Quote from: RPGPundit;784339to think I used to own both Aria books.

::sigh:: My copies of Aria are still sitting on the shelf boring the pants off my copy of WFRP 1st. The problem is that I was sucked in by the beautiful Kaluta cover art and didn't stop to look at them before I picked them up at a convention when they first came out.

I would really like to get a copy of Ringworld, but I think that's so far out of print as to be near impossible.

Would also like a fresh copy of the original Lace and Steel. Mine's been through several campaigns and the box is mostly held together by good wishes. I'm actually looking at getting one of these specialty card printers to print me up a couple of sorcery and fencing decks. I've got two sets right now that are good condition, but I'm pretty sure I can create something a little more attractive.

A copy of the second edition of Kult would be nice. I've got the first edition and a lot of the sourcebooks. I like that version, but I would like to see what, if anything, changed.

Quote from: IceBlinkLuck;785150The problem is that I was sucked in by the beautiful Kaluta cover art and didn't stop to look at them before I picked them up at a convention when they first came out.

But their saving grace is the really good, b&w, line art by the early William O'Connor (before 3e and PF color & dungeonpunk).

Quote from: IceBlinkLuck;785150Would also like a fresh copy of the original Lace and Steel.

How badly?

I spotted 1st ed Advanced D&D Player's Handbook and Dungeon Master's Guide in an overpriced used bookstore. They're in so-so quality (a bit warped by water stains and lots of handwriting inside the covers). Each is going for 20 bucks. Is that a good deal?

If you are in the USA, I think that is kind of pricey.

Quote from: Necrozius;785286I spotted 1st ed Advanced D&D Player's Handbook and Dungeon Master's Guide in an overpriced used bookstore. They're in so-so quality (a bit warped by water stains and lots of handwriting inside the covers). Each is going for 20 bucks. Is that a good deal?

You can buy new copies of the reprints for less than that.

I had to sell a lot of my library when I was a young man to make some extra money for food or rent. A lot of it wasn't necessarily hard to find or all that rare, but there was a lot of it. I'd like to get some of it back, someday, when I have more ready cash. Stuff like my complete run of Paranoia, including the novels, or the complete set of oWoD Mage and Vampire books.

Man, I don't even like thinking about this, to be honest. There was shelves of stuff that I just had to get rid of in order to survive. A massive amount of Call of Cthulhu stuff. I think my run of Kult books. Ugh.

Edit: Slightly off-topic, though, there is one rare (non-RPG) book I've regretted not getting for years. When eBay first came around, I went on and checked out their book auctions. The very first one I saw was a hardcover first edition of Brave New World, personally autographed by Huxley to the original owner, with a photograph of the owner and Huxley together. The original owner? HARPO FREAKING MARX. The bids had hit $2500 when I found it, and I swear that if I'd had a credit card at the time I would have been all over it. But I had to let it go... Sigh.

Quote from: Gabriel2;749799One I've always been a little curious about is the Paragon System.

It had a full page advertisement in one and only one issue of Dragon Magazine during the 80s.  The advertisement was for membership in The Paragon Society for Wargaming, or something like that.  By sending them some amount of money, you'd become a member of their organization and they'd send you their Paragon system along with regular updates.

I've always wondered what, if anything, someone who joined would receive.  I've asked about it several times over the years.  One person said they had joined back in the day and had received some comb bound mimeographed rules which were basically a houseruled D&D.  

With Google Street View, I've done a search of the address provided in the advertisement and it seems to point to a little strip mall.  There's no gaming connection to the location as of the last time I checked, and I doubt anything has changed, but I also have no problem imagining a little game shop may have operated out of that strip mall sometime in the 80s.  There may have been a gaming club there with grand dreams of selling their fantasy heartbreaker.

Anyway, I have no interest in paying for the Paragon System.  But it would be nice to see a scan of it.

http://mesmerizedbysirens.blogspot.it/2011/10/i-do-not-think-this-exists.html

It seems that Mr. Mike Monaco once owned a copy of it.

Quote from: Dirk Remmecke;748023I am still looking for:

• Dune RPG (if only to make up for the mistake of once owning six copies of it, and selling all of them for retail price... but I really don't need it at all)
  
  

If a digital copy will suffice, PM me.

Quote from: thedungeondelver;749012You know what though, I think I would cry with joy if I found an actual copy of Realm of Yolmi or Spawn of Fashan (that I could afford).

As you probably know, a PDF copy started circulating in 2014.

Quote from: Patrick;749228If anyone remembers Wargames West from the late 80's and early 90's, they advertised a few things I REALLY wanted:  one was some type of universal conversion engine to convert characters to different systems (I think Palladium threatened to sue and it disappeared from the catalogue fast) and the other was Zody Games Fantasy Earth.  Mainly because the tag line : Even the mightiest wizard should be nervous around a loaded crossbow.  Or something along those lines.

I own a copy of "Fantasy Earth", and it's not a bad game, though there is much mathematics in it. Also, it has tons of skills.

Quote from: Anglachel;750237I guess i'd like to own a copy of the Dune RPG...mostly out of curiosity and because the setting fascinates me. Unfortunately, the prices for this book are so beyond the pale that this will always remain a "wish i had..." .

 PM me.

Quote from: Dirk Remmecke;748023I managed to find a few of my "holy grails":

• Allansia, the fifth AFF book
  
• Record of Lodoss War, the Companion edition (not the D&D or Sword World version)
  
• Record of Lodoss War Crystania (similar rules, different setting)
  
• Die andere Welt (one of the earlier German self-published RPGs that had a more "pacifistic" bent)
  
• Monster Maker (a Japanese fantasy RPG that saw three editions, all long OOP - I would have been content with any one but I managed to find all three on the cheap, only to find that they were completely different games)
  

I am still looking for:

• Arduin Grimoire Book I-III (I don't think that I will find even one usable idea in those but they interest me for their historic relevance - and because I won't be using them I am not willing to pay collector prices)
  
• Empire of the Petal Throne (first TSR edition - as with Arduin this is merely for historic reasons, I'd like to see how much of EPT's DNA really is in Midgard, the first German RPG)
  
• Dune RPG (if only to make up for the mistake of once owning six copies of it, and selling all of them for retail price... but I really don't need it at all)
  
• Dungeon Planner Set 1: Caverns of the Dead (a 1984, system-less, GW dungeon floor plan module of which I have Set 2, this is just nostalgia)
  
• Dungeons & Dragons Basic (the pocket book edition of the Mentzer Red Box, published by TSR UK during the Fighting Fantasy craze - I once owned it but it was stolen from me)
  
• AD&D Players Handbook (the Games Workshop softcover edition that I saw only once on a game table at Euro Gen Con 1991)
  
• City of Chaos (a Talisman-like board game that had many flaws, I believe, but is hard to find, anyway)
  

There's a  lot of EPT in Midgard; one of the very first editions of the latter is a direct translation of most of the former; it's the rules without the Tekumel 'fluff'. I have scans of both in the archives.

Copies of the OD&D books sans Greyhawk (I own it). Right now it looks like I'm going to have to piece it together one book at a time due to finances.

Finish my collection of Star Frontiers modules.