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Post Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 12:42 pm 
 

ciao guys, i made up this thread for everybody who has a quick question about some unknown product that could be found in the net...



i'll start with this:



http://cgi.ebay.it/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie ... osi_widget



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Post Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 12:51 pm 
 

aia wrote:
** expired/removed eBay auction **


what's that???


Depsite the auction title, it's not D&D.



According the Darkshire.Net ( http://www.darkshire.net/~jhkim/rpg/ )



. . . Chosen

. . . 1st ed by Aaron Rosenberg (2001) Clockwork Games

. . . A science fantasy RPG about a far-flung future where the PC's are people imbued with the spiritual powers of the archetypal Beasts -- dragons, gryphons, manticores, etc. -- who fight evil conspiratorial Wizards.



. . . Clockworks Games

. . . 5765 73rd Place, 1st Floor, Maspeth, NY, 11378 (USA)

. . . Small-press makers of the world-gone-made RPG Asylum and the ghosts-as-spies RPG Spookshow, and the science fantasy RPG Chosen. Founded in 1997 by Aaron Rosenberg.



The company's website ( http://www.clockworksgames.com/ ) doesn't seem to have anything but a sparse greeting page and one of those strange mouse-trail applets.

  

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Post Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 4:53 am 
 

tnx a lot!
honestly i was looking for someone who owns the items so that he can give his advice on the item besides the info on the product... but it was anyway helpful what you wrote!

...but i come again with a crosspost: viewtopic.php?p=63789#63789

this is a pscape (TSR??? afaik it is not official...) adventure... but which one?


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Post Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 5:43 am 
 

and this:




** expired/removed eBay auction **




...what's that?


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Post Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:20 am 
 

fantasy rpg rules produced 1998, I have a copy somewere..

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Post Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 10:23 am 
 

and this?



http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-lot-of-role ... dZViewItem


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Post Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 11:44 am 
 

aia wrote:and this?


** expired/removed eBay auction **




they are all microquest box sets - they are pretty cool. i have a batch of them at home - quite good fun if you are into that kinda thing.



bar for maybe a few of em, i dont think they are that rare from a collectible point of view?



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ps. that was put on the interesting items a few days ago.


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Post Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 4:08 am 
 

what is the so called Morrow Project?

i've seen that in ebay few seller have these items and are quite worth... afaik it'd be a rpg... but is it fantasy?


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aia wrote:what is the so called Morrow Project?

i've seen that in ebay few seller have these items and are quite worth... afaik it'd be a rpg... but is it fantasy?


meaning no disrepect (really i do not....), can't you find any references to these on the web? there are masses of references to these items that you refer to....and prb far more extensive to what ppl here are mentioning?

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Post Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:01 am 
 

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meaning no disrepect (really i do not....), can't you find any references to these on the web? there are masses of references to these items that you refer to....and prb far more extensive to what ppl here are mentioning?

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you're right... i found in wikipedia all the references to this product line...
prob i wrongly wrote the question: after reading all the descriptions about it, i still miss why is so appreciated... if you look to the publisher website you can still buy products of this rpg, for roughly 10 USD a piece! ...but from times to time on ebay i can see that the same (i suppose) items are sold for much more... that's the point!


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aia wrote:
you're right... i found in wikipedia all the references to this product line...
prob i wrongly wrote the question: after reading all the descriptions about it, i still miss why is so appreciated... if you look to the publisher website you can still buy products of this rpg, for roughly 10 USD a piece! ...but from times to time on ebay i can see that the same (i suppose) items are sold for much more... that's the point!


morrow project items come up on ebay quite often. a fair few of them have been listed up here. i think gyg got a nice lot of them not so long ago iirc.

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Post Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:41 am 
 

uhmmm... maybe but it is stil not clear to me this:



http://cgi.ebay.it/Operation-Lucifer-us ... dZViewItem



here we have a BIN for 24,76 USD (i need help even for understanding how did they fix this strange amount, but this is not the point...)



while here:



http://www.timelineltd.com/catalog.html



you can directly buy the same item for 9,90 USD



...now: do i miss smtg or am i the only person who noticed that???  8O


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Post Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 9:16 am 
 

Aia,

I have not played or ran Morrow Project for many years, but they have gone through a number of printings over the years, and like most game companies had their struggles to survive.

They have not released any new products of note for quite a while now but some of their first printings from the early 1980's are collectible.

A brief description of the setting would be post-holocaust. Morrow was the NPC who set up the project to freeze teams that were trained to rebuild society after the third world war. Something happened at Prime Base and the awake signal did not go out to the bunkers until many years after it was supposed to. The groups were awakened to a degenerated world with small enclaves of survivors practicing subsistence farming. Radioactive wastelands where cities once stood, bands of brigands and areas claimed by warlords.

The Morrow Project had three branches:
Combat teams (MARS)
Recon teams
Science teams

Depending on which type of team the module called for your characters would have different vehicle types and equipment.

For long campaigns (such as the one that I ran from about 1984 to 1986) the game master could control the setting to make it either a grim 'road warrior" style of game or a "Gamma World" style with mutants and special powers, etc. (mine was the grim style)  :twisted:

I would suggest that if you are interested in some of the items like this that you are not familiar with, that you use the eBay advanced search and look up the items under completed listings. It should give you a feel for what the going prices are for some of the items.

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Post Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 9:22 am 
 

aia wrote:uhmmm... maybe but it is stil not clear to me this:


** expired/removed eBay auction **


here we have a BIN for 24,76 USD (i need help even for understanding how did they fix this strange amount, but this is not the point...)

while here:

http://www.timelineltd.com/catalog.html

you can directly buy the same item for 9,90 USD

...now: do i miss smtg or am i the only person who noticed that???  8O


I didn't know the Morrow Project was still being published!  Whoa!



I once read that Fantasy Games Unlimited (FGU) was still selling its old stock of games, but that was a few years ago.

  

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Post Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 12:06 pm 
 

ok, is there someone who can tell if those are rare/uncommon/common/ultracommon:



http://cgi.ebay.it/Flying-Buffalo-Tunne ... dZViewItem




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Post Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 1:05 pm 
 

aia wrote:ok, is there someone who can tell if those are rare/uncommon/common/ultracommon:


** expired/removed eBay auction **



** expired/removed eBay auction **




i have both of them - good books if you are into T&T. i would say they are uncommon at best. certainly not rare thats for sure.



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Post Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 1:46 pm 
 

I've been looking for Beyond the Wall for centuries. It's the last one I need.


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Post Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 1:47 pm 
 

Oh, and no, neither one is very rare.


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