Hey all, I recently won the auction from amandadub of the lot of arduin cards and now i am trying to identify the origin of each card... my first impression is that many different product have been shuffled all together...

Ok, a part of them are coming from the arduin dungeons (1-4): i checked them with the contents of these products and there's a 10% match (despite the fact that the quality of the paper is idfferent which leads me to think to a possible different printing... i hope they're not fake!)

now, the big isssue is about everything which is not coming from the arduin dungeons: afaik there have been different products issued by different publishers (Grimoire Games and International Gamers Association at least...). I checked Heroic Worlds and apparently these might be the products of the cards i have:

Arduin Artifact Cards by Grimoire Games (contents: 4 sheets, cover), 1980
Arduin Monster Cards by Grimoire Games (contents: 4 sheets, cover), 1980
Arduin Treasure Pak by Grimoire Games (contents: 12 sheets), 1980
Arduin Weapons Cards by Grimoire Games (contents: 4 sheets, cover), 1980
Magik Artifacts from Arduin by International Gamers Association (contents: 4 sheets), 1977
Magik Weapons from Arduin by International Gamers Association (contents: 4 sheets), 1977
Monsters from Arduin by International Gamers Association (contents: 4 sheets), 1977

Is there anybody who might help me in this task of tracking down the original product where these are from?

I own some monster cards by Grimoire games and they dont match with any of the cards i won, hence my first approach would be a check with the international gamers association products... (and the check is not related to the side "A", the images but with the side "B", the descirptions).

Any help/support is more than welcome!

PS: as soon as i have identified the cards,i will try to list them in the "complete your incomplete products"!

copycat wrote:I know you said you checked against the Dungeons, but in hopes of helping anyway, here is my thread on that matter....

http://acaeum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f ... lit=arduin

I'd have to hunt down where I keep the other card sets.

howdy and thanks for the link: dungeons 1, 3, 4 are matching with mines... if youre interested i can send you a spare set of dungeon 2 cards (unfortunately they are cut, but it'd be helpful in any case...).

In case send me your email via PM!

bump!

I had the luck to find this auction:


** expired/removed eBay auction **


and the monsters set i have matches exactly with the one here! (of course i have also the 24th missing card...)

so, the info i got from Shick's "Heroic Worlds" should be amended: this product is not by International Gamers Association (where, i assumed, Erol Otus worke), but it is a Multiversal Trading Company and the author of the artowrks is Hargrave himself (!!!)... from the contents of the "cover sheet" there is a clear mention of the weapons and artifact cards as well (and this confirms that they have been issued by the same publisher)...

Great piece of info, i will update my colleciton db!

ciaooo