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Posts: 90 · Posted: Sun May 11, 2003 10:22 pm

Here's something kind of cool I just picked up: [picture] On the title page it states: Welcome to Ravens Bluff The Living City, Visitor Guide, Gen Con Game Fair 1994. The really neat part is that it's a numbered edition of 250. It's basically 132 spiral-bound (plus 10 loose pages) booklet... content seems mostly bland stuff. 74 of the pages are just listings of Living City PCs, 21 pages of NPCs, a magic item price list and forms, forms, forms. The only real section of noticable interest, to some, would be a complete listing of Living City tournament modules, including where (if) they have been published, what Con they premiered at and when. Covers everything from 1987-1995. That should give you tournament mod hunters 68 new things to look for... Wink

Posts: 14 · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 10:12 pm

The Complete Warlock by Balboa for $1 :D

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3529961503&category =268&rd=1

Posts: 2910 · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 10:19 pm

Heh, that's what I paid for my copies in Gamescape, too, Mike Very Happy

Posts: 41 · Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2003 12:18 am

Ok You guys asked for it. My latest Find or should I say Curse that I should not ahve dug up. LOL

I recieved one lot of Books IN WOO HOO Great Condition.

One lot of Books in Ahah Very Nice COndition.

One lot of books in Well Ok I can make this work Condition,

and one lot of books in Alrigh tis this a Joke, what dump did these come from Condition.

Oh by the way Crying or Very sad

Can you guess which one I paid more for?

Good news Is I have been promised a Refund ( now if I ever get it is another thing)

Otherwise I am enjoying the fact that all of youare getting great deals. I need your Brokers Number cause mine is a BUM!!! LOL

Posts: 701 · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 1:42 pm

Yes, after years at last a copy of the Basic Set published by Garden City Press, the 'paperback book' version, is mine at last for the sum of £ 11.50 plus shipping. I bought it on EBay UK yesterday. It seems quite worn out but an item complete and intact is fine for me...

Posts: 580 · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2003 9:09 am

Hi All,

well, after saying I dont have a woodgrain box, I dound one in the back of a cupboard whilst moving!

Its a third print, and I have vague recollections of buying it from Ebay 3 years or so ago.

How could I have forgotten??? D'oh!

Cheers,

malcolm

Posts: 840 · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2003 9:38 am

Malcolm,

try looking under your bed or carpet. Maybe you'll find a Tsojconth or two? Surprised

Happy collecting!

Posts: 2910 · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 7:03 pm

I dropped my wife off at the SJC airport today for her 10 day visit to friends in CO and MN, and popped by some game stores on the way home. Made some nice buys:

MM, PHB, FF, all bright, useful for play copies for $6 each
AH "The General" Vol 17 #1 (May-June 1980) for $2.50 (it has a pre-reg booklet for Origins 1980 in it, which was the first convention I attended)
Dungeon magazines 9, 10, 11, 15 (all NM) for $5 each
Arduin 1, 2, and 3 in G/VG condition got $4 each; this version of Arduin 1 has a white cover vs. the tan, OD&D-like covers; anyone know about Arduin's printing history? I bought these mostly for the Erol Otus artwork :D

EDIT: Doh! I just realized that the book probably doesn't have a cover; never mind....

Hasta!

Posts: 580 · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 4:06 am

Hi All,

Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rulebook F116-R £1.00

Judges Guild Island Book1 £2.00

S4 - Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth £1.50

All buy-it-nows on Ebay.

Cant take credit - the missus spotted them!

Cheers,

Malcolm

Posts: 352 · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 8:12 am

RPGA4 just arrived in the post. Smile

Posts: 4708 · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 2:34 pm

Just arrived yesterday from a seller I won 3 auctions from:

EPT box set 2nd print

Almost complete set of monochrome 1st prints

M&T assortments 1,2,3 1st prints

Tegel Manor 1st print

JG Ref Sheets Vol 1

Mines of Custalcon

22 various modules (S3/4, UK's, etc.)

1st printing DMG

1st print Deities

Outdoor Geomorphs

A ton of small items thrown in because I bought 3 auctions

and.....

Pharaoh!

$139.96

woo hoo!

Posts: 195 · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 8:23 pm

Picked up a couple obscure items:

Realms of Myth Player's Guide. 2 copies, one signed and numbered the other with author's notes of corrections to be made in the next printing which are reflected in the signed & #ed edition. A stand alone FRP. Stormhawk Publications 1990.

http://www.mcduffskeep.net/rpgsfortrade/images/RealmsofMyth.jpg

Not an FRP but if anyone knows of someone who may be interested in this, get them in touch with me.

Officers Manual of the Karizan Empire, Red Giant Publications 1987 (second printing March 1988). Looks like a supplement for a knock-off of the Star Trek RPG. The book does not use the words Star Trek, but the images sure do look like Klingons.

http://www.mcduffskeep.net/rpgsfortrade/images/Karizan.jpg

Posts: 577 · Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2003 1:35 am

Deadlord36 wrote:

and.....

Pharaoh!

$139.96

woo hoo!

Nice job Frank.

I need some help. It seems as though the printer made some kind of error in mine and I can't read the number of Hit Points the Black Dragon has on page 61. Can you let me know?

Later.

Adam

Posts: 4708 · Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2003 4:22 am

Not that Pharaoh. I was hoping though........

When he listed it as unnumbered, it was because it had no outside cover with the I3. I'll use it as a play module.

Posts: 108 · Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2003 12:12 am

Picked up a 10th Anniversary Collector's Set last week. :-)

Mint condition.

Even had the 2 MSolo pens and the Dice crayon.

A little bit of shelfwear on the Basics rules where it rubbed against the case is the only negative.

Posts: 171 · Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2003 3:17 am

Spawn of Sable, Pages of Doom, Light Fantastic, Hand of Justice, Farewell to the Flesh, Deepening Shadows, Legacy of Venom, Beast Within, Heart's Final Beat, Mission Brief, and Smoke and Mirrors; all Adventurer's Guild modules, and from DmDave, Mike Kuo, and Matrix Games. I only need about 20 more and about 5 instruction books and I'll have a complete set.

Also snagged a ton of stuff today at a local hobby store of mine... somebody is apparently buying up ALL of the guy's RPG stuff, but stupidly didn't place a hold on what is there now, so the owner slashed prices to 50% off. Meaning I got a bunch of new 3rd edition hardbacks for only about $10-15 each, and even a few 2nd edition modules, shrinkwrapped, for about $2-5 each. Shame 99% of what the guy has left now is White Wolf, weird random games, and beat up Shadowrun books. Also a shame I just paid a ton of bills, and my bank account can't stand me dropping a few hundred to get just about every Vampire and Mage book out there (been meaning to start collecting them, but since the price of White Wolf stuff dropped through the floor, I've been thinking of buying somebody's collection and saving myself a bundle/headache).

Posts: 539 · Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2003 7:16 pm

After three long days at the GenCon auction here's the list of cool/rare stuff we picked up:

-10th Anniversary combo Pack:U2, N1

-10th Anniversary Combo Pack:S2, WG4

-The Strategic Preview No.3(Frank Mentzer thinks this is actually the first issue of this newsletter).

-The Srategic Preview No.5

-UK1, UK2, UK3-TSR Archive editions

-The Curse of Valinor(c.1985 TSR) RPGA Tournament Adv.

-One Night In Lankhmar(c.1985 TSR) RPGA Tournament Adv.(x2)

-Cataclysm(c.1987 TSR) RPGA Tournament Adv. Rnd 1

-Hit Parade(c.'87?) NEOVENTION VI Tournament Adv.(both Rnds.)

-RAVENLOFT II: The House on Gryphon Hill(c.'87?) NEOVENTION VI Tournament Adv. Rnds.1,2,3(x2)

*ALL COMPLETE W/ CHARACTERS

-AC4 The Dungeon Master's Book of Marvelous Magic-Frank Mentzer's personal pre-pub manuscript. Signed by Frank. Contains 25% more info than the published edition.

-The Lost Caverns of Tsojconth(c. 1976 M.D.G.)

-The Artists of TSR Portfolio(c.1982 TSR/RPGA) in shrink. Frank estimates 200 produced and this is the only copy he has seen up for auction in his 20+ years at GenCon.

Time to sleep,

Burnt

Posts: 195 · Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2003 8:27 pm

OK, I know this is totally uncouth, but enquiring minds want to know.

Burnt, how much did you spend at the GenCon auctions?

Posts: 539 · Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2003 9:01 pm

About $1,600. I also bought alot of other items that I did not list(modules in shrink, a crap load of TSR miniatures still in cases, polyhedrons, etc, etc). Alot of great deals, every item that I bought went for less than the Acaeum prices(usually far less). Smile

Posts: 171 · Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2003 9:09 pm

Dammit, why can't they bring GenCon to Washington DC or New York, someplace I could actually drive to without killing myself... all the more reason I need to try to go next year.

Hey Burntwire, can you throw some scans of those tournement mods up? I've been interested in finding some of those for years, but have had no luck (aside for the AG mods of course).