Mars wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:Calgary is a big enough city and has an RPG history (and a couple longstanding stores) so it is a great place to find things.

Quite so, there are some gaming groups (both RPG and wargaming) that have been together and active since the mid 70's

Nice score Jeff!

Where'd you put all the incomplete Forgotten Realms box sets?  Or do those just come in the local collections I find, lol.

+ 1 to the City of Valla map, that looks like a plum find!

mine does have the "second" cover.
kynan's copy (or former copy, he's probably sold it off by now) sounds incomplete.

Mine has the second cover too.

lokiwookie wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:Got the Book of Mars 1E.


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The interesting thing is the presence of the wrap cover, soft paper, in addition to the thick cover. Do all copies should include this paper cover?

On ToT there is both but the 1st Kynan copy could have lost the paper cover.

Congrads. It has substantially more in it than the FASA reprint (white cover) that had whole chapters removed from it.

And a fantastic find there, Blackmoor, on the City of Valla map. A most covetted item to be sure. I've been looking for one of those for too long.

Picked up this little bunch of mins recently:


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The Ugly
• You're always going to get broken items in a lot like this. Not many are, however, and a couple are in good enough shape to make a custom job of it.
• I'm going to have to strip a number of them.

The Bad
• All three of the dragons are incomplete. The (series I) Tiamat is missing tail and wings, the red a right wing, and the brass one of the neck frills. Not counting the gems and altars.
• The Custom Cast Nazgul and beast (I think that's what they were) is missing the right wing and end of the tail is broken. I think the rider is supposed to be holding something as well.
• Some figs I still can't positively ID, even though in a few cases they are clearly marked Grenadier or something else.
• The storm giant is missing its arm.
• The hippogriff is missing its wings and the tail is broken.
• A good many spare parts.

The Good
• Very little sign of lead rot on anything.
• A good many old Citadel/GW minis (did Warhammer go that far back?) from the old metal 85-88 timeframe. Not the biggest fan of their stuff, but cleaned up, they should get me a few, and I might consider keeping a couple.
• Nearly complete sets of figs from Monster Manuscripts I and VI, missing only the borer serpent and manticore.
• A complete set of the Grenadier Djinni/Efreet/treasure set from the Gold Line blister.
• Complete basilisk/cockatrice and treasure from Grenadier Gold Line blister.
• I was able to complete two more Grenadier Gold Line box sets.
• And the best for last: some officially licenced D&D minis produced by Citadel. Three kobolds (unpainted), three hobgoblins, and two of three from the female fighter pack.

All in all, a fun little haul, I think.  

that's an easy call: as they lie about stoned to catatonia, paul mccartney swoops in, outmanuevers them and buys the whole board.

Blackmoor wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:Just traded a local guy some stuff, I mostly got a bunch of Harn Books

You automatically win the trade, at least in my opinion.  

Blackmoor wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:Tournament modules from a con in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan circa 1983.  They are very nicley done:)  

Excellent find!
In North America, you are very lucky to get the chance to find some gems like this. In France, in the best case, we can find a complete Monopoly...