faro wrote:"It took me four or five years before I even anyone who had the game.  I heard once that a copy was sold at Gen Con around 1997 and a couple of game searchers had this game on their list but they had not found it" is about right... The last copy (I think; it was several years ago) vanished pdq at ~$300 BIN.

There was a copy at the Gen Con auction in 2008.



I don't recall if it sold or what the final bid was, but I'm sure you can locate it on one of the spreadsheets they put together.  I believe the term "ridiculously rare" was used as a selling point by one of the auctioneers.  

lokiwookie wrote:The Two Towers: Could you give more information about this game and this company please?

Ah yes, poor Rich; an old friend. Still doing fine I trust; I see him at GenCon regularly.



Back in the '70s, Rich Jordison created and published a few wargames under the unincorporated company name "Fact & Fantasy Games" (mislisted in the 2T citation here as 'the Fantasy Game Co.'). Unfortunately many of his games were based on LotR, and the estate whacked him and he destroyed all the existing copies (yes really) as part of the settlement.



Rich also created some wargames based on ERB's Mars, but learning from the Tolkien affair, he rewrote them to be a "green planet" game instead of "red planet". ;> Thus we have the "Warriors of the Green Planet" series of multiple games, all actually suitable for Mars with a little judicious editing & renaming.



Of Rich's illegal Tolkiens, Minas Tirith is indeed more easily found, but Two Towers has come up regularly.



A more generic wargame item is Siege tho it is rather hard to find (and I'm still watching for one at a more reasonable price).



Frank

lokiwookie wrote:Perhaps because prices decrease month after month.

I didn't look to TSR prices, is it the same pattern?

I think pretty much everything is down across the board.  Here's some more that stunned me... first three issues of Warpstone:



http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0626536416

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0626542368

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0626544008



The first issue used to be an easy $200-300.  Maybe this just wasn't advertised well, but... wow!

For example, the Serpent Island that Ian is selling


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Only one bid?

beasterbrook wrote:
Geez I prob would have bid them up if i had seen..

Brette:)

Mars wrote:or Brett (when he remembers)

 

Not in good condition but, for $75 BIN, an EotPT is always interesting




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This is... interesting?




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TheHistorian wrote:I have to think that the current scanning project will crush prices:

http://talislanta.com/?page_id=5

Prices for Talislanta aren't very high and I think there will always be a market for those people who want to hold a book in their hand.

Sealed Master of the Universe RPG


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I remember that someone here was looking for this game.