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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 11:51 am

i thought you already had both of them, so i didn't expect it was you.
Hope you will actually play them, not just laying them down on shelves

Envy..

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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 11:55 am

vault keeper wrote:i thought you already had both of them, so i didn't expect it was you.

Another one I have been looking for, for years. They are extremely rare. Number 1 a bit more common (had that one already).

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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 12:14 pm

Anyone has Book 4? I have never seen a copy for sale on ebay.

Adventures in Austerion : a fantasy RPG, with boardgame mechanisms and modular battlemap. By Guillaume Tavernier and GÃ©raud G.

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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 12:43 pm

lokiwookie wrote:Anyone has Book 4? I have never seen a copy for sale on ebay.

I can vaguely remember one on Ebay but that might just have been an illusion. I do know someone who owns a copy though but he isn't selling.

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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 1:38 pm

i know a french guy who owns a copy of volume 4, but he doesn't want to share.

as for the copy of volume 2 bought by Mars, i agreed with a friend of mine to split the cost between the two of us, with him keeping the original copy while making a scan of the same to me. Such was my need for this volume that a scanned copy was enough for me.

This friend of mine agreed this morning, (he is lurking on this forum, you know who you are) but then Mars came and ruined my project.

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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 3:27 pm

What are these? I presume they're not D&D.

This week I've been mostly eating . . . chicken and wild rice soup.

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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 3:44 pm

Bifrost is similar to D&D, keeping some mecanisms, and some stats. It is only a rule system, no world, even if magic and creatures are more designed for FRPG. There is 10 physical and 10 mental caracteristics and system is based on percents.
A character can be only fighter or wizard (or fighter wizard). There is some alignment like as well.

The last volume, Book 4, is a compilation of the 3 others.

Adventures in Austerion : a fantasy RPG, with boardgame mechanisms and modular battlemap. By Guillaume Tavernier and GÃ©raud G.

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Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 4:50 am

mbassoc2003 wrote:What are these? I presume they're not D&D.

*g* Someone didn't check the second-hand section of the old Edinburgh Games Gallery often enough?

Mars wrote:Another one I have been looking for, for years. They are extremely rare. Number 1 a bit more common (had that one already).

Agreed re. volume 1 but I'm not sure where they all went, Mark, since these did turn up not /that/ infrequently bitd, except for volume 4. OK, slightly less common than Heroes, perhaps, but not much rarer than No Honour in Sathporte no sooner had that been released(!) and more frequently seen than the likes of Victorian Adventures (nice snag last year, GÃ©raud), the Warwick Supplements or Quests for Adventurers. Rarity would've varied depending on where in the UK and which shop you were in, of course.

Production values weren't exactly high which probably hasn't helped in the intervening years - volume 2 tended to "shred" and volume 3 had an edge-binding - like 1e Reaper - which caused more damage than it was worth. Someone smartly removed that from the copy you just picked up.

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Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 6:39 am

i'm sure these Bifrost volumes are easier to find in the UK than in the USA.
In fact they were published in UK back in time.
is there some used rpg shops in England?

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Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 6:47 am

faro wrote:*g* Someone didn't check the second-hand section of the old Edinburgh Games Gallery often enough?

What is the Edinburgh Games Gallery?
And there's a second-hand section I've been missing out on all these years.

This week I've been mostly eating . . . chicken and wild rice soup.

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Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 7:53 am

Was; that's the rub... A five-figure (IIRC) demand for back-rates/taxes and it was no more. Copies of the Bifrost volumes were still turning up not infrequently 10+ years after publication but presumably have gone to ground nowadays given the chaos plague that swept most FLGSs from the streets in the UK.
The original print runs - for the first three, at least - can't have been that small; and they were well advertised.

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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 5:19 am

I don't recall ever having seen an advertisement of Bifrost on the pages of Dragon magazine, for example.

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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 7:33 pm

Seller in Germany has a bunch of the Chessex Jorune items with low starting bids:

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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 10:29 pm

Seller has a couple of the old Harn Magic supplements:

Peleahn and Lyahvi

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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 9:58 pm

Hey everyone,

Seller has Chivalry & Sorcery and Destrier

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Found it interesting for the description...

Also has a Judges Guild catalog for sale

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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 10:03 pm

Hey everyone,

Tunnels and Trolls lot that some might find interesting

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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 10:07 pm

Hey everyone,

Is anyone here familiar with these books?

The Fantasy Trip Forest-lords and Warrior-lords

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They look interesting but not really my cup of tea.

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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 10:26 pm

Hey everyone,

Is this the same Aliens game that is played at NTRPG Con every year?

1986 ALIENS BOARD GAME LEADING EDGE Unpunched

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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 10:47 pm

Acaeum Effect already in play here?

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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 11:07 pm

rhynne wrote:Hey everyone,

Is this the same Aliens game that is played at NTRPG Con every year?

1986 ALIENS BOARD GAME LEADING EDGE Unpunched

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Actually this year was the first time it was played at NTRPG. But it seemed to be well received so it may become a yearly game.

FormCritic wrote:Acaeum Effect already in play here?

If you are referring to the Aliens auction, this is not all that bad a price. Except for the split corner, the box is in pretty nice condition. It's complete and also has the expansion included. You can find it cheaper but not always with the expansion.

Here is one without the expansion that ended just a hair below $100:

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And here is another that sold that is essentially the same as the one referenced by Ronald only it is missing one of the alien cards:

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