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Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 9:13 pm

Grenadier Cloudland:

** expired/removed eBay auction **

Price is a bit high, especially for the condition and the seller seems a bit dodgy looking at his feedback, but might be worth to fill a hole.

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Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 9:34 pm

Gryphon Magazines #1 & 2:

1/2 to 3/8 | eBay

Both look to be in very nice condition.

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Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 9:53 pm

bclarkie wrote:Grenadier Cloudland:

** expired/removed eBay auction **

Price is a bit high, especially for the condition and the seller seems a bit dodgy looking at his feedback, but might be worth to fill a hole.

Didn't the same publication just fail to get even a single bid at an opening price of $19.95 and a Buy-it-Now of $29.95?

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Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 10:04 pm

MShipley88 wrote:
Didn't the same publication just fail to get even a single bid at an opening price of $19.95 and a Buy-it-Now of $29.95?

Mark

Maybe, I might have missed it. If you dont find it interesting, then don't bid on it.

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Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 10:09 pm

I don't know when Cloudland became a $20-$30 module. I thought $30 for the shrink wrapped one was high but there are those people that go crazy for shrink :roll:

. I think its a lot like the Fantasy Master stuff they always seem to be around and sell fairly cheaply.

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Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 10:12 pm

Mars wrote:<clip>but there are those people that go crazy for shrink </clip>

Hey, I resemble that remark a bit.

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Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 10:15 pm

I think it might even be the same copy.

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Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 10:52 pm

MShipley88 wrote:
Didn't the same publication just fail to get even a single bid at an opening price of $19.95 and a Buy-it-Now of $29.95?

That Cloudland has one craptastic listing format. There's like 4-5 pages of "mess" and one little line actually describing the item, just giving it some numbers without any explanation.

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Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 11:04 pm

Mars wrote:I don't know when Cloudland became a $20-$30 module. I thought $30 for the shrink wrapped one was high but there are those people that go crazy for shrink . I think its a lot like the Fantasy Master stuff they always seem to be around and sell fairly cheaply.

Actually, no, the NIPI Fantasy Master stuff is heads-and-shoulders above Cloudland in quality: that module is awful. I was quite disappointed when I finally tracked a copy down.

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Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 1:41 am

I thought about buying it because I had a vague idea that it was rare (collector's disease), but $20 plus postage is a large purchase for me.

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Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 4:07 am

grodog wrote:
Actually, no, the NIPI Fantasy Master stuff is heads-and-shoulders above Cloudland in quality: that module is awful. I was quite disappointed when I finally tracked a copy down.

I thought about running Cloudland for my PCs years ago for just pure evil sadistic abuse...just as written. Terrible adventure, though I think I liked the maps if I remember correctly...

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Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 4:15 am

bclarkie wrote:Gryphon Magazines #1 & 2:

** expired/removed eBay auction **

Both look to be in very nice condition.

Wow, six cents!

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Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 1:15 pm

Alexander1968 wrote:Wow, six cents!

No longer, but on the plus side it's issue #3, not #2 (the latter somewhat easier to obtain).

Re. the seller's comment on the 'zines: yes, somewhat agreed at the time as to the relative merits of Gryphon and Dragon. Alas, despite showing good potential the Gryph did not last.

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Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 2:51 pm

I read the seller's comments about Gryphon.

One of the things that always mystified me was game magazine publishers who were planning to get into Dragon's market by covering games other than D&D.

Dragon, of course, was prospering because it covered mostly D&D. In fact, when Dragon tried to diversify to cover TSR's other, lame games, the magazine suffered.

Jumping into a market created almost entirely by one game....and then arrogantly announcing that your magazine will not be extensively covering that game....hmmm. Where do people get these kinds of marketing ideas?

(I remember a Dragon reader poll in the 80's that asked what other games we buyers wanted Dragon to cover. I answered, "AD&D, AD&D and AD&D." Apparently, lots of others did the same because the next month the editor responded something like, "OK, so now we know you want less of other games and more of D&D." Interestingly, that was the same issue in which whoever was responding told us that TSR was planning to go ahead with 2nd edition AD&D even though we readers had told him it was a bad idea...because TSR knew better than us.)

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Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 3:54 pm

gamma world miniatures.

** expired/removed eBay auction **

what is interesting about this auction, is that the owner is trying to gauge the interest level for selling off original cover art for the miniatures box set (if anyone is interested).

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Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 9:51 pm

Seller with some interesting RQ items and fanzines....

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Not sure if this one had been posted yet....

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And this should never go this cheap....

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Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 10:02 pm

And this seller has some nice Midkemia stuff....

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Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 11:23 pm

Markham888 is disintegrating a truly astounding collection of RQ stuff.

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