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Toric
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Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 4:20 pm

Prufrock wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:Hell, I did not know how to play and entered the races in 2011 and 2012 and had a blast. The whole game is set up on the premise of screw your neighbor. Everyone knows how to play that.

How true!

I was at the Con in 2012 but didn't get to attend this year. Hoping to attend next year!

throwi wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:Are you close to CT?... I'll play!

Not quite. I'm out in Colorado. I'm originally from Massachusetts and grew up there. Left when I was a Junior in HS. I have tons of family there still and a sister that lives in Stafford, CT but I haven't lived up there for a long time.

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Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 4:40 pm

Toric wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:
Not quite. I'm out in Colorado. I'm originally from Massachusetts and grew up there. Left when I was a Junior in HS. I have tons of family there still and a sister that lives in Stafford, CT but I haven't lived up there for a long time.

Well, maybe see you in Texas in 2014 then. This NTX thing seems to be getting popular. ;-)

~throwi

Toric
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Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 11:19 pm

throwi wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:
Well, maybe see you in Texas in 2014 then. This NTX thing seems to be getting popular. ;-)

~throwi

I can't imagine a Con being more fun than the North Texas Con. 2012 was a blast. Can't wait for next year!

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Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 8:55 pm

Toric wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:I can't imagine a Con being more fun than the North Texas Con. 2012 was a blast. Can't wait for next year!

I was planning for the 2013 trip down, but my son's school had to go and schedule his graduation right in the middle of it. ;-)

~throwi

TheHistorian
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Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2013 9:47 pm

I actually bought something from T&T!

I know!

I kept seeing listings for the game Agone on ebay, and the cover art looked incredibly appealing. They I saw that T&T had complete sets of the game for, uh, kinda cheap:

Agone 5 Book RPG Lot (Agone) Multisim Publishing - Agone RPG - RPGs by Game - D&D and RPGs

You can also get the five items individually for a total of $0.06 more, but without the "varying conditions" grade notation (instead all listed as near mint). I went that route and they did indeed all arrive near mint. Shipping was more than the books, but I was still in for only about $10 total. I think I've enjoyed the art enough to be happy with the purchase. Now I'll have to look and see if the game is actually good and/or there is useful material to mine.

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Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2013 7:59 am

Actually, Agone is one of the best French RPG. Even, one of the best RPG ever designed. Wonderfull art, wonderfull text, wonderfull setting.

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Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 8:53 pm

Someone scored a pair of very cool DragonTooth giants:

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It cost the buyer a pretty penny, but they are truly rare miniatures (as opposed to just about every other run-of-the-mill Grenadier or Ral Partha mini listed as "OOP! VERY RARE!" on eBay).

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throwi
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Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2013 9:32 am

TheHistorian wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:I actually bought something from T&T!

I know!

I kept seeing listings for the game Agone on ebay, and the cover art looked incredibly appealing. They I saw that T&T had complete sets of the game for, uh, kinda cheap:

Agone 5 Book RPG Lot (Agone) Multisim Publishing - Agone RPG - RPGs by Game - D&D and RPGs

You can also get the five items individually for a total of $0.06 more, but without the "varying conditions" grade notation (instead all listed as near mint). I went that route and they did indeed all arrive near mint. Shipping was more than the books, but I was still in for only about $10 total. I think I've enjoyed the art enough to be happy with the purchase. Now I'll have to look and see if the game is actually good and/or there is useful material to mine.

After your post here (and the follow up from others), I figured I'd take a chance and buy the eBay lot they were selling. I took a chance on the 'varying conditions' but they all came near mint. A good buy, thanks for pointing it out to us!

~throwi

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Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 6:30 pm

Heritage Dungeon Dwellers, Caverns of Doom boxed set. It's an entire game, D&D on a boardgame scale. At the time it may have been a commercial move, to qualify the product for easier placement (it's not an optional supplement for a class of games or anything complicated like that, it's just a game). Most buyers in the early 1980s probably went straight to using the figures for D&D. Decades later, the whole package looks much like the starter sets for collectible miniatures games, D&D included. Hidden in the flotsam & jetsam of the packing was the beginning of a new genre in gaming, 20 years too early for its time.

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Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 9:40 pm

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Not an awesome find, but it was a very good price from NobleKnightGames on e-Bay.
Even though I have 3 copies already I could not help myself...
I think I might need professional help........ PDT_Armataz_01_05

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simrion
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Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2013 5:19 pm

Gnat the Beggar wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:** eBay auction listing blocked. Please enable cookies in your browser for this site and for eBay! **

Not an awesome find, but it was a very good price from NobleKnightGames on e-Bay.
Even though I have 3 copies already I could not help myself...
I think I might need professional help........

I have over a dozen copies of the D&D Rules Cyclopedia, maybe the therapist will give us a group rate? :lol:

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throwi
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Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2013 6:30 pm

simrion wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:
Gnat the Beggar wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:** eBay auction listing blocked. Please enable cookies in your browser for this site and for eBay! **

Not an awesome find, but it was a very good price from NobleKnightGames on e-Bay.
Even though I have 3 copies already I could not help myself...
I think I might need professional help........

I have over a dozen copies of the D&D Rules Cyclopedia, maybe the therapist will give us a group rate? :lol:

A dozen??? Wow, thought I was doing well with 2 copies. How about B2, I have 11 copies? :-)

~throwi

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Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 10:15 pm

I'd been looking for a cheap copy of the original version of Space Marines by Mark Ratner for a number of years.
Just last month I finally managed to snag a 2nd printing for $5. It was poorly listed under books so I was the only bidder:

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The cover art is by David Sutherland. The interior art is by Sutherland and Will McLean.

This version has a few pages on using the rules with Dungeons & Dragons and Metamorphosis Alpha.

Previous Acaeum thread about Space Marines

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Thunderdave
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Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 8:19 pm

My rarest small press item and a complete print run (for now)

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Thanks to N. Alan Patterson, Mars, and Bill Barsh for bringing this one back to the forefront!

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Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 10:17 pm

Thunderdave wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:My rarest small press item and a complete print run (for now)

Nice! Add another one to originals count.

beasterbrook
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Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 1:16 am

I prob would have like a bit different version of the cover.. make it look too much like the origional..

Brette:)

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Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 4:40 am

beasterbrook wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:I prob would have like a bit different version of the cover.. make it look too much like the origional..

Brette:)

well it is the original cover... the only difference i can perceive is the size of the image compare to the full page... this can be dangerous in case of future sale (tricky to detect original from reprint...)
ciaooo

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Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 7:10 am

The back cover gets the full Pacesetter treatment, no chance of mistaking them from the reverse.

I draw the line at collecting... D&D beach towels.

Shoulda been: ".. from Pangreenia to Floratopolis, from mystical Treeonia of spectral Forests to Schruborial dimensions." - The Forests of Leng

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