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Post Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 9:33 am 
 

Here we go again..



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Post Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 6:17 pm 
 

Heh, I'm probably going to end up bidding on this (assuming it doesn't go TOO high)...  well, consider, there are 23 cards here.  The average amount appears to be $10 (I'd put it at $6 for Creation cards and between $10-25 for general purpose cards, which can also be used in Living Greyhawk games, and will still probably be usable in RPGA play in 2 years once Green Regent ends).  So, based on those figures, its not such a bad tradeoff.  Nobody knows really what the promos are worth...  the most recent one, released at GenCon, sold for $30 before the con and now isn't even fetching $10 in some instances.  The only thing making me pause about sinking that much money into it is I've already acquired 3/4's of the cards for not too horribly much, and I've got some extras to boot.

  


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Post Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 12:13 am 
 

Dang Shaun, You tore that auction up.  :D Do you think they are gonna hold value? They seem to have a lot of bidders. Lots of unfamiliar names in the usual collecting circles. Do you think they are mostly 3e gamers?



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Post Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 12:36 am 
 

Probably not the series 1's...  I'm probably going to trade my remainders away when the next series is out for ones that I still need.

I figure it this way...  you have to play something like 10-20 RPGA events per 3 months to get ONE card.  I think the value of the cards is largely driven by usablity...  the Greyhawk triads allow most of the general use cards, so they have cross-game appeal, and will probably still be useable after Legacy of the Green Regent ends.  I've also been having a hell of a time getting some of the promo cards (which I now have a few extras of).  Since they were Con goodies, they might be worth something later on.  Ultimately, I looked at it this way:  to get all those cards, I'd have to play about 40 hours of sanctioned RPGA games per card AT LEAST.   I don't make a ton of money at my job, but I can work a fraction of that in overtime and pay that kind of cash for a good chunk of the cards.  With 23 cards, it came out to about $9/card...  not bad at all.

Overall though, I see their value declining in the short term...  but I think in 10-20 they might accrue nicely.  To be brutally honest, I was sick and tired to trying to email people who wouldn't respond or who wanted $30/card to make up the 8 or so I needed to have a so-far complete set.  At least this way I've got something in the way of trading collateral for more cards.  And like I said before, I'm a MAJOR FR buff, and this is one more set of goodies for me ;)

Plus, I'm actually going to try and play in Green Regent, and I like to have my options open  8)

  
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