"Not all those who wander are lost." ... But sometimes they have lost all the pencils.And the pens....and been reduced to using junk mail for note writing

I'm a lucky lady who has enjoyed RPG gaming with my friends in a stable group for several years. We play a variety of games, mostly fantasy. However as technology has become a bigger and bigger part of our lives, character sheets have been replaced with laptops, and pens and paper in our backpacks have fallen lost favor to smartphones.

This really doesn't work for some things. Have you tried to pass a note to the DM typed out on your iPad? Not the same flair at all! and the iPad doesn't let you fold it in half to keep all the other players from reading how you secretly are going to kill the prisoner they insist on keeping alive, and...

It's just not the same. I swear it used to be called pen and paper roleplaying...

When the Pens and Stationary exchange rolled around, I put in a plea to my future santa. Save me from this techological future with a care package of pencils or notepaper fit for a roleplaying geek!

Santa gifted an impossibly awesome gift. THANK YOU! Thank you thank you thank you! So awesome, I am also spoiling a rematch giftee in my Santa's honor. I will paraphrase Man of La Mancha, and continue the story in pictures:

It is the mission of each true santa...

Our duty... nay, our privledge!

To dream the impossible dream,

To find the unfindable gift

To craft what others dare not craft

And the world will be better for this