What's the Best RPG Bargain You've Ever Gotten?

[Kax Tuglebend]

Most of the FFG Legends & Lairs hardbacks for about £4 each.
Mint Moldvay starter set complete with dice & crayon sealed in its bag for £8 including P&P.

Honourable mention: old Chaosium's fantasy Cities suppliment, picked it up for £3 from a seller on ebay that i'd won several other items from. Couldnt find any information on it online, but figured it might have a few useful charts in it, and was rewarded by a book filled to gills with pretty good random enounters (21 charts worth), and a rather cool (if nerdy) set of rules for designing villages..

 

[Bayushi Seikuro]

I went to Gameboard in Knoxville on a whim, and caught the tail-end of their annual 'clear the warehouse' sale.

Seventy percent off of anything but Magic cards.

So, I bought what would have been about three hundred dollars worth of gaming things - including WLD, a lot of old Seventh Sea and L5R books, and other D&D books I wanted/needed.

I hear from employees that it's come down from management it'll never happen again; it was the last big blowout.

 

[Mr. Patient]

Moldvay Basic Set in NM condition, including a B2 as crisp and beautiful as the day it was made, for $5.

 

[ivocaliban]

Back when West End Games went belly-up they had a huge sale: all of their hardcovers for $5.00, all of their paperbacks for $3.00. I bought pretty much the entire Star Wars WEG catalogue as well as Indiana Jones, Necroscope and a few others. I spent less than $100 on around 40 books.

A few years later I sold the Star Wars books individually on eBay and made a killing. This wasn't my original intent, of course. I wanted to run the game, but I couldn't get anyone I knew interested. Still, I made nearly quadruple what I invested in those books and quickly invested most of that money into other RPGs. *heh*

 

[DM-Rocco]

Once I was waiting for the local comic store, Schienders, to open up during a snow storm and one of the employees was waiting for the manager. The employee didn't have a key and we both had to wait 45 minutes for the manager to show up. The manager opened the door and left. The employee felt sorry that I had to wait and said, "go ahead, anything you, on the house."

I thought he was kidding and so I picked up a comic and a pop and went to the counter. He said, "That it? You can do better than that. Go on, take what you want, I don't care." I picked up another couple of comics and he said, "go for broke," so I then grabbed one of each 2nd edition D&D book they had and a few modules. It was almost more than I could carry because I didn't have a car at the time. He let me walk out the door with all of it for free. No lie.

Of course, in hind sight, it was 2nd edition. I would have been better off leaving without it

Other than that, my Mother bought me one of every book and module she could find one year for Christmas (it was first edition, it was good). She bought me all of that because my brother was in hockey and she felt bad she spent so much on him. I was surprised as hell. That was a good Christmas.

 

[Aus_Snow]

Ooh ooh, I got a new one :

Second Sight, new, for approximately $15 USD (this was just now, kinda thing). Woohoo!

 

[maddman75]

I agreed to write a review of Year of the Zombie, and as a result on therpgsite won a contest for everyone who submitted a review. I got a copy of Hollow Earth Expedition for my efforts. So I got the YotZ PDF and the HEX book for free!

 

[Sqwonk]

Last week - I took a stroll into half-price books with a 50% coupon.
So I ended up paying $11 for the new Star Wars SAGA rulez.

But my best was picking up a mint copy of GW's Lost & the Damned at half-price books.
I ended up trading it on bartertown for about $200 worth of Reaper figs.

 

[Oryan77]

When I first got into D&D 3.5 I found a local person selling all his gaming books for $200 since he was moving out of country. There was 4 large boxes full of books. I got every 3.0 & 3.5 WotC book (at that time) and I sold everything else that I didn't want. Managed to make about $700 profit not including all the books I kept.

I think the best story I've heard so far was the guy on Maxminis last year that found about 15 cases of Harbinger minis tucked away in a warehouse. He bought them from the place for like $150. Fifteen cases of that set is worth about $12,000.

He never did post back to let everyone know what he ended up doing with those cases :\

 

[amethal]

My brother gave me the 3.0 PHB, DMG, MM1, Monsters of Faerun, Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting and Dragonlance Campaign Setting, (and Wheel of Time) for nothing.

I'm another person who got the Broken Isles PDF for the original pre-order price of $1.

I bought Vampire and Werewolf (the original versions) second hand on eBay for a pound each. Probably came to five pounds with postage. Seemed like a pretty good deal to me.