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grodog
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 1:28 pm

TheHistorian wrote in Interesting Non-TSR Items Formerly on eBay:
webrik33 wrote in Interesting Non-TSR Items Formerly on eBay:and now for the double DOH! it was Discovery Games 'Source of the Nile' i won for less than $20, not valley of the pharohs :oops:

Well I paid a lot closer to $20 than $75 for my VotP, so there's one at the lower end.

I've bought two incomplete copies for ~$20 or so each IIRC, in the hope that I could assemble a complete one. Once I find the first, I'll be able to see whether I have a complete set or not :oops:

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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 2:57 pm

grodog wrote in Interesting Non-TSR Items Formerly on eBay:
red_bus wrote in Interesting Non-TSR Items Formerly on eBay:Hard to find Pagan Publishing Players Aid Kit

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This one is for Realm of Shadows.

Wow. That's the most I've seen these sell for, by a significant amount.

Nope. Previous pair went very high:

Re: Interesting Non-TSR Items Currently on eBay

And my comments at the time are pretty close to what I ending up paying for the current pair (yes, I bought them, so my opinion on the handouts in general has changed):

Re: Interesting Non-TSR Items Currently on eBay

Areas of interest/knowledge: Harn, WFRP, Ars Magica, anything BRP based such as CoC, Runequest, Pendragon and all their related games

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Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2014 9:26 pm

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ok some of you guys clue me in cause I don't have a clue why this went for so much $$$

is it ultra rare? one of a kind?

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Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2014 10:01 pm

well let's see, i think this is how i put it last time: a case of two old skul acaeumites trying really hard to knock an item off their want list (with another usual suspect waiting in the wings).

speaking just for myself (which is almost always the way to go, advice i wish i had followed more during my life) as of this morning i had (these numbers are all singles, no doubles)
6327 FRP Items
2382 FRP Magazines
77 Tournament Adventures
107 Personal Manuscripts
206 TSR Internal Memos/Letters
90 Personal Letters to Hobby VIG's
87 Convention Programs/Misc.
74 Fantasy Gaming Misc. (from Tom Wham's personal Bolotomus to the TSR archives copy of Twenty Years of TSR)
or 9350 different items. There are 270 things I am looking for (that I know of) to then have one of every FRP item made through 2003. Heroic Worlds, published in 1990 by Prometheus Press was/is the definitive published source for role-playing items and became a checklist for myself (and others). So when an item comes up that "we" have not seen a copy of, in 24 years of looking, the price jumps. Much too high? Perhaps. But I'm happy that my want list is now down to 269.

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Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 3:31 am

for the dedicated numerologists among us: of the 6327 FRP Items:
71.2% are "normal-size" 8.5"x11" or larger
15.5% are digest-sized
7.2% are boxed
6.0% are hardcover books
0.2% are tubed

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Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 8:50 am

webrik33 wrote in Interesting Non-TSR Items Formerly on eBay:ok some of you guys clue me in cause I don't have a clue why this went for so much $$$

is it ultra rare? one of a kind?

Extremely rare. Only the second copy I have seen in 15 years...
(the other copy was sold by theshield2000/Christophe, a french guy. IIRC, Mars won it for half that price. I remember since I was second bidder

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Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 9:26 am

lokiwookie wrote in Interesting Non-TSR Items Formerly on eBay:Extremely rare. Only the second copy I have seen in 15 years...
(the other copy was sold by theshield2000/Christophe, a french guy. IIRC, Mars won it for half that price. I remember since I was second bidder )

Did I? I will have to go check - I sure didn't think I had it but maybe I do (if Bill or Brett didn't have it, then it seems logical that I might).

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Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 12:22 pm

Or perhaps it was David.
Anyway, one on this short list

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Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 2:32 am

Mars wrote in Interesting Non-TSR Items Formerly on eBay:Did I? I will have to go check - I sure didn't think I had it but maybe I do (if Bill or Brett didn't have it, then it seems logical that I might).

Areas of interest/knowledge: Harn, WFRP, Ars Magica, anything BRP based such as CoC, Runequest, Pendragon and all their related games

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Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 5:38 am

complete set of Zagyg stuff here:

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Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 12:38 pm

aia wrote in Interesting Non-TSR Items Formerly on eBay:complete set of Zagyg stuff here:

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Minimum shipping $71.75 to the UK? Please never say UK international postage is expensive again...

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Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 12:23 pm

Strat, is Kalifax in the list of 270 items?

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Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 2:21 pm

Hi Frank, Bracton & I both picked up Kalifax and Adventure Pack I that added on to it at GenCon in 1994.

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Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2014 11:10 pm

Less than an hour to go on a nice looking, first print Thieves' World.

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Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2014 4:30 am

Bracton wrote in Interesting Non-TSR Items Formerly on eBay:Less than an hour to go on a nice looking, first print Thieves' World.

** expired/removed eBay auction **

I know I've said this before but I'm going to ask again...why so high on this? I won one of these in the $20 range. Great shape

is there something about this one that is special?

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Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2014 9:34 am

If you look at the bidding you see that two bidders both wanted it and, I presume, got quite excited bidding against each other. Plus the box looks nice and there is an extra booklet (the thieves world "traitor" one).

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Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2014 9:38 am

The first print is also a bit harder to find than the later prints, especially in nice condition. Although I have no idea if the bidders even knew it was a first print . . . .

Also, it's actually a good product. Not that that necessarily has anything to do with price. :lol:

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Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2014 10:48 am

I really should look at my stuff before I post.. :idea:

I do not own this. It's the Mayfair Games version I have. Sanctuary or something. Doh :roll:

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