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Thunderdave
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Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 11:04 pm

yup... mine's like that.

I haven't seen your index before, so I'll be busy for a little while...

Thanks, Brett

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Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 11:12 pm

davidc wrote:Umm... my # 15 is green.

Is that the camera playing tricks, or are my eyes failing? (or is there a reprinting I don't know about?)

Bluish-green, as with yours and Brette's. Easy enough to end up with pale blue either with a dodgy camera, poor color correction without having the original in front to compare or if adjusting to minimise faults. Not that that couldn't be a genuine variation given difficulty in obtaining paper stock for an increased circulation or any other similar reason.
(The seller in question quotes everything as being a "first and only" print, regardless, it appears. A pity since their UOs and TBHs went /relatively/ low when that was genuinely the case...).

Messed up the camera angle, so apologies for the rotation artifacts.

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Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 11:26 pm

re. DL;

beasterbrook wrote:by low I mean single digit..

*nods*. That tallies, with variation by issue dependent as much on profile in WD or at cons as anything else it seems. Adjusting print run in line with those wouldn't be unheard of but I don't recall spotting anything about that in the 'zine to confirm/deny.

beasterbrook wrote:, although The beholder has seen a far few for sale lately (but they were reprinted quite a bit I suppose)..

Still don't know quite how many reprints on those... Doesn't help, either, to have to deal with the overlapping earlier in the run when trying to work that out!

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Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 11:56 pm

davidc wrote:yup... mine's like that.

I haven't seen your index before, so I'll be busy for a little while...

Thanks, Brett

needs updating.. but I'm going wiki style I think easier for other people to do and indexing etc..

Brette:)

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Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 12:02 am

faro wrote:re. DL;

Still don't know quite how many reprints on those... Doesn't help, either, to have to deal with the overlapping earlier in the run when trying to work that out!

a lot of small print runs for a zine thats for sure, hard to know as did reprints only on issues that ran out etc... you actively collecting the print runs? I don't think I will be, althought I do have a copy of examples of the different prints...

Brette:)

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Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 8:30 pm

faro wrote:Messed up the camera angle, so apologies for the rotation artifacts.

The "rotation artifacts" appear perfectly aligned. :twisted:

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Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 8:37 pm

beasterbrook wrote:a lot of small print runs for a zine thats for sure, hard to know as did reprints only on issues that ran out etc... you actively collecting the print runs? I don't think I will be, althought I do have a copy of examples of the different prints...

Brette:)

Mostly only collating the print runs to enter into the master spreadsheet and trying to make some sense of those, Brette! As you'll have noticed, no doubt, it's a bit more clear-cut for the later reprints where the /whole/ (original) series was apparently reprinted at once (for con sales, for example), but delving into the earlier reprints does require cross-checking against editorial comments and suchlike.

Had been putting together a spare set or two over time only generally where those were relatively "sensibly" priced - aiming £5 average, say - either for freebies or swaps, without getting into any "bidding wars".

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7.4 TAKING THE GAME SERIOUSLY: Don't"

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Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 8:42 pm

benjoshua wrote:The "rotation artifacts" appear perfectly aligned.

*rofl*

£31 per $ apparently, these days. Tips not included...

I'll resist the temptation to scan any of the similar covers, for now! Hardly a novel sales pitch, eh, but just a bit more tasteful than WD#5?

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7.4 TAKING THE GAME SERIOUSLY: Don't"

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Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 8:44 pm

beasterbrook wrote:needs updating.. but I'm going wiki style I think easier for other people to do and indexing etc..

=> http://wiki.acaeum.com/wiki/ ?

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7.4 TAKING THE GAME SERIOUSLY: Don't"

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Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 10:12 pm

faro wrote:
Had been putting together a spare set or two over time only generally where those were relatively "sensibly" priced - aiming £5 average, say - either for freebies or swaps, without getting into any "bidding wars".

ah yes.. the prices are a bit "off" at the moment thats for sure...

Brette:)

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Mars
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 8:03 pm

This is just crazy:

http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0354507656

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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 8:33 pm

Mars wrote:This is just crazy:

http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0354507656

Did Silver Wolf Publishing run out of these? The website says 100+ are available, and the site was revamped in June.

I read your response to my other post about these li'l guys. Ron Lim did the artwork for the Holocaustic Dungeons - Limited Edition. Did he do the art for some of the other books, too?

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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 8:51 pm

very crazy.. but remember I think I was about the only one who actually had coppies of these until you tracked em down.. i think from looking I oririonally could only find 2-3 web sites that even mentioned the games they did...

Brette:)

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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 8:55 pm

Pretty much the only art is only the cover art. I would really have to dig these out to check who did the others and I think they are somewhat buried in my closet.

The impression I got is that he might have had more copies somewhere else in storage but he never sent the other copy of the limited edition. At the time I was happy just to get them. I remember I initially paid for them to be shipped by "Parcel Post -Air" (that's how long ago it was) but he said the post office would only let him send them by Surface and after 3 months they never arrived. Then he only had 2 of the limited edition books around. Most of the books were fine but I remember a couple of them (possibly the limited versions) had some dampness damage and also the boxes for the full sets had some staining.

I think I was asking $100 or $125 for the full set of these and couldn't entice either TFM or Lofenloc with them but now I see them bidding up a single book to $66. Maybe if I asked more, it would have sold. I had it for sale for a long time and ended up dumping it on Ebay in the my first batch of auctions.

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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 8:59 pm

This is another one that I thought went high:

** expired/removed eBay auction **

Again, I have had an extra one of these for sale for a few years now at $25 - its on hold now though.

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Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:16 pm

Mars wrote:This is just crazy:

http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0354507656

OK....on a lark I went after this publication online after seeing it here.

I found the Silver Wolf Gaming website and I ordered one each of all six dungeon levels. I figured, "what the heck?" since they were available for $1.50 each.

But wait! That's not the funny part!

Along with my order I asked the author, Kristoffer A. Silver, to sign the six dungeon levels for me. Here was his reply:

Your order has been shipped.... One has an autograph. For obvious time restraints, I cannot sign everything that goes out. I would get nothing else accomplished!

"Ay'yuh, signin' six er so o' them there modular thingies ez jus toooo much fer these here hans' tuh sign! Ah gets so tiiiiiired, yuh know."

Wow, way to guarantee return customers!

How did you ever find time to pick up six modules out of their boxes much less sign them? I apologize for even asking!

What was I thinking? :oops:

As for the modules themselves, I will limit myself to only positive comments:

1) They exist.

2) They arrived quickly with combined shipping.

3) They were printed in 1986.

4) I only paid $1.50 each for them and a damn good thing, too. :shaking2:

As for their contents, I can only say: "Huh?" "What?" "Huh?" :scratch:

I have no idea why these have not sold out to rabid RPG fans everywhere.

I can see why the heavy volume of orders pouring in to Silver Wolf must keep the proprietor from wasting time with signing his name six whole times! :!:

Anybody wanna pay $66 for them?

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Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:36 pm

FormCritic wrote:As for their contents, I can only say: "Huh?" "What?" "Huh?"

Yes, that is the reaction I would expect for your purchase. You really need the core rules book to make any sense of the others. I believe the "dungeon books" really only contain a bunch of numbers on their hex/grid pattern which by themselves is just jibberish. When I started searching for these, I found one only comic shop that had a couple copies of one of the dungeon levels and I ordered a couple of them. When they arrived I had the same reaction.

For anyone interested in these, its a good warning that the dungeon level books are useless by themselves.

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Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 6:22 pm

LOL.. I know what you are saying...

Brette:)

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