faro wrote:It was, at least in some, but may have been included elsewhere, too. Tim Kask's review copy had a pink card. If you know there's a red sticker on the bag, the mailing card - if present - probably won't be pink since the earliest bags didn't have those red stickers. Confusing, eh?

That is good information.
The page is a bit vague about that item and the Subscription Card too.
Does Shane know about Tim's Review Copy?
If not that info would help if placed on that items page.

This Package actually does have that mail in card; though I do not know if it is pink, or white yet.
The Seller called it "Booty List" in the description.

Davidc, please let us know if "Seren ironhand" is so good an adventure as they say (as it is rumored to be, i mean)

thanks

Badmike wrote:IMO, it's a good adventure, but not rising to the point of legendary or even way above average. Just a nice old-school type adventure in an interesting locale.

Its in the same category of quality as most Necromancer Games stuff.  A good adventure, above average but as Mike said, nothing legendary.

Wow, those are new-to-me, nice find  

I'm curious about the boards - Are they simple dry-erase boards?  Would you be able to post a pic of one of the boards?

I took the family on a trip to Bellingham, WA this week.  My son was visiting the campus of Western Washington University.  He was busy all day, but we had a lot of time to drive around Bellingham while he was at WWU.

One of the interesting things about game stores here in the Pacific Northwest is that Seattle and Portland may have lost almost all their brick and mortar stores, but small towns often still have multiple shops.  (Salem, Oregon, for instance, has a thriving brick and mortar store selection.)

Bellingham had something I did not expect:  A surviving branch of American Eagle.  The shop is in downtown Bellingham and I believe it has shortened its name to just Eagle, but it has survived.  The woman behind the counter told me the owner was a friend of the American Eagle guys back in the day and used the name and matched much of the same merchandise even though they were separate operations.

Like the other, now-closed, branches of American Eagle, the Bellingham store has a heavy dose of military models and items for tabletop wargaming.  Game stores that intend to stay in business sell miniatures for fantasy wargames like Warhammer, Warhammer 40,000 and Warmachine, as well as CCG items.  A lot of the military models looked like they had been on the shelf since 1980...a bad sign for store owners but practically blood in the water for a collector.

There was a small, surviving RPG section, including a copy of the Necromancer Player's Guide to the Wilderlands still new and shiny on the shelf.  (It's still there...I bought a copy for $3 on Ebay back when nobody wanted them.  Anybody who wants it can go get it.)

At American Eagle, I bought old gaming magazines for 25 cents each.  I got four issues of Future Wars, a fanzine for Battletech, and issue #26 of The Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society.  Does anyone here know about Future Wars?  They were cheap and they looked really old-school cool.

My wife and I also bought sets of dice for $3.85 each.  The price was probably from more than 10 years ago, sitting around until we bought them.  (Did I mention that my wife is a gamer...and she's really hot?)

We travelled around to the other two or three game stores in Bellingham, but it was the used book stores that proved most interesting.  Bellingham has a number of excellent stores with bookshelf mazes spread over multiple rooms.

One of the downtown bookstores had a shelf devoted to RPG's that was at least as large as a Half Price Books store.  I snagged a $1 copy of The Blade of Allectus, a module for DragonQuest, and a $1 copy of Trial By Fire, by Atlas Games, for Ars Magica.

I passed up a number of publications by Bard Games because they were duplicates and I was keeping my budget down. (I will be back there next month, so maybe they'll still be on the shelf.) Then I stumbled upon two copies of the character sheet book for Ralph Bakshi's WIZARDS RPG, by Whit Publications.  They were $4.25 and I snagged both of them.

If you fancy a road trip to the Canadian border, Bellingham appears to be worth your time for a family visit.  The downtown area is cool.  It is isolated from the strip mall corridors that angle out from it north and east.  Parking was cheap, but the local cops enforce it pretty hard.

Anyway...there it is in case you pass that way.

If you knew a game store in Seattle you can pretty much count on it being dead and gone.

Wonderworld Books, in Burien, bought up the stock of the stores as they went out of business, one by one.

Then Wonderworld closed its storefront and is now an Ebay seller.  Wonderworld has a huge warehouse stock...all of it waiting to be listed and generally for cover price and higher.  At the present rate they are listing items they should be done selling their warehouse stock in roughly 2800 AD.

Gary's, in Greenlake, is still open as well.  Pretty much all others...gone.

FormCritic wrote:Like the other, now-closed, branches of American Eagle, the Bellingham store has a heavy dose of military models and items for tabletop wargaming.

These places are where I remember discovering RPGs. There's one here in Austin called King's Hobby with the full monty of railroad models. I attended a rail hobbyist's demo there over a decade ago - everyone else was over 70 at least, I guess they're mostly gone now. The rail section is still there, although apparently the craze now is for large-scale outdoor slot cars. They keep their RPG section stocked with plenty of old-school stuff, right next to the model rockets.

The Village Hobby Shop closed a few years ago after the owner died of old age. That place was truly a museum, with the closest they came to RPGs being large paintable lead figures of barbarians & maidens. Shelves overflowed with every dusty & forgotten leisure pursuit of the last fifty years - model ships with rigging & cloth sails, forgotten sci-fi properties, Testor paint & balsa wood for every need, & most importantly, a thorough documenting of all NASA's efforts. Probably just as well the dude did not live to see the shuttle retirement.

Nice find for someone. Hope it went to someone we know.

First one I've ever seen.  Didnt know it was a solitaire adventure either.