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Hurry up and grab one if interested, I have posted this on several boards, so the under $25.00 books may disappear quick.
I found these while waiting to get sniped on an auction for it on eBay, for the 8th time. So I was happy to know when I got sniped I would have a place to buy it for less than my max bid was. Then I won the auction!
Anyways, I hope this helps someone else who has been wanting this at a decent price in decent shape.
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Hurry up and grab one if interested, I have posted this on several boards, so the under $25.00 books may disappear quick.
I found these while waiting to get sniped on an auction for it on eBay, for the 8th time. So I was happy to know when I got sniped I would have a place to buy it for less than my max bid was. Then I won the auction!
Anyways, I hope this helps someone else who has been wanting this at a decent price in decent shape.
I love that book and deeply regret selling the two near-mint copies I used to own.
There is only one thing I didn't like about Rules Cyclopedia: it had one of the most hideous pieces of RPG art I've ever seen. Anyone remember the picture where the group is sitting around the table playing D&D, and one of the dudes (I think the DM) has a mullet and (ugh) what looks like hairy hands?
The one time I model for a piece of art, and some dude on a message board starts hatin' on the result.
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Damn, now I want a copy. All the ones I saw on amazon look like either they're torn or yellow... or expensive beyond all reason though. I doubt any of them are yours.
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Damn, now I want a copy. All the ones I saw on amazon look like either they're torn or yellow... or expensive beyond all reason though. I doubt any of them are yours.
I can attest from personal experience that torn and yellow copies of the RC play just as well as one in prisitne condition.
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Just a couple of months ago I happened upon a near-mint copy at Bookmans, a used bookstore in Arizona. Mine now! I had always wanted it but never got around to grabbing it.
I can attest from personal experience that torn and yellow copies of the RC play just as well as one in prisitne condition.
I guess I should have clarified this was for people interested in a copy to play with, not for "COLLECTORS". I have never been a collector, not even my comic books.
__________________ It is the spirit of the game, not the letter of the rules, which is important. NEVER hold to the letter written, nor allow some barracks room lawyer to force quotations from the rule book upon you, IF it goes against the obvious intent of the game. As you hew the line with respect to conformity to major systems and uniformity of play in general, also be certain the game is mastered by you and not by your players. Within the broad parameters give in the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Volumes, YOU are creator and final arbiter. By ordering things as they should be, the game as a WHOLE first, your CAMPAIGN next, and your participants thereafter, you will be playing Advanced Dungeons and Dragons as it was meant to be. May you find as much pleasure in so doing as the rest of us do.
There is only one thing I didn't like about Rules Cyclopedia: it had one of the most hideous pieces of RPG art I've ever seen. Anyone remember the picture where the group is sitting around the table playing D&D, and one of the dudes (I think the DM) has a mullet and (ugh) what looks like hairy hands?
Was that in the RC? I thought it was in one of the 2E DMGR books, but maybe I'm thinking of a different piece. Doesn't really matter, I guess -- all those books had a lot of that same craptastic interior art style.
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Was that in the RC? I thought it was in one of the 2E DMGR books, but maybe I'm thinking of a different piece. Doesn't really matter, I guess -- all those books had a lot of that same craptastic interior art style.
Yes, sadly, it was in the RC. The RC had the worst art of practically any D&D book ever.
That mullet was terrifying. It was as if the cast of Roadhouse were playing D&D.
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Thanks for posting that. For a long while I wanted to teach any future kids I might have D&D using what *I* learned to play on and having long since gotten rid of my B/E/C/M/I stuff, this will be a great substitute!
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Yes, sadly, it was in the RC. The RC had the worst art of practically any D&D book ever.
The one that always makes me wince at the sheer awfulness of it is the picture of a fighter swinging his sword and sort of...prancing toward a yawning, unimpressed ogre. Do not like! That, and the cyclops dressed as a wizard.
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The one that always makes me wince at the sheer awfulness of it is the picture of a fighter swinging his sword and sort of...prancing toward a yawning, unimpressed ogre. Do not like! That, and the cyclops dressed as a wizard.
Yeah, basically you could replace the text with a scathing parody of D&D and most of the art would not look out of place.
Even though I'm much more of a B/X (Moldvay/Cook) fan these days, most of the art in the Mentzer series was good (at least, if you like Elmore... and even if you don't, he's still good). Strange that they didn't just use all that stuff.
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