burntwire wrote:I recently bought four different AD&D Competition Adventures from the 1984 MASSCONFUSION Convention. The titles are:  -The Book of Paith by Robert Jennings(black plastic spiral bound) -The Tomb of St. Duncan by Duncan Davenport(stapled) -Dragonrunners of Kola by Ian Ralph(black plastic spiral bound) -Torture Tower by Roger Anderson(black plastic spiral bound)  I also have two adventures from Gencon IX, both by Bob Blake.  -The Official Dungeon of GenCon IX 2nd Edition Preliminary Round(loose pages in a plastic binder) -The Official Dungeon of Gen Con IX 2nd Edition Final Round(loose pages in a plastic binder)  The person I bought these from stated that he got them directly from Bob Blake at GenCon. I think these might be pre-pub versions. Anyone have any idea as to the value or rarity of these items? I have not had any luck finding info on these.  Thanks, Burntwire

 At one stage Aaron was selling a whole heap of massconfusion modules (and I believe he still has some for sale now), A believe that a whole heap were offloaded through him, I have about 10 or so of them (of most interest to the people here are the folowing):  Book of Paith (AD&D) Condo of Dr Demento, The (generic Fantasy) Dragonrunners of Kola (AD&D) Lady Eileen's Castle (AD&D) Tomb of St Duncan, The (AD&D) Torture Tower (AD&D) Werewold Country (AD&D)  But there are also a couple of Gamma World ones , CoC one, James Bond one, just off top of my head. I think Aaron was selling em for $15-$20us, but I have seen em for sale on ebay for a bit less $7us odd. Most are spiral bound or stapled, and are in mintish condition as  believe they came straight from storage...  The two Gencon ones are the ones I believe you bought off ebay for $20;) they prob be worth more but how much is anyones guess....  BTW if anyone has convention modules for sale/trade I actually collect em and would be interested in em...  Brette:)

This thread has a discussion on the GenCon IX Dungeons:  Woodgrain went quick today!  You have to slog through all the hatemail about that wacko "burntwire" before you get to it, though.  Foul

Thanks for all the info guys . As he bought these directly from Bob Blake at a GenCon convention(he said the year after they were originaly played) I would have to say that they are pre-publication versions of the red and green cover copies. I think the red and green cover versions were printed in Valpraiso Indiana. These are copies he probably made himself and sold these before the actual publication copies. Maybe I can track down Bob Blake somehow and get confirmation directly from him. Anyone out there know Bob ?

Hi Devon,  Do you think those could be originals or prepubs if they have second edition printed on them?  BTW-I would vote the artwork on the cover and inside this module set to be the worst of any item I have ever seen in RPG's. (no disrespect for Bob intended please )  Later. Adam

Pricing for these is a bit dicey...  for starters, not alot of people know about them, and secondly, those that do tend to worry a little over whether they are forking over cash for a photocopy.  I know a few people that won't buy anything spiral bound or AG modules for this reason.  Hell, its the reason I didn't bid too high on that huge lot of AG modules a few months back...  the seller was REALLY evasive about which ones he had, wouldn't give me a listing, wouldn't verify if they were real or photocopies, etc.  I figured it was just too risky. Of course, I tend to look at things like these as kind of neat, but not worth a ton of money.  I'd imagine having them signed would give some kind of authenticity (of course, nothing to stop somebody from forging a signature too).