Tell me about these older edition D&D products [list updated: Nov 20/10]

Matthew L. Martin said:

Nice find. <gloat> I found Dawn of the Emperors for $8 US this past December--and someone had stuffed Elves of Alfheim, Dwarves of Rockhome, and The Shadow Elves into the box as well.

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This is me being jealous!

Silverblade The Ench said:

As note previously, I got rid of a ton of old stuff ot Ebay, through my cousin...I felt violated getting rid of it all...cry...you may get some of it, lol
But I kept Undermountain as it's so damn good you should love it
(and any Dark SUn/Spelljammer items and some precious bits)
Undermountain is one of the few dungeon crawls I like as a DM..cause it's a setting more than a crawl

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I understand your feelings. I still cringe when I think of selling off my original 2e collection 10 years ago.

The Undermountain boxed set was part of that collection, so I'm really glad to have it again. This time I'm not giving it up. No way, no how.

Silverblade The Ench said:

City State of Tyr is good in laying out the city, but I stick to keeping the Sorceror Kings alive. The Add ons for Dark Sun are good, IMHO, Dune Trader though is my fave.
However the level and stats for NPCs in most of the dark sun stuff is garbage!! it's ATHAS not "Bognor Regis", roflmao!!
so their highest stat is a 15 or 16...they are level 8 AND the fluff is telling me they are some hard ass? Eh? not likely is it!
So the NPC stats are often way out of whack.
I've always seen it that Athasian characters are very damned otugh and levelled, by sheer necessity of survival and experience...though as always, for NPCs, that can mean super saavy trader who's useless in a fight...but his guards aren't!
that's the advantage of 3rd and 4th ed, you can have such folk with high skills, and it's those skills that let them be dangerous, rather than combat ability.

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Dune Trader rocks! I built my own trader class based on that sourcebook. The thri-kreen book is excellent as well.

I want to reacquire Slave Tribes first and foremost. After that, probably Elves of Athas or Veiled Alliance. However, I might get Black Spine before those two books. Of course, it depends on what I can "find" first.

Silverblade The Ench said:

And hell yes they had to run, lol. Cilops (psionic tracking centipede beasties) and rangers were the least of their worries!
Athas is about survival of the least dumbest, and I severely punish stupidity there hehe

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Heh. Least dumbest... funny.

Another Update -- Part One!
I decided to visit the northside Wee Book Inn today. I hadn't been to it in about 4 or 5 years. I never think of it. Well, today I got a copt of the Black Company Campaign Settting hardcover for half its listed US price.

But that wasn't even the best part of my day. I decided, on a lark, to head down to the southside to a comic store called Wizard's to look through the gaming books they have there. They sell all older edition D&D books at 50% off. Wizard's is where I got Guide to Hell.

I hadn't been there since before I began compiling my collection list and "to get" wish list(s). Thus, I hadn't seriously looked at what they had until now.

Well, I could beleive my eyes!

They had an unopened copy of the TOMES adventure box, Return to the Tomb of Horrors! Plus, they had it marked for only $10! Not only that, the guy behind the counter sold it to me for $5 because they sell all their older edition products for half price!

I was sure it wasn't complete, so I insisted on seing inside the box. It has everything, even the reproduction of the S1 Tomb of Horrors module!

Now, the box's cover is slightly damaged, but I don't care about that. I didn't buy it to sit on a shelf unused. I bought it to read and use!

I also picked up both Against the Giants: The Liberation of Geoff and The Vortex of Madness and Other Planar Perils while I wa there. And the store has tons of other 2e books I'm now seriously considering...

• A Paladin in Hell
• Champions of the Mists ("got it")
• Dark of the Moon ("got it")
• Dungeon Crawl: The Dungeon of Death (not there, like I thought)
• Dungeon Crawl: The Lost Shrine of Bundushatur ("got it")
• Harbinger House ("got it")
• Return of the Eight ("got it")
• Return to White Plume Mountain ("got it")
• The Evil Eye ("got it")
• The Star Cairns ("got it")
• Vecna Reborn ("got it")

I really had to control myself or I would have bought half a dozen of these books. I cannot afford to go to crazy, considering what I bought yesterday and my financial situation.

Still, today was a better day than yesterday was, by far.

I think I'll be taking my extra DMG and PHB (and my copy of Tome of Magic, which I don't like) to Whyte Knight tomorrow and sell them outright. Then I'll be heading back to Wizard's to get as many of these other books I can without dipping into my own money.

Other books they had that I'm not sure about or that I already own: Children of the Night: Werebeasts ("got it"); Den of Thieves (I have it); Die Vecna Die! (pass); Drizzt Do'Urden's Guide to the Underdark; Monster Mythology (I have it); Reverse Dungeon (pass); both of the Elminster's Ecologies softcover accessories for the Realms (confirmed); the Alternity Science Fiction Adventure Game boxed set (maybe); and the Wilderness Survival Guide for 1e (confirmed).

I'll be updating my Collection List tomorrow. I'm going out to a movie... right now! My friend just pulled up. Gotta go!

Cheers!

Knightfall

Another Update -- Part Two!
I went back to Wizard's today after I traded away my old copies of the DMG v.3.5, the PHB v.3.5, and Tome of Magic. I got CAN $40 for those three books.

(I also traded two other non-RPG books away and got $1.75 for them. )

At Wizard's, I got 6 books for CAN $53.55...

• Carnival (I missed this one the other day)
• Champions of the Mist
• Lost Shrine of Bundushatur, The
• Return of the Eight
• Return to White Plume Mountain
• Star Cairns, The

Also, I confirmed a few of the books I noted from yesterday. (See last post.) Also, I discovered that they also have the following: Of Ships and the Sea; Thief’s Screen; Slavers (I have this one); and all three of the Van Richten's Monster Hunter's Compendiums!

Plus, I called around to several book and comic stores and discovered one store has three boxes of RPG books (some old, some d20), which are being sold for $5 a book. I'm going there next.

Hopefully, they'll have some v.3.5 books that I can flip at WK for other books or sell for money to use at Wizard's.

Cheers!

KF

It's like an addicition

Crothian said:

It's like an addicition

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Yep.

Picture time...

Just the books...

Wow! That last book-hunting foray was really fruitful! I'm quite jealous of some of the ones you got!
Btw, congratulations on getting Champions of the Mists and Carnival. You won't it.

Edit: Also, The Evil Eye is a great adventure. It's considered one of the best of the Ravenloft 2e line, by most fans of the setting.