Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil

[green slime]

I've run it to completion.

In hindsight, I don't think it is very good at all. It just takes too long. Too much just slogging through the mines.

 

[Vorput]

I could use a copy (and I wouldn't sell it off)!

Wonder if I could just stick it in a manilla envelope and mail it... dont want to get too fancy here... The post office scares me!
E-mail me your address dragonlordofpoondari, I'll see what I can do.

Alternativly, if by chance you're going to be at Gencon on Sunday- I'll be there as well, and could give it to you.

Vorp

 

[bolen]

Wonder if I could just stick it in a manilla envelope and mail it... dont want to get too fancy here... The post office scares me!
E-mail me your address dragonlordofpoondari, I'll see what I can do.

Alternativly, if by chance you're going to be at Gencon on Sunday- I'll be there as well, and could give it to you.

Vorp

Your a nice guy, I have to admit I am not so nice (what does that make my alignment?) Noble Knight games has it for $75. http://www.nobleknight.com/searchresults.asp?search=return to the temple of elemental evil I assume that these people have some idea of how much used games are worth.


I have had fairly good luck in selling unused games which I don't play at Gen Con so I can buy new things I will never play

 

[TerraDave]

It has a rabid following (hence the conversion document and all the other stuff you can find for it online).

And it has real potential, as noted above, there are many great bits, and a good DM can really bring that potential.

But those mines do just go on and on. And on. Best to think of them as a series of dungeon modules (and they are moduler) that just happen to be next to each other. For a reason.

 

[SavageRobby]

Is there a place I can go to find out what I should be looking for in some of these books? Back in the olden days there was not an Enworld around for reviews and such, so much of this stuff (like the Greyhawk setting supplements) is still pretty opaque to me.

For 1st edition stuff, check here: http://www.acaeum.com/

 

[Keeper of Secrets]

On a slight derail, I never understood the 'collectability' of games. I think that the fact that games increase in value seems a little shady to me.

Of course, I have never played ToEe so I have no idea how great (or bad) it is.

 

[billd91]

I have it, didn't like it much. Too dungeon-crawley (which is my main complaint with the original), too many hodge-podge monsters there to provide an appropriate challenge rather than be particularly rational, makes too little sense within Greyhawk's content and feel.

As for why it goes for $50, that's not that much of a mark up over its initial $35 cost (if I remember its cover price right).
Personally, I try not to pay over cover price for anything that I don't have really fond memories of. Buying sight unseen or based on other people's reviews may rate cover price, but not a $75 collectible price. That's nuts.

Back when Magic was all the rage, prices at Gen Con for out of print materials sky-rocketed. You'd see things like 1st ed Oriental Adventures for $55. It was pretty crazy and, I'm sure, predicated on the idea that the market was primed for paying collectibility prices. I can tell you, I didn't buy much from the resellers those years. I couldn't afford to.

 

[dragonlordofpoondari]

Wonder if I could just stick it in a manilla envelope and mail it... dont want to get too fancy here... The post office scares me!
E-mail me your address dragonlordofpoondari, I'll see what I can do.

Alternativly, if by chance you're going to be at Gencon on Sunday- I'll be there as well, and could give it to you.

Vorp

Holy frijoles!!!

That'd be great! I can't make it to GenCon this year, but I'll definitely shoot you my snail mail addy. Do you have a paypal account? I'd be happy to pay for shipping.

I pretty much have enjoyed everything that Monte has written. I have high hopes.

edit: Vorput, you're from Fort Wayne? my grandparents used to have a farm in Muncie! Beautiful country. They'd drive to Fort Wayne every week to eat at Winchester's (for fried chicken, steak, mashed potatos, and jello ... yum!). Is that place still there? Man, there were some good gaming stores in Muncie back in the 80's.

 

[Finster]

Thanks SavageRobby! I will look at it after work today.

 

[Glyfair]

As for why it goes for $50, that's not that much of a mark up over its initial $35 cost (if I remember its cover price right).

You don't, but you weren't far off. $29.95.