I have copies of  Town of Baldemar and The Abduction of Good King Despot from New Infinities.

Are these babies worth anything?  Thoughts?

Mark  

I paid $15.00 each recently

We certainly printed enough of 'em -- but lack of PR left most unsold. So they're still relatively common, tho most are in the hands of just a small group of distributors. Even the "million dollar module", The Convert, is still plentiful.

An unpleasant episode altogether, sadly.

MShipley88 wrote:What made The Convert the "million dollar module?"  Sounds like an interesting story.

Only from the outside.
I wrote it as an RPGA tourney.
TSR didn't want to publish it.
NIPI asked them if they minded us publishing it.
TSR (the PoG) said no, go ahead.
We published it.
They sued us, ran it out long enough that we ran out of money.

I still think we'd've won if we could have lasted long enough.
But lawsuits like this aren't about being Right.

Bottom line, TSR and NIPI spent about a million (mostly on their end) to resolve this matter.

ExTSR wrote:

MShipley88 wrote:What made The Convert the "million dollar module?"  Sounds like an interesting story.

Only from the outside.
I wrote it as an RPGA tourney.
TSR didn't want to publish it.
NIPI asked them if they minded us publishing it.
TSR (the PoG) said no, go ahead.
We published it.
They sued us, ran it out long enough that we ran out of money.

I still think we'd've won if we could have lasted long enough.
But lawsuits like this aren't about being Right.

Bottom line, TSR and NIPI spent about a million (mostly on their end) to resolve this matter.

     Was this part of the same lawsuit that Gary Gygax mentioned over on ENworld?  He said there was a settlement and a payment from TSR...and then TSR owned the new game he had designed.  Same lawsuit?  

Mark  

beasterbrook wrote:I picked up a copy of the 3 Cyborg Commando books that was given to the backers of New Infinities? came with cert in a plastic folder... do you know anything about this Frank at all??

IIRC they were a limited edition of 1000 copies, issued prior to the CC box set being available.  But I think it says that on the certificate, Brette, so if you want more than that we'll have to wait for Frank

ExTSR wrote:

grodog wrote:IIRC they were a limited edition of 1000 copies, issued prior to the CC box set being available.

That's what we had planned, but I'm fairly sure the actual number didn't get above 300. Maybe not even 200. No records on that, sorry.

Thanks Frank.  I'll dig up my copy and check it out.  

While we're on the NIPI topic, do you recall if you and Don ever put together a Realms of Adventure newsletter #3?

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Never hear of Aesheba.  I have always been interested in African scenarios and variants.

Mark