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Post Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 6:57 pm 
 

lokiwookie wrote:And what does Generic worth? Any artwork? Looks homebrew or more professionnal?


Generic is a small press item.  There is an address for mail ordering copies at $5 each.  It has been printed so its a bit more than a homebrew.

I decided to do a search for the author and came up with this:

Hans Reiser: Once a Linux Visionary, Now Accused of Murder

I'm guessing that means extra copies might be hard to find.

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Post Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 8:57 pm 
 

Mars wrote:Generic is a small press item.  There is an address for mail ordering copies at $5 each.  It has been printed so its a bit more than a homebrew.

I decided to do a search for the author and came up with this:

Hans Reiser: Once a Linux Visionary, Now Accused of Murder

I'm guessing that means extra copies might be hard to find.

Oh, God.  Hans Reiser wrote an RPG?  He's the author of some filesystem that kind of fizzled out when he was convicted.

  


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Post Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 9:01 pm 
 

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Mars wrote:A couple nice Gygax references in them too - #4 contains an interview and #5 contains a letter from Gary about the interview, etc.


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faro wrote:Those two EGG hooks are pretty useful too


Oh?  Do tell! :D


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Post Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 9:03 pm 
 

JohnGaunt wrote:Oh, God.  Hans Reiser wrote an RPG?  He's the author of some filesystem that kind of fizzled out when he was convicted.


thats what they want you to believe.. ....

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Post Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 9:11 pm 
 

beasterbrook wrote:thats what they want you to believe.. ....

Ah, I stand corrected.  ReiserFS is still going strong.

  

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Post Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 9:22 pm 
 

Mars wrote:I decided to do a search for the author and came up with this:

Hans Reiser: Once a Linux Visionary, Now Accused of Murder

I'm guessing that means extra copies might be hard to find.


Is there internet in jail? :) Perhaps he would be able to check his email


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Post Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 9:23 pm 
 

JohnGaunt wrote:Oh, God.  Hans Reiser wrote an RPG?


Yes, its the yellow covered one in a ziplock back called "GENERIC Fantasy Game" in the pictures I posted.

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Post Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 9:29 pm 
 

Just like a computer programmer.. .. Now what am I going to call this Generic RPG??.. Hmm.. let me think..

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Post Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 11:45 pm 
 

grodog wrote:Reiterated :D


In issue #4 there is an interview with Gary at the Students Union Building at Reading University.  The article is about Gary's thoughts on the development of D&D and AD&D, thoughts on fanzines, future of TSR, and some personal thoughts.

In #5 its a letter from Gary about the editing of the article published and the enthusiasm of UK fanzines.  It also includes reaction from others to Gary's interview.

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Post Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 11:39 am 
 

bombadil wrote:So the olive Ringbearer does exist.  Any textual differences between it and the tan version?


Textually they are both the same.  The only difference I can spot are on the last couple of pages: Olive coloured book has a picture of a face on p39 and The Little Soldier name/logo/address on p40 (both missing in the tan version).

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Post Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 1:16 pm 
 

JohnGaunt wrote:Ah, I stand corrected.  ReiserFS is still going strong.


I switched over to ext4.

  


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Mars wrote:
In issue #4 there is an interview with Gary at the Students Union Building at Reading University.  The article is about Gary's thoughts on the development of D&D and AD&D, thoughts on fanzines, future of TSR, and some personal thoughts.

In #5 its a letter from Gary about the editing of the article published and the enthusiasm of UK fanzines.  It also includes reaction from others to Gary's interview.


Cool, and thanks for the summaries, Mark!


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Post Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 7:49 pm 
 

Just hit a collecting milestone... found the last of the T&T solos :)

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Solos 1-24, though many, many printings yet to go...  8)

  

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Post Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 8:12 pm 
 

At my end of the fun-find scale, I bought a damaged but usable Robin's Laws of Good Gaming for $1.00.

  

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Post Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 10:19 pm 
 

davidc wrote:Solos 1-24, though many, many printings yet to go...  8)


Is a long term goal to obtain all prints?  That's a very ambitious goal.

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Post Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 9:05 am 
 

The main problem is to identify all prints... I have several prints of most of them but some prints have only few differences and it is very hard to tell which one first...
David if you find it, I would very interested by a complete list of prints for all modules and rulebooks (with differences)


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Post Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 11:02 am 
 

davidc wrote:Just hit a collecting milestone... found the last of the T&T solos :)

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Solos 1-24, though many, many printings yet to go...  8)


NICELY DONE!
I am still looking for a couple of the T&T Solos.
(15 and 17: Blue Frog Tavern and Gamesmen of Kasar.)
Dont care which printing, just want one of each Solo right now.
And from what I read, there could be as many as 15 different printings for some of them.

I have a complete set of the Socerers Apprentice Magazines now, which was not easy to accumulate at all.
I had all but a few for a long time and then bought every issue in one listing....

My most recent fun T&T purchase was a copy of Uncle Ugly's Underground Doom adventure (second print Nov 1979) :D
I had been looking for that one for a LONG time.

Also recently aquired a 30th Anniversary Tin Box Set (with Ver. 7.0 T&T Rules) that was quite tough to locate.


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Post Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:16 pm 
 

The hardest thing to find I think is the french translation of Uncle Ugly's Underground Doom precisely, and the translation of Labyrinth. They were released by a small press, Hocus Pocus who has done only these 2 products. Impossible to locate any copy. Even to find someone with one copy. I guess that they are even rarest than the 1st pr. of T&T rulebook, since at least we know that someone have one copy!

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