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Post Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 10:52 pm 
 

I just got a huge collection of D&D stuff from a guy in BC and there's some items here I'm not familiar with:

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I'll probably be posting them in classifieds at some point, as I pretty much only collect AD&D.
Thanks for your help!


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Post Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 12:22 am 
 

I've a copy of the Town of Baldemar, I picked it up early last year for about £1, I haven't seen (m)any listed since.
I found it stack full of town info. I only got it because it was written by the great man :)


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Post Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 12:41 am 
 

The City Books are from the Catalyst Series (As the covers indicate) published by Flying Buffalo Games.
There are Seven (7) Books in the series.
I like them for the City information they contain which can be used in any sort of setting and edition.
Which was the publishers intent of course.
They sell for +/- $15 each (on e-Bay in used condition for much less) as they can still be purchased NEW directly at FBI's web pages.
Each book includes MANY adventure scenarios, Adventure hooks, NPCs, and a lot of other stuff.

http://www.flyingbuffalo.com/catalyst.htm


Island Book 1, and Castles Book 1 are Judges Guild Supplement books (NO adventures, just maps ect.) and both are not too hard to find.
They will normally sell for around $5-$10 each on E-bay; Except in the big on-line shops that overprice them.


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Post Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 6:05 pm 
 

(1) Judges Guild subweb at the Acaeum:

. . . http://www.acaeum.com/jg/index.html

(2) The Citybooks are not rare, but they are uncommon and useful.

(3) Town of Baldemar is at least uncommon.  It is not written by Gygax but is useful nonetheless.  It should come with a large color map.
  

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Post Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 6:14 pm 
 

The Citybooks are a good read.  You might want to look at them a bit before selling them since you won't get much for them anyway (still available on the FBI site).
  

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Post Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 6:27 pm 
 

JohnGaunt wrote:(2) The Citybooks are not rare, but they are uncommon and useful.


Any that are out of print at any given moment (currently VI) do command a high price tag.  But that's pretty silly, as FBI seems committed to doing reprints.


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Post Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 7:56 pm 
 

TheHistorian wrote:
Any that are out of print at any given moment (currently VI) do command a high price tag.
But that's pretty silly, as FBI seems committed to doing reprints.


I would say that is quite true.
They did 14 Re-Prints of Buffalo Castle...  and then they started over with the first print of the Second Edition to Buffalo Castle.
That was in 1982... who knows how many re-prints followed that one?

As stated above, I would council you to enjoy the Catalyst Books for a while and if you do not find them useful simply list them for 99 cents and let them sell for whatever you get for them.


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Post Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:49 pm 
 

I'll give'em a good look through-thanks for the info!


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Post Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 12:49 am 
 

I don't generally associate much monetary value to these books either.  I would think if you could get $10 for each of them you would be doing really well.  In my mind $5-$7 is closer to the mark with lots of 99 cent bargains.  But its been a while since I bought any more of these so who knows.
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