $Whatever you want.
Let shoppers shop to their heart’s content. Sure, it’s a lazy choice. But it's effective.
Beadle & Grimm's 2024 Holiday Gift Guide
This is just a small sample of the life-saving gift ideas that can be found in the Pandemonium Warehouse. So jump in and get all your holiday shopping done early so you can spend the rest of the month trying desperately to find episodes of Faster Purple Worm! Kill, Kill! on Amazon Freevee and Plex.
Sincerely,
Assistant to the Assistant to the Supreme Marketing Goblin
Footnotes
*Of pleasant surprise. Not disgust.
**Or strive to avoid the title of ‘Worst Gift Giver of All Time.’ Not that I’m bitter about getting that lavender candle that had clearly already been lit last year.
***They’ll thank you later. You know they will.
****Warning: Some gamers’ memories of the 80s may not be so sweet. Some might remember a concerning lack of invitations to high school parties as well as having to invite a sophomore ‘friend’ to senior prom who only used you to get in so they could spend the whole night dancing with their friends and ignoring you. Some might.