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lurch
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Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 1:40 am

Not necessarily looking for an appraisal, but identification.

I picked up a decent-sized stack of uncut cards for some kind of game. Does anyone know what these are from? They might be for a homemade game? There are various sheets of cards (on white, blue and pink cardstock) with Roman numerals ranging from I - X.

Thanks!

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Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 3:26 am

Turns out - I figured it out - I think. In case anyone is still looking in on this AND curious, it *appears* they go with Costley and Willis' T.H.E. Non-Player Character Book.

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Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 9:42 am

Yes, that sounds right to me. I can dig out my copy if you need a page count.

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Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 8:53 am

Mars wrote:Yes, that sounds right to me. I can dig out my copy if you need a page count.

It never ceases to amaze me how much "obscure" stuff you have in your collection.

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Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 10:08 am

LOL, sometime soon I need to get a list together to get an appraisal done for insurance purposes so I can share a list then. But there really is a ton of obscure small press stuff out there - and different printings of it too.

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Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 11:13 pm

My T.H.E. Non-Player Character and T.H.E. Fighter do not have a cardstock sheets with the text shown above. Here's a scan of the front covers:

My T.H.E. NPC has photocopies (possibly not original) of some tables, and my T.H.E. Fighter has a blue cardstock pages with complex flowcharts and tables.

Is the pink sheet from an earlier version of T.H.E. NPC or another book in the T.H.E. series?

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Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 11:36 pm

Yes, the pink sheet and another hundred sheets are part of the first print - before it was Martian Game Modules. The original version was also letter size not digest.

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Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 11:54 pm

Mars wrote:Yes, the pink sheet and another hundred sheets are part of the first print - before it was Martian Game Modules. The original version was also letter size not digest.

Thanks! I did not know the history of the T.H.E. line.

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Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 12:59 am

JohnGaunt wrote:Thanks! I did not know the history of the T.H.E. line.

I've only seen 3 or 4 of the 1st prints go through Ebay compared with maybe 20 copies of the later print (Noble Knight also has the later prints) so they are a lot more scarce.

I didn't know about them until I saw one for the first time and bought it (just the booklet) then found there was suppose to be a stack of cardstock sheets. I ended up picking up a second complete copy.

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Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 7:08 am

Does anybody know if the L. W. WIllis in he credits on the cover of T.H.E. Non-Player Character and T.H.E. Fighter is Lynn Willis of Chaosium?

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Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 12:54 pm

jasonw1239 wrote:Does anybody know if the L. W. WIllis in he credits on the cover of T.H.E. Non-Player Character and T.H.E. Fighter is Lynn Willis of Chaosium?

That I don't know but would be interested to find out. If so, I wonder if concepts from these books were ever moved into any of the Chaosium books (similar to Midkemia Press).

EDIT: I sent a quick email to Charlie over at Chaosium to see if he knows.

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Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 7:03 pm

Mars wrote:
That I don't know but would be interested to find out. If so, I wonder if concepts from these books were ever moved into any of the Chaosium books (similar to Midkemia Press).

EDIT: I sent a quick email to Charlie over at Chaosium to see if he knows.

Hey Mark, did you get any reply from Charlie yet?
Maybe you could ask Greg Stafford in the Q&A thread here somewhere.

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Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 7:18 pm

No I didn't get a reply from Charlie at all.

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Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 7:29 pm

Mars wrote:No I didn't get a reply from Charlie at all.

Don't give up on a reply. He has probably been extra busy since Dustin Wright closed down his office in Denver and moved his family to Houston to look for work.

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