Found in a Used Source Book...

[Nyaricus]

It might not have been so weird had they been. These weren't "normal" and I will not elaborate.

This thread is worthless without pics

 

[Joshua Randall]

I removed the book to see a jar of green powder. It had a label, but it was a home-made printed label and hard to read. [...] I just ended up keeping it for a few weeks (in case the seller suddenly realized what it was) and then tossing it.

You fool! That was the material component for a complex Epic Spell designed to save the world from Ultimate Doom (tm)! Now we're all gonna die! Aarrggh!!!111!!!!ONE!!11!

 

[Old_Man_Fish]

I've found all sorts of things, from character sheets to world design notes to adventures. Heck a few times while buying box sets there were extra modules / accessories and what not in them...

And yeah, once or twice I've purchased a book with a friends name in it.

 

[jdrakeh]

Several years ago I purchased a stack of used Cyberspace books from a store in Topeka, KS and discovered tha they all had the name "Gareth-Michael Skarka" neatly printed inside their front covers. At that time, I had no idea who Mr. Skarka was.

A year later I was able to get a confirmation from the game designer in question that, while attending Kansas University, he had traded in his Cyberspace books at a store in Lawrence (Dean's Books) more noted for its indoor smoking section, than its book selection.

The other half of the story, I got from Tom (the owner of Dean's Books in Topeka) -- apparently, the Lawrence location had been closed down when the Campus-wide smoking ban went into effect. . .

And those Cyberspace books, long forgotten at the back of the store, had made the transition to the Topeka location in question (where I purchased them).

It's a small, small, world

[On a related note, I occasionally slip my old, hand drawn, maps and other campaign information into used books that trade in if I don't see myself going back to the system any time in the future.]

 

[SiderisAnon]

Things Found In Gaming Books

When I bought a large stack of HERO books from Sue Cook on E-Bay, I found one of Monte Cook's old business cards from when he was working as an editor of that line. It was clearly one of his first business cards at the company, because while all of the company information was printed on the card, his name was handwritten.

Not too odd, I guess, but I thought it was kind of neat.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

In a sealed Spelljammer box set I bought from a used bookstore a couple of years back I found a full set of dice and a floppy disk with a typed out adventure set on Bral.

 

[Shadowslayer]

Found printed out internet erotic stories in a DnD FR boxed set.

Heh...that box set had lots of extra room in the box. Name a better place to hide your copy of "Big Uns" from the missus.

And no..it wasn't mine. I still have my FR boxed set.

 

[pogre]

Not exactly an RPG, but I bought a used Talisman set. I overpaid for it - like $100 at the time, but I wanted the game. When I got home and opened it the box had the Talisman game plus every expansion ever made for it. I realized immediately I had WAY underpaid for it!

 

[jdrakeh]

For a while we used to find copies of used D&D books at a local bookstore that had the same name in them - James. They'd always be recent books, so we kept wondering what James was doing with them. Maybe he buys them, scans them and then sells them. A couple of our gaming buddies also ended up with some of James's former possessions.

He could just be like me -- a total bibliophile. I have have (or rather had) many books that were the better part of ten years old but looked like they had been purchased mere days earlier. I'm real anal-retentive about book care. Probably to an unhealthy degree.