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Post Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 4:58 pm 
 

nn wrote:I guess its the GM's half of a supplement for a forgotten mid-80's rpg. Since a 'Riding' is an English term for an area, like parish or county & the artwork styie looks familiar - like Talisman or maybe Cry Havoc - id guess its British.

The word is a corruption of the Old Norse þriðing (thridhing or thrithing) meaning a third part as in East, West and North Ridings of Yorkshire.

  


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Post Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 5:07 pm 
 

johnhuck wrote:
nn wrote:I guess its the GM's half of a supplement for a forgotten mid-80's rpg. Since a 'Riding' is an English term for an area, like parish or county & the artwork styie looks familiar - like Talisman or maybe Cry Havoc - id guess its British.

The word is a corruption of the Old Norse þriðing (thridhing or thrithing) meaning a third part as in East, West and North Ridings of Yorkshire.

I could be wrong, but I believe in more recent times, a riding was considered roughly the distance a horse could travel in a day.  

We have ridings in Canada currently.  They consist of one or more counties in rural regions, and much smaller areas in cities, since they are now based on population.  Each riding votes for one provincial member of parliament.  Federal politics use the same system but the ridings are not necessarily the same.  The boundaries change slightly each election to account for population shifts.

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Post Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 5:11 pm 
 

deimos3428 wrote:I could be wrong, but I believe in more recent times, a riding was considered roughly the distance a horse could travel in a day.  

We have ridings in Canada currently.  They consist of one or more counties in rural regions, and much smaller areas in cities, since they are now based on population.  Each riding votes for one provincial member of parliament.  Federal politics use the same system but the ridings are not necessarily the same.  The boundaries change slightly each election to account for population shifts.

Although the Canadian term is derived from the English it is not used in quite the same way.

Lindsey, a subdivision of Lincolnshire, also possessed Ridings, in this case the North, West and South ridings.

The term Farthing (four-thing) is analogous. Gloucestershire was once divided into Farthings, and in Middle-earth, The Shire is divided into four Farthings.  And a farthing was also a quarter of a penny prior to decimalisation.

  


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Post Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 11:15 pm 
 

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Delf -- Lair of the Medusa:

cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&a ... 3&rd=1

No idea what this is, and my copy of Heroic Worlds is nowhere to be found. Anybody know anything about this one?


Delf no date but I would guess early 80s, 17 pages of very small print. Author - Kelly Villemaire, Co-author John Edwards.  Looks like a tough adventure for the recommended levels.

Hope that helps.  BTW if you lose the auction, I have an extra copy I would be willing to trade...

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Post Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 9:45 am 
 



I was watching this one with interest.  I decided to manually snipe it and when the auction had 26 seconds left, I placed a bid and hit submit . . .  and waited . . . and waited . . . and waited . . . oops, we're sorry the auction has ended.  

Arrrrrghhh!  Of all the times for  the cable modem to have a glitch  :evil:

Good win, improvestone.  Good win.

  


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Post Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 4:12 pm 
 

At least you remembered to place a bid. I put it on my watch list for a manual snipe and got suckered into handing out candy for trick-or-treaters. I didn't get back to the computer until it was all over...

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Post Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 11:34 pm 
 

Tortured Souls #1, and several other issues by the same seller:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... RK:MEWA:IT


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Post Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 11:40 pm 
 

For the Chaosium collectors out there...

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Post Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 11:44 pm 
 

and another Chaosium....

cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem& ... 6&rd=1


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Post Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 3:04 am 
 

... and another

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... RK:MEWA:IT

Actually, I'm curious about this one. IIRC, my copy came bagged, not boxed (or is that some sort of bag? It's not the best photo I've ever seen). It's been a LOT of years, though, and I could be mis-rembering.

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Post Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 12:57 pm 
 

My copies of both WBRM and NG are both bagged, although WBRM was later re-released as DragonPass (NG was never re-released).


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Post Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 5:00 pm 
 

"bentleychester" on ebay uk has a whole load of rpg stuff.

bentleychester | eBay

3 pages of fanzines, Arduin, old fantasy wargames rules, solo gamebooks etc.

  

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Post Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 5:52 pm 
 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 5932193491

Mine has to be a different printing.  This is like the third time I've seen this one with a monochrome cover.  The cover on mine is in full color.



  

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Post Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 7:44 pm 
 

There are many printings of all Dragon Tree Press books.


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Post Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 12:45 pm 
 

Rune Quest Minitures

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Post Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 2:30 am 
 

I think this is a new high for Starstone:  
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... RK:MEDW:IT

And I'm not familiar with Standing Stones, but it went for a bundle too:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... RK:MEDW:IT


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Post Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 3:34 am 
 

grodog wrote:I think this is a new high for Starstone:  ...


Indeed ... Scott is becoming quite agressive in his bids  :lol:

Of course this fits in with his comments on where he sees the market going and my long term views...

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Post Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 5:27 am 
 

grodog wrote:I think this is a new high for Starstone:  
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... RK:MEDW:IT

That does it  8O . I'll sell mine too  :lol:

  
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