Future d20 Collectibles

[Napftor]

So, teitan, would you then theorize that many current 3rd party products, with sales down across the board, might become collectible just from sheer number (a few thousand seems the norm)?

 

[Treebore]

Then just about any 3rd party publishers product are possible collectors items. Necromancer hasn't ran a single print run over 2,000 ever since Crucible of Freya. Goodman Games, Troll Lord Games, and a few others are similiar. Ed Cha's modules a very small print runs and I had problems finding one of those as soon as they were published.

 

[Zander]

Not a d20 product, but a D&D-branded product nonetheless is the latest D&D boardgame by Hasbro/WotC. AFAIK it's not available in the US, only Europe.

The expansion for it, Eternal Winter, will be even more sought-after both because of its rarity and because it includes a cool mini of a dragon.

 

[teitan]

So, teitan, would you then theorize that many current 3rd party products, with sales down across the board, might become collectible just from sheer number (a few thousand seems the norm)?

Nope, quality is a necessary evil I am afraid to say. =)

To use a comic book analogy: just because there are only 9000 copies of the Re:Gex (a book I like by the way) doesn't mean it is a valuable comic book, usually found in the quarter bin actually. Aside from that, what makes something go up in value is when people are actually LOOKING for the product actively, like the WItchfire stuff, people have heard good things about it but it is very hard to find and when it does surface prices tend to go up. Now crap doesn't move, even at half off so don't go out looking for copies of The Foundation any time soon, then again it is so bad it might become a collectible even then like an Ed WOod flick... LOL. I am personally looking for Tomb of ABysthor and saw a copies for double the cover price... ummm no.........

Note I used a revered and beloved adventure series as my example. I don't see a lot of the Falcon Master stuff going for a large chunk or the Dragonlance Classics Anniversary Edition going for a large chunk anywhere...

Jason