Mystara Collector's Guide
- Thread starter Echohawk
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Oh, sorry - I didn't realise. There's probably a quick way to fix them all. I'll take a look!
Thorf
Explorer
Echohawk — thanks for putting this wonderful guide together. While I've seen many over the years, this is the first that includes release months for almost every product. I find this especially useful, because I haven't been able to source the release months for many of the early D&D releases, especially those from 1981-1985. May I ask where you found this information? It would be even more useful if you could detail the sources.
Thanks!
Thanks!
Echohawk
Shirokinukatsukami fan
One of my major regrets from the time I spent compiling the Collector's Guides is that I didn't document the sources of all of the release dates better. In general the priority order for setting those was: 1. TSR catalogs. 2. Dragon Magazine previews/adverts/mentions. 3. Any online sources including the US copyright office records of publication date. 4. My own notes and records of when I added items to my collection. 5. Guesswork.
The early eighties are a particularly tricky period as TSR didn't release annual catalogs as reliably as they did from the mid-80s onward, but those releases are late enough in the D&D lifespan that there is less interest in documenting release dates on online fans sites. (The Acaeum does a great job of dating the first ten years of releases, for example.)
So, all that said, I'm confident that the release dates in the Collector's Guides are about 90% accurate. Where they are not, dates are unlikely to be out by more than a month. But alas I didn't keep good enough records of where I sourced each product's release dates to now be sure exactly which dates are confirmed and which ones are educated guesses.
My second major regret is that I haven't been properly maintaining these for the last five years, and they have become a little stale, and also don't include all of the late 4th edition and 5th edition mentions of all of the campaign settings. I could really use an extended sabbatical from work to revamp them all, but that's not likely to happen soon
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hello Echohawk
My name is Shawn Stanley, I run the Vaults of Pandius, the official website of the D&D of Mystara. It was recently pointed out in on of the Mystara Facebook groups that I should host a copy of your Mystara Collector's Guide, http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?332819-Mystara-Collector-s-Guide, on the Vaults. Since I have a history of extracting things from places like The Piazza or Facebook for the Vaults, and I do not have a history of using the ENWorld forums, I like to reach out to people before doing that.
Therefore, would you be okay for me to host a copy of the Mystara Collector's Guide on the Vaults?
cheers
shawn
My name is Shawn Stanley, I run the Vaults of Pandius, the official website of the D&D of Mystara. It was recently pointed out in on of the Mystara Facebook groups that I should host a copy of your Mystara Collector's Guide, http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?332819-Mystara-Collector-s-Guide, on the Vaults. Since I have a history of extracting things from places like The Piazza or Facebook for the Vaults, and I do not have a history of using the ENWorld forums, I like to reach out to people before doing that.
Therefore, would you be okay for me to host a copy of the Mystara Collector's Guide on the Vaults?
cheers
shawn
Echohawk
Shirokinukatsukami fan
You're welcome to host a copy on the Vaults. I will make a mental note to let you know as and when I finally get around to updating it with late 4e/5e mentions of Mystara.
thanks Echohawk
