Mouse Police wrote:My "James Bond RPG" rule book is 30 pages thicker than it should be.

It goes all the way up to page 96, but then the next page is 65!

There are no missing pages, just an extra 65-96.

Misprints for game systems no one plays aren't viewed as too valuable  

About the only "valuable" one I can think of is the 1st edition DMG with the Monster Manual pages bound inside.

Mike B.

Badmike wrote:
Misprints for game systems no one plays aren't viewed as too valuable  

About the only "valuable" one I can think of is the 1st edition DMG with the Monster Manual pages bound inside.

Mike B.

Badmike:

But... but... if no one plays it, that means it's REALLY, REALLY RARE! Right?

Yeah, I know...

"If a game is misprinted in a forest, and nobody plays that game..."

I think 1-off misprints are rarely valued highly. This is basically true in coins and stamps as well. It's only when there is a print run of misprints that value seems to be climb on them.

A single misprint is a factory B product that got through QC. A misprint print run is a collectible that many people can have. debate about, assign a comparative value to, etc. Usually they are very small print runs because someone catches the misprint, or some number of them are recalled and destroyed etc.

Collectors looking to complete a collection would like to have one of each print. 1-offs don't qualify for that. Imagine trying to collect one of every 1st ed. DMG that had any sort of print error at all. You would have to collect dozens and dozens of them.

Dag Hammarskjöld excepting?

Agreed in general: in an "normal" sale misprints (with a few notable exceptions) don't generally attract any premium, although if it's a popular item those can be hyped via the boards to higher prices more readily since there are a sufficiently large number of people willing to drop a "reasonable" premium in order to acquire something different.
Depends on the nature of the misprint, of course... A totally blank text block on a late print Monster Manual would be rather fun to use, albeit that ain't going to happen!

chromaticknight wrote:
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Sorted chrono left to right, too.  Nice.
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Hey you!  Seventh from the left!  Are you a 4th print?

You dont want to disect him do ya????

Oh yes, it definitely takes all sorts! (Thanks for the big smile, y'both).

I'll have to count, but I may have ck beat  

I have great likeness for my misprinted Call of Cthulhu. Its upside-down and backwards. When I asked Chaosium if it was done on purpose, to make me lose SAN, they laughed at me and offered to buy it back for ten times what I paid for it. I said no.