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.

What else sold? eBay shows no completed listings for that seller, probably because I have a UK account.

grodog wrote:That about right, David, or have you been tracking them for a bit longer?

Yep; second of the three; unless I've missed any hidden stockings/caches.
Whereas Tower of Elbrith is more on a par with The Solo Dungeon. (2nd edition, that is, Mark *jk*)

in search of santa's sack? really?! gee they could have called it nosing for northman's nuts. that has to be the worst title for a module since glory hole dwarven mine.

mbassoc2003 wrote:Does that mean either of these is heading your way?

All three. Or to Brette's US proxy as the case may be given the seller's stated shipping conditions.

Sent them to the USA.. My Google-Fu could only find one mention of the title

http://www.faqs.org/copyright/in-search ... y-systems/

Nothing on the game company and 1 mention of the guy..
Looks like he wrote "Better Game Mastering: Teaching Role-Playing" by Robert Harder in Different Worlds #8..

So it will be interesting to see at the end of the day..

Brette:)

congratulations Brette on that hard-to-find bag of goodies. i did not know about the santa's sack module until now. my guess is it will be a while before another one of those shows up...