Tell me about these older edition D&D products [list updated: Nov 20/10]

What do you really want? Heck, I'm sure you've got access to more then a few things I'd be looking for. :cool:
Well, off the top of my head...
  • City of Greyhawk boxed set
  • Creative Campaigning [DMGR5] ("got it")
  • D&D Rules Cyclopedia
  • Glantri: Kingdom of Magic boxed set
  • The Bloodstone Lands [FR9] ("got it")
  • Uncaged: Faces of Sigil
  • Wrath of the Immortals boxed set
For a more detailed list of what I have and what I'm looking for, click on the link in my sig (in the sblock) for my RPG Collection List. While I don't really want to part with anything I have, I could see about finding something here in Edmonton that you might not be able to get where you are. Whyte Knight has a lot of older games; however, the owner tends to charge a lot since he has a bit of a monoploy on older games that are hard to find.

Note that I have limited money to work with, so I cannot be buying tons of stuff here to send to people elsewhere as part of any trading. I can look around town and see what is available, but I cannot make any promises. ;)

For example, right now, the Wee Book Inn (a used bookstore chain in Edmonton) located in downtown Edmonton has several Robotech books plus the Alternity version of Dark*Matter (*). The north side store has the Dark*Matter Xenoforms book (*) as well. The Whyte Avenue store currently has both Grim Tales (*) and Slavelords of Cydonia and several D&D v.3.x books. The Wee Book Inn in the western part of the city has the 3e Silver Marches (*) softcover and the Blood Wood sourcebook for Earthdawn. *I've considered all of these but I can't afford them all.

However, what the Wee Book Inns have changes at a moments notice. Alternity books tend to sit while D&D books, of any edition, tend to fly off the shelves. They tend to sell older game books for half the listed price but that can vary. D&D v.3.5 books are usually sold for more, especially the core rulebooks.

Whyte Knight has the best selection of almost anything you'd want but, like I said, it's often at a premium. Wizard's has a lot of 2e D&D books for half off, right now but that isn't there business so when the best stuff is gone, it's gone.

Also note that very few Edmonton-based book, comic, or RPG stores have web sites. There is a store called Gamers' Lair that does but that store sells only new books, I believe. Wee Book Inn has a web site (and a forum), which I've posted a link to on this thread already, but I don't know if they have a mail ordering system. (My guess is 'no'.) Here's the link again: Wee Book Inn | Try Us First

Whyte Knight does not have a web site and neither do the WARP or Wizard's stores, I believe. I'll ask the next time I visit those stores. The WARP stores almost never discount anything, except for WARP 2.

Anyway, let me know what you're looking for and I'll see what I can find.
 
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Curse my luck for being limited to buying online and not having a handy discount book store with small treasures such as you have... :rant::(:p
Heh. :p

Note that I can't find everything I want. Castles & Crusades, for example, is really hard to find here. I thought WARP 1 had one of the boxed sets for C&C but it turned out to be some sort of boxed set for Lejendary Adventures, which I'm not interested in. :-S

Best of luck, then! Getting the complete Gazetteer series would be quite a feat nowadays (again, speaking from an online buyer POV :p)
Well, I know for a fact that WARP 1 has them all but the store's D&D guru refuses to discount them (or any of the 2nd or 3rd edition D&D books they still have :mad: ). If WARP 2 has all of them as well then that's where I'm going to get them since they will be half price there. I mainly go to WARP 1 to buy Pathfinder books. Plus, WARP 1 has, like I said before, the Silver Anniversary Collector's Edition box but it's CAN $90 before tax. :eek:

That's too rich for my blood! :rant:

If they stiil have it when my birthday comes around then maybe I'll get it then with any birthday money I get. Maybe!
 

Thinking about the feel of Fritz Leiber's stories:

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are two of the greatest swordsmen in all the worlds ... because the Author makes it so and gives them "plot protection".

In RuneQuest, or a system with a roughly similar approach, skill can certainly go a long way toward doing unto others before they do unto you. However, on those unlucky occasions when a hero is hit, armor is a pretty big deal -- and the famous duo tend not to wear much. (Nor to use shields; the fencing style seems more modern than medieval.)

So, one might want to look at how one's chosen system handles damage, and adjust it to taste. D&D works well for a more "cinematic" approach, because for a high-level character a loss of HP that might kill a normal man might not even represent a wound.
 
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Thinking about the feel of Fritz Leiber's stories:

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are two of the greatest swordsmen in all the worlds ... because the Author makes it so and gives them "plot protection".

In RuneQuest, or a system with a roughly similar approach, skill can certainly go a long way toward doing unto others before they do unto you. However, on those unlucky occasions when a hero is hit, armor is a pretty big deal -- and the famous duo tend not to wear much. (Nor to use shields; the fencing style seems more modern than medieval.)

So, one might want to look at how one's chosen system handles damage, and adjust it to taste. D&D works well for a more "cinematic" approach, because for a high-level character a loss of HP that might kill a normal man might not even represent a wound.

I think you posted this in the wrong thread.:heh:
 




Today's find...

-> RAVENLOFT Legacy of the Blood: Great Families of the Core (CAN $15)

WARP 2 also had two copies of Denizens of Dread and, at least, one copy each of Gazetteers II, III ,and V. (I want those.) Add to that the v.3.0 Champions of Darkness; Heroes of Light; and Van Richten's Arsenal, Volume I. (I'm not interested in those. :-S )

The store also had two copies of Tome of Horrors III. I'll be getting one of those... eventually.

I checked out some of the store's non-D&D old school books as well, but I'll post about that in the pre-1990 thread. :D
 

I did more wheeling and dealing today. I went to that comic store I mentioned (selling books for $5 each) and spent CAN $40 to get the following...
  • All That Glitters... [UK6]
  • Alternity Star*Drive Campaign Setting
  • Kingdoms of Kalamar Campaign Setting Sourcebook
  • Oasis of the White Palm [I4]
  • RAVENLOFT: Denizens of Darkness (v3.0)
  • Rifts® Vampire Kingdoms
  • The Bane of Llywelyn [C5]
  • The Isle of Dread [X1]
I wasn't done there. I took Denizens of Darkness, Vampire Kingdoms, and my copies of UK6 and XI as well as my copies of Dungeonscape, Libris Mortis, and Monster Manual V to Whyte Knight. I sold the v.3.5 books for $30 and got $15 in trade for the other books. I traded for Hall of Heroes [FR7].

I wasn't done there. I stopped by Wee Book Inn on the way home and bought the copy of the Alternity Dark*Matter Campaign Setting that has been in the store, mocking me, for several weeks (for $23.05).

So, I used CAN $38.05 of my own money as well as my v.3.5 books to acquire Dark*Matter, Hall of Heroes, Kingdoms of Kalamar, Oasis of the White Palm, Star*Drive, and The Bane of Llywelyn (roughly $6.35 each). Plus, I still have UK6 and X1, just different copies of them (FYI... one better [X1], one worse [UK6]).

I'd call that good day. :D
 
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Side Note
Today, I got the "The Fright at Tristor" adventure module that Croesus sent me for free!

Croesus, You Rock!
 
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