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<blockquote data-quote="Michael O'Brien" data-source="post: 8377403" data-attributes="member: 6807727"><p><em><strong>Chaosium President <a href="https://www.chaosium.com/rick-meints" target="_blank">Rick Meints</a> shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.</strong></em></p><p></p><p>I recently got asked "what are some of the rare or obscure items in your collection?" I have a number of unique items, and it's hard to pick just one. Last night I was writing about one of them for my book on Gloranthan publications, and thought it was worth sharing here. It is <em>Fantastic Battle</em>, a three-piece prototype set by the Danbury Mint. It features the art of Richard Bober. It reminded me of the cover of an unpublished <em>HeroQuest</em> RPG* supplement that was cancelled, and when I checked my hard drive, lo and behold, I found the cover art...</p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.chaosium.com/product_images/uploaded_images/239892308-10159885073452743-9057834747622094473-n.jpeg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></p><p></p><p>The set features a hand painted dragon miniature and a porcelain plate, both of which sit on a stone base. The pre-order brochure from the Danbury Mint describes the scene thusly: <em>Gildor the fearsome dragon is stirring from his slumber of a thousand years. The hour has come at last for a battle that will shake the earth ot its core. A second dragon, Rhunyx answers the challenge with a deafening roar. The citizens of Ashkelen are frozen with fear...unable to escape as a titanic battle of unimaginable fury and destuction unfolds.</em> Exclusively from the Danbury Mint, it is attractively priced at just $55.</p><p></p><p>This is the background plate, which makes it easier to see it is the same as the cover art from <em>Sartar Rising</em>: Dragonrise, other than being reversed and the flying orlanthi in the sky being retouched out:</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="https://www.chaosium.com/product_images/uploaded_images/239866872-10159885120272743-1225582948433699974-n.jpeg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="width: 760px" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p><p>As for the fate of <em>Dragonrise</em>, the fourth part of the <em>Sartar Rising</em> series, that will have to wait for another post...</p><p></p><p>*our <em>HeroQuest</em> RPG is now called <a href="https://www.chaosium.com/blogannouncing-the-questworlds-srd-the-ruleslite-and-preplite-rpg-engine" target="_blank">Questworlds</a>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Michael O'Brien, post: 8377403, member: 6807727"] [I][B]Chaosium President [URL='https://www.chaosium.com/rick-meints']Rick Meints[/URL] shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.[/B][/I] I recently got asked "what are some of the rare or obscure items in your collection?" I have a number of unique items, and it's hard to pick just one. Last night I was writing about one of them for my book on Gloranthan publications, and thought it was worth sharing here. It is [I]Fantastic Battle[/I], a three-piece prototype set by the Danbury Mint. It features the art of Richard Bober. It reminded me of the cover of an unpublished [I]HeroQuest[/I] RPG* supplement that was cancelled, and when I checked my hard drive, lo and behold, I found the cover art... [IMG]https://www.chaosium.com/product_images/uploaded_images/239892308-10159885073452743-9057834747622094473-n.jpeg[/IMG] The set features a hand painted dragon miniature and a porcelain plate, both of which sit on a stone base. The pre-order brochure from the Danbury Mint describes the scene thusly: [I]Gildor the fearsome dragon is stirring from his slumber of a thousand years. The hour has come at last for a battle that will shake the earth ot its core. A second dragon, Rhunyx answers the challenge with a deafening roar. The citizens of Ashkelen are frozen with fear...unable to escape as a titanic battle of unimaginable fury and destuction unfolds.[/I] Exclusively from the Danbury Mint, it is attractively priced at just $55. This is the background plate, which makes it easier to see it is the same as the cover art from [I]Sartar Rising[/I]: Dragonrise, other than being reversed and the flying orlanthi in the sky being retouched out: [CENTER][IMG width="760px"]https://www.chaosium.com/product_images/uploaded_images/239866872-10159885120272743-1225582948433699974-n.jpeg[/IMG] [/CENTER] As for the fate of [I]Dragonrise[/I], the fourth part of the [I]Sartar Rising[/I] series, that will have to wait for another post... *our [I]HeroQuest[/I] RPG is now called [URL='https://www.chaosium.com/blogannouncing-the-questworlds-srd-the-ruleslite-and-preplite-rpg-engine']Questworlds[/URL]. [/QUOTE]
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