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Post Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2025 11:57 pm 
 

Is there a version of the red banner B4 module that is hole punched?

I haven't seen one, but figured I'd ask the brain trust.

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Post Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2025 10:07 am 
 

For what it's worth, the Valuation Board bot has recorded almost 400 B4 sales.  The vast majority are angled-yellow-banner versions (earlier printings).  Of the red-bannered ones (less than 20 sales recorded), none of them are 3-hole-punched.

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Post Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2025 10:31 am 
 

I don't believe there was a red-banner factory 3-hole-punched version of B4.  TSR had gone away from hole-punching when they started printing modules with the red banner and the new TSR logo.

Some of the earlier printings of B2 were also 3-hole-punched at the factory.  Most of the other products that were 3-hole-punched were accessories.

3-hole punching of products was fairly short-lived.

  

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Post Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2025 1:51 pm 
 

FoulFoot wrote in B4 Question:For what it's worth, the Valuation Board bot has recorded almost 400 B4 sales.  The vast majority are angled-yellow-banner versions (earlier printings).  Of the red-bannered ones (less than 20 sales recorded), none of them are 3-hole-punched.

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That is a crazy ratio 380+ to 20.

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Post Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2025 1:58 pm 
 

dbartman wrote in B4 Question:I don't believe there was a red-banner factory 3-hole-punched version of B4.  TSR had gone away from hole-punching when they started printing modules with the red banner and the new TSR logo.

Some of the earlier printings of B2 were also 3-hole-punched at the factory.  Most of the other products that were 3-hole-punched were accessories.

3-hole punching of products was fairly short-lived.


That was the Trapper Keeper fad if I recall correctly.  

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Post Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2025 10:33 pm 
 

dbartman wrote in B4 Question:3-hole punching of products was fairly short-lived.


TSR revisited 3-hole punching in 1989 for the Monstrous Compendiums.  

It seemed like a great idea, but the reality was very disappointing.  The binder was very flimsy and the rings got out of alignment very easily.  This lead to the pages and dividers getting caught and torn on the ring closures.  The D rings in the binder kept the pages "square" but made paging through them was very awkward.


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