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Old/Rare shit Anonymous 02/21/16 (Sun) 20:27:28 No.220567

So I am wondering does any here collect certain books for their rarity/age/nostalgia/price? I at first was thinking this would only be for DnD but what other stuff if any is collected like this?

Is there a pricing guide for some of the rare stuff?

Here is a rare pic of best elf/grill as payment.

Also scans of them would be nice

Anonymous 02/21/16 (Sun) 20:48:42 No.220573

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>>220567

I imagine original copies of Chainmail or signed copies of 1st edition D&D might be a pretty hot collectible. Original printings of stuff like the Tomb of Horrors come to mind as well.

Other than that, I can only think of stuff like the Black Lotus card.

Anonymous 02/21/16 (Sun) 21:13:04 No.220578

I know a guy that has that DnD book with Cthulhu listed as a god. I keep trying to get him to scan it for posterity but he isn't interested.

Anonymous 02/21/16 (Sun) 21:32:33 No.220583

>>220578

I wanna see that.

Anonymous 02/21/16 (Sun) 22:06:50 No.220589

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>>220578

>>220583

It's this. They also had Elric in there too, but got into trouble because of the copyrights. All the later printings don't have Cthulhu.

Anonymous 02/21/16 (Sun) 22:29:28 No.220591

>>220589

>that artwork

I'm in love.

Anonymous 02/21/16 (Sun) 22:40:02 No.220592

>>220591

I feel the same way. It's weird how that bad art can just instantly give me happy childhood feelings.

Anonymous 02/21/16 (Sun) 23:20:52 No.220601

I don't think there's a reliable price guide. Old D&D books aren't very rare, for the most part, but you have serious price gouging from some sellers. Pretty much any 1st edition AD&D book should be around $10-$20. I remember locally seeing a used book store trying to sell them for $75.

Some of the old adventure modules are genuinely collectible, and like >>220573 said the original Chainmail books, the things I see that are pricier are out of print boxed sets like Paranoia 2nd edition or TSR's Marvel Superheroes Advanced Set.

Anonymous 02/21/16 (Sun) 23:22:49 No.220602

>>220601

and by pricier I mean you can't get them for less than/equal to cover price.

Anonymous 02/22/16 (Mon) 01:41:49 No.220644

>>220589

Funny, I just ran across a Craigslist posting with that and a bunch of other old D&D. Some Marvel Super Hero books, RuneQuest, and Invincible Overlord too. About 34 different books, and the boxed games. Dude wants $250 for it.

Should I spring for it and get the scan of Elric and Cthulu?

Anonymous 02/22/16 (Mon) 02:14:52 No.220661

>>220567

IIRC used game sites like Noble Knight and some others have some price lists of their own development (usually the old D&D boxes with their original dice set were the most expensive)

>>220578

>>220583

>>220644

There are already copies floating around the internet with the complete book (damn 8chan won't let me post it) and for a while the WOTC had a PDF scan of those 2 pantheon's back when they still hosted some of the old 1e/2e stuff.

Anonymous 02/25/16 (Thu) 16:05:19 No.221494

Yeah. I have the Living Steel Boxed Set for Leading Edge Games. I'm trying to find more of their stuff but it's slow going.

Anonymous 03/11/16 (Fri) 04:25:25 No.225125

>>220567

Collecting the original 1st edition prints of the appendix n texts.

Anonymous 03/12/16 (Sat) 06:56:33 No.225357

>>220589

Who's Elric?

Anonymous 03/12/16 (Sat) 11:16:20 No.225375

>>225357

The titular character from the Melniboné series written by Michael Moorcock. The very first printing of Deities & Demigods has deities from that series in it (and the pantheon laid the basis for the Chaos Gods of Warhammer fame), but the copyrights for both that stuff and the Cthulhu stuff were held by Chaosium. You know, the Call of Cthulhu guys.

So in the second print they were replaced by a shoutout, but in subsequent printing they were removed to not draw attention to competing products.

Anonymous 03/13/16 (Sun) 01:00:50 No.225508

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