I'm so happy to have won something from EGG! Have been a fan of his since the mid-80s. Always wanted to meet him, but never did get the chance, at least now I have somethings from his collection.



My primary item that I wanted and won:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0301061890



Never heard of this before the auction, but the description sold me on it.



My backup item in case I didn't win my main item and I won it too:


** expired/removed eBay auction **




This is getting framed and hung in my game room.

LordJR wrote:My primary item that I wanted and won:

** expired/removed eBay auction **


Never heard of this before the auction, but the description sold me on it.

This was one of four modules that EGG's short lived company "New Infinities Productions" published under the Fantasy Master line.  Frank Mentzer (ExTSR) and Kim Mohan were involved in the company as well.



Frank is a member here an could probably shed a little light on these modules.  He was actually the author of "The Convert".



It would be interesting to know the print run size and other tidbits.



There is some additional information here:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Gygax#After_TSR



Oh, I won a copy of the other three.  Even though I already have them, I couldn't resist...



I would have liked to have picked up some of the other items as well but unfortunately didn't bid before falling asleep!

dbartman wrote:
This was one of four modules that EGG's short lived company "New Infinities Productions" published under the Fantasy Master line.  Frank Mentzer (ExTSR) and Kim Mohan were involved in the company as well.

Frank is a member here an could probably shed a little light on these modules.  He was actually the author of "The Convert".

Some more info for LordJR: The author of Town of Baldemar was Bob Blake, who previously wrote Gen Con IX Dungeons (where players investigate Baldemar Castle) and Skulls & Scrapfaggot Green for Judges Guild, and The Prophecy of Brie series - first published as RPGA3-8 (the first two as stand alone TSR modules, the rest in Polyhedron), and then as modules C4 and C5. He also wrote IM2 Wrath of the Immortals and another series of Polyhedron modules. IIRC, Frank had a connection with him through the RPGA (getting him to submit his mods for Polyhedron) and perhaps even before that.

grodog wrote:
Not that I'm aware of, Ralph.  Redbrick may have released a limited version, though:  I haven't been following their releases very closely other than Blue Planet.  

Do you have the FS video game?  It's not common, IIRC.

Hehe yeah the artwork is a bit off at times  

I know Redbrick released the main rulebook in both softcover and hardcover. I'm not aware of a ltd release. They did have an issue with the first copies of Arcane Tech where the pages were incorrectly cut so a number of those books have been cut through the artwork at the top of the pages.

I was actually looking at the videogame today but the ones on ebay often are just the cd + case, or are missing the box. Don't have that one yet. Also don't have the Noble Armada stuff either.

rhynne wrote:Just out of curiosity, how much did everyone expect the Orange B3 to go for?

For a start, the price on that one is distorted by the "+50% for SW" attempt to do a one-size-fits-all on the "valuation"; whereas in reality SW'd copies are "relatively" common.
If you want to buy a decent unshrinked copy, you've basically got to pay more-or-less full SW price - not forgetting that a good number of those SW'd copies have a degree of warping.

dbartman wrote:{Baldemar} was one of four modules that EGG's short lived company "New Infinities Productions" published under the Fantasy Master line...  Frank Mentzer (ExTSR) was actually the author of "The Convert". It would be interesting to know the print run size and other tidbits.

Don't recall exactly but the runs were very probably 1,000 @ tho it might have been 5k (at most) if we were overoptimistic. We produced the settings "Town of Baldemar" and "Aesheba: Greek Africa", and modules "The Abduction of Good King Despot" and "The Convert."

The late Bob Blake, author of Baldemar and co-author of Aesheba, had a long and storied history with Judges' Guild and was also the Coordinator of the GenCon Open (AD&D Team Tourney) in the 1970s and early '80s, writing/co-authoring/managing all the tournament writing during that time. I offered him the job of running the RPGA after I set it up, but he stuck with his job & family in Indiana. (As a pharmaceuticals regional manager he made a lot more than TSR could offer.)

Tutored extensively in the D&D school of hard nox, Bob was one of the best in the world at writing and running adventures, a huge talent now almost forgotten. In the DM's Invitational of 1980 (the last major DM competition of record iirc), he took second place by only 1 point out of 300 (players/voters/evaluators being Gary, Brian Blume, and Jim Ward).

Despot is rather interesting. It's a classic '70s convention tourney by Will Niebling (one of his very few, he was mostly in TSR Sales) and Don Turnbull (1st inductee of the Hall of Fame, head of TSR UK for a time, and NIPI's second and final unsuccessful President). Doesn't work well as a campaign plug-in but is fine as a one-off.

Convert is, of course, the infamous RPGA tournament that I wrote, formally offered to TSR for publication (which they declined), and which NIPI then published, but TSR sued since we hadn't touched second base or something (despite our attorney's assurances that everything was aok). Turnbull negotiated settlement instead of fighting (we didn't have the money) and that was that. Cost us a few grand, cost TSR more than 50 grand, and was promptly buried. The PoG didn't want to publish anything by me, for business reasons.

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(aside) Previous discussion of oB3 boxes within cases, etc., over on viewtopic.php?t=2954 . Plus those couple dozen that other employees got a hold of.

Gnat the Beggar wrote:What is the reasoning for a NM ST1 (100-200 copies sold at the fair and who knows how many went to stores) to be valued at $2339

Almost certainly more than that blind guess as noted before: advertised on two occasions in WD, with the remainder sold after the fair not pulped. The number known to exist has already been more than doubled on the Acaeum listing (that amendment went through unadvertised); q.v. also viewtopic.php?p=32730&highlight=#32730 and various posts elsewhere.

Thanks guys.
That information brings more clarity to the issues (for me at least).

And to be clear, I am not knocking the way things are valuated here either.
This site has undoubtably contributed more knowledge to this hobby, than any other site in existance.
And the members here are awesome too.

I thought the shrink items would be crazy in this auction so I actually steered cleared of most of them. .  No, I have not kicked the habit, just took a breather. Everyone relax now.

Actually, I picked up one of the books I have been intending to buy for some time, Gary Gygax's World Builder.  It seemed like a nice piece and was reasonably priced, although I imagine he never actually had much to do with it.  Oh well.  It was the best sniping I could manage with an iPhone and a pathetic Internet connection.

Congrats to everyone who managed to pickup some really great pieces.