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Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 7:42 am

mbassoc2003 wrote:Can only assume this is heavily over priced...

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Just picked up this and it's sister publication in brand new mint condition cheap. I'll see if I can get a title for the flip book.

On the high end of what people are willing to pay but not much beyond what I have seen before.

It has been out of print for quite a few years and is still regarded as a definitive sourcebook.

Now amount that CoC fans are willing to pay for GaPL might change since the publication of Kingdom of the Blind meets the need for 1920's and 30's British source material.

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Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 7:53 am

The flip book is the exact same format and from GW. On one side you have The Statue of the Sorcerer, and on the other side tou have The Vanishing Conjurer, and in the centre is the player's handouts still attached. Seems they need to be cut up once detatched. This one I can't find.

This week I've been mostly eating . . . The white ones with the little red flecks in them.

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Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 9:38 am

Most OOP CoC books in decent condition will go for £15-25. Main exception being the Orient Express. I sold mine that I dug out of the loft for £75. Opened but in decent order. Funny really as out of all the Chaosium CoC products I found it hardest to get along with.

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Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 9:44 am

simonmwh wrote:Most OOP CoC books in decent condition will go for £15-25. Main exception being the Orient Express. I sold mine that I dug out of the loft for £75. Opened but in decent order. Funny really as out of all the Chaosium CoC products I found it hardest to get along with.

That is one of the few CoC items that I do not own. When it was released another local keeper that I gamed with claimed it to run for the group before I even seen it. Out of respect for him I did not buy it so there would be no questions about prior knowledge. He was also the manager of the local games store. He only ran about four sessions before he moved away.
Of course I was partially responsible for that since at the time the store he was working in was in an office block in the hotel I was working in.
The owner of the store was behind on his rent and I had to initiate legal action on behalf of my company to padlock the doors.
This not only closed the local game store but also put my friend out of work.

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Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 10:59 pm

jasonw1239 wrote:That is one of the few CoC items that I do not own. When it was released another local keeper that I gamed with claimed it to run for the group before I even seen it. Out of respect for him I did not buy it so there would be no questions about prior knowledge. He was also the manager of the local games store. He only ran about four sessions before he moved away.
Of course I was partially responsible for that since at the time the store he was working in was in an office block in the hotel I was working in.
The owner of the store was behind on his rent and I had to initiate legal action on behalf of my company to padlock the doors.
This not only closed the local game store but also put my friend out of work.

What a horrible moral dilemma. You should never have opened the Book of Eibon.

Hey! How about more country geography wierdness!? Let's talk smack about Poland or something!

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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 8:33 am

FormCritic wrote:Let's talk smack about Poland or something!

Not smack, but an actual UNESCO site in Poland.
Primeval forest that has been untouched after it became a royal hunting preserve in the 15th century.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bialowieza_Forest

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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 9:51 am

jasonw1239 wrote:Not smack, but an actual UNESCO site in Poland.
Primeval forest that has been untouched after it became a royal hunting preserve in the 15th century.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bialowieza_Forest

One of, if not the last location of wild European bison, as I recall. Though a fence between Belarus and Poland that runs through the center of the forest has split the herd and means that the future is not so rosy for them.

Edit: and "primeval forest untouched since the 15th century" sounds like the perfect initial plot-hook for a Call of Cthulhu campaign (to get this back on topic

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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 10:21 am

Hi,

I thought traditional Cthulhu settings had to involve an Antique Shop?

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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 10:44 am

Antique shop? Of course not.

It can also be a library. :lol:

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Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 3:30 pm

I recommend checking out John Wick's Curse of the Yellow Sign .pdf adventures for some non research/library/antique shop CoC. Act 1 and 2 are now out (both are single shot adventures). I have only purchased Act 1 so far, but I plan on getting the second one also. Very good if you like playing nazis in the jungle.

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Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 6:55 am

Chaosium currently has a 30% off sale through their online store.
Typically these sales only last 2-3 days.

http://catalog.chaosium.com/

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Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 12:47 pm

jasonw1239 wrote:Chaosium currently has a 30% off sale through their online store.
Typically these sales only last 2-3 days.

http://catalog.chaosium.com/

I was impressed by some of the discounts there. Chaosium is on their game at the moment.

Congragulations of Mysteries of Sudan, Jason. Nice work.

How important was Winston Churchill's The River War as a source?

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Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 1:58 pm

FormCritic wrote:
I was impressed by some of the discounts there. Chaosium is on their game at the moment.

Congragulations of Mysteries of Sudan, Jason. Nice work.

How important was Winston Churchill's The River War as a source?

Churchill's book filled in some details but the gems that I found during research were:
Egyptian Soudan Its Loss and Recovery by Henry S.L. Alford and W. Dennistoun Sword (love the name)
and
Prisoners of the Mahdi by Byron Farwell

Edit: I also got my hands on a Stanford University Cultural Anthropology monograph about the southern Sudan Dinka tribes written by a native of that region.

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Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2009 11:13 pm

Um. Wow:

Courting Madness @ $511 @
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Tales of Terror (pre-Pagan) @ $406 @
** expired/removed eBay auction **

Stark Raving Made @ $306 @
** expired/removed eBay auction **

Killer Crosshairs @ $123.50 @
** expired/removed eBay auction **

Trail of the Loathsome Slime @ $107.50 @ http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... K:MEDWX:IT

Well, I don't feel too bad about my $250-ish bids for CM and ToT being blown out of the water now

The full listing from the seller is @ http://completed.shop.ebay.com/rlmjr/m. ... p=16&_sc=1

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Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2009 11:29 pm

grodog wrote:Um. Wow:

Was interesting to see, considering how cheaply some of the TUOs went. Possibly my fault for nudging those along early...

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Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 1:05 am

wow summed it up for me when I saw where they ended..
Was a high quality collection..

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Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 2:41 am

grodog wrote:Um. Wow:

Trail of the Loathsome Slime @ $107.50 @
** expired/removed eBay auction **

I never get this....there are copies on ebay right now for $80 and $60.....people need to pull their head out before they drop $100 on something that is available in an ebay store for half that....

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Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 9:51 am

Badmike wrote:
I never get this....there are copies on ebay right now for $80 and $60.....people need to pull their head out before they drop $100 on something that is available in an ebay store for half that....

Mike B.

And those prices are high as well. I've picked up a couple copies recently in the $15-40 range.

Others that I felt were too high:

UO 8/9 @ $52 - cheaper on amazon
Grimrock Isle @ $42 - still available from Triad for $18

Obviously the really limited stuff is unpredictable, but I thought most of the rest went for around what I expected.

This collection aside, it seems like there has been a lot of good CoC stuff available recently. Is this an anomaly?

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