Quote from: Necrozius;780844I wish to find a copy of the Rules Cyclopedia at a second-hand bookstore or flea market. I always feel a faint glimmer of hope that I might find it. Kind of silly.

Yeah I know that you can get it for ~100$ on eBay. Too much for me right now, sadly.

Our FLGS holds a Swap Meet every 3-4 months. That is where I found my copy of RC. I was also able to get the majority (Missing GAZ1) of the Gazetteers at the same time. All for $20.

Check with your FLGS, they might hold something similar. If not, suggest it. What everyone does is buy Funny Money from the store itself. Then uses the funny money to buy from other people attending the Swap Meet. Everyone profits. They are rather popular here in my area.

Quote from: Necrozius;780844I wish to find a copy of the Rules Cyclopedia at a second-hand bookstore or flea market. I always feel a faint glimmer of hope that I might find it. Kind of silly.

Yeah I know that you can get it for ~100$ on eBay. Too much for me right now, sadly.

Keep hoping! I stumbled across a near-mint copy for $40 just the other week, and now it's off my list. It was one of the last things on there, actually. Among the few things left is most definitely Castle Zagyg.

Quote from: DKChannelBoredom;748929Was it simply a case of fewer being printed and therefor available or is there a story/underlying reason?

Pretty much, and it was only released in certain countries IIRC. The others were released in greater numbers and in more countries.

Quote from: Necrozius;780844I wish to find a copy of the Rules Cyclopedia at a second-hand bookstore or flea market. I always feel a faint glimmer of hope that I might find it. Kind of silly.

I found mine there and bought it for NZ$5, which converts to about US$3.

Crimson Cutlass, a swashbuckling roleplaying game.

Aboard the Death Ship, a Traveller adventure.

Quote from: Black Vulmea;780870Aboard the Death Ship, a Traveller adventure.

Do you remember who published it?

EDIT: Is this it?



Crap, it won't let me link to it.

Aboard the Death Ship
by Gary E. Reilly
©1982 Reilly Associates, 20pp.
Adventure

It has an entry in the FFE Traveller Bibiography project at http://travellerbibliography.org/reilly/113.html .

Still looking for Lands of Mystery...

A book I've always wanted to add to my collection but which is incredibly rare is Rhand: Morningstar Missions.

This was the precursor to the Living Steel game. I have the entire Living Steel product line, but not this book.

For those who are unfamiliar with it, Living Steel was a post-apocalypse sci-fi rpg set in the future on a human colony planet that had been devastated by an failed alien invasion and which has lost contact with the oppressive human empire for which it was formerly a colony. The general camaign aim is for the PCs to help rebuild civilisation on the planet and make it better and freer than it was before. It used the Phoenix Command mechanics, and is generally known as one of the most rules-heavy rpgs out there.

Rhand: Morningstar Missions was actually set in the far future of the colony where it had regressed to a medieval tech level and the psychic powers that were the result of bioengineering were believed to be magic.

I am still hoping to find an original Lace & Steel boxed set someday.

I'm still looking for some Call of Cthulhu french boxed sets (Dreamlands and Cthulhu by Gaslight) and a few scenarios.

With a bit of patience I managed to get my hands on Ghostbusters 1st edition, the whole Games Workshop's Judge Dredd collection and Ringworld + Companion, all for very decent prices.

So far my thirst for OOP rpgs has been quenched.

I finally got a pristine copy of Aaron Allston's Strike Force for Champions. It was in the middle of a general Champions bundle that the whole thing - maybe nine or ten books - went for around $25.00 on eBay.

Lord Hobie

Quote from: The_Shadow;752296First edition Runequest.
Wait, I have a copy.

We'll have to have a brag fest on old Runequest material some time. Opening bid: Original Balastor's Barracks (the tatty softcover, pre Pavis boxed set).

Quote from: jeff37923;780877Is this it?

Yep.

I'd like to find the original 'black book' version of The Whispering Vault. Supposedly it has setting content that didn't make it into subsequent versions.

Also a copy of Star Rovers... which is kindasorta Arduin in space, having some of Hargrave's scifi components on their home turf.

Lands of Mystery and Nexus: The Eternal City are also on my list.

I'd like to pick up some more old issues of The Unspeakable Oath. Haven't put a lot of effort into it so far.