So I have version of these that I think aren't covered on the site - copies sent to high-placing participants of the Gen Con East (and other?) tourneys where they were first used.  They basically look like the pre-publication versions, but have no signature/#.  Are these known to the community?  I do have the letter (which *is* signed) from the RPGA telling me what they sent me (which included a Fighter's Wheel, apparently, but I can't find that).

Thanks for whatever you know,

Gordon

Gordon:  please tell us more about your experiences at GenCon East, and whether you played at any of the other regional Philly-NJ-NYC-Baltimore conventions.  I'm wondering specifically if you're familiar with an old tourney called Treasure of the Dragon Queen, by chance?

The first use of R1 was at GenCon South in early 1981, along with "Eye of the Bog" (Shook) as the other RPGA premier event. (Good luck getting a copy of Bog; it was unfinished, run by the author, and never published.) The other official event there was Battle Royal (Blake & Mentzer), a 1e arena game using figures, a board, and terrain that changed every round.

We ran Falx at two tables as an RPGA final round of GenCon East (Cherry Hill NJ).

The two DMs were Bill Hoyer and Bill Fawcett, 6 players apiece.
They used a lineprinter output from the TSR printer.

The RPGA was just barely getting rolling, and we didn't start the signed prepubs until GenCon that year iirc.

F

Here's the letter (actually on a golden-ish paper), which it turns out is NOT signed. I guess I was supposed to mail it back to get my extension, but obviously I didn't - although I have the first two years of Polyhedrons, and don't remember paying for an extension ...

Anything about R1 & R2 that a scan would be useful for? Like I said, they really look like the pre-pubs, although since I ran them locally there are penciled markings for damage and the like.

EDIT: So it would be interesting if Frank (or anyone) can remember how "GenCon East winners" was calculated. All 12 at the final tables? Some subset of those? I guess that'd say how many of these were mailed out. It is a perhaps interesting note on the haphazard early RPGA that even though I was "credited" with being one of the "winners", I did not in fact play past the first round (I just assumed since I spent like 90% of the round 1 session with my character paralyzed, I wouldn't be moving on ...)

ExTSR wrote in RPGA # R - 1 & #RPGA-2:One addendum now: I think I ran a table m'self; don't recall for absolutely sure but it's probably. (Have a trace memory of saying my group didn't do very well.)

I've learned not to TOTALLY trust my memory from those days, but if I remember right, you ran (or at least stopped by and assisted or something) the first round table I was at - and yeah, we definitely did not do well. Like I said, I was paralyzed right quick and the group never made it to where the "cure paralysis" was.

So, other than creating the possibility that another 3-18 (pretty sure "I" was at best the #3 finisher) copies of R1/R2 are out there (pre-prepubs?), what sort of "collecting" issues does this raise? I mean, I don't think my copies are particularly prime collecting material (as I actually *gasp* USED them sorta-gently at some point), but they also aren't labeled in any distinctive way and thus could be mistaken for "mere" photocopies. Other than "keep the letter with the modules" - thoughts?

And since I have the scanner hooked-up, and it's kinda neat:
Hey, no expiration date. I'm STILL a member! Actually, I guess in a sense that's true - I am still playing, after all ...