There are few websites that I trust (with my credit card), so I tend to limit myself to making online purchases from Amazon.com, but there is the rare exception. One such exception is FRP Games. (I particularly like FRP Games because they accept my Visa credit card.)

I know Amazon won't be stocking DFRPG books any time soon (even though I check it regularly), so I was pleasantly surprised to see FRP Games stocking them!

So, for anyone else looking for a good online retailer with the DFRPG books in stock, here's one:
 Dresden Files RPG Products at FRPGames.com

 

I really like the new DF RPG site, and I especially love the site's background image. [Seen here.] Is there any possibility of releasing an official desktop wallpaper featuring that pentacle and other glowy symbology?

I would rather it NOT feature character art, though. I'd prefer something that just uses the game's logo, the pentacle, and some scattered symbology sprinkled throughout.

I quickly became a fan of Jim Butcher's works earlier this year, when I started reading The Dresden Files.  I've since moved on to The Codex Alera.  (Slightly off-topic, but this is my ice-breaker.)  I miss Harry, of course, but The Codex Alera is shaping up to be the best fantasy series I've ever read.


All throughout Jim's books, I've noticed that he favors the slightly archaic "have got" and "has got."  I'm not sure how popular those parts of speech are in other areas of the United States, but I've always thought that they were mostly a British thing. So I've been wondering for a while now, does Jim actually talk like that?  It's too difficult for my poor Pittsburghian ears to fathom, really.

But, seriously, I would kind of like to know why Jim favors those particular parts of speech.


And in case someone reads this with a blank stare, allow me to briefly explain:

Say you recently purchased a new pair of shoes.

Now, using the Have Got approach:
"I have got a pair of shoes." -- Do you have a pair of shoes, or did you get a pair of shoes?
It's hard to tell from that sentence.

But by breaking Have and Got, you gain a good bit of clarity:
"I have a pair of shoes." -- You literally have the shoes in your possession.
"I got a pair a shoes." -- You just received a pair of shoes, but do not necessarily have them with you.


There are quite probably far better examples than that. But that's all I could come up with early this morning -- and before my coffee, to boot!