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Post Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 8:57 pm 
 

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Personally JG I would say yes to the boxed set City of Brass being collectible. I've seen a copy and it's very nice, as well as being criminally undersupported and spotty distribution.

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It was the last Necromancer Games product released through White Wolf so that's the reason.  White Wolf got out of the Sword and Sorcery line that year.

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Post Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 9:26 pm 
 

mbassoc2003 wrote:That's not surprising. UK stock was very limited.

from count you bought most cheap copies to the uk?? :lol: :lol:

Badmike wrote:It's just damn sad about CZ. I've actually been very slowly going through it, with the knowledge that once I'm finished, that's it.  

Rather than consider it only one small part of a whole, I've been instead considering it as a completed product....a self contained 1-5th level adventure.  As written, CZ can provide many sessions of fun as is, without any further development.

no words to rob?? it is still the same castle

  

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Post Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 9:39 pm 
 

Rakeesh sah Tarna wrote:from count you bought most cheap copies to the uk??  

Sadly, I brought my stock in from the US (not thinking it would land here through the distribution channels), so my unit price ended up higher than most. I need these to become atleast uncommon and sought after to break even. But 3-5 years, I think I'm onto a winner, and I bet I'm not the only one who's bought some to stash away.


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Post Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2008 8:08 pm 
 

Rakeesh sah Tarna wrote:not sure how many left. cheapest ebay sellers said asking tlg for more to sell but not come back on that

ok did come back with more on reorder just listed :) :) print run more than said would guess??

  

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Post Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 1:46 am 
 

Rakeesh sah Tarna wrote:no words to rob?? it is still the same castle


If Rob could come out with more than one level every 3-4 years, I'd give him more props. Bottle City is a nice product; but Rob cannot be counted on to ever come out with another level on any regular basis (or, ever again).  That being said, his contributions would be immeasurable towards telling the history of the Castle.  

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Post Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 2:15 am 
 

Badmike wrote:If Rob could come out with more than one level every 3-4 years, I'd give him more props. Bottle City is a nice product; but Rob cannot be counted on to ever come out with another level on any regular basis (or, ever again).

was what meant no encouragement = little to no chance of more. only because people like grodog got in touch that bottle city + others printed at all
Badmike wrote:That being said, his contributions would be immeasurable towards telling the history of the Castle.

agree + much to tell and allow others to share + play but no more preorders -v-

  


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Post Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 11:11 pm 
 

Grognardia is reviewing CZ in case folks are still on the fence about ordering the box set:  http://grognardia.blogspot.com/


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Post Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 11:59 pm 
 

And if you are still on the fence, here is a great deal for this box set ($29.80 plus $4.49 US shipping)




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I've ordered two from this seller and both arrived promptly and were well packaged.  Hurry now, only 2 left at this price.



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Post Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 11:27 am 
 

OK... The CZ UW box sets are selling pretty quickly at this price, $29.80 plus $4.49 US shipping.  The seller has listed three more:



http://cgi.ebay.com/CASTLES-CRUSADES-GY ... dZViewItem



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Post Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 6:43 pm 
 

smarmy1 wrote:OK... The CZ UW box sets are selling pretty quickly at this price, $29.80 plus $4.49 US shipping.  The seller has listed three more:


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Post Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 8:17 am 
 

And 3 more in yet another auction (he had two auctions for 3 sets each), although I just bought 2 from that auction, so now both only have 1 set each. :-)

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Post Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 6:55 pm 
 

I just trod on my copy and broke a corner  :cry:

  

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Post Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 7:19 pm 
 

Gus Landt wrote:And 3 more in yet another auction (he had two auctions for 3 sets each), although I just bought 2 from that auction, so now both only have 1 set each. :-)


I ended up buying 3 copies - 2 from the initial smarmy post and one from a more recent auction.  3 fit into a Flat Rate Box so I figured that would be a good number.

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Post Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:18 pm 
 

Mars, I asked about international shipping... and haven't heard back -  I guess they're selling so fast, who's got the time  :lol:

Were you able to connect with the seller before your purchase?

  

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Post Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 2:24 pm 
 

davidc wrote:Were you able to connect with the seller before your purchase?


I didn't get in contact before the auction.  I actually thought that someone here mentioned this seller would ship worldwide but now I think that was for FRPGames and not this seller.  This seller uses a checkout system that then gives an error for shipping to Canada because no such shipping quote is entered.  So the seller then puts one in manually.  He said he would ship them for me but that he normally doesn't do international.

Even after the auction, I was asking about buying 1 more and putting it in the same box, etc and never heard back about that either - his communication is not so good.

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Post Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 3:08 pm 
 

Mars wrote:Even after the auction, I was asking about buying 1 more and putting it in the same box, etc and never heard back about that either - his communication is not so good.

same last time on comms before restocked with current batches

  


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Post Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 7:02 pm 
 

All,

If I can help out anyone with shipping/forwarding on this UW boxed set to Canada or overseas, please let me know.  I am only too happy to help out my Acaeum brothers and sisters.

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Post Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 11:43 am 
 

Slowly working my way through this, and my god, what a great piece of work.


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