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red_bus
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Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 10:15 am

Great buy Allan!

I doubt it is a fake - but am curious to ask why you think it may be so, or rather, what suspicious signs you have seen? Happy to check mine if that is any help?

Also, if you post the number (1-200), I reckon people here can check on the unlikely chance it duplicates any of theirs. < jealous >

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Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 12:10 pm

Posting a public listing could aid a forger.

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Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 6:08 pm

Awesome catch Allan !!

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Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 4:32 pm

grodog wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:This arrived in the mail today:

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but I need to spend some time with my other copies this weekend to determine whether it's a fake or not. I saw some telltales that look disturbing while flipping through it.

Well, after some comparing to my other copies, I'm certain that the CM is authentic. It had been awhile since I had looked at one of my two copies (one of which is incomplete and missing the Ausberg auction pamphlet

), so when I first looked at the above copy, it raised some hackles.

lokiwookie wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:Wow! If it is not a fake, what a good find! I still need one.

dbartman wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:Good snag, if it's authentic of course.

xRalphx wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:Awesome catch Allan !!

red_bus wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:Great buy Allan!

Thanks guys!

dbartman wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:The listing probably hosed him from selling it for more. Butchered the title, the description and the response.

Very true on all counts!

TheHistorian wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:Even if it turns out to be a fake (which I don't think it will), that's a great price to be able to have one to use and cut up and play with!

Thankfully it's not a fake, so I'm not planning to cut it up atm, Steve

stahlnee wrote:Posting a public listing could aid a forger.

red_bus wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:I doubt it is a fake - but am curious to ask why you think it may be so, or rather, what suspicious signs you have seen? Happy to check mine if that is any help?

I simply noticed several of the standard telltales for fakes in the copy that we've discussed in other threads, but I had also forgotten how low-budget/low-production values the book was in general, so after comparing to the other two I own, I'm certain it's genuine.

red_bus wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:Also, if you post the number (1-200), I reckon people here can check on the unlikely chance it duplicates any of theirs. < jealous >

This one was #30 =)

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Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2014 10:20 pm

So today I received the first three issues of Tortured Souls

Needless to say I was quite happy! I picked them up on ebay for less than $50 total I think.

Not a real rare find but one I'm so glad to add to my collection

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Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 2:52 pm

Maybe this should be a 'should-have-been-TSR' fun find. I was very surprised to find I had won this the day after. With three giants nonetheless.

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Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2014 2:05 pm

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Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2014 11:17 am

Got this in the mail today

I am wondering if someone has the 1982 version. Mark? Brette?

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Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2014 6:54 pm

That's awesome! Have an extra?

Yes, my copy is the 1st print from 1982:

Mars wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:I was happy to grab this from Noble Knight for $27 - I've been looking for a copy for over 10 years now. They must have forgotten a 0 when entering the price The cover image is great.

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Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2014 8:08 pm

lokiwookie wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:Got this in the mail today I am wondering if someone has the 1982 version. Mark? Brette?

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hey was that tadashies? now I know who beat me out of it!

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Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2014 8:11 pm

Thanks Mark!
The advanced players handbook has the same cover as the 1982 version but there is an aditionnal logo on right bottom. So, I need to find one without this logo

Sorry, no extra.
Yes, I got them from tadashie (I was very surprised by the final price... no other bids on them).

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Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2014 9:03 pm

yeah you got me there. I went and looked after I posted here and saw I DIDNT" EVEN BID!!! I think it was one of those fell asleep in the recliner faults...happens quite a bit. lol

good prices on all of them for sure! tadashie is good for a grab like that at times. sift through all the different worlds issues he has up and you'll find some cool stuff

good grab wookie

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Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 3:54 pm

I was busy that week too so completely missed the auctions.

It feels good to know that a set within our community though

Also, that it didn't get pieced out going to multiple winners.

Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 6:19 pm

Finally, I'm very lucky

Especially because I bidded (only $10) just to remember that I have to bid, and then I totally forgot about them. I remembered one day after and saw that I won them

And very happy to have won Tales of terror from red_bus too

for a very good price

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Adventures in Austerion : a fantasy RPG, with boardgame mechanisms and modular battlemap. By Guillaume Tavernier and GÃ©raud G.

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Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 8:41 pm

lokiwookie wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:And very happy to have won Tales of terror from red_bus too for a very good price

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Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2014 8:03 am

JasonZavoda wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:
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Dang! I had the Black Magic kit, but sold it years ago. Maybe I should have held onto it.

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Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2014 11:56 pm

Knights at War, a 1975 Usbourne Battlegame like this copy:

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A history of medieval combat, illustrated by Angus McBride & other genre stalwarts. Similar to what I was reading in middle school at the same time I was discovering wargames & fantasy lit., except this one has the wargame included (so had I seen it in those days, I would have completely blown a fuse in consumerist serendipity). I would read them & think how frustratingly different the history books were from Middle-earth or the Hyborian Age.

Usbourne made some great kids' books back then (I had The Good Spy Guide). Also in the Battlegame line were The Wild West, Galactic War, World War II, & Fighting Ships, as detailed here:
Battlegame Books | Family | BoardGameGeek
Sadly, The Wild West did not make it to the later reprints of the series, an apparent casualty of changing tastes. I may have had one or two western-themed toys in the '70s, but by the '80s it was pretty much extinct.

The games of a Battlegame book are supposed to be cut out from the pages, which is odd considering the binding: hardback, then stitched paperback. The gridded boards would have been particularly difficult to remove for play. Maybe the designers assumed that mop-headed '70s kids wouldn't have the attention span to play it anyway before returning their gaze fixedly back to the three or four television stations available at the time. "Used matchsticks" are part the recommended game components, which may even become the spindles for cut-out spinners "if you do not have a dice." I imagine lots of sooty game tables.

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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 10:02 am

lokiwookie wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:

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