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JohnGaunt
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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 5:47 pm

beasterbrook wrote:If you got sick looking at the pics I suspect you will vomit when Marks says.. Don't do it Mark... LOL..

If the seller needed cash money, who knows what Mark paid.

US$250?

[Edit: faro's post snuck in before mine. $800 Canadian is still a good deal. What is that, $100 American? :wink:

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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 5:49 pm

JohnGaunt wrote:US$250?

erm, no need to guess since it's easy enough to find.

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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 5:52 pm

Lieber Gott!

It's all essentially in new condition!

Congratulations, Mark!

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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 6:09 pm

Gratz, lol. That's a serious good haul. We would all love to be that lucky!

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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 6:15 pm

Please don't speak for "all" of us; the general public might be reading.

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7.4 TAKING THE GAME SERIOUSLY: Don't"

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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 6:15 pm

It is a whole lot of hexes. It also includes 5 of those big TSR hex sheets, a large West End Games one and Chessex mat.

I am lucky - it was listed on Kijiji for 2 weeks before I found it. Almost everything is in like new condition, the WGR modules all have their maps. No, I didn't haggle it down

After I sell some of the extra stuff off, I will probably also send the seller a few extra dollars.

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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 6:20 pm

that was a sweet deal Mark! good for you...

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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 6:23 pm

Mars wrote:It is a whole lot of hexes. It also includes 5 of those big TSR hex sheets

Which about doubles the number I've seen in one go.

Mars wrote:No, I didn't haggle it down After I sell some of the extra stuff off, I will probably also send the seller a few extra dollars.

Thumbs-up to that Mark.

Shouldn't take too long to get that cash flow going, given the obvious. (Well, if you were tempted to sell, that is; albeit that's non-TSR, too

)

Would be curious to know why those apparent gaps in the dates, doubly so given the condition. Did they just feel liking buying D&D stuff from time-to-time and never really play that much, or is there another stack with them or someone else that wasn't sold?

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7.4 TAKING THE GAME SERIOUSLY: Don't"

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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 6:34 pm

It seems to me that the small press stuff was the early interest, then moved into AD&D later. The WGR1 is the second print, etc so that 1st edition modules were skipped.

Is it strange that I am more excited about find The Black Vial, Weres, and the Wizard Guild Games items than Pharaoh?

Also interesting that the city this lot was found in is the same place that SimperingToad picked up a Pharaoh from about a month ago. Time for a trip to Saskatchewan.

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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 6:44 pm

Mars wrote:Also interesting that the city this lot was found in is the same place that SimperingToad picked up a Pharaoh from about a month ago. Time for a trip to Saskatchewan.

That's weird. I wonder if there were some for sale at a con there thirty years ago, or if a couple friends each ordered copies.

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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 6:49 pm

Mars wrote:It seems to me that the small press stuff was the early interest, then moved into AD&D later. The WGR1 is the second print, etc so that 1st edition modules were skipped.

With that run of Abyss somewhat underpinning the earlier timeframe and a couple of other items "on the side". Does look almost like two totally separate collections, both more-or-less unused, as that is: but why buy so many hex sheets, pads, etc. if not playing? Strange indeed!

Mars wrote:The Black Vial, Weres

Mars wrote:Also interesting that the city this lot was found in is the same place that SimperingToad picked up a Pharaoh from about a month ago. Time for a trip to Saskatchewan.

Someone's game shop did a bulk purchase bitd, eh?

TheHistorian wrote:That's weird. I wonder if there were some for sale at a con there thirty years ago, or if a couple friends each ordered copies.

Or the latter?

(Did Saskatchewan have cons in the early 80s? *jk*)

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7.4 TAKING THE GAME SERIOUSLY: Don't"

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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 6:55 pm

TheHistorian wrote:That's weird. I wonder if there were some for sale at a con there thirty years ago, or if a couple friends each ordered copies.

The two main cities in Saskatchewan (Regina and Saskatoon) had a couple really good game stores back then. One was called The Wizard's Corner and the other Books Unlimited. Both seemed to carry a lot of small press stuff so the two Pharaoh's and most of the small press stuff and fanzines were all bought locally. The Wizard's corner also organized a local con and related people wrote the tournament modules. One that was listed on the old Afterglow was called "The Manor of Lord Alderic of Enroc for Wizard's Challenge in Saskatoon, Sask, 1983 by Kelly Sturch and Dan Hatchen. I think Kelly was the owner of The Wizard's Corner.

After these stores closed a lot of the stock ended up at The Sentry Box in Calgary, Alberta. I have spent a few thousand bucks there over the years now and a lot of the small press items have the original Wizard's Corner price stickers on them (I think some also have Books Unlimited stickers too).

The Wizard's Corner was also advertised in Dragon Magazine a number of times too.

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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 7:01 pm

No luck in tracking down a copy of any of the tournament adventures though. Kelly Sturch passed away a while back and Dan Hatchen has spent the last many years trying to clear his name. I even tracked down the person who bought the store after Kelly passed away but got no response

Still hopeful that one day more tournament modules will pop up out of Saskatchewan.

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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:04 pm

wow, congratulations!

i hope i will one day find an equivalent lot of soul and jazz records for that price.

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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 11:53 pm

Great find, Mark!

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Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 12:09 am

Awesome pick-up there Mark PDT_Armataz_01_37

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Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 12:24 am

I noticed Vial right away. Blows Pharaoh away in rarity, I think.

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Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 7:22 am

Nice find Mark

Those books look to be in spetacular shape - well done!

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