increment wrote:ExTSR wrote:It's more than a little strange that BoardGameGeek seems to lack a picture of 'big pink' from 1959, the 1st printing of Dip. Its cartoon cover portrays 1950s Americans in a cocktail-party setting, and its overall color is pink. The only one I've ever found was owned by famed boardgame designer/collector Sid Sackson, and I'm extremely glad I grabbed that ultra-rare copy.Yeah those self-published editions are quite rare. I turned over quite a few stones trying to find one. This one here is a Games Research edition, probably from the early 1970s. The board in it is still a rendition of the original Calhamer board from 1959, though. Rarer still would be the Game of Realpolitik pre-pub, but fortunately there are scans online.http://www.diplom.org/~diparch/diplomacy_rules.htm
ExTSR wrote:It's more than a little strange that BoardGameGeek seems to lack a picture of 'big pink' from 1959, the 1st printing of Dip. Its cartoon cover portrays 1950s Americans in a cocktail-party setting, and its overall color is pink. The only one I've ever found was owned by famed boardgame designer/collector Sid Sackson, and I'm extremely glad I grabbed that ultra-rare copy.
aia wrote:I have never played this game, but i am glad to see that in the maps of the game my home town seems to be the capital of former Yugoslavia! 8O
red_bus wrote:Spring 1901..
sauromatian wrote:Your mean Trst?
aia wrote:oh, please, dont call Trieste that way... it'd be considered offensive here... Trieste has a very very complicated history, especially in the 19th and 20th century... Trst is the yugoslavian translation of the real name of the town, Trieste (btw, Trieste comes from the latin "tergeste" which means "built three times": it's likely that in origin my town was destroyed and rebuilt 3 times... i am ref to Roman age!)... and due to huge problems we had here during WWII with Yugoslavia and Tito's army, this is not the nicest way to call it (in the past those who want to hurt citizens used to write on walls "Trst je nas" which means "Trieste is our").
SimperingToad wrote:They haven't sold for months at the least. It's been so long, I don't recall when they first appeared.
JasonZavoda wrote:SimperingToad wrote:They haven't sold for months at the least. It's been so long, I don't recall when they first appeared.It is costing him $6 a year at the prices he is asking (if the are all priced at his The Shire level). I doubt these are ever going to reprinted and the Tolkien estate seems to have moved from licensing RPGs to Miniature games. Is he ever going to be able to replace them and at what cost?I have no idea who this guy is, though people selling these kinds of MERP items are probably benefiting immensely from his high asking price. It is always nice to have someone to undercut.There are definitely two very different philosophies between a collector looking to sell unwanted or extra items and a reseller looking for top dollar. I have no idea what a shrinkwrapped 2nd edition MERP Shire book should go for. How off-base is his pricing?
SimperingToad wrote:If he's dropping these in with his 50-free-per-month listings, it's not costing a thing to list them.
Mars wrote:SimperingToad wrote:If he's dropping these in with his 50-free-per-month listings, it's not costing a thing to list them.They are strictly BIN listings not auctions with BIN so they don't qualify for the 50-free-per-month.