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Post Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 1:56 am 
 

I love the adrenaline rush you get when sifting through boxes on old stuff like that and knowing you will get away with a great deal.

Congrats Joethelawyer. :)


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Post Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 2:44 am 
 

Congradulations.

. . . Entertainment Concepts (1982) Search for the Lost City: A Jungle Adventure - sells for $40-50 IIRC
. . . Tortured Souls! - sell for $10-20 a magazine

Most of the non-TSR stuff there is in the $20+ range, with the exception of the Judges Guild stuff. The JG Wilderlands and the JG Wondeous Weapons are particularly valuable, again, $40-50 IIRC.


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Post Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 7:51 am 
 

Wow, what a way to introduce yourself :)

Excellent find - congratulations & Welcome to the Acaeum!


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Post Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 11:08 am 
 

Most of the nonTSR stuff is uncommon but not terribly difficult to find.  Probably the rarest item of the lot is:

Entertainment Concepts (1982) Search for the Lost City: A Jungle Adventure

The value is probably around $40 but could go for $25-$100.  For some of the others, I would value them as follows:

Midkemia Press:

$35-$40 Jonril, Gateway to the Sunken Lands-with Map (co-author Raymond E. Feist!!!)

Bard Games:

$5-$8 The Compleat Spellcaster
$5-$8 The Compleat Adventurer

Chaosium:

$10-$15 Carse (Midkemia Press City)
$10-$15 Cities

The Companions:

$15-$20 Plague of Terror
$15-$20 Highroad
$15-$20 Streets of Gems
$20-$25 Gems for Death
$15-$20 Cards of Power
$15-$20 Sylvan Settings

Beast Enterprises Ltd.:

$10 Tortured Souls 4
$10 Tortured Souls 5
$10 Tortured Souls 8

There are some issues of Tortured Souls that are difficult to find that would obtain more but these aren't them.

Dungeon Magazine:

$25 each Issues 2-6
$3 each Issues 7-13, 15-18, 20, 21

Dungeon magazines 1-6 hold some value ($25+) but the rest I would ask $2-$3 (if I were selling them).

$5-$10 Game Master Publications GM3 In Search of New Gods
$5-$10 The Armory (1986) 30-sided Character and Other Tales
$20-$25 Heritage Models (1978) Rules for Wargames, Wizards and Warfare, by Peter Irving
$15 Squadron/Signal Publications (1981) Down in the Dungeon (Color artwork)

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Post Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 11:44 am 
 

Mars wrote:The Companions:

$15-$20 Plague of Terror
$15-$20 Highroad
$15-$20 Streets of Gems
$20-$25 Gems for Death
$15-$20 Cards of Power
$15-$20 Sylvan Settings

I'd be willng to pay $30 for a copy of Gems For Death, and I'd go close to those upper limits on all these books.

Mars is pretty much on the button there with these prices, and that's only part of your haul. The work comes with photographing, describing and listing everything on eBay.


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Post Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 12:18 pm 
 

When I was an active collector I never saw any of these for sale:

Entertainment Concepts (1982) Search for the Lost City: A Jungle Adventure

I'd imagine it would go for over $100 easy, there's gotta be a bunch of people hunting for this set.

  

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Post Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 12:38 pm 
 

I'll take a crack at the Harn material, because you'll probably get fewer comments on those, and I know something about them.

Columbia Games:

Rethem Kingdom Module - $40
Orbaal Kingdom Module - $10-20
Chybisa Kingdom Module - $10, but at least double that if it's the first edition (cover picture is city, not mounted knight)
Azadmere Kingdom of the Dwarves - $10
Son of Cities Expansion Module for Cities of Harn - $15-25

Rethem is definitely the find in that group.

  

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Post Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 1:17 pm 
 

mandalaymoon wrote:When I was an active collector I never saw any of these for sale:

Entertainment Concepts (1982) Search for the Lost City: A Jungle Adventure

I'd imagine it would go for over $100 easy, there's gotta be a bunch of people hunting for this set.


They do come along but not very often.  I have probably only seen about 4 copies of this one pass through Ebay.  The adventures are generally pretty short and mediocre in quality.  Most seem like they would be a nice little intro to a bigger adventure (rather than anything stand alone).

Here's a list of a bunch of others:

http://tomeoftreasures.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=109

$100 is probably about the top end for these.  One seller (thedaleks) had a copy of the Crystal Sword adventure that I am still looking for but he didn't ship to Canada.  He listed it 3 times, the first time had no bids at an opening of $10, the second, it was at $20 and he canceled the auction with about an hour to go and the third time I think it ended about $30.  Games/Emporium/JonB/Lisa sold one recently that ended up going for $100.  I think I pushed the ones that Frank (whale tagger) sold a couple years ago up around $90 each but they went to Lance, then at the same time, I found a bunch at an online used bookstore for under $10 each.

It doesn't seem like there are a lot of people willing to pay the big price tag for a lot of nonTSR stuff these days.  If it was one that I needed, I would probably only be bidding upto maybe $50.

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Post Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 3:22 pm 
 

http://www.acaeum.com/jg/IndexbyTitle.html
Direct link to the "By Title" page of the Booty List for your Judges Guild items.  The laminated maps hurt the value, but to some it probably wouldn't matter.  Others you can check the site to see what printing you have, as of course value maybe effected in that case.
Great Haul though, one of those we all wish to stubble upon someday.  I can only imagine the excitement of the find by how you posted.

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Post Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 3:10 pm 
 

Grats on the find.  Lots of cool stuff there.  
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Post Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 4:52 pm 
 

Great buy!  That would end up very expensive for me, as it would likely inspire more serious collecting outside of tsr.  lol.  I have so far resisted the urge to branch out much!  Have fun with all of those new toys!


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Post Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 8:33 pm 
 

Plaag wrote:http://www.acaeum.com/jg/IndexbyTitle.html
Direct link to the "By Title" page of the Booty List for your Judges Guild items.  The laminated maps hurt the value, but to some it probably wouldn't matter.  Others you can check the site to see what printing you have, as of course value maybe effected in that case.
Great Haul though, one of those we all wish to stubble upon someday.  I can only imagine the excitement of the find by how you posted.

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Laminated maps would be awesome to an active gamer.

Given the common price of the maps themselves (when they appear) I'd wager that the laminated ones are close in value.


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Post Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 9:13 pm 
 

FormCritic wrote:
Laminated maps would be awesome to an active gamer.

Given the common price of the maps themselves (when they appear) I'd wager that the laminated ones are close in value.


NobleKnight normally charges between 50 cents and 1 USD less for a map when its laminated. Normally JG maps run around $5 each if the maps are in new/mint condition and down from there when they are available.

  

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Post Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 11:07 pm 
 

Congratulations and welcome to the boards!  
So what was it that gave you the tip to call that comic store?


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Post Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 11:55 pm 
 

stumbling tiger wrote:Congratulations and welcome to the boards!  
So what was it that gave you the tip to call that comic store?


Thx.  :)  I did a blog post on the lack of stores selling gaming stuff in CT, and a guy pointed me to a list of comic stores.  I looked up CT, and saw one in my home town which I didn't even know existed.  I called them up, and the rest is history.

Here is the list I used.

http://www.the-master-list.com/index.shtml

Interestingly enough, I went to a different comic store on that list today, and they also had some older D&D books in a box.  In this case it was older 3.x books.  Still, I picked up a few of the ones that were interesting.  

I may be making a tour of the CT comic stores over the next few months...

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Post Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 8:24 am 
 

Joethelawyer wrote:
Thx.  :)  I did a blog post on the lack of stores selling gaming stuff in CT, and a guy pointed me to a list of comic stores.  I looked up CT, and saw one in my home town which I didn't even know existed.  I called them up, and the rest is history.

Here is the list I used.

http://www.the-master-list.com/index.shtml

Interestingly enough, I went to a different comic store on that list today, and they also had some older D&D books in a box.  In this case it was older 3.x books.  Still, I picked up a few of the ones that were interesting.  

I may be making a tour of the CT comic stores over the next few months...


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Post Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 8:46 am 
 

Unfortunately I've already combed all of the stores in Delaware, and none of them have much earlier than D&D 3.0, with the exception of the Days of Knights, and they don't have their "vintage" items out on the shelves. They have a bunch of good stuff in storage, but they 1) know what it's worth, and 2) it's more painful than pulling teeth to get them to retrieve it. Nice guys, though, don't get me wrong.

  

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Post Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 8:58 am 
 

There's plenty of d20/3/3.5E that's worth buying and either holding on to, or reselling. Anything by Necromancer Games at the right price, selected titles from Troll Lord Games, Goodman Games, Green Ronin, and a raft of obscurities. Not to mention the 3 core books fromWoTC, the leather bound versions, a few of the better compendiums, and the Expedition to's.

Bear in mind that the next generation of collector will be viewing the 3.5E core set and modules the same way the younger members of this board look on the BECMI and Compendium, and the older of uss look on the core 1E hardbacks.

Now's the chance to squirrel away a few core hardbacks in brand new mint condition.


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