Badmike wrote:I was pruning out my collection and getting rid of some really lame early 3rd edition stuff I bought years ago at discount, when it hit me: Are these items going to be the hard to find rarities of the future completist collector in 20 years? I'm not talking any of the WOTC, Sword & Sorcery, Necromancer, Kenzer, Green Ronin,etc stuff. I'm talking about the one-shot, made-some-bucks-then-folded, fly by night crap that came out right when 3rd edition did in low print runs, and disappeared. Companies that perhaps released only one or two titles before folding. I mean, in the future are titles like "Assault on Darkspyre" going to be the sought after manna of the kids right now growing up with 3rd edition? The print runs are low, and they are OOP never to be seen again. Or will anyone care? Truthfully most of these early products are gawd awful crap. Then again, some of the early 1st edition stuff we look for is pretty terrible (Wee Warriors stuff? Early Role Aids? Wilmark Dynasty?). So, should we be salting away a copy of stuff like Nemoran's Vault, Spear of the Lohgin, or The Gryphon's Legacy (actually, the last is a real sleeper, probably the best one shot 3rd edition adventure I've ever read, written by Wolfgang Baur as the first adventure of a series by a company that apparantly went under soon afterwards...)? Or should we just toss the lot and hope we aren't saying 20 years from now "Yep, I had a copy of that Akrasia Thief of Time, but who knew?"Mike B.
Xaxaxe wrote:Troll. Ignore.
Busman wrote:I believe I may have found a collectible 3rd edition product.Dungeon Tiles: Set 1.It's OOP, and I can't find it anywhere on the net for sale for less than $50. There are two Ebay that are nearing $30 with over a day or two before they end.With 4e being even heavier push on minis, I can only imagine these will become more in demand. Also, the nature of the dungeon tiles is that people use them and punch them out when they do, so finding one unpunched and/or still in shrink will become harder and harder.EDIT: I don't know if they increased the print runs on later sets or plan on reprinting these at a future date, or what the possible collection value of the other tiles sets could be. But I found it interesting none-the-less.
serleran wrote:I would assume that any surviving d20 publisher that continues with 4e will end up doing a re-release of whatever products they produced that were best for them. That means Necromancer will likely do a 4e version of Rappan Athuk, for example. From all the retailers I have spoken to, most of d20 stuff is worthless... so, I don't expect there to be many, if any, collectibles.
mandalaymoon wrote:The funny thing is if everyone thinks d20 is worthless and chucks it into the trash now, then it will be worth something in 20 years because not many people will have saved it in minty condition. Still, I don't think most of d20 will be worth much more than original retail for reasons I stated three years ago upthread.
Plaag wrote:I agree with that somewhat, but also in part to the use of PDFs. Sure anything can be and probably has been scanned in, but d20 companies have created and sold good quality PDFs that are searchable or can be made printer friendly. Even if a book goes out of print it still is available to those that just want to have it in any form.ShaneG.
The box is similarly in unworn condition, and is undamaged except that something was spilled on the outside of the box top, and it dried before it could be wiped off, so there is an irregular area of about 2 square inches (13 square centimetres) that has a crusty residue. This area roughly coincides with the head of Orcus on the cover image; the cover image is still visible through the residue.
Badmike wrote:So, should we be salting away a copy of stuff like Nemoran's Vault, Spear of the Lohgin, or The Gryphon's Legacy (actually, the last is a real sleeper, probably the best one shot 3rd edition adventure I've ever read, written by Wolfgang Baur as the first adventure of a series by a company that apparantly went under soon afterwards...)? Or should we just toss the lot and hope we aren't saying 20 years from now "Yep, I had a copy of that Akrasia Thief of Time, but who knew?"Mike B.