I think mine was shipped out today. When it arrives, I'll give it a thrice over but I don't foresee me playing it... next game of choice is Shadowrun.

nice lot there - and the BIN has gone (what was it?)

(BTW - I can't bid ass it seems to be restricted to the UK - would you mind opening up the listing? _

Good luck


Carl

JohnGaunt wrote:
The "Simulacrum Games" forum at Dragonsfoot is here:
. . . http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=48

Knights & Knaves Alehouse is here:
. . . http://knights-n-knaves.com/phpbb3/index.php

I just realized these links were part of the conversation.
I guess I thought they were part of your signature.
(Maybe they are)

Anyway, forums like these will help a great deal.
I'm on a quest for the perfect old school rules set.

gyg wrote:nice lot there - and the BIN has gone (what was it?)

(BTW - I can't bid ass it seems to be restricted to the UK - would you mind opening up the listing? _

Good luck


Carl

It was $105, which I deemed reasonable.

Damn, I thought I had opened it up to international bidding. Any help on that would be appreciated, eBay can be a pain when it comes to changing these things. I'll at least try to open it up to you (gyg same on eBay?).

EDIT: added "gyg" (which didn't work) and "gotyourgames" (which did work) to my exemption list. Evidently I did not successfully change my preferences on this to all international bidders in Oceania, Europe, and North America as I had intended. Anyone else, just send me a PM or message on eBay and I will rectify that.

MetamorphosisSigma wrote:
It was $105, which I deemed reasonable.


EDIT: added "gyg" (which didn't work) and "gotyourgames" (which did work) to my exemption list.

Yeah baby

I reckon 105 probably was reasonable - there's a chance you might make more than your BIN on these.

Keith the Thief wrote:I seem to be finding quite a few of these old school D&D clones out there:
Labyrinth Lord, BFRPG, S&W, just to name a few.

Is this a new trend, or has it been going on for a few years?

Also found one site that had combined the white box rules with Greyhawk to make a pre-BM/EW/GDGH ruleset.

Been picking up steam since 2008 but there was fair amount of stuff being done before that. This page of mine has bunch of stuff you can look at to see what everybody is doing.

http://www.batintheattic.com/oldschoolsurvey.htm

There are several things going on. On the publishing side (which I am mostly involved in http://www.batintheattic.com) people are writing new material for older editions of D&D. Of course it nice when dealing with new gamers and novices to have some rule books to legitimately sell or give hence the various retro-clones the big three being Swords & Wizardry (OD&D), Labyrinth Lord (Moldavy/Cook/Marsh B/X) and OSRIC (AD&D 1st).

Been picking up steam since 2088 but there was fair amount of stuff being done before that.

I'd hope so, seeing as how 2088 is a sight in the future.

robertsconley wrote:
Been picking up steam since 2008 but there was fair amount of stuff being done before that. This page of mine has bunch of stuff you can look at to see what everybody is doing.

http://www.batintheattic.com/oldschoolsurvey.htm

There are several things going on. On the publishing side (which I am mostly involved in http://www.batintheattic.com) people are writing new material for older editions of D&D. Of course it nice when dealing with new gamers and novices to have some rule books to legitimately sell or give hence the various retro-clones the big three being Swords & Wizardry (OD&D), Labyrinth Lord (Moldavy/Cook/Marsh B/X) and OSRIC (AD&D 1st).

I've been searching for just such a list.
Thanks!!

Right now, my players are scattered to the four winds.
And we are split over which rule set we want to use.

My taste runs to the more flexible "D&D"-style,
while others want 1E.  
I'll be the DM, but I don't want to force the issue.

It amazes me that the OGL and SRB allow this much use
of original D&D property. Everything from spell names to monsters.

Again, thanks for the feedback!