GamersRest[FNG] wrote:See you guys (those that are attending) in about 8 hours, damn I am tired...game before 2 hour drive to convention on little sleep may prove to be a "not-so-good" idea.



~jeff

man i am so jealous. i wish i could have got a flight and gotten there



hope y'all have a blast.



Al

Gen con is over now, I played in a huge varity of games, spent far to long at the auction, spent way to much cash in the dealer room, got almost no sleep, and the wife won some prizes in the painted competition. Overall great time.



Wife was in the Ace of Aces painting speed painting and the miniatures went for $750.00 at the auction on Saturday, WOW, good cash for that lot.



I got some original artwork in the dealers room from the artist for way to cheap (Heh Heh).



At the auction I would have won much more stuff if the guy from Troll and Toad went home (Ughh!) But I made him pay for some good stuff anyway. Still I ended up with some very obsure stuff as well as a dead mint shrink wrapped R3(yah!)



There were some cool things at the auction I lost such as a Guidon Games 2nd Chainmail ($450.00), an interesting varient of the OCE which included references to dragon magazine and other products in it ($250.00), an incomplete 1st,2nd mixed up vampire queen went for over $325, Mentzers photo copy manuscript of Temple went for $900.00 (holy cow, this is a photocopy already) Original pen and water color cover to Gods, Demi-gods and Heroes went for $1250.00(great price for that piece) and a few other things I can't remember.



Oh! How about an unused pack of matches from the early days of TSR with a Lizard Logo on it went for $42.00



Overall memborable time and well worth it. Definatly back next year!

Blackmoor wrote:At the auction I would have won much more stuff if the guy from Troll and Toad went home (Ughh!) But I made him pay for some good stuff anyway.

Hmm... and the money you "saved" involuntarily still wasn't quite enough for that intriguing 4th(-) set which finished just now; eBay.com Item Bid History

harami2000 wrote:

Blackmoor wrote:At the auction I would have won much more stuff if the guy from Troll and Toad went home (Ughh!) But I made him pay for some good stuff anyway.

Hmm... and the money you "saved" involuntarily still wasn't quite enough for that intriguing 4th(-) set which finished just now; eBay.com Item Bid History

Not a great bid on that lot, I have it all already I was just looking for a good deal!

harami2000 wrote:

Blackmoor wrote:No Tamo or Inverness, they had some on display...

Those are Frank's copies, I thought?



Heh. So that Tamo is waiting for the /next/ auction, then?

Or eBay...

Will see



thx for the confirmation

We will see, Menzter sold his copies of R2 and R3 both in shrink.  He is letting out the good stuff slowly.  THe copies of Tamo and inverness were in excellent condition, I almost cried when they told me there were just for display!

Blackmoor wrote:We will see, Menzter sold his copies of R2 and R3 both in shrink. He is letting out the good stuff slowly. THe copies of Tamo and inverness were in excellent condition, I almost cried when they told me there were just for display!

Display and reference, if they are his copies... Uses them to check up any others which might be offered at auction!



Good to hear Frank's getting more serious $ for the Rs after all those he was selling cheap, a few years back.



How many more orange B3s does he have to go, then?

harami2000 wrote:


How many more orange B3s does he have to go, then?

I sat next to Gus Landt at the auction, he was wondering if you had received your orange B3 yet?

harami2000 wrote:

Blackmoor wrote:Your right, when the weird hybrid Vampire Queen went up for auction they compared it to the Mint copy that was on display, that is how it was confirmed that the copy for auction was missing a page and had a mix of 1st and 2nd printed sheets in it!

D'you mean "1st and 2nd" or "1st and 3rd". Noticed previous GenCon auctions got a bit confused on those, too! But who hasn't?

No black folder, then? $500 sounds an interesting realisation, either way.

No it had the black folder but a different mix of pages, I am not an expert on this item but it was not all from the same printing.

Blackmoor wrote:No it had the black folder but a different mix of pages, I am not an expert on this item but it was not all from the same printing.

Hmm... not a bad price, IMHO.