I can't say with any certainty, but I believe it was composed from existing books (2nd print PHB and M&T) and Yggsburgh rather than having a run of new books specifically for it. I have also only seen it in stores twice, and then one copy each, and never on eBay -- in fact, I had to buy a spare slipsleeve from Noble Knight (the sleeve was sold separately, as well)... so, it matters on how many of those sleeves were made, and I would guesstimate less than 1000 -- more like 500 is a better judgment, and maybe that is too high. So, as a set, I would say it is fairly uncommon. After all, it is not Cleaver the Pit v1 (of which 100 were printed.)

mbassoc2003 wrote:As regards Engineering Dungeons, would anyone care to speculate as to when the first dungeon generating system was published?

All I can think of is the section of the AD&D Dungeons Masters Guide (it was fun in a random kind of way).

SoulCatcher78 wrote:
All I can think of is the section of the AD&D Dungeons Masters Guide (it was fun in a random kind of way).

I believe this material was first published in Strategic Review #1 (Spring 1975), as the article "Solo Dungeon Adventures" (by Gygax).

http://www.aeolia.net/dragondex/articles-author.html

Knightfall wrote:What's the rarity of the books for the Scarred Lands setting by Sword & Sorcery Studios? What about the Malhavoc Press adventures and sourcebooks?

I can only assume that they are extremely common.  I see the Scarred Lands stuff at used book stores all the time with price tags of less than $10 and they still dont move off the shelf.  The Malhavoc stuff is also pretty common from what I can tell with the exception of Ptolus.  But I have no idea how many of those were printed.

Kingofpain89 wrote:
I can only assume that they are extremely common.  I see the Scarred Lands stuff at used book stores all the time with price tags of less than $10 and they still dont move off the shelf.  The Malhavoc stuff is also pretty common from what I can tell with the exception of Ptolus.  But I have no idea how many of those were printed.

Ptolus is less common because of its very high retail price; I think it was over $100 retail

Very little(if any) of the S&S or malhovic stuff is worth more than retail price.

Yeah maybe some of the S&S stuff can be uncommon, but I've never followed it on ebay since I bought when each book came out.  Some of the early stuff was good, it was near the end things changed for the worse.  The Forsaken elves, ugh

ShaneG.

JohnGaunt wrote:4E books are not retaining their value.  The lowest prices that I have seen so far are . . .

Two DMGs at $3.99 each plus shipping:

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3.5 PHBs are still in the range of $17.50 - $22.50 + shipping.

Iron Kingdoms products, with the exception of Five Fingers: Port of Deceit, are still well over cover.

That's crazy, and I thought $10 per 4e book was a deal.



ShaneG.

I'll take a look at the 4e prices once the 4e Village of Hommlet arrives: if I can find a set for $20 or so, I may even buy them  How many "core" books are there in 4e these days??

Plaag wrote:
5

ShaneG.

With several more coming out every year!