MikeStoner wrote:Amazing to see that a set of TBH is on ebay - currently for £142 with two days to go. I had loads at home once but I think they got thrown away by the parents years ago. Of course I have got the original one-of-a-kind proofs for each issue, i.e. the original hand drawn pieces of artwork and hand typed (and Tipp-Ex'd articles), but I'm sure no-one would be interested in those...If anyone's got any questions/memories about TBH I'd love to hear them.All the best,Mike
MikeStoner wrote:We both enjoyed Underworld Oracle and thought that it would be fun to start up our own mag.
MikeStoner wrote:The rarest TBH item must be original copies of issue 1. You can tell if it is original because the print quality was terrible and you could hardly read the articles! If it's easy to read then it's not an original first run copy. There are 200 of these out there somewhere.
MikeStoner wrote:TBH ran for 25 issues until we sold on the "goodwill" and it went A4. We had no involvement at all from that point on. By issue 25 we were up to about 800 copies a month.
MikeStoner wrote:Due to the volume of sales and the cheap printing we actually ran at a profit and I bought my first car (a green Mini Countryman - SKR853H) thanks to TBH.
MikeStoner wrote:My postman thought there was some sort of religious cult going on at my parent's house, what with all these letters I'd get addressed to "The Beholder" - several a day for two years.
MikeStoner wrote:We won best fanzine at Games Day (twice I think) which was brilliant.
MikeStoner wrote:and, as the frontrunner at that point, we got a bit of stick from some of the other mags - this was the source of some of the "we're the best - stick with us" comments in various TBH editorials.
MikeStoner wrote:I've no idea where Guy is these days and even googling him didn't help. If anyone has any suggestions...?
otherworld wrote:Mike, good to hear from you. I was a big fan of TBH all those years ago, and regularly bought issues at my local games shop in Plymouth. I still have a complete run of issues, although some are reprints.I fondly remember playing and DMing some of the great scenarios, especially '16 Trader's Row', 'The Alchemist', 'The Gorge of the Afterlife' and others. Great stuff! The City State campaign adventure write-ups were really good too.
That would have been at "Chelsea Old Town Hall" if memory serves
I totally lost touch with the D&D/fanzine world when I went to Uni
We US gamers never got the choice of fanzines that went around in the UK
grodog wrote:Mike---Do you know/recall the status of the rights to the content for Beholder? Given that it seems to have been very well regarded, it would be cool to publisher an official CD archive of the Beholder. Dragon did this a few years ago, and similar projects have been done by White Dwarf (in a limited fashion), and Different Worlds is looking at one as well.There are some legal issues with respect to the rights of the authors to consider; Wizards of the Coast didn't when they published the Dragon archive, and as a result they ran into some legal difficulties with some of the contributors. If Beholder owned the rights and/or had reprint rights (which it sounds like may well have been the case, given the number of reprints done for the first issue, for example), then an archive might be a very cool project to publish