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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9428942" data-attributes="member: 7026594">No, while 1E books were part of what Dancey found in the warehouse, that's not what I'm talking about.Dancey wrote, and I directly quoted..."I toured a warehouse packed from floor to 50 foot ceiling with products valued as though they would soon be sold to a distributor with production stamps stretching back to the late 1980s. I was 10 pages in to a thick green bar report of inventory, calculating the true value of the material in that warehouse when I realized that my last 100 entries had all been "$0"'s."Bold mine.Have you read any of the history on this?  Have you read Slaying the Dragon?Famously, most of the products we're talking about here are boxed sets, books and games which were overprinted in the 90s when TSR was desperate for operating capital and misused the terms of their Random House distribution agreement which allowed them to get paid up-front before those products ever sold.  And which was the killing blow to the company when Random House finally invoked the clause allowing them to return unsold unwanted product and ask for their money back.DragonStrike, Buck Rogers, unpopular 2nd ed setting boxed sets like Al Qadim and Birthright (much though I liked the latter), Spellfire, Alternity, The Amazing Engine, Dragonlance SAGA edition, a million units of Dragon Dice...</blockquote>