Several weeks ago, I puchased a collection from a father whose son is serving in Iraq and needed the funds for a wedding upon his return.   There were 6 box sets + other stuff.   Four sets were pristine.   The other two contained and rather sizable collection of porn DVDs, business cards from the local strip clubs, condoms (all sealed . . . whew), and a pile of photos printed from the internet.  

My wife was laughing so hard as I opened the second box . . . we had to wonder who the luck lady was . . . .

I love the thrill of the search through box sets, figured I was the only one.

My personal favorite was a huge stack of "teenage" love-letters from the mid-eighties, from the first note where a girl asked this guy if he was seeing anyone, up through a note about 8 months later where she wanted to see other people.  I have always enjoyed reading correspondance in general (Mostly letters been read in book form) so it was neat to read something so mundane and normal as this teenage courtship.

I've also found a $20 bill, piles of reciepts, tons extra modules and books (best 2 of those were an almost pristine copy of "The Sword and the Dagger" which is a pretty rare battletech novel, and in a forgotten realms boxed set I found one of all 3 books from the OCE white box set), a very old looking but thankfully sealed package of Lance crackers, Magic the Gathering Cards, and of course the ever prevelant character sheets and campaign notes.

mordrin wrote:Hey, speaking of the mini-games - I've been trying to remember and find them myself after stumbling across Pleasantville.
What were the others?
Awful Green Things
Snits' Revenge
a vampire one (?)

I forgot all about Antares until now.

Come on .... Saga ... the best, of course (though the deathstar and ice breaker game were pretty neat as well).

Three years ago I bought a Runequest 2nd edition box-set in a local game shop with a used-games corner.  It was in good shape, with all the standard components.  When I got it home, underneath the character sheets I found a copy of Runequest 1st edition  -- near mint with white crispy pages.  A nice bonus.  

MShipley88 wrote:I want to know....if a seller includes a risque' picture of his girlfriend with an adventure, does that count as a random encounter and do I get experience points for it?  Is there more experience if it's a picture of the seller herself?

Do you want to have to make saving throws if its a risque picture of the seller HIMSELF?

NetRodent wrote:
Do you want to have to make saving throws if its a risque picture of the seller HIMSELF?

Let me see...this is AD&D so would that be save "versus wands?"

That didn't take long.  

So I guess you failed your save vs. petrification...

An Erol Otus basic set I purchased for $5 a couple of years ago came with a nice shrinkwrapped WGR1.

Every couple of months I have to fight the urge to open it up to see what a serious treatment of Greyhawk castle looks like (as opposed to the goofy WG7).

Which is odd, actually, since I don't really care about 2nd edition stuff. But something inside of me says "NO!" to opening shrinkwrapped items.