Deadlord36 wrote:Prepub looks like a fake.
Deadlord36 wrote:Ummm, yeah, he slipped his copy into a filing cabinet and left it there. And, according to him, it's been "packaged tightly" to account for the new smell..... by Kinko's?Too fishy for me. I don't get much into prepubs anyways.Stormie, are you in for this one?
Deadlord36 wrote:Hmmm. If it is "just a tourney copy", then I imagine it is rarer than an actual numbered pre-pub, and worth more.
burntwire wrote:This is just a Tourney copy. It isn't a Pre-Pub. He is just being a little misleading using the term "Pre-Pub", although it was produced prior to the published version.
Ralf Toth wrote:burntwire wrote:This is just a Tourney copy. It isn't a Pre-Pub. He is just being a little misleading using the term "Pre-Pub", although it was produced prior to the published version.Wait a second, I get a little confused here. If this is not a pre-pub version, why do we call the R1, R2 and R3 "pre-publication"? Page Not Found Weren't they used in these tournaments? Or were they just sold during the tournaments, but not actually used?
FoulFoot wrote:For what it's worth -- and I haven't been contacted by the seller, or anyone else, to attempt to verify the module, so I'm only going off the information on the auction page -- this is a tough call.The biggest points for this being a genuine article are:A) Seller has a very good, extensive feedback rating. He could be deciding to "cash out" on one big scam here, but not very likely.B) The module is not an identical photocopy of a pre-pub. Anyone who was going to create a fake, or even just photocopy a genuine module, would at least get the cover page correct.Without knowing more about it, or seeing some detailed scans, my feeling is that the module is exactly what the seller says it is. It was given to him from a source at the RPGA, to be run as a tournament adventure at "Muscacon". It is a pre-publication version of the pre-publication.Now, the issue of how much it's worth is a completely different story. It is probably a generic photocopy, and obviously has neither an original signature nor a serial number (the two things which make the pre-pub R modules collectible, and verifiable). It would be, in fact, identical to R7-10 Dwarven Quest, which is just a photocopy. How much would you pay for R7-10? Or even better, how much would you pay for a genuine original D&D manuscript, which itself was just a photocopy?A very difficult question. If you could prove the photocopy was made in 1974... but then, we start to degenerate into silliness.Bottom line: caveat emptor. Buyer beware. I believe this item is a genuine article, but it's value to the collecting community is highly subjective. As a interesting piece of trivia, certainly, but as a centerpiece of your collection -- not so sure.And you can be damn certain that the second module like this to surface will be met with a healthy dose of skepticism that it was run off last week at Kinko's. FoulP.S. Frank Mentzer would be a good source to contact about the existence of this, btw.
Kewl. Looks exactly like what it's purported to be. These 1st runs of Falx were actually done on typewriters, TSR being in the process of upgrading the old Burroughs computer (used for payroll only) and still requiring all writers to use the communal typewriter room (reservations recommended). That's indeed my handwriting & hand-drawn maps, albeit photocopied. And I did autograph and number every early copy. Most were returned to TSR and destroyed. This is about as rare as it gets... moreso than Vampire Queen. Frank