Future d20 Collectibles

[Napftor]

Has there been a particular d20 product you just can't seem to find? Is it sold out or just hard to procure in your area? Or maybe, just maybe, it has become the Palace of the Silver Princess (orange cover) for 3rd edition. What, if any, products will command top dollar in the years to come? I'm talking the kinds of things which today you'd give your eye teeth for (original woodgrain box which Gygax slapped together by hand, for example).

Think nothing will approach collectibe status? Think again: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...f=sr_1_1/002-6196416-9740058?v=glance&s=books

 

[Crothian]

Just because someone is asking that much for those modules doesn't make them worth it.

Only the third party stuff that is very good and limited supply will this happen to.

 

[Napftor]

...Only the third party stuff that is very good and limited supply will this happen to.

I'll agree with the "limited supply" part, but I'm not sure about "very good" only products being eligible. Some of todays rares aren't exactly the pinnacles of gaming product.

 

[Crothian]

Well, opinions on products vary from person to person. You also have to recall many of the old modules still have the nostalgiia feel to us old gamers. So, it really doesn't matter if they are not so good cause we remember them fondly.

But with many of the d20 stuff getting reprinted and reused I imagine it will hurt the resale market.

 

[Napftor]

I'm with ya on the nostalgia part, Crothian. I also hadn't thought of reprinting (I assume you're speaking in terms of OGC) as hurting collectibility. That's an interesting point.

 

[Crothian]

Yes I am. We are now starting to see books that compile a lot of information from many books into one. But I can see things like Bluffside and other books that really can't be taken apart that well getting to this level of collectibility. Also, populiar books like TOH 2 might get there with the first printing since it sold out so fast. I don't think we will have anything like the first printing of Dieties and Demigods, that is a book that a printing has more information then the other printings. On the contrary I imagine the later priunting will be better for most people since that's wehen the errors are being fixed.

 

[KB9JMQ]

Maybe hopefully someday my signed copy of "Of Sound Mind"

 

[Crothian]

Another thing to consider is the pdf market. As this groes and allows books to never fully go out of print people won't be spending the big bucks for something they can get cheap. I do know of many people who have refused to buy the old modules used instead getting them cheap in pdf format.

 

[Napftor]

I can't seriously consider the pdf market for collectibility discussions. How can something electronic--which is available at the touch of a button--be a collectible? Crothian, you're the pdf man. Sell me on that.

 

[Crothian]

Assuming a collector has a limited budget with the pdfs you can buy around 6-10 for the cost of one used module. This is based on the prices of modules I saw last year at Origins and Gen Con. If a person wants them all, it is easier to get them all in pdf form and cheaper. Also it is easier to find them in pdf.

Now, most collectors will of course perfer to own the actualy modules but price and availibility will really hamper this. So, the serious collector will never settle for anything but the oprinal print versions, but the more casual collectors and the cash concious ones will be happy with the pdf ones.

Using myself as an example I do perfer the print modules. But I have all the or most of them I could get in pdf form. I still hunt for the print version but I can wait till I find it for a fair price instead of overpriced like I feel many of them are. So, with the option of pdfs there at the very least after a few years we may see the prices drop some or at least level off. But as it is right now the pdf industry is just not big enough or well known to really have a factor.

But this is just speculation on my part.