I have longed to get a hold of Witch Hunt. A friend had a copy back in the day, but I'm haven't laid eyes on a copy in 25 years.

I would have put Rus at the top of this list, but I found it online a couple of years ago and got it, the GM pack, and the only published adventure for it.

I wish I hadn't lost track of my copy of Torg. I'm not exactly sure how it and I parted ways, but it wasn't by choice. Ditto Ghostbusters and original edition Villains & Vigilantes.

Quote from: jdurall;401873I would have put Rus at the top of this list, but I found it online a couple of years ago and got it, the GM pack, and the only published adventure for it.

I stumbled on Rus and the adventure brand-new at a cool bookstore way back when. I thought it was pretty amateurish, about the level of something freely available for download on the internet now, but YMMV. I sold them off a couple of years back; I think the adventure still sits on the shelf at the nearest Half Price Books.

Quote from: skofflox;401744Dune

My LGS had a copy of this. I told myself that I would purchase it on my next trip to the store. Someone else bought it. There were no restocks (of course). :banghead:

Oh my God. How could I forget.

The ULTIMATE item in this category for me is Les Annees Folles, a Call of Cthulhu boxed set presenting France in the 1920s for the game. Hard to find. Very hard.

Quote from: PaladinCA;401888My LGS had a copy of this. I told myself that I would purchase it on my next trip to the store. Someone else bought it. There were no restocks (of course). :banghead:

ohhhh...so close. :banghead: indeed.
A few months back I saw it available (Troll and Toad?) online for $300.00. Am still seriously considering...

Quote from: skofflox;401896ohhhh...so close. :banghead: indeed.
A few months back I saw it available (Troll and Toad?) online for $300.00. Am still seriously considering...

I wouldn't at that price. ICON had a lot of cool ideas, but the system has its issues. It has stayed around $300 since it went out of print though.

I have a very specific one.

A copy of Death on the Reik WITH the poster map.  

I have a copy of the Hogshead version, but without the map.  It drives me mad when I think about it for some weird reason.

In this age of internet stores and the waning days of ebay, the question isn't "is this obtainable?"  Instead the question is "Am I willing to pay the price for this?"

There are only three games I've ever wanted that I haven't acquired:

Dune: Chronicles of the Imperium = I could get it if I was willing to pay the premium, but I'm not.  I'm really only interested in it for the modifications to the Icon system, and have no interest in Dune whatsoever.

Space Opera = Another one I could get if I was willing to pay the price.  However, I'm only interested in this one as a curiousity.  It was never worth any serious outlay of cash to me.

"Paragon System" = Advertised in one issue of Dragon Magazine as an offering of the Paragon Society of Wargamers, I've always been curious about this one.  I've never seen it mentioned anywhere other than that Dragon Magazine advertisement.    Of course, when it comes right down to it, I'm not curious enough to pay any money for it.

Quote from: Benoist;401894Oh my God. How could I forget.

The ULTIMATE item in this category for me is Les Annees Folles, a Call of Cthulhu boxed set presenting France in the 1920s for the game. Hard to find. Very hard.

I'm pretty well-versed in CoC boxed sets, and I've never heard of this one. When was it published?

Quote from: ColonelHardisson;401948I'm pretty well-versed in CoC boxed sets, and I've never heard of this one. When was it published?

It was a French boxed set published by Jeux Descartes in ... 1988. See the description of the product in French here. It never made it to English. It's a gem of gaming.

aw man, that looks neat, with the Eiffel Tower and all. Like the Colonel I know my CoC, but I never heard of it before and now I kinda wish I hadn't, since it looks so cool and so very unattainable.

Quote from: Gabriel2;401923In this age of internet stores and the waning days of ebay, the question isn't "is this obtainable?"  Instead the question is "Am I willing to pay the price for this?"

That's a good point, and is the reason I don't have Ringworld. I simply won't pay what I've seen it going for.

A game that might have made this thread for me, had I not lucked into getting a copy, is Spawn of Fashan, which received an infamous drubbing of a review in Dragon. To be honest, I never thought it was real until the internet came along; I'd always assumed the review was an attempt at humor. Nope. Turns out it was real. I immediately wanted it, but finding it at that time wasn't all that easy even with the internet.

Lo and behold, Piratecat, a mod at EN World, somehow tracked down the guy who wrote it and managed to get him to print up a batch. I bought one. I'm glad I have it, but only as an artifact of a lost age. An especially bad artifact, but still...

The author included a note describing how he and his friends created the game, and made a trip to GenCon to sell it. That note is what makes the purchase worthwhile; it's poignant and wistful, showing how a bunch of enthusiastic gamers tried hard at game designing, turned out to have more energy than talent, and then took a critical beating for their trouble. It's a compelling little footnote in the history of gaming.

I'm another Ringworld hunter. It's the one game I'd really like that I've never even seen in person. One that I once had and wish I still did was TFT. I had all the TFT stuff, and for the life of me I can't remember what happened to them. My brother and I used to play it all the time.

Empire of The Petal Throne... I've got the Different Worlds reprint but there is so much more to be had...

Also, there are a few Jorune books I'm still missing.

Quote from: Gabriel2;401923In this age of internet stores and the waning days of ebay, the question isn't "is this obtainable?"  Instead the question is "Am I willing to pay the price for this?"
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Space Opera = Another one I could get if I was willing to pay the price.  However, I'm only interested in this one as a curiousity.  It was never worth any serious outlay of cash to me.
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dude, I can get you Space Opera ( a heavily used ed.) from my local shop for less than $10.00. Books (2) only, no box etc., and I mean heavily used though not taped together or anything...am willing to help out a fellow gamer and ship it to you if you re-imberse!
I will go there today and check on the condition/price to be sure.