There are a few people that collect this type of stuff (myself included).  The main trouble with these items is that most look like homebrew type material and would be difficult to authenticate if it is genuine or not.  They typically don't sell for very much because of the ease in which they can be forged but also they are tough to search for and basically go unnoticed.

I think they are probably more of a curiosity for most people rather than a hardcore collectible.

I picked up a similar format tournament module for about $5 a few weeks ago.

agreed

i like to collect stuff like this too. but unless its a major item (ie from gencon or some other well recognised event/person), then the values are nominal.

that said, if you wanna offload it, i will gladly take it off your hands for a sensible value.

Al

Mars wrote:There are a few people that collect this type of stuff (myself included).  The main trouble with these items is that most look like homebrew type material and would be difficult to authenticate if it is genuine or not.  They typically don't sell for very much because of the ease in which they can be forged but also they are tough to search for and basically go unnoticed.

This module is on greenbar.  Does any business still use greenbar paper?  All the greenbar paper that I ever saw was for tractor-feed printers and either dot-matrix or band printers.  If the technology is gone now, then forging such an item becomes more difficult.

Let me finish the scans and post them so any interested party can take a look.

I made some scans and took some photographs of this item.

http://mysite.verizon.net/ptcaezza/Tournament-Dungeon.htm

Take a look and if you can let me know whats it is worth.

Merc :

Your situation sounds very familiar to me. I found one a few months ago that was very similar. On the one I found though, I could actually find references to it online on a website regarding copyrights. I pretty much had the module (the title and the authors name) and the members here helped me get all kinds of information regarding it. So if anyone can track down more information, its the members here. Good luck with it

JohnGaunt wrote:This module is on greenbar.  Does any business still use greenbar paper?  All the greenbar paper that I ever saw was for tractor-feed printers and either dot-matrix or band printers.  If the technology is gone now, then forging such an item becomes more difficult.

Quick google search (green bar fanfold paper) yields quite a few results for the paper....and at a reasonable price too...I haven't looked into the actual printers mainly because its been so long, I can't remember a model number off the top of my head. I remember IBM had models that printed to them because we used a few with an RS6000 I was administrating back in the mid 80's. I want to say there's a model called a Microline or Microdata something like that. I'm not saying this a fake or something, just reporting that it is possible to still print on paper like this.

Looks interesting-ish:  I'd agree with Mars, it's a $5-20 item, and only $20 if you get a few of us in a bidding scuffle for it

I was able to contact David Hecht, one of the original designers  of this dungeon and he was able to provide me with some background and information about it.

Here are some facts he provided;

1. The dungeon was never sold commercially.
2. Less than a dozen copies were made.
3. Apricon III was in 1980.
4. All were made the same as mine.

Here are some quotes from his emails

The theme was in keeping with the Big News of the time, the Iranian Hostage Crisis (1979-1980). The gist of the dungeon was that the hostage crisis had gone on more or less indefinitely into the far future: the execution was basically riffing on that theme.

Shep did all of the typing. It was done in EMACS on the then state-of-the-art PDP-11 system, on one of the distributed terminals: I believe it was an Apollo terminal. We (the design/development team) talked through the whole dungeon and made notes, and then Shep typed it all up. His spelling was crap and there weren't such things as spell checkers in those days, so there's plenty of mistakes. I remember noticing one time (can't remember if it was EE or the previous year's tournament dungeon) that Shep had spelled "paladin" with two D's (paladdin) and I asked him to correct it: he put in some commands I didn't know which turned out to be global search and replace, the first time I'd seen it used. Later we found a place in the text where "Aladdin" was now spelt with one D (Aladin)...oh well!

There were some really funny moments, like the one where one party realized they had used up their passwall spell and one of them came up with the idea of using stone-to-flesh and then chopping their way through...classic DnD puzzle-solving of the most imaginative kind.

Badmike wrote:
Honestly, I'm not necessarily a violent man, although I am a Texan.  

Mike B.

You are part of the Texas Mafia though.........