grodog wrote:IIRC, Monte Cook sold some of his personal copies ~1-2 years ago, and they sold in the $100-135-ish ranges (?), so I would assume that standard playtest copies would sell for less.
I would assume somewhere between $35 and 85 in the current market.
Ouchie vs.
viewtopic.php?p=28608#28608 in 2005?
Monte's were a good 4-5 years back and I thought those went "cheap" for what/whose they were - n.b.
3.0 blue covers, not 3.5e - especially the Monster Manual with extra loose-leaf copies of unpublished artwork. I think the price paid for the MM in particular was a bit higher that you recall, but not hugely so. Still, one could probably have gotten most of a 2nd woodgrain for that combined cost back then.
As of 2009, just ignore T&T's crazy $600-ish pricing for "anonymous" copies, of course!
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p.s. Having rechecked, I've only been able to recover the most recent sales without delving further and Monte's DMG went for over $100, less than for the Return to Temple of Elemental Evil *g*, but over $225 for the MM routed via Burnie Bros. (Is $225+ "hugely" over $135?).
Definitely not far off a 2nd print woodie between the three, then.
