ExTSR wrote:LOL... the "D&D connection" can even help this turkey, eh?It's pretty much unplayable in its original form. You die and start over. One or two optional/advanced scenarios are actually doable without dying, but are singularly uninteresting.Yet it went through at least 4-5 different print runs, weirdly enough.This is such a widely scorned turkey that the GenCon auction always has a bunch of 'em and none goes for more than $5, and often $1-2. No shipping or eBay fees either.In Mint, in the shrink, I might pay as much as $10 for one.Want me to get you some?
zhowar wrote:I sold my only copy of OS on Ebay last fall for $6. It had an slightly worn outside & pretty nice interior (~95% unpunched) and had an Avalon Hill catalog from the time period. I had found it about 5 years before at Goodwill & bought it because I remembered the mention in OD&D Vol 3. Never played it & finally decided it was taking up too much space. I like the Avalon Hill bookcase boxes, but they are kind of big and heavy if you are not using the game.Outdoor Survival has not been discussed here very often (presumably because it is so often), but I remember Badmike speaking fondly of it:viewtopic.php?t=1197&start=436Didn't many Avalon Hill games have humungous print runs?
Ahh, Outdoor Survival, mine and my brothers favorite game before we discovered D&D. We were so far ahead of our time; we had our own different scenarios...one was we were bank robbers escaping a big job, and we had to split up and go across the board...of course, you could land on another player, fight and try to kill each other and steal each other's bag of money....each player had a gun with six bullets, you could use them to kill stuff like bears, snakes, mountain lions, etc, or shoot each other (or shoot yourself to die with a little dignity if you were in the desert dying of thirst...). But the best part was the homemade encounter tables....we had six encounter tables, you rolled one six sided dice which picked encounter tables 1 through 6, and each table had six results, for 36 results in all....man, we had everything from bear attacks, lion attacks, rattlesnakes, wolves, landslides, park rangers (armed with rifles of course), insane mountain men with knives, floods, fires, pits, falling trees, swat teams in helicopters, I swear I think we even had UFO abductions (but you could fight them off with your revolver). We could play six games ina row and still have fun. Ahh, good times.
MShipley88 wrote:How nice for the designer that a small mention in an obscure booklet...that an entirely different sort of game originally utilized just the map from your game...until they figured out how to make better maps...and so it is worth collecting 30+ years later.My copy got destroyed a couple years ago, during our last move.I have been lamenting throwing away the remainders after I saw a copy of the box on InvincibleOverlord's shelf in his gameroom photos.It never occured to me to simply look it up on Ebay and see what it was going for. I got mine at Goodwill for 99 cents. I had to explain to my mystified wife and inlaws why I wanted that crappy game.Mark
