stratochamp wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:It's not strange at all, because as Doug B. mentioned this is an illegal unauthorized digital printout not worth anything. A pre-release version with Steve Winter's 1995 forward, I think not.

That's where I was going with this.  

I do seem to recall seeing something like these in PDF years ago.

Sir Kill Alot wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:
Wasn't it some html file or something that had all the 2e reference books in a single file.  Dead giveaway is no page numbering.  Looks like seller trying to pull a fast one over the uninitiated.

-SKA

I believe your right SKA. This looks like a print-off of the ebook from the Core Rules 2.0 cd-roms. I don't know for sure because I gave my copy of core rules to a friend years ago, but I'm positive the "Books" were in HTML format and not PDF.

SimperingToad wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:Doing a bit of look-see into the CD, it seems they were in RTF format with hyperlinks. If anyone has access to the CD and can confirm, please do. I'm attempting to ping the folks over on Dragonsfoot, as some there seem to have the CD. Maybe someone can get a screen shot or two.

All in all, whenever these printouts were made, they have become yucky since then. I'd pass even if they were pre-pro copies.

Doh! RTF is correct. Not HTML

Very nice condition of this "thick box" GW basic set:

Dungeons and Dragons role play board game original ? TSR Games Workshop  | eBay

WOW... Nice Price for this....


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Another wee warriors reprint:

Precis Intermedia :: Palace of the Vampire Queen (Classic Reprint)

In Dragon #22, Gygax put it like this: "1,000 boxed sets, hand assembled and labeled, took eleventh months to sell, another 1,000 of the same took only five or six months to sell (and Tactical Studies Rules was thrilled). Finally a third printing of 2,000 sold in five months. So, from January 1974 to December 1975, only 4,000 sets of the original game were in circulation."

This is basically right, as far as I know. The fourth printing had already been executed in December 1975, so there were perhaps a few unaccounted for here on the tail end, but those were white boxes, not woodgrains. It also doesn't count copies that the printer kept for the third printing in lieu of payment. But the evidence I've seen anyway puts the second print at 1,000.

Beforehand, no offense intended to the seller.
Looking at the item here below, don't you find that these are photocopies?


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