Just a quick question as it pertains to shrinkwrap.

Is a module worth more MISW or not?

(I ask because I have the Limited Edition Camarilla and Sabbat Guides from White Wolf.. the shrinkwrap was removed (but the books unread)... I'm debating whether or not I should replace them with a shrinkwrapped set.. - And yes, I have _all_ the LEs from the Revised runs)

Chris

If they are mint buy a heat gun and some shrink wrap and presto,  it mint in shrink

bbarsh wrote:Once out of the shrink, it should stay out.

Anyway, ethically, you would have to identify the fact that you reshrinked it, at the very least.

I agree but putting your stuff back into shrink helps to keep the stuff mint.

Personally I hate shrink wrap, but I'm a reader/admirer of the material as well as a seller of rpgs so when I get something really cool but shrinkwrapped, my 2 inner demons collide each wanting to have their way with the poor little game book.

I no longer buy rpg stuff for investment, so I prefer them to be unshrinked.

Moreso if they are in boxed sets because I fear that they were re-shrinked and components would be missing or damaged.

Like the above, I don't like shrink that much because you can't read the stuff. I do buy it from time to time - and what I have found is that books that have been stored in shrink for years still get damaged. For example:

- The staples certainly rust - possibly (and I am speculating here) more quickly than in books stored open because the plastic wrap encourages condensation if there are temperature changes (i.e. the shelves of a games shop going from warm during the day to cool at night and back again).

- Mould can grow inside shrink - especially in shrinkwrapped box sets.

- Spines can still be creased.

- Corners can still be bent and bashed.

- Shrinkwrap can bend and warp books - it seems to tighten over time (or maybe it was often done too tight at the start).

It is *really* disappointing to buy a module which is described as mint and new (because it is in the original shrinkwrap) only to discover when it arrives that the spine is creased, the staples seriously rusty and the corners bent. Once I opened a shrinkwrapped box set and there were great patches of mould over the inside. So now I like to check stuff when it arrives to see if it genuinely is mint etc...

Two asides here:

1.  it does seem to me that there is lees and less genuinely mint/near mint stuff out there. I had hoped that as more people got onto ebay that quality as well as quantity would improve, but now I am not so sure.

2.  reading the above -- makes me sound really obsessive -- and not a little sad honestly, in real life I am in large part a complete slacker/ lazy slob


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I hope that in time to come, when I am rich and fabulously famous, the press don't find out that I posted about the relative merits of shrinkwrapped (or not) role-playing games on a public website. Hard to imagine what could be more embarassing...


hmmm, maybe being caught naked amongst a flock of sheep (i would imagine)



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At the GenCon auction, at least, we can spot true vintage TSR bubbly/ragged shrink (with the airhole) and call it when items are reshrink'd.



Anywhere else, YMMV.

I am super anal about condition of items.  So I have in the past bought and opened shrinkwrapped modules, just so I could have a NM version of a module.



Nowadays I'd just buy an opened one that's in NM shape.



I look at some of what I had shrinked and think I shouldn't have done that.