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Post Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:40 pm 
 

I'm seeing alot of these lately on ebay. They are always promoted as "RARE" and tagged with a pretty hefty purchase price (usually $40+ and shipping!)
Why are these so costly, if they are only rated as 2 on the availability chart?


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Post Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:43 pm 
 

Thork N Hammer wrote in B11/B12...why are these...?:I'm seeing alot of these lately on ebay. They are always promoted as "RARE" and tagged with a pretty hefty purchase price (usually $40+ and shipping!)
Why are these so costly, if they are only rated as 2 on the availability chart?


High demand. They are both by Carl Sergeant and the late run of B series modules is always sought after.


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Post Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2013 8:39 pm 
 

As the member tracking these for the valuation board, I've seen prices this year ranging from around $16 for a copy of B11 with pencil writing inside to as high as $90 for a B12 in shrink wrap.  While you may have seen a wider range than this, I'm due to update the latest auctions (summer is a busy time with the garden, not to mention my new girlfriend, who's a real sweetheart  :D ).  Average price this year for B11 has been $27 and B12 at $40.  Again, these numbers are based on the last time I updated my tracking sheet.


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Post Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2013 8:46 pm 
 

The initial print run of these was probably high, but actual distribution was low. They were not reprinted excessively like other b modules so while not rare by any stretch, they are not super common. Also, they are pretty good dungeon crawls...something later b mods lacked.


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

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Post Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2013 12:08 am 
 

bbarsh wrote in B11/B12...why are these...?:The initial print run of these was probably high, but actual distribution was low. They were not reprinted excessively like other b modules so while not rare by any stretch, they are not super common. Also, they are pretty good dungeon crawls...something later b mods lacked.


Weren't these the last two in the B series?


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Post Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2013 1:12 am 
 

JasonZavoda wrote in B11/B12...why are these...?:
bbarsh wrote in B11/B12...why are these...?:The initial print run of these was probably high, but actual distribution was low. They were not reprinted excessively like other b modules so while not rare by any stretch, they are not super common. Also, they are pretty good dungeon crawls...something later b mods lacked.


Weren't these the last two in the B series?


They were the last two in the series, underprinted, and never reprinted. So they do go for more than most regular "letter" modules.

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Post Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2013 11:05 am 
 

While B10 Nights Dark Terror, B11 Kings Festival, and B12 Queen's Harvest adventures are considered relatively rare due to print run and distribution, all three modules were released when Dungeons and Dragons was migrating to the newer format. The move towards introducing the board game for novices and the Dungeons & Dragons Rules Cyclopedia for previous players meant they sold poorly at full price in the UK. The early to mid Nineties also saw many of the larger distributors (Virgin Mega Stores, Hamleys) stop stocking Role Playing material thus many of the later released modules were either sold as remaindered products at a hugely discounted price to the general public or given away for joining the RPGA in the UK. So you will find in the UK these products (UK modules, B10-12, Companion and Immortal modules) found in higher quantities in Shrinkwrapped or perfect condition.



  


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Post Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 2:27 pm 
 

nemesiz wrote in B11/B12...why are these...?:While B10 Nights Dark Terror, B11 Kings Festival, and B12 Queen's Harvest adventures are considered relatively rare due to print run and distribution, all three modules were released when Dungeons and Dragons was migrating to the newer format. The move towards introducing the board game for novices and the Dungeons & Dragons Rules Cyclopedia for previous players meant they sold poorly at full price in the UK. The early to mid Nineties also saw many of the larger distributors (Virgin Mega Stores, Hamleys) stop stocking Role Playing material thus many of the later released modules were either sold as remaindered products at a hugely discounted price to the general public or given away for joining the RPGA in the UK. So you will find in the UK these products (UK modules, B10-12, Companion and Immortal modules) found in higher quantities in Shrinkwrapped or perfect condition.


I think this would be true for B11 and B12, but B10 Night's Dark Terror was published in 1986, three years before the others.

In terms of quality, I would say B10 is much better than the two others, but they are all pretty good modules.

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Post Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 7:38 pm 
 

Were these UK modules? or distributed mostly in UK and internationally?

Not to offend anyone but, why did the last 3 of the B series end up being foreign products?


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Thork N Hammer wrote in B11/B12...why are these...?:Were these UK modules? or distributed mostly in UK and internationally?

Not to offend anyone but, why did the last 3 of the B series end up being foreign products?


B10 was UK but B11 and B12 aren't marked as UK.


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Post Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 8:06 pm 
 

ahhh, okay. (relieved)


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