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philmophlegm) wrote2011-05-20 11:48 pm
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Epic D&D eBay purchase thread
I've bought a lot of old and cheap D&D stuff on eBay recently.
A HELL of a lot of old and cheap D&D stuff. Most of it arrived this week while I was in Switzerland. There was so much piled up in the porch, I could barely get through the front door. Mostly for my own amusement, here's some thoughts on what I've acquired...
Fifty issues of Dragon magazine, the main D&D magazine, dating back to issue 135 in July 1988. Most of these were listed individually and I ended up as the only bidder, so with a low combined postage, I got them for 70p each.
Three issues of Imagine magazine. While Dragon was published by TSR in the US, Imagine was published by the UK branch. Interestingly Imagine's film and book reviewer in 1985 was an aspiring short story author called Neil Gaiman. Highly amusing is the way that Gaiman's review style is so much like Dave 'Ansible' Langford's (at that time doing the same job for Imagine's great rival 'White Dwarf').
A job lot of 12 copies of Challenge magazine (although I already had a handful of these). GDW's SF RPG magazine that covered Traveller and mostly other GDW games like Twilight 2000 and Dark Conspiracy.
AD&D First Quest. An odd boxed 'introductory' RPG that features an audio CD "featuring over 60 minutes of digitally recorded soundtracks". So this was an easy, "Introduction to Role-Playing Games" that nevertheless used the _Advanced_ Dungeons & Dragons branding rather than basic Dungeons & Dragons. You can see how people got confused...
Dungeon Tiles Master Set. 25mm scale dungeon floor plans for using with miniatures. Comes in a nice big box that in itself is a 25mm floor plan.
The City of Greyhawk boxed set. Loads of useful maps and short adventures set in the city at the centre of D&D's oldest game world.
Forgotten Realms City System boxed set. Much the same as CoG, except that the city is Waterdeep, in the Forgotten Realms setting. Particularly good building maps, which will come in handy.
Dragonlance Adventures. 1st edition AD&D hardback. The first Dragonlance sourcebook. Nice Jeff Easley cover.
Savage Baronies. Boxed set detailing part of the Red Steel setting, which seems vaguely hispanic and has ornate pistols, but about which I otherwise know little.
The Principalities of Glantri. One of the D&D Gazetteer series. Glantri is a country ruled by odd wizards it seems. Unfortunately I was outbid on the complete one, so had to settle for the one without the foldout map.
The Kingdom of Ierendi. Another D&D Gazetteer. Southern islands (which again may come in handy). Also has a simple D&D naval combat system.
Van Richten's Guide to Ghosts and Van Richten's Guide to Vampires. Sourcebooks for the Ravenloft gothic horror setting.
Campaign Guide to Myth Drannor and Myth Drannor Adventures, which I think are from a Forgotten Realms Myth Drannor boxed set.
Moonshae. Supplement covering the vaguely celtic / vaguely faerie bit of the Forgotten Realms.
The Rogues Gallery. Astonishingly good condition for an AD&D product from 1980. Possibly the condition is explained by the fact that the supplement (a very basic list of NPC statistics) probably wasn't very useful.
Dawn of the Emperors. A boxed set from the same Mystara world as the gazetteer series, covering the two major empires of that setting. I used to own this set, and it provided much of the wider background for the AD&D campaign I ran when I was in the sixth form. It's nice to get hold of it again, especially as I got it much cheaper than its usual eBay price. Bizarrely, it includes two copies of the three main books, which is something of a bonus.
A HELL of a lot of old and cheap D&D stuff. Most of it arrived this week while I was in Switzerland. There was so much piled up in the porch, I could barely get through the front door. Mostly for my own amusement, here's some thoughts on what I've acquired...
Fifty issues of Dragon magazine, the main D&D magazine, dating back to issue 135 in July 1988. Most of these were listed individually and I ended up as the only bidder, so with a low combined postage, I got them for 70p each.
Three issues of Imagine magazine. While Dragon was published by TSR in the US, Imagine was published by the UK branch. Interestingly Imagine's film and book reviewer in 1985 was an aspiring short story author called Neil Gaiman. Highly amusing is the way that Gaiman's review style is so much like Dave 'Ansible' Langford's (at that time doing the same job for Imagine's great rival 'White Dwarf').
A job lot of 12 copies of Challenge magazine (although I already had a handful of these). GDW's SF RPG magazine that covered Traveller and mostly other GDW games like Twilight 2000 and Dark Conspiracy.
AD&D First Quest. An odd boxed 'introductory' RPG that features an audio CD "featuring over 60 minutes of digitally recorded soundtracks". So this was an easy, "Introduction to Role-Playing Games" that nevertheless used the _Advanced_ Dungeons & Dragons branding rather than basic Dungeons & Dragons. You can see how people got confused...
Dungeon Tiles Master Set. 25mm scale dungeon floor plans for using with miniatures. Comes in a nice big box that in itself is a 25mm floor plan.
The City of Greyhawk boxed set. Loads of useful maps and short adventures set in the city at the centre of D&D's oldest game world.
Forgotten Realms City System boxed set. Much the same as CoG, except that the city is Waterdeep, in the Forgotten Realms setting. Particularly good building maps, which will come in handy.
Dragonlance Adventures. 1st edition AD&D hardback. The first Dragonlance sourcebook. Nice Jeff Easley cover.
Savage Baronies. Boxed set detailing part of the Red Steel setting, which seems vaguely hispanic and has ornate pistols, but about which I otherwise know little.
The Principalities of Glantri. One of the D&D Gazetteer series. Glantri is a country ruled by odd wizards it seems. Unfortunately I was outbid on the complete one, so had to settle for the one without the foldout map.
The Kingdom of Ierendi. Another D&D Gazetteer. Southern islands (which again may come in handy). Also has a simple D&D naval combat system.
Van Richten's Guide to Ghosts and Van Richten's Guide to Vampires. Sourcebooks for the Ravenloft gothic horror setting.
Campaign Guide to Myth Drannor and Myth Drannor Adventures, which I think are from a Forgotten Realms Myth Drannor boxed set.
Moonshae. Supplement covering the vaguely celtic / vaguely faerie bit of the Forgotten Realms.
The Rogues Gallery. Astonishingly good condition for an AD&D product from 1980. Possibly the condition is explained by the fact that the supplement (a very basic list of NPC statistics) probably wasn't very useful.
Dawn of the Emperors. A boxed set from the same Mystara world as the gazetteer series, covering the two major empires of that setting. I used to own this set, and it provided much of the wider background for the AD&D campaign I ran when I was in the sixth form. It's nice to get hold of it again, especially as I got it much cheaper than its usual eBay price. Bizarrely, it includes two copies of the three main books, which is something of a bonus.