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What "rare" or hard-to-find book/books have you been searching for?

Started by kythri, May 08, 2014, 04:42:40 PM

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kobayashi

#210
February 04, 2017, 02:17:55 PM
Bought Cyborg Commando when I was 13 or 14 because it had the name "Gary Gygax" on it... I even thought of making a clone out of this just to get something positive from that... "thing".

Concerning hard-to-find books, I'm on a quest to find some Star Frontiers modules (those that weren't remastered yet).

Tristram Evans

#211
February 04, 2017, 02:21:39 PM
Quote from: kobayashi;944093Concerning hard-to-find books, I'm on a quest to find some Star Frontiers modules (those that weren't remastered yet).

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/STAR-FRONTIERS-TSR-FRENCH-Regles-1-2-Volturne-Chroniques-dOutre-Monde-7-/162375538281?hash=item25ce561669:g:rOkAAOSw5cNYjcVA

Do you belong to any ofthe RPg trading groups on Facebook? I see Star Frontiers stuff show up quite regularly

Herne's Son

#212
February 04, 2017, 02:49:30 PM
On my list of things I'm on the look out for:

Flying Buffalo Catalyst RPG Supplements
the Hole Delvers’ Catalog
Citybook VI
Citybook VII
Maps: Cities
Maps: Places of Legend

Task Force Games
Central Casting: Heroes of Legend
Central Casting: Dungeons

TOR Books
Willow Sourcebok

The Companions RPG Supplements
Curse on Hareth, The
Places of Mystery #1 - Chilling Chambers
Treasure Trove #1 - Cards of Power
Brotherhood of the Bolt
Gems for Death
Places of Mystery #2 - Alluring Alcoves
Places of Mystery #4 - Highroad
Plague of Terror
Streets of Gems

Boardgame:
Dark Tower
None of them are -extremely- rare, but they're always going for stupid piles of money, so I'm hoping to find them cheap.

kobayashi

#213
February 04, 2017, 03:23:57 PM
Quote from: Tristram Evans;944095Do you belong to any ofthe RPg trading groups on Facebook? I see Star Frontiers stuff show up quite regularly

Thanks for the link ! Unfortunatly no I don't use Facebook that much, I'll try though.

Lunamancer

#214
February 05, 2017, 07:17:11 PM
Exotic Realms of Hazgar
That's my two cents anyway. Carry on, crawler.

Tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito.

K Peterson

#215
February 06, 2017, 11:32:30 AM
My answer hasn't really changed from nearly 3 years ago: I still have pretty much everything I need, and found whatever 'rare' Rpg material I wanted a decade ago. I have a metric fuckton of Call of Cthulhu material, that I could run for decades, in different historical eras, and still not run out of material.

Votan

#216
February 06, 2017, 05:34:18 PM
Quote from: GameDaddy;748050Strategy I from SPI games. Quite possible one of the best war games ever made.

Oil War... another SPI game originally published in the SPI magazine back in 1977. It plays out like the actual history of what happened in the middle east, over the last forty years.  

Dreadnaught, yet another SPI game, it's about naval battles in the age of steam and big guns... a nice addition for Avalon Hills' Submarine.

War of the Rings, yes, the SPI mega-game. Still the best War of the Ring Game around, a mix of roleplaying, with collectible cards, and a military board game all rolled into one.


Star Force, Star Soldier and Outreach, a trilogy of SPI sci-fi games.

SPI had a game called Universe, that I once owned and have fond but faint memories of.  Not sure if it would hold up today, but I'd buy it out of curiosity if it crossed my path and wasn't pricey.

Larsdangly

#217
February 06, 2017, 05:50:31 PM
Quote from: Votan;944507SPI had a game called Universe, that I once owned and have fond but faint memories of.  Not sure if it would hold up today, but I'd buy it out of curiosity if it crossed my path and wasn't pricey.

I have Universe. It is nicely organized and parsimoniously written, like all SPI games. But it also feels dated, mostly for its complexity. I would rank it beneath Dragonquest.

GameDaddy

#218
February 06, 2017, 07:14:37 PM
Quote from: Larsdangly;944082My collection is honestly pretty great; I have complete series of originals in good shape of most of the great 1970's game systems and their supplements, setting books, etc. (though I don't have many of the super duper rares collectors covet - convention modules that were never republished, etc.). But there are four things I wish I could track down for a price I'm willing to pay:

- The original Arden Grimoire books
- White Bear and Red Moon

I understand all of these can be found online, but I'm not really a collector - I just like playing these old games and hate working from pdfs, so I like to have hard copies that are in solid enough shape I'm willing to pull them out and put them on the gaming table. I'm not really willing to spend $500 for something on that basis.

I have the Republished Compleat Arduin published by Dave, which I like better, and this very very reasonably priced. These 8-1/2"x11" reprints includes everything that was in the LBB and a bit more, and is much better organized and cleaned up;
 
The Compleat Arduin Book One - The Rules $26.63
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1881632008

The Compleat Arduin Book Two - Resources $29.81
https://www.amazon.com/Compleat-Arduin-Book-Two-Resources/dp/1881632016/

Dark Dreams, Vol V. Available for another day and a half or so...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dragon-Tree-Arduin-Arduin-Grimoire-V-Dark-Dreams-SC-VG-/152412163815?hash=item237c790ee7:g:C-YAAOSw5cNYiwsP

House of the Rising Sun, Vol VI. available for another day and a half or so...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/HOUSE-OF-THE-RISING-SUN-ARDUIN-GRIMOIRE-VOLUME-VI-/252749747907?hash=item3ad90f16c3:g:zc4AAOSw9GhYkVpR
Blackmoor grew from a single Castle to include, first, several adjacent Castles (with the forces of Evil lying just off the edge of the world to an entire Northern Province of the Castle and Crusade Society's Great Kingdom.

~ Dave Arneson

Herne's Son

#219
February 07, 2017, 01:00:00 AM
Quote from: Kellri;911119- Tony Bath's 'Wargaming Campaigns'. This is the ur-tome of early roleplaying games (and how to conduct and design them) and makes Arneson's First Fantasy Campaign look childish by comparison.

I'd never heard of this until you mentioned it. But it sounded neat so I did some looking, and it looks like it's been reprinted recently along with another Bath book, "Ancient Wargaming" in an omnibus volume: http://www.lulu.com/shop/society-of-ancients-and-tony-bath-and-john-curry/tony-baths-ancient-wargaming/paperback/product-15463540.html

If you want it for the content, not the collectibility of an early edition, maybe that's a way to go.

Larsdangly

#220
February 07, 2017, 01:21:42 AM
Quote from: GameDaddy;944528I have the Republished Compleat Arduin published by Dave, which I like better, and this very very reasonably priced. These 8-1/2"x11" reprints includes everything that was in the LBB and a bit more, and is much better organized and cleaned up;
 
The Compleat Arduin Book One - The Rules $26.63
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1881632008

The Compleat Arduin Book Two - Resources $29.81
https://www.amazon.com/Compleat-Arduin-Book-Two-Resources/dp/1881632016/

Dark Dreams, Vol V. Available for another day and a half or so...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dragon-Tree-Arduin-Arduin-Grimoire-V-Dark-Dreams-SC-VG-/152412163815?hash=item237c790ee7:g:C-YAAOSw5cNYiwsP

House of the Rising Sun, Vol VI. available for another day and a half or so...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/HOUSE-OF-THE-RISING-SUN-ARDUIN-GRIMOIRE-VOLUME-VI-/252749747907?hash=item3ad90f16c3:g:zc4AAOSw9GhYkVpR

cool; thanks for the tip. I'm biassed toward originals, but will give these a look

Nihilistic Mind

#221
February 07, 2017, 01:44:03 PM
Otosan Uchi Box Set for L5R 1e.

I've been pretty lucky on ebay with my collection of Kult eng 1e and L5R 1e, but that Box Set still eludes me.
Running:
Dungeon Crawl Classics (influences: Elric vs. Mythos, Darkest Dungeon, Castlevania).
DCC In Space!
Star Wars with homemade ruleset (Roll&Keep type system).

Tristram Evans

#222
February 07, 2017, 01:56:09 PM
Quote from: Nihilistic Mind;944609Otosan Uchi Box Set for L5R 1e.

I've been pretty lucky on ebay with my collection of Kult eng 1e and L5R 1e, but that Box Set still eludes me.

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/AEG-L5R-RPG-1st-2nd-Ed-Otosan-Uchi-Box-NM-/361880679798?hash=item5441c4f576:g:v9AAAOSw-0xYe2hR

Nihilistic Mind

#223
February 07, 2017, 02:47:40 PM
Quote from: Tristram Evans;944610http://www.ebay.ca/itm/AEG-L5R-RPG-1st-2nd-Ed-Otosan-Uchi-Box-NM-/361880679798?hash=item5441c4f576:g:v9AAAOSw-0xYe2hR

Yep, that's more than I'm willing to spend on my holy grail. Cheers!
Running:
Dungeon Crawl Classics (influences: Elric vs. Mythos, Darkest Dungeon, Castlevania).
DCC In Space!
Star Wars with homemade ruleset (Roll&Keep type system).

Tristram Evans

#224
February 07, 2017, 07:42:11 PM
Quote from: Nihilistic Mind;944614Yep, that's more than I'm willing to spend on my holy grail. Cheers!

I understand, there's a reason my Planescape collection lies 2 books short of completion. I can't bring myself to spend more than $200 on any gamebook. $150 is about my cutoff and that's only for very special items
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