DungeonDelver wrote:I was doing some web research on a small item I have, a little booket called "The Adventurer's Guild Tome" which is basically just a bunch of names for fantasy characters and pictures of medieval weapons and armor. Didn't know the history behind it, didn't know if it had any value...Anyway the one hit through Google that I get is that one went for $54 on eBay recently. I clicked on the link to see if the seller had posted any info about the item and who do I see has bid for it? Three bids from grodog and a winning bid from mbassoc. Funny how it works out some time!
killjoy32 wrote:DungeonDelver wrote:I was doing some web research on a small item I have, a little booket called "The Adventurer's Guild Tome" which is basically just a bunch of names for fantasy characters and pictures of medieval weapons and armor. Didn't know the history behind it, didn't know if it had any value...Anyway the one hit through Google that I get is that one went for $54 on eBay recently. I clicked on the link to see if the seller had posted any info about the item and who do I see has bid for it? Three bids from grodog and a winning bid from mbassoc. Funny how it works out some time!why was that funny?
DungeonDelver wrote:Honestly? It's junk. I'd have thrown it away but for the list of fantasy names. I'm always stuck trying to think of a fantasy name, and one of my (now former) players always tried to be "cute" and give his characters names like "Lord Hairybottom" and "Sir Rapesalot" and so on.His challenge to me was "Well if you can't come up with a name then this is the one I'll keep!"Asshole.
DungeonDelver wrote:Shit, you guys are asking me all the hard questions...okay let me see here...The booklet is ostentiably by "The Adventurer's Guild", it's odd sized; smaller than a module, bigger than one of the OD&D booklets, 28 pages long, done on "parchment" style. 10pt pica type, some illustrations in the book beyond the ones provided for armor and weapons. Very coy system for deciding if someone has the strength to use certain weapons: the author based it on a strength system of "1-20, grouping around 3-18" (very coy, son).Anyway, Brett A Dougherty is the author...let me see if I can find that auction again...HERE is the auction...you know how these things don't persist on ebay so read it while you can.EDIT: my bad, wasn't mbassoc that won the auction, either. Sorry 'bout that.
Mars wrote:That was an expensive week but they were some decent books. Besides Ian got some decent stuff recently too.
deimos3428 wrote:DungeonDelver wrote:Honestly? It's junk. I'd have thrown it away but for the list of fantasy names. I'm always stuck trying to think of a fantasy name, and one of my (now former) players always tried to be "cute" and give his characters names like "Lord Hairybottom" and "Sir Rapesalot" and so on.His challenge to me was "Well if you can't come up with a name then this is the one I'll keep!"Asshole.The more I hear things like this, the more I'm of the opinion the DM should create and hand out the characters. It sounds cruel, but it solves so many issues.
