killjoy32 wrote:Well hey, bring on several tornadoes please - my stuff is well and truly insured and inventoried and logged in several places, so would welcome a nice insurance claim anyday thankyou very much



bar for losing a few very precious items that i really would miss, it wouldnt bother me too much - all the more reason to start all over again



and yeah youre right, we have some pretty bad traffic down here, specially in busy hours - it can be horrendous. you should have let me know and you could have popped over for a chat.



Al

Does your home contents insurance cover you for 'acts of God'. My buildings insurance covers me for extreme weather and acts of God, but my home contents does not. So I could get my roof and windows back, but my collection.

Io wrote:

I'll trade you the "missing" Cupric text for your copy D

Harami wrote:



Good try!

Yes. A slightly frustrating gap that, but I'll have to live with it, as with the Revenaunt...

I know, it is frustrating, and it's not the fact that you or I don't have it all -- it's just I think stuff like that should be together in one bundle.



Maybe we should go outside the rules and send each other copies (marked as copies). I would love to read it all straight through.



BTW who has the Revenaunt?

Hrmm: does that mean you weren't tempted by the two squillion dollars after that CoC thread died down? (Crazy cultists ).

No, mind-boggled would be more the word to describe how I was feeling as the offers came screaming in. The highest bid was three-grand under the pretense it was an "original manuscript". "Tempted" came in after that was flushed out, but I'm not a cheat, so it is what it is and I politely declined the offers. I'd also like to add Paul offered to make good on the whole thing and then some, but in the end I decided to keep them hoping maybe that one day they could be reunited as they should be... here or elsewhere.

With the original Blackmoor connection that's one I'm going to be holding on to even more than usual

Now that's a nice piece!

but you never know when a "spare" might come along...

Hoping

Oh, I take it you don't have all nine (or ten?) white box sets as well as the majority of woodgrains between y'all?

Or d'you have enough space for all those dups? (If you've got all the supplement printings, please let me know, too...)

No, sorry only a first and second woody and a few OCE's here, there's a few other gems we'd like to have first. But, have considered on occasion becoming a print run junky with the OD&D boxes if any.







Grodog wrote:

Now that we're back to ogling IO's lair....

That is one beautifully-rendered Underdark map, Mike---truly worthy of hanging in such august company! Do you often create such nice maps? If so, we (the royal, Different Worlds "we") may be able to put you to work

Thanks Allan, I'll add that it was also a very cool campaign, some of the players played characters that had never seen the sunlight. It was interesting role-playing to say the least, we had a lot of fun.



And yes, I do often create maps and such for our games. Even with all the new mapping programs out there I still enjoy breaking out the graph-paper, pencils, and rulers. I'd be glad to help you guys out if you needed a cartographer. Shoot me a PM and we can discuss it. I'll post a few more pics if you guys want.

PS - any chance you have a "Treasure of the Dragon Queen" hiding in there somewhere, Mike?

Unfortunately no, but I do have my eye out for it after reading over your web-site, which BTW is unbelievable. The dedication to Grayhawk is truly noteworthy! If I come across one I'll be sending it to you. I'd love for you and your brother to be able to play it once more.







Bbarsh wrote:

That brings up a question.



If disaster did strike, and all was lost, what would you miss the most?

I'd have to agree, the most missed items would be the ones form our childhood. The PHB's and DMG's with our names written on the inside cover. Those and original character sheets and such would be irreplaceable. We treasure these as much as any of our rarest items.

invincibleoverlord wrote:

invincibleoverlord wrote:



Thanks Allan, I'll add that it was also a very cool campaign, some of the players played characters that had never seen the sunlight. It was interesting role-playing to say the least, we had a lot of fun.

And yes, I do often create maps and such for our games. Even with all the new mapping programs out there I still enjoy breaking out the graph-paper, pencils, and rulers. I'd be glad to help you guys out if you needed a cartographer. Shoot me a PM and we can discuss it. I'll post a few more pics if you guys want.

More pics would be fun, as well as useful to check out! Thanks, Mike.

invincibleoverlord wrote:

grodog wrote:PS - any chance you have a "Treasure of the Dragon Queen" hiding in there somewhere, Mike?

Unfortunately no, but I do have my eye out for it after reading over your web-site, which BTW is unbelievable. The dedication to Grayhawk is truly noteworthy!

Thanks muchly I love Greyhawk, it's really what defines D&D for me in many ways, so I'm glad to share that enthusiasm with the rest of the world

If I come across one I'll be sending it to you. I'd love for you and your brother to be able to play it once more.

Thanks, I think I need all the help that I can get on that tracking that beast down

Bbarsh wrote:

bbarsh wrote:That brings up a question.



If disaster did strike, and all was lost, what would you miss the most?

I'd have to agree, the most missed items would be the ones form our childhood. The PHB's and DMG's with our names written on the inside cover. Those and original character sheets and such would be irreplaceable. We treasure these as much as any of our rarest items.

My brother Brian and I were so jazzed when I was back in NJ for my brother Phil's wedding back in May: we found not only my box of old RJK and EGG correspondance from 1987-88, but we found Phil's folder of PCs, too, which had been lost for several years (though not as long as the RJK/EGG stuff). Hopefully we'll find Brian's PCs too, since we're planning to surprise Phil for Xmas with a few days of gaming! We're going to block off the old alcove where our gaming table is with a japanese screen or somesuch, and let him "unwrap" it, which will reveal a table laid out with dice, miniatures, his found PCs, books, and DM screen at the ready! Hopefully it'll be fun (now I just have to write the adventure...).

That's beautiful art, Mike! Have you ever worked as professional illustrator?

invincibleoverlord wrote:Other than that I'm just a doodler.  :)

A very talented doodler indeed. That cartography is better than some of the D&D cartography and the chessplaying dragon is a true beauty!

IO's maps are truly superb; I've always enjoyed seeing other DM's homemade campaign world maps.  



It reminds me of my World of Greyhawk maps... not the ones that came in the TSR folder/box set, but one an ex-girlfriend, who was an artist, color penciled a fantastic replica of the map so I could erase country names, borders, cities, etc. as WoG campaign developed.  I think she did a better job than Darlene's original.  

And with the new hurricane Rita reaching the US mainland today, I sincerely hope that BadMike and the other Acaeum members from the Texas area are safe from the storm. Good thing we have no hurricanes in Germany!

Well, I'll be flying into your lovely sunny country tomorrow. Going to marry my GF in a little village just south of Miami. Orlando I think its called. A bit of a mouse problem I hear. Anyways, two weeks in sunny Orlandosville and hopefully no more of that crappy weather you've been having.



I guess global warming does exist, Mr President, Sir.

Albino, I can only think of one MERP item off the top of my head that might be really rare, Armies of Eriador. I'm still trying to finish up my MERP, but all the books come up fairly regularly.