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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5820590" data-attributes="member: 4937">As usual with collecting, this depends on how rare the item is, how esteemed it is within the community, and how much money is within the community.  I think that there will definately be items from D&D's early days and from the early days of modern gaming in general that will be worth a considerable amount in the future.If you have a first printing mint copy of the original the volumn D&D signed by Gygax and Arneson, then you have a national treasure and I think it would be evaluated as such by 'Antiques Roadshow'.  I'd be surprised if the Smithsonian didn't look you up one day.  If you have a mint poster from Origins 1, or a mint GenCon 1 poster, then you've got something worth several thousand dollars.  If you have a signed copy of a first printing of H.G. Wells 'Little Wars' in mint condition, you probably can pay for your kids college tuition with it.  I don't know how many of these exist in the world, but it can't be many (if any), and it would be like the Guttenberg bible of gaming.And if you think that these things are only really worth money if someone is willing to buy them, consider how many .com millionairs are probably also gamers.</blockquote>