Anyone else been wanting a Rules Cyclopedia HB?

[jinnetics]

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.

 

[FATDRAGONGAMES]

Keep an eye out at used book stores. I picked up a Rules Cyclopedia a few months ago for $10.00 and it was near mint.

 

[Treebore]

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.

 

[Philotomy Jurament]

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.

 

[tankschmidt]

Thanks for the tip, TB. I'd buy one if I didn't already have my own well-loved copy.

 

[Korgoth]

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.

 

[JediSoth]

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!

 

[Scribble]

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.

I remember said picture.... oye...

 

[Tewligan]

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.

 

[Korgoth]

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.