benjoshua wrote in Stupidly Rare Non-TSR Products:I would like to add Eye of the Eagle and Brimstone to this discussion. Both of these were written by Tracy Hickman and published for a limited number of buyers. I've never seen either of these come up on eBay.BrimstoneEye of the Dragon Photos
Deadlord wrote in Stupidly Rare Non-TSR Products:... Strat nailed it on the head; in the old days it wasn't really about making a profit as much as owning something for a while and passing it on. Many of us used to trade or outright GIVE items to each other. ...
Badmike wrote in Stupidly Rare Non-TSR Products:Tabletop Warriors published in 1984, digest sized supplement only distributed in Texas. Several years later got some more from the original author, but his stock was destroyed in a flood. Maybe 50 or so are floating around out there, all in collector's hands.
Badmike wrote in Stupidly Rare Non-TSR Products:I know this sounds morbid, but as the original generation of RPG collector's die out, some of the hard to find stuff will become available again.
Badmike wrote in Stupidly Rare Non-TSR Products:..., and called them to come pick it up before it ended up in a dumpster (gasp!) .
Badmike wrote in Stupidly Rare Non-TSR Products:..sadly, many collectors still fail to communicate to relatives the actual worth and scarcity of what they are holding, or the relatives left holding the bag simply don't have the time or effort to get the value of the collection by selling it piece by piece.
jkason wrote in Stupidly Rare Non-TSR Products:Plus, it helps figure out how much my addiction ACTUALLY costs.
mbassoc2003 wrote in Stupidly Rare Non-TSR Products:Now that's something many of us might not wish to tell our spouses.
ZardokhasSpoken wrote in Stupidly Rare Non-TSR Products:Indeed! And as more Esoteric Priests of Forgotten Lore transcend this earthly plane, more and more items will be lost, to tomb raiders and natural causes. This will increase their scarcity but not necessarily their value. It is the old guard that treasures them, and is willing to pay the high prices, for reasons of nostalgia, etc. The new guard will only see them as a curiosity, and values will plummet. One need only look at the car market for such evidence. I for one have stopped collecting things due to rarity, and have instead focused on utility - if I do not feel it has a place in my game world, it has little value to me.
mbassoc2003 wrote in Stupidly Rare Non-TSR Products:All the more reason for people to archive such things digitally, so they are not lost to the ravages of poor planning, ambivalent spouses, and time.
ZardokhasSpoken wrote in Stupidly Rare Non-TSR Products:Make sure you have that hard drive backed up!
mbassoc2003 wrote in Stupidly Rare Non-TSR Products:I write to more than one. The problem is still the same though. If you get hit by a bus, your spouse sticks your external HDs in the bin. So you still need a sticker of your external HDs to say, 'send this to X and XXX in the event of my death'. Cos if you upload to cloud storage, no matter how secure or private, sooner or later your PDFs will end up going wild. Of course you don't have the same problem with the current batch of RPGs or the OSR community in general, cos all of their stuff is already produced digitally and uploaded to DrivethruRPG or one of their other shopfronts, and there are hundreds of copies of their products already sold, so its really only the early d20 and previous that has an archival problem that will be depleted/eliminated over time.
beasterbrook wrote in Stupidly Rare Non-TSR Products:I don't track what I spend.. plausible deniabilityBrette:)
mbassoc2003 wrote in Stupidly Rare Non-TSR Products:... or an instinctive mechanism to avoid depression?
