Hi all! Glad to see Scott finally made a forum!

To make each other familiar with each other, introduce yourself. I'll start off:  

Name: Mike

Age: 20 (I'm not an oldy like most D&D collectors j/k  

What I collect: Non tsr items, tolkien boardgames, and sometimes D&D items but mostly focusing on non tsr items and tolkien boardgames now  

Coolest item I own: Wee Warriors Game Designers Kit

You can put me in line right behind nev - I'm 30, and started playing in 1981, when I was 9. I dabble in non-TSR items, and collect other RPG systems as well, but TSR is still my main focus.  Coolest item I own? Out of my TSR items, I'd have to say it's my copy of B10 (the cool part is that I bought it for $3 Canadian at a comic shop!).

G'day (LOL)  

Name: Brett  
Location: Australia  
Age:31  

Been out of collecting for about a 2 years due to "life" but slowly comming back. Collect Xd&d, d&d, ad&d... etc.. Am specifically interested in collecting Convention Modules, fanzines and small press items.  

Coolest items I own: hmmm I was actually the first person to sell a copy of the Jade Hare on rec.games.frp.marpetplace way back when. Have lots of stuff... How about copies of Mindbane Shrinkwrapped? (helps when was made in Australia;)

Howdy all!  

Name: Adrian  
Location: Right outside of Houston (Yee-haw!)  
Age: 31  

First of all, to Scott:  Thank you, thank you, thank!  The Acaeum continues to get bigger and better.  

I started playing about 21 long years ago, but didn't really get hard core on the collecting until about 3 or 4 years back.  Main area of interest is 1st/2nd ed TSR released stuff, but I pretty much do it all: non-TSR, 3rd ed, d20, foreign release, promos, magazines, weird TSR non-game related products, etc.  I'm currently up to around 70 mag boxes full of stuff.  Obviously, my wife would like me to stop.     Coolest item?  Hmmm... have to get back to you on this one.  I'm terrible at picking favorites!

Name:    Malcolm  
Age:       39  
In:         UK  

Been playing since 76. Been collecting for last 4 years.  Currently 3 copies of ST1, 2 different copies of the John Blanche GW book.

Hi all,  

I'm Michael, I am 28 and have been an avid fan since my brother guided my party through the Caves of Chaos! (Even though I was eventually killed off by the medusa in room 64.  )  

It is good to see the Acaeum having this facility. It truly is an oasis in the desert, as far as info on collecting D&D stuff is concerned.  

My best item sofar is a shrinkwrapped copy of X11. Darn though! I can't read it!!    

Regards,

Michael

Rhea..... Don't do it!  Who needs shelter when he has all that fantasy material.  Oh well. I should write you to see what I can buy off of you. Or perhaps I can work on your house in exchange.  

Anyhow. I am 32 I think. They lost my birth certificate when I was born in the backwoods of Indiana.  One of my fondest moments of childhood I relived 4 years ago while draggin around Ebay, was my con-ing my mother into buying me 'Slavepits of the Undercity' at the age of 10. Remember when you could go into any Department Store and buy this stuff off a small rack in the toy section? I can still smell the fresh print of the module when I took the shrinkwrap off of it.

I was poking around Ebay for the first time and pulled up D&D listings while looking around. Bang! There was the Slavepits exactly as I remembered it. I was hooked at that point.  My favorite TSR artist (another topic of discussion ) Jeff Dee adorns the cover of that module. I tend to get lost in the art and fantasy of the adventures in general.

I find collecting this stuff as the ultimate expression of my memory of the game in its early years. I cannot think of any aspect of culture that is similar to it. I do not think the game is any where near as imaginative these days as it was when it first came out.  

My prized possession is somewhere between Orange B3 to Lost Tomoachan to a nice SW Slavepits copy. Its all equally fun.  

Adam

I have been playing D&D since 1980 when I was 9.  I always preferred D&D to AD&D, back then it was understood to be the freeform version while AD&D was the one to have rules to cover every situation.  

Over the years my favorite campaign was the D&D Known World which later became Mystara.  I found my preference was for collecting all the material related to a setting(although I also collect for other RPG systems).   So I am one of those completists, and I still play what I collect.  

One of my rarest items, the very first Jade Hare offered for sale, by Brett Easterbrook.  Brett, how are you doing?  The module has been put to good use, I actually played it in my latest D&D campaign.  

Maybe we should start a thread for players who have played through these rare modules, I ran it for one high level player, and it went pretty well, though he was defeated by the magic combo at the end, and had to salvage a draw.  I also bought Mindbane from Brett at the same time.  Side note to you Brett, your webpages listing all those Australian magazines are down, any chance you can direct me to the data elsewhere?     

Anyone remeber when the first ST1 was offered for sale on rec.games.frp.marketplace?  It sold for $51 to David Papay.  I was the guy who offered $50 for it.  The darn thing was that the fellow offering it was just taking offers, but I though he was taking bids for an auction.  I was willing to pay more, but I figured $50 was a good place to start.   The next time I saw one for sale, it was on ebay.  But because of that, when Brett offered his modules for sale, I was determined not to let another opportunity slip through my fingers.  I didn't know what I was buying, but the gamble paid off.

Hi All -  

Name:  Paul
Age:  35
Loc:  Pensacola FL  

I am not really a serious collector, but I've been trying to put my hands on some of the first things that got me hooked on RPGs back in 1979-1980.  Hurts to think about all the various RPGs that have passed thru my hands over the past two plus decades.

Hi all---  

I've been a long-time fan of the Acaeum, and have pored over the wonderful research collected and shared here.  I think the forums are a GREAT idea!  

name:  Allan Grohe
age:  33 (just turned)
place:  San Jose, CA (though originally Merchantville, NJ, then Lawrence, KS)  

I started gaming in the summer of 1977 at the tender age of 7, and haven't looked back  

My favorite collectible is an original 1987 DragonCon copy of To the City of Brass signed by Rob Kuntz; my rarest is probably my copy of Mentzer's Dwarven Quest for the Rod of Seven parts.  

'night!