Over the past couple of years, I've been slowly acquiring old D&D products on Ebay to fill some of the gaps in my collection. There are some major gaps in it - for instance, I own none of the original D&D books and supplements, but (to be fair) they don't interest me as much as the AD&D adventures.
The AD&D adventure I most regret not owning is H1: Bloodstone Pass. It's one of those things that one day I might acquire, even though the cost of doing so is going to be high (it goes for $80-160!)
There have been a few purchases I've made that have surprised me: an unpunched set of the 1st edition BattleSystem boxed set for one thing. Which has made me want to get Bloodstone Pass...
(UPDATE: Just won an auction for the complete H1-4 series. Hooray!)
I did have a moderately good collection from my youth of AD&D (1st edition) products, but there's no doubt that a lot of it has come from my more recent collecting. I've been cataloguing it in the RPG Geek database, (and I'm almost certain I should thank Ant Brooks here for data entry into that database), and a recent sorting of my products reveals a certain, let us say, bias in my collection:
TSR products by original date of release:
1974-1980: 23 products
1981-1985: 74 products
1986-1990: 77 products
1991-1995: 19 products
1996-2000: 3 products
The low initial value is mostly because TSR didn't release that much in that era (1980 is the first adventure module). However, once we reach the 2E era... not really that much. My university days of playing D&D were 1990-1994. After that, I had a break for a few years, and came back into the fold properly with 3E.
However, the 2E era is remarkably devoid of products I really want. Are there any suggestions for the "must have" 2E products I should look out for? There's still a few Greyhawk products I don't own... well, quite a few in the 2E era, although I have a few in PDF, but there aren't that many that really, really grab me.
Cheers!
The AD&D adventure I most regret not owning is H1: Bloodstone Pass. It's one of those things that one day I might acquire, even though the cost of doing so is going to be high (it goes for $80-160!)
There have been a few purchases I've made that have surprised me: an unpunched set of the 1st edition BattleSystem boxed set for one thing. Which has made me want to get Bloodstone Pass...
(UPDATE: Just won an auction for the complete H1-4 series. Hooray!)
I did have a moderately good collection from my youth of AD&D (1st edition) products, but there's no doubt that a lot of it has come from my more recent collecting. I've been cataloguing it in the RPG Geek database, (and I'm almost certain I should thank Ant Brooks here for data entry into that database), and a recent sorting of my products reveals a certain, let us say, bias in my collection:
TSR products by original date of release:
1974-1980: 23 products
1981-1985: 74 products
1986-1990: 77 products
1991-1995: 19 products
1996-2000: 3 products
The low initial value is mostly because TSR didn't release that much in that era (1980 is the first adventure module). However, once we reach the 2E era... not really that much. My university days of playing D&D were 1990-1994. After that, I had a break for a few years, and came back into the fold properly with 3E.
However, the 2E era is remarkably devoid of products I really want. Are there any suggestions for the "must have" 2E products I should look out for? There's still a few Greyhawk products I don't own... well, quite a few in the 2E era, although I have a few in PDF, but there aren't that many that really, really grab me.
Cheers!
