For those of you who collect Jorune.. How much would you estimate the two 2nd edition pre-publication items, "Playing the Iscin Races" and "Shanthas of Jorune . . . and a Ramian", are worth these days?

Count me in;)

Realistically $50-$100 I would imagine? maybe more?

Brette:)

Tsss! Vain joy  

They are quite rare to find. I try for a while without success...

I guess that's up to you .

Without dredging through my fanzines and web links, I can't give you a thorough account of the story behind the pre-publication items. They are expansions to the 2nd edition (boxed set) Jorune RPG which were distributed at a convention in the late 80s (Gen Con? I believe), but never made it into production. Whether this was due to the buyout of the SkyRealms licenses by Chessex or some other reason I can't say/recall. I gather they are extremely rare. I have .pdfs, but would like originals. I'd be willing to pay more than $100 for each, perhaps more if that's what it takes (they are the only Jorune items I don't have, counting posters, masks, 1st ed., 3rd ed., etc.).

"Playing the Iscin Races" details how to create tauther (i.e., PCs) from the Earth animal-derived races. Among others these are the woffen, crugar, bronth, etc. (think Metamorphosis Alpha cougaroids, etc.).

"Shanthas of Jorune" covers the crystal-based technology of the Shanthas and their culture more generally.

Can't say why Jorune speaks to me. Maybe it's the Teves art, maybe it's the off-the-wall direction Leker took the Metamorphosis Alpha concept to create the game milieu, whatever. It grabs me. I've never played the game and probably never will, but I don't suppose that's anything new with certain games among some collectors around here.

Jorune seems to be more popular with the non-US members here at the Acaeum. Not sure if that's significant.

yes they sold those at gencon in iirc 1989 and 1990. i have written here before that in 1991 they brought about 15 copies of Companion Jorune: Jorune Sholari  Supplement for sale in a pre-release version. they were not numbered, but they all had a cutesy distinct note on them, so i asked to look at the list of the messages to see which one i wanted (i picked "we deeply love you" probably because of amy leker.....). anyway that's how i know there were about 15 because i saw the list. i would think this would probably be the hardest jorune item to find.

Ah, yes, I had forgotten about the Sholari Supplement. I do recall when you posted about that one. Thanks for the specific printing dates.

Yes we spoke about this some time back, there is a complete list along with a pic of Start's book ..

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and

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Brette:)

Words cannot express how much I now wish I had just kept my mouth shut .