The Resident Sage wrote:Why don't you cover 2nd Edition / 3rd Edition AD&D material?andI know you've said that you don't want to cover (item name) since it was produced after 1990, but I've noticed that it's selling for thousands of dollars on eBay, and I really think you should cover it.We've chosen to concentrate on 1st Edition (pre-1990) material for a number of reasons. For one, none of us here collect 2nd or 3rd Edition material, so our knowledge about such items is limited. While we may consider covering selected later items at some point in the future, our current workload will keep us busy for quite a while. Secondly, the site's main purpose is not to be a collectibles price guide, but to provide information on what constitutes a first (or early) print of an item. It is VERY unusual for any TSR item produced after 1990 to have different, distinguishable printings -- or to have a small print run. By 1990, TSR was a sizeable publisher, cranking out professional-quality products on big presses. Contrast to the early 70's, when Gygax and friends were hand-boxing the game in their living rooms. If an item produced after 1990 is selling for lots of money, it's generally NOT because it had a small print run, nor that it's a rare first print of an item -- it's because the item is popular. If we covered it, it would simply be to show a cover scan of the item, and give our opinion on its worth. That sort of coverage is absolutely useless, because YOU could just as easily look on eBay at any given time and get an even more accurate guess of the item's worth.
jkason wrote:Without the OGL and the re-writing of the rules, D&D would probably be a dead game...
afoolandhis$ wrote:jkason wrote:Without the OGL and the re-writing of the rules, D&D would probably be a dead game...One could just as easily argue that without The Acaeum, discussion of 3e would be a non-entity.
jkason wrote:While I realize that most of the collectors on the forum don't give a flying fiddlers f--- about Third Edition, consider this - Without the OGL and the re-writing of the rules, D&D would probably be a dead game, with the exception of some hard-core players out there.
Plaag wrote:If I need to know about 1990+ 2nd ed or 3.x there is always this sitehttp://home.flash.net/~brenfrow/index.htmShaneG.
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Lewisexi wrote:Am I weird for liking all D and D additions? Is it ok to like them all? Guess I'm a roleplayer first and collector second. Well that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it hehe!
killjoy32 wrote:Lewisexi wrote:Am I weird for liking all D and D additions? Is it ok to like them all? Guess I'm a roleplayer first and collector second. Well that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it hehe! well you are a southerner, so i s'pose its acceptable down that way
