What's the most you've ever spent on a single RPG-related item?

[Matt James]

I spent $2,000 USD a while back for a 1st print (rare variant) Original D&D woodgrain boxed set. I sold it earlier this year for $3,500.

 

[kitsune9]

$100 for World's Largest Dungeon at the game store. Ouch.

 

[YellowPowerRing]

I spent about $200 for materials on the gaming table I recently built.

8' of book shelves floor to ceiling, an integrated 4' X 6' Table, and 4' of board game storage built into the end of the table.

Comfortably holds 30 years of RPG books, a significant collection of board games, and a computer station for connecting remote users via Skype.

Best $200 I ever spent.

 

[enrious]

Most expensive product would be Ptolus, at $120. WLD would probably be next.

However, I had a custom RPG table built, with 6 player stations and a DM station into something of hexagon, with raised level for maps (I was inspired by the ultimate gaming table that made the rounds here a while back) and that cost me around $250.

 

[ComradeGnull]

Yow, some expensive buys on here. I think ~$70 for one of the WFRP1/Warhammar Fantasy Battle Realm of Chaos books off eBay was my biggest purchase.

 

[Thanael]

Now mind you, there are two pieces of artwork that I would go rather high on potentially if I could buy them. But I don't know who owns them in order to make them an offer. That would be either the original artwork for the cover of 'In the Cage: Faces of Sigil' by Robh Ruppel, and the original interior artwork piece from 'Faces of Sigil' by Tony DiTerlizzi for Shemeshka the Marauder. Standing offer if anyone knows who owns either of those two.

Excellent choice. Love Robh Ruppel.

Shemmy, you might want to ask the user tsrart on acaeum about the Hellbound cover art... (and about the DiTerlizzi too...) Have you asked at the source already? Maybe DiTerlizzi still has the Shemeshka piece himself.

EDit. Foundn the owner of Hellbound on The Illustration Exchange - Science Fiction and Fantasy Art Collectors' Site. The same user states in his gallery that he used to have dozens and dozens of interiors from Tony but then got married and had to part with most of them.

 

[grodog]

Hmmm. I paid ~$1500 on eBay for a 2nd print OD&D brown box at one point including a special 1st printing Greyhawk supplement, but it was all in crap condition (unlike how it was described in the auction), so after a lengthy credit card dispute, it was eventually returned.

I've paid several hundred dollars for a number of items, with probably the ~$800 for 6 original Castle Greyhawk levels topping out the rest of the original manuscripts and other mostly-unique items:

 

[Jeffrey]

I think the most I've spent would be the $100 I dropped for the first Game of Thrones RPG (I got it for Christmas from my wife, so in the end I guess I paid for it). The very moment I cracked the cover on the book for the first time, the company that produced it went belly up.

I do, however, still have my copy of the original Daystar release of Tracy and Laura Hickman's Rahasia which, last time I looked, was going for about $1,200 in the collectors circles. So, if I ever sell that, I am all to the good.

 

[Shemeska]

Excellent choice. Love Robh Ruppel.

Shemmy, you might want to ask the user tsrart on acaeum about the Hellbound cover art... (and about the DiTerlizzi too...) Have you asked at the source already? Maybe DiTerlizzi still has the Shemeshka piece himself.

EDit. Foundn the owner of Hellbound on The Illustration Exchange - Science Fiction and Fantasy Art Collectors' Site. The same user states in his gallery that he used to have dozens and dozens of interiors from Tony but then got married and had to part with most of them.

Emailed the first guy, will email the second if I can find some contact details (though it looks like they might be the same person?). Remote chance, but worth a shot.

I've asked DiTerlizzi about the one piece of his, and sadly he doesn't have records of who he sold it too, just that it was at a convention years ago most likely. Not asked Ruppel, which is probably worth a shot.

And yes, if I manage to track down either, I'll make someone a seriously generous offer.

 

[Thanael]

I believe you can contact him via the The Illustration Exchange Forum. The user danull seems to be the owner...