dbartman wrote:The 2nd print is really nothing like the first. I have not been able to confirm what all was included with the 2nd print, though I am reasonably confident that mine is compete. The cover is a different color. Here's the link to info on both:The Character Archaic Print Sequence
Deadlord39 wrote:Mike Kuo and I picked up our copies a few years back, I think from Titan Games. IIRC, they were $40.I doubt you will see one up anytime soon. They're insanely rare, and I imagine most copies were disassembled to be played with.
tool wrote:Sorry to jump in here so late, but I just saw the thread...As I recall, Dragonlord had an ad in the back which listed products not otherwise mentioned here - I believe one was a set of Lord of the Rings character cards. It is possible this was a Cosmic Frog item as opposed to Wee Warriors (Dragonlord was from both WW and Cosmic Frog, if I am remembering what it said correctly - I should have scanned the bloody thing for reference purposes). I know nothing about the Cosmic Frog company other than that it was mentioned in Dragonlord.I should probably note here that since I sold my copy to Mike Kuo (Deadlord39 may have gotten his copy from Titan, but Mike didn't), this still just makes two known copies. The one I had was not disassembled because it had originally been the Judges' Guild file copy.
tool wrote:The one I had was not disassembled because it had originally been the Judges' Guild file copy.
Formerly Known As Morno wrote:About "Dragonlord"I saw this post long before I registered here, and I think its good news for some and not for others that there was never a second printing - my memory is pretty unreliable after 30 years, but the first printing was probably as few as 100 copies. Those two copies could be the only survivors, for all I know.
tdewey10 wrote:Sigh. I bought my copy back in '77 or so in Princeton, N.J. when I was 10. Lost it in a move immediately thereafter.Ah well - we all have to have our Holy Grail of collecting and this is certainly mine ;P I'll just have to keep checking ebay.Anyone of you two who own a copy mind putting some scans up on BGG for me to turn green over?
tool wrote:Sorry to jump in here so late, but I just saw the thread...As I recall, Dragonlord had an ad in the back which listed products not otherwise mentioned here - I believe one was a set of Lord of the Rings character cards.
tool wrote:I know nothing about the Cosmic Frog company other than that it was mentioned in Dragonlord.
Formerly Known As Morno wrote:The "Middle Earth Cards" were greeting cards with my illustrations for The Lord of the Rings - there were two sets, each with three cards each of two different illustrations. They were something I had printed myself, before, during and after the WW days.
Formerly Known As Morno wrote:...he also included one copy of a portfolio I published right after I left WW. This was called "The Dice of Fate", and had a series of 8 1/2 x 11" prints of my WW covers, my Alarums & Excursions covers (more than I remembered, including one that wasn't used) and some original art that I don't think ever showed up anyplace else.
Formerly Known As Morno wrote:I keep meaning to scan some of those to post here, but obviously I haven't gotten around to it yet.
faro wrote:If I may lead off, then, with a slight non-WW digression? One of my favorites (A&E #11; 5/76 - apologies for the rather rough scan);
MShipley88 wrote:My favorite Morno work is in the Arduin materials.
Formerly Known As Morno wrote:The first one is that A&E cover that wasn't used; I can't remember why.
Formerly Known As Morno wrote:These are pretty difficult to scan well because they're on a textured paper; adjusting the brightness and contrast tends to knock out the texture, but also may kill some of the finer line work.
Formerly Known As Morno wrote:And no, none of the work for The Dragon was in there. As far as I recall they only bought First North American serial rights, and in fact there are some extenuating circumstances that would give me the rights to most of it anyhow.
Formerly Known As Morno wrote:It would be even harder to get good scans of the Middle Earth Cards drawings, since the cards were printed on colored stock. I only know where one of those originals is, and I know that my favorite one burned up in a house fire.