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Post Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 4:27 pm 
 

Had a good used bookstore weekend.

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Post Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 5:03 pm 
 

Great!!


Adventures in Austerion : a fantasy RPG, with boardgame mechanisms and modular battlemap. By Guillaume Tavernier and Géraud G.
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Post Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 7:44 pm 
 

I should say so! Conan and the Shaman's Curse! WOW!


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Post Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 8:49 pm 
 

Oh come on, there are WAY worse Conan/TOR novels than that one!
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Post Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2013 11:41 am 
 

Matthias wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:Oh come on, there are WAY worse Conan/TOR novels than that one!


What part of Chicago did you pick these up at?    :)


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Any ideas about these two? I like to buy almost any dungeon crawl to read and see how the adventure is put together. The artwork seems good. Don't know how hard to find these really rare.  Is the price reasonable?

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Post Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2013 3:02 pm 
 

Hey Peter, welcome to the Acaeum!  Those appear to be pull-out mods from fairly common Dragon Mags, probably could buy the whole issue for under $5.


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Post Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2013 4:13 pm 
 

Thunderdave wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:Hey Peter, welcome to the Acaeum!  Those appear to be pull-out mods from fairly common Dragon Mags, probably could buy the whole issue for under $5.


Yes, from issues 57 (Wandering Trees) and 61 (Midas Orb) respectively.  These were from the IDDC contest where submitted modules, some of excellent content, were printed in various dragon magazines. When they are removed they are often sold separately, but as TD said, better just to buy the Dragon mags themselves with the adventures inside.

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Post Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 3:13 pm 
 

Took me rather too long to pick this one up, not exactly helped by postage rates...
And as overambitious as it sounds: a socio-economic-political roleplaying worldgame. In a can. In 1969.

Roles are not fixed over time: players may attempt to progress their character up or down the social scale into a new role depending on their game strategy or personal goals, but each role must played broad-brush according to the character books provided. More-or-less open-ended interaction above-and-beyond the (borderline unplayable?) game framework appears to be encouraged.
Whereas the game itself is not open-ended, there's not necessarily any one "winner" in that the whole world can easily(?) be dragged down into flames and chaos so that no-one can "win". Rather too realistic, perhaps? One blogger's comparison with Kingdom was rather astute, IMO. :)

The canvas map is kinda gorgeous, too... (White box for scale).

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Post Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 10:18 am 
 

Very nice, David---I was watching that one for awhile :)


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Post Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 9:27 pm 
 

Since the NM copy I picked up a while ago was missing stickers, I was sadly trolling ebay for another copy to frankenstien from when I found (and mashed BIN so hard I think I broke my mouse) this:

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Post Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 12:49 am 
 

Which mechs come in that?
I assume you get two, and 12 or 16 mech sheets, and you were then meant to use them as proxies?
Which map boards?


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Post Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 1:24 pm 
 

mbassoc2003 wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:Which mechs come in that?
I assume you get two, and 12 or 16 mech sheets, and you were then meant to use them as proxies?
Which map boards?


Shadowhawk and Griffin.  I dont know what they intended, they dont come with bases (the feet are pretty big though).  Might be entertaining to play one game that way but would probably get annoying pretty quick.

I never thought to compare the maps.  The "Driods maps are paper and one sided while the first ed Battletech ones are doublesided (one side blank hexes) and heavy cardboard.  The terrain is identical, but the art is a bit more detailed on the cardboard version.  The 'Driods version is embossed with "Battledriods" in bright red across the bottom, while the other has "Battletech" in black.
  

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Post Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 2:34 pm 
 

Is there a scenario for Shadowhawk vs. Griffin?
They followed up with 10 or 11 two mech packs. They came with assembly instructions and two plastic kits, and a mech vs. mech scenario, but no mech data sheets, so I'm assuming the mech data sheets were in the original Battledroids boxed set. I've never seen one, although I do have a good number of the mech vs. mech scenarios that came with the kits.


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Post Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 11:34 pm 
 

Another one that took a bit of waiting (~10 years...).

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Post Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 12:52 am 
 

The cover art looks almost ... pasted on. (?) The gap between rectangle top & middle rectangle looks uneven. Ditto for the middle & bottom rectangle.


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Post Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 1:11 am 
 

agreeded.. origioaln drawing? it should be green like the rest I believe..

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Post Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 12:05 pm 
 

Guy Fullerton wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:The cover art looks almost ... pasted on. (?) The gap between rectangle top & middle rectangle looks uneven. Ditto for the middle & bottom rectangle.


This is the infamous butcher cover. Carefully peel it back to reveal the original banned cover, depicting Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone wearing bloodstained white smocks & holding dismembered plastic dolls. It was made around the same time they raised controversy for saying that fantasy wargaming was bigger than Jesus.
  
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