I picked up a couple of items in Paul's recent Darlene auction.  But this is probably my favorite:


** expired/removed eBay auction **


GenCon XV (1982) was my first GenCon (and first game convention, for that matter).  Flipping through this was a real blast from the past.  The cost to preregister for all four days:  $12.  And the list of hotels, broken into three categories:  under $20 a night; between $20 a night and $30 a night; and over $30 a night.  I always wanted to stay at one of the hotels listed in the first category -- Big Lief's Hotel and Bowling Lanes.  But, it didn't take reservations.       Ah, those were the days!

I'm still annoyed that the Dragon Archive CD didn't include the GenCon inserts when they were present in the issues  

what a sleeper.  gratz.

Nice catch Blackmoor!

SimperingToad wrote:Was that a BIN? I'm not seeing any bid data available.

Yes it was a BIN

This was a fun find, Paypal just put $20 in my account & said Happy Holidays.  Completely not expected... Who says buying rpgs can't bring smiles

Hi Gnat,

I am glad that it went to a good home!!  I paid $5.00 for two of them in a game store clearance box, so I figured I would offer it up cheap for quick cash.  

Enjoy!!  

I had a pretty productive couple months of collection expansion. I plan to sell some of these in order to help recoup the expenses...


A full run of TSR UK's D&D Players Association News. These are keepers for sure, and definitely worth it for the reading value alone. I've been slowly adding issue & article details to rpggeek.



Met Alpha 1st print
Alma Mater
The Future King (somehow these things seem to find me when I am hunting)
Heroes of Poseidonis (ditto; Supergame stuff seems magnetically attracted to me)
Eldritch Wizardry (only a 9th print IIRC and not the best shape, but I don't own one, so I'll take it)
Wargame Rules (still researching this … maybe 1960-1970 or so)
AC2 in shrink, but with a slightly bent corner



A full run of The Strategic Review...



Two copies of The Dragon #1, one in great shape (to be sold), and one in lesser shape (to be kept)
The Dragon #9
Three additional issue of The Strategic Review (above and beyond the aforementioned full set)



Tegel Manor (1st printing, 2nd release)
City State of the World Emperor (sadly no cover sheet)
Modron (1st printing, no Journal M, but includes Monstrous Statistics sheet)
Revised City State of the Invincible Overlord (3rd or 4th print)



The Book of Treasure Maps 1-3
The Uknown Gods
The Book of Ruins

That's possible we were bidding against one another in some of those, but IIRC less than half of those were from eBay. Most of my successful hunts happen in physical stores, flea markets, conventions, etc. Some of the above items were "rescued" from a store that knew what they had (and wanted fair prices), but didn't go out of their way to make the items known. For example, I bought one of The Dragon #1s and some of the SRs specifically so that I could turn around and sell them to some other appreciative collectors, instead of letting them languish forever in the store.