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Post Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2018 7:31 pm 
 

Sorry if this has been covered, I attempted to search but could not find an answer.

Curious about the effect of value the presence or absence of original dice (and their condition) and ephemera (RPGA, catalog, etc.) have on Holmes, Moldvay, Cook boxed sets.

For dice, I was curious how much the condition of the dice affects things.

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Post Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2018 8:39 am 
 

...Ah, I just posted some about this yesterday over on the 0D&D Proboard. Will leave a link to the ongoing discussion there.

In my experience having the original low-impact dice included with any of the original boxed sets boosts the price of the boxed set by about $50, although I have seen some boxed sets with original dice go for more than $100 over the average price of a boxed set without dice...

In my post linked below, some wooden d6's are included. I remember seeing these wooden d6's in the 1970's along with the D&D  brown box and early whitebox D&D sets. Does anyone elese here recall these rather sorry looking wooden d6's?

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Post Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2018 10:34 am 
 

Wait, thought OD&D brown and white box did not come with dice.

  

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Post Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2018 1:48 pm 
 

They didn't as far as I know, but the Holmes set did, which is also OD&D, even if it got a bit rewritten to push the upcoming AD&D.

I still have one of my early d20s that I bought in a package by The Armory, here in Baltimore, that look quite similar to if not a match for the one in the photo. Wether they were made by The Armory, or by someone else and packaged under the name I do not know. TA was a sizable distributor, so either could be.

If the d20 has a letter 'g' on one of the sides, that would be Gamescience. I think they did the 'n'+ die as well, but I'm no authority on polyhedrals.


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Post Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2018 11:01 pm 
 

GameDaddy wrote in Box sets (Holmes, Moldvay, Cook) dice and ephemera?:having the original low-impact dice included with any of the original boxed sets boosts the price of the boxed set by about $50, although I have seen some boxed sets with original dice go for more than $100 over the average price of a boxed set without dice...


Wasn't Noble Knight Games selling original, unopened packets of 1970s TSR dice for $12.50 a few years ago?

  

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Post Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2018 12:49 am 
 

sauromatian wrote in Box sets (Holmes, Moldvay, Cook) dice and ephemera?:
GameDaddy wrote in Box sets (Holmes, Moldvay, Cook) dice and ephemera?:having the original low-impact dice included with any of the original boxed sets boosts the price of the boxed set by about $50, although I have seen some boxed sets with original dice go for more than $100 over the average price of a boxed set without dice...


Wasn't Noble Knight Games selling original, unopened packets of 1970s TSR dice for $12.50 a few years ago?

If by "few" you mean 10 or so,  yes...  They started somewhere in the past (more than 10 years ago) and after a couple of years they raised it at 25 dollars...  Then i believe they finished the stock.
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Post Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2018 12:47 pm 
 

aia wrote in Box sets (Holmes, Moldvay, Cook) dice and ephemera?:
sauromatian wrote in Box sets (Holmes, Moldvay, Cook) dice and ephemera?:If by "few" you mean 10 or so,  yes...  They started somewhere in the past (more than 10 years ago) and after a couple of years they raised it at 25 dollars...  Then i believe they finished the stock.
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Which brings up the question, what is current value of a set of Holmes (5 colors) or Moldvay/Cook boxes set dice if in the bag, loose but mint, and in the gummy worm down state?

Looks like the last rate was $25 for a bagged set of Holmes era dice.

  
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