Mythmere1 wrote:Yes, technically the very first printing of the WB text was done through lulu as a perfect bound book. This means, from a collector standpoint, they would be very, very easy to counterfeit by actually duplicating the files and having lulu print them. So beware of that if you're creating a collection. These have a Pete Mullen illustration of giants throwing rocks at adventurers in a snowy area.I think fewer than 100 of these were printed and sold. My estimate would be somewhere between 80 and 90. The last time I specifically checked it, the number was at 76, but that was still a couple of months before I licensed WB to BHP.
lawrenson wrote:Hi,my 2 boxed sets are different.One has a Vile Worm scenario and a map in, the other doesnt.Cheers,malc
MetamorphosisSigma wrote:Well I'll be damned. I actually have one of these. I had no idea so few were printed and sold.
Mythmere1 wrote:The vast majority of the buzz about Swords & Wizardry came from the Core Rules - WB was a very niche product until Coleston published boxed sets of it. The .. say ... first 50 sales came very fast, and then sales tailed off quickly. Part of that is because WB had a very aggressive errata thread, while the Core Rules basically had only very small tweaks between the first and second versions. People held off buying WB because they knew the web fan-base wanted a fair number of changes.If these things are actually going to be collectible, I can look through the sales on Lulu and find out what the real number is. It will take a while since they report month by month with no running total, but it can be done.(The reason the book's original print numbers are so small is because the pdf is free - once there was a box, that equation changed).
Gnat the Beggar wrote:My two box sets contents are also not the same.And I got both sets at the same time in the same package.The reasons for this was explaned to me when I contacted John about one of the boxes having been crushed in the package during shipping.He sent me another box to replace the crushed one.
lokiwookie wrote:I contacted John and he said that this print run does not have pencil in it.
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