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Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 2:02 pm

ExTSR wrote:
Keith the Thief wrote:What are Domesday 1 & 2?

Domesday Book (named after the famed 1086 survey of England)

I just got a copy of the 1086 domesday survey from a used bookstore last week, it is very cool

Top 5 list:

10th anniversary boxset (MINT)
R7-10
Any Domesday book
Parkinson painting "Lord Soth's Charge"
D&D basic set 1st print in M/SW

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Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 4:36 pm

It's interesting to me that nearly all of the items listed so far are not on my want list. Not because I have them all! They're just don't do anything for me. If I stumbled on a woodgrain, or orange B3, or ST1, I would definitely just sell it.

If I limit it to D&D and closely related, a couple of my top wants are actually pretty modest items:

1. 1st print of Dungeon Master's Adventure Log (you wouldn't believe how 3rd prints I've looked at...)
2. nice copy of 4th print B1 (all either trashed or way over priced, IMHO)
3. GW Character Sheets (because I remember having them, somehow, as a kid - never see a complete copy)
4. Kobold Hall (to finish my Role Aids set)
5. Adventurers' Guild Register 1 (to finish my Mayfair CSIO set)

If I expand it to any RPG material, I'm not sure any of those would make my top five. Hmm, I'll have to go ponder that...

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Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 5:59 pm

TheHistorian wrote:It's interesting to me that nearly all of the items listed so far are not on my want list. Not because I have them all! They're just don't do anything for me. If I stumbled on a woodgrain, or orange B3, or ST1, I would definitely just sell it.

Seconded on the ST1 at least.

TheHistorian wrote:If I limit it to D&D and closely related, a couple of my top wants are actually pretty modest items:

1. 1st print of Dungeon Master's Adventure Log (you wouldn't believe how 3rd prints I've looked at...)
2. nice copy of 4th print B1 (all either trashed or way over priced, IMHO)
3. GW Character Sheets (because I remember having them, somehow, as a kid - never see a complete copy)
4. Kobold Hall (to finish my Role Aids set)
5. Adventurers' Guild Register 1 (to finish my Mayfair CSIO set)

The trouble with such lists is letting people know what it is you're /really/ looking for. Nice safe list you have in that context, Steve.

Out of interest, was that presumably the "4th print" GW character sheets as listed on the site as opposed to the "3rd print" pad of the earlier version? I'm still curious to know how far the latter traveled back in the day.

Strictly within the scope of this thread, I guess I'd be looking to get back those long-sought after items that went in a fire sale thanks to Citibank (nice trick guys for picking on UK customers when that would've been illegal in the US); i.e. Inverness and Rahasia. Add the Domesdays that went the same way, if those somehow squeak into this thread, and throw in something not yet seen; viewtopic.php?t=2208 perhaps? Plus a bundle of 'zines for that ST1 I'd be selling.

Oh, and my original 3rd print woodgrain, of course... if that's still out there, somewhere.

TheHistorian wrote:If I expand it to any RPG material, I'm not sure any of those would make my top five. Hmm, I'll have to go ponder that...

Different kettle of fish, that.

Not sure I could trim that list down to five; or even to fifty. Hmm... A 1e copy of the first widely-published rules designed and used for "RPGing" for a start, perhaps? (The 2e copies are difficult enough).
Heh... see what I said 'bout letting people know what it is you're hunting for?

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Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 7:17 pm

faro wrote:Out of interest, was that presumably the "4th print" GW character sheets as listed on the site as opposed to the "3rd print" pad of the earlier version? I'm still curious to know how far the latter traveled back in the day.

I was referring to the former. I don't think I've ever seen the latter.

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Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 9:44 pm

TheHistorian wrote:
1. 1st print of Dungeon Master's Adventure Log (you wouldn't believe how 3rd prints I've looked at...)

I have to come clean. This was one of those things that took me years to find. Like 10 years. It seems they were always trashed, not identified correctly, I got sniped, on and on. Of course I am a very casual collector, as far as chasing things. I take my time.

And I could've bought these damn modules off the 1$ rack!!!

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Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:05 pm

1) Ghost Tower of Inverness tournament edition
2) Lost Tamoachan tournament
3) Chainmail (any edition/printing at a reasonable price)
4) The remaining minifigs World of Greyhawk miniatures (I have about 16 packs, need the other 60-some :-(

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5) Nothing comes to mind

TheHistorian wrote:If I expand it to any RPG material, I'm not sure any of those would make my top five. Hmm, I'll have to go ponder that...

That one's easy for me:

1) Maustin Caji (Jorune)
2) Jorune 1st ed. booklet
3) Akalabeth ("Ultima 0" - ziplock baggy computer RPG, 1979; VERY hard to find)
4) original Ultima I - not the mid-'80s port(s)
5) original Ultima ][ (this and (4) originally for the Apple ][, not that I ever owned an Apple. I've played the games, just don't have the original boxes, disks, and documentation)

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Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:10 pm

FoulFoot wrote:http://www.acaeum.com/library/domesday.html

Foul

Cool.
I need to significantly re-think my wish list.

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Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:17 pm

ExTSR wrote:
Keith the Thief wrote:What are Domesday 1 & 2?

Domesday Book (named after the famed 1086 survey of England) was the newsletter of the original Castle & Crusade society. Foulfoot incorrectly lists issue #2 as being single-sided (it was printed on both sides, but still a single sheet of paper). (nudge nudge) Though early issues were minimal, later ones (produced by the young Rob Kuntz) grew full with club submissions. Certain issues contain the first attempts at the club's "house rules" for medieval wargaming, which were later compiled and revised, becoming the published product "Chainmail" from Guidon Games (Evansville, IN).

And Chainmail begat D&D which begat the entire multi-multi-million-dollar fantasy gaming industry of today (its size due chiefly to the advent of modern personal computers and the internet).

So one could argue that the Domesday Book newsletter was the progenitor of the whole tamale.

Were you involved with all this as early as 1970?
I've always been extremely fascinated by the really early days of the game, from 1970 until the release of Greyhawk, just to throw at milestone out there.
Has this been written up somewhere?

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Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 12:36 am

faro wrote:The trouble with such lists is letting people know what it is you're /really/ looking for. Nice safe list you have in that context.

If my interest moves the prices on any of those, I'd be shocked.

bbarsh wrote:I have to come clean. This was one of those things that took me years to find. Like 10 years. It seems they were always trashed, not identified correctly, I got sniped, on and on. Of course I am a very casual collector, as far as chasing things. I take my time.

Good/sad to know. *sigh*

The bonus question - is it three-hole punched or not?

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Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 1:37 am

A few things others also want...
A few things no one else ever seems to want.... (certain odd toys and ephemera)...
And, a few things I don't know about.

I might be more interested in a confessional.... Top five things you bought and don't know why....

1. A costume from a very bad D&D movie that proves Justin Whalen's waist was then about the size of my forearm. The thing sure won't fit for reanacting, lol.
2. Dragon Dice.
3. Promotional banners for the 4th edition minis game days.
4. All in the Family Board Game.
5. D&D comic books.

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Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 4:59 am

TheHistorian wrote:

4. Kobold Hall (to finish my Role Aids set)

Hey Steve,

You know there's one up for auction and it's SW too.

Role Aids - Origins Tournament Dungeon - Kobold Hall 1983 Mayfair Games

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Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 10:02 am

Keith the Thief wrote:Were you involved with all this as early as 1970?

Nah. I was in college, doing various illegal things (no felonies), heavily dating 3 girls, and playing music for money part-time. Minimal to no gaming, but Life was great. I just didn't realize how great. ;>

Has this been written up somewhere?

Nah, nobody's interested.

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Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 10:35 am

rhynne wrote:You know there's one up for auction and it's SW too.

Yeah, just saw it. That will sell for more than I care about. Which is probably a good thing, because if I won, I'd open it.

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Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 11:29 am

TheHistorian wrote:
rhynne wrote:You know there's one up for auction and it's SW too.

Yeah, just saw it. That will sell for more than I care about. Which is probably a good thing, because if I won, I'd open it.

Same here, but I'd wait until NTRPG Con to do it, and I'd make sure that I did it right in front of smarmy1 as the cameras were rolling so as to get a perfect shot of his agonizing mug. :twisted:

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Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 10:47 pm

Holmes Boxed Set
AD&D Monster Manual (Sutherland cover)
AD&D Players Handbook (Trampier cover)
AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide (Sutherland cover)
AD&D Dungeon Master's Screen (1st print)

Everything else is gravy.

As a side note, I still have all my originals of the above (in various conditions) with the exception of the Holmes set. I never had one BITD. The guys what got me started had one (haven't seen them in about 25 years), and another guy I started had a set (still does somewhere). I purchased a nice copy from NobleKnight a few years ago. It wasn't the printing specified by the Acaeum's info page, but I believe it is the same printing that I began with way back when, so I am pretty stoked about that.

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Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 7:34 pm

My top 5 most-wished :

1) Lost Tamoachan
2) One original artwork (B&W) from a module
3) D&D red box... chinese version.
4) Daystar West - Rahasia
5) 10th anniversary collector's set

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Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 11:32 pm

I'm not telling what I wish for!

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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 2:37 am

Hey Mark,

This --->

FormCritic wrote:I'm not telling what I wish for! :o

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