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Post Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 9:54 pm 
 

JohnGaunt wrote:The HPB 20%-Off sale is still going, too.  *sigh*


Yeah, I took advantage of the 20% off sale and a gift certificate myself this past weekend.  Picked up a whole bunch of Midnight adventures and supplements for $2.50 apiece, a Shadowrun 1st ed. hardback to replace my well loved softcover, and some cheap console games for NES, Genesis, and X-Box.  It was like Christmas all over again.  :D


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Post Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 4:04 pm 
 

My best find of 2009 was today!

Palace Of The Vampire Queen (5th print) was sitting among the usual junk at one my FLGS.  It's solid and complete.  Condition is at least Fine.

Thank god for the 30% off end of year sale, or else I might have had to come up with the marked price of $2.99.




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Your (likely) reaction:   8O  :evil:  8O
  

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Post Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 8:04 pm 
 

TheHistorian wrote:My best find of 2009 was today!

Palace Of The Vampire Queen (5th print) was sitting among the usual junk at one my FLGS.  It's solid and complete.  Condition is at least Fine.

Thank god for the 30% off end of year sale, or else I might have had to come up with the marked price of $2.99.


Wow, what a find - Congrats!

(Now just try to top that next year :))
  

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Post Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 10:40 am 
 

davidc wrote:
Wow, what a find - Congrats!

(Now just try to top that next year :))


What, no collector moralists to decry the fact you didn't pay the FLGS an appropriate price for that hard to find collectible?  Not that I'm one of those, I prefer to pay as little as humanly possible if the seller is ignorant or too lazy to value their items accurately. :wink:


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Post Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 11:21 am 
 

simrion wrote:

What, no collector moralists to decry the fact you didn't pay the FLGS an appropriate price for that hard to find collectible?  Not that I'm one of those, I prefer to pay as little as humanly possible if the seller is ignorant or too lazy to value their items accurately. :wink:


It's only a 5th print.  Now if it was a 1st print that would be an outrage.  :P  :wink:


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Post Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 9:16 am 
 

Kingofpain89 wrote:
It's only a 5th print.  Now if it was a 1st print that would be an outrage.  :P  :wink:


Nice!   :lol:


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Post Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 10:04 am 
 

I got a nice price on a Tulan:


** expired/removed eBay auction **


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Post Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 10:16 am 
 

Prufrock wrote:I got a nice price on a Tulan:


** expired/removed eBay auction **


Martin


Hopefully, she will ship it to you in a reasonable amount of time  8O


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Post Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 10:27 am 
 

Invincible Overlord wrote:
Hopefully, she will ship it to you in a reasonable amount of time  8O


I've bought from her before and did not have a problem.

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Post Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 4:25 pm 
 


** expired/removed eBay auction **


Castles&Crusades modules. A ton of them (19 modules, a setting folio and a players handbook) for $77 shipped. I owned maybe two or three of these and while I don't use the C&C system they are easy converts back to the one true game of AD&D.
  

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Post Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 4:31 pm 
 

JasonZavoda wrote:
** expired/removed eBay auction **


Castles&Crusades modules. A ton of them (19 modules, a setting folio and a players handbook) for $77 shipped. I owned maybe two or three of these and while I don't use the C&C system they are easy converts back to the one true game of AD&D.


Nice win.

As far as I can tell, there is no need to convert Castles and Crusades modules.  Just use as written.


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Post Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 12:04 am 
 

Not Even RPG related but today at my local thrift I walked in and found:

Risk 2210
Settlers of Catan
Cities and Knights of Catan
Seafarers of Catan
Arkham Horror : Arkham Horror | Board Game | BoardGameGeek
War in the Age of Imperialism : War! Age of Imperialism | Board Game | BoardGameGeek
Avalon Hill's Age of Rennaisance: Age of Renaissance | Board Game | BoardGameGeek

and The Worst Case Scenario Game (consumery but fun)

I would normally not deign to sully these boards with Boardgame buys but in total these games go for $300+ and I paid $15.00.

WOOT.


I hope to walk in there one day and find RPG stuff, but so far, this is my best haul.


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Post Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 12:49 am 
 

FormCritic wrote:As far as I can tell, there is no need to convert Castles and Crusades modules.  Just use as written.


C&C more-or-less uses OGL game mechanics (armor class goes up from 10 instead of down, etc.) rather than the rules of AD&D. But of course there's no way you could have known that, since I've just been informed that nobody plays Castles and Crusades.
  

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Post Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 1:12 am 
 

If you can't adjust for stats pretty much on the fly then you can't really DM, can you?


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Post Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 7:38 am 
 

FormCritic wrote:If you can't adjust for stats pretty much on the fly then you can't really DM, can you?


As you indicated earlier; C&C stats are simple to use as they are, but if you feel the need to re-arrange some or all of the rules/stats to fit your own needs, that too is quite easy to do.

My grandson has been playing C&C and AD&D for a little over a year and is already creating his own dungeons/adventures with maps, mostly using revised C&C rules, revisions of AD&D, even 3.5 ED, and some other rules of his own devising.

From the start I told him that the books are guides to his own adventures and following them to the letter is NEVER required, though that is one of many options.

Basically stated; House Rules are the Rule at his house. :lol:


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Post Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 2:38 pm 
 


** expired/removed eBay auction **


This was a fantastic find if you are Battletech fan (especially one as stupid as I was to get rid of all my Battletech stuff years and years ago). These books are incredibly hard to find now or expensive.
  

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Post Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 6:38 am 
 

To me this was a nice find :

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Post Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 7:34 am 
 

Nice one!!!


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