I have been collecting for a little over a year now. From time to time I get the hankerin' for a box set, so I purchase one fro Ebay. I know the box rule sets are listed, but I don't find the others. I do understand most of the "others" came later on and are not the primary focus of this website, but does anyone have a decent price list for the many box sets out there? I am sure most of us have a shelf of these fun items...

Any hard to find ones?

Also, what do yu consider to be excellent box sets vs. poor box sets?

Seems like a good conversation to have. Thanks in advance!  

The ones I hate are the little wood-like looking brown ones, with the three little books in them. Volume I, II, and III. What the hell?

Heh.

Seriously, though, Mister Thin has a good question... are you talking about any specific edition here? I find that Ravenloft, for me, has a lot of value, because I like the setting (even with the camp horror crap, though I do find it hard to stomach Requiem.)

I always like the campaign setting box sets,recently got a hold of dark sun which is interesting. It has little ring bound books in it for the adventure which is strange.

Never really bothered with the Od&d box sets though i'm afraid, i'm an AD&D  collector and even then, only certain sets (I'm a planescape fantatic)

In terms of crap box sets: The Planescape guide to the outer planes is pretty craptastic. It has very little in it and the cd is attrocious. Really an item purely for the complest as it doesn't really add much that isn't already covered elsewhere.
For great box sets: I always loved Hellbound, mostly because it comes with a comic. I like comics. Heh.

I like my box sets brimming with random bonus stuff and lots of books and maps. Nothing is quite as satisfying as a full box of goodies. I always feel cheated by those box sets that have like 2 small books and maybe one simple map.

IN terms of value: Planescape has a huge following of avid crazed collectors like myself so usually sells for a fair enough amount. Especially the rarer sets like PLanes of Conflict and Hellbound.

Darksun tends not to be that popular, or maybe the market is just saturated with the adventures. However, finding the core rules is a BITCH. They seldom seem to come up on Ebay and when they do they usually sell fairly well. It took me a while to find my copy of the core setting.

Forgotten realms, while interesting, doesn't fetch much but hey.. if you like the setting who cares?

Ravenloft can be hit or miss depending on whether a collector notices it and doesn't already have it. I personally never bothered with ravenloft but there are collectors out there.

Spelljammer tends to go for cheap, most gamers hate the setting but personally, I rather like it. It's silly, incredibly silly. Any setting with giant space hamsters cannot be taken seriously, lol. I don't remember paying much for our copy of the core rules and a few other bits and pieces.

That said, it's not really about the monetary value to most collectors but about the passion for that particular setting. I still use my planescape stuff to run games after all, I LOVE the setting so so much.

guerret wrote:
Fortunately, these are the only boxed sets to go to such steep prices. In general you can get most boxes for something between 5 and 60 dollars. Some show up very easily and are extremely cheap (Nightmare Lands or Hollow World), while others are rare and demand very high prices (Wrath of the Immortals or Rod of Seven Parts).

I was reading RoSP recently - it is interesting.  In some ways though I was disappointed, a bit of a wasted opportunity.  Of course, part of my disappointment came from the fact that it wasn't set in Greyhawk.  But even with more generic settings, it lacked a real epic setting.  I know it has a whirlwind other-planar section and the locations are all varied, but it somehow seemed a bit thin.  Thinking of Q1, which seemed to open up so much possibility of other adventures - it just seemed lacking. And the main enemy beasties were a bit derivative.  And the Wind Dukes of Acqua too bland.  Hmmm, still worth having and with a chunk of your own  imagination and a few month's work, could be turned into a truly Epic campaign.

Cheers Allan, you know your stuff!  Sooooo, you bought the R7-10 package at Gencon then?  If you did - i am very jealous  

flying_purple_monkfish wrote:I always like the campaign setting box sets,recently got a hold of dark sun which is interesting. It has little ring bound books in it for the adventure which is strange.

Yeah, Dark Sun was strange in that regards.  Most of the pre-revision adventures were like that as well.