Tenkar's Tavern: New Record - Original Dungeons and Dragons Set - Woodgrain Box - First Printing

Friday, December 9, 2016

New Record - Original Dungeons and Dragons Set - Woodgrain Box - First Printing - Sells for Over $22k on eBay

Let me just say this...

HOLY SHIT!

My understanding is the old record was at or around ~~$10k~~ $5,378 for an OD&D Woodgrain Box 1st Printing. (Acaeum used for pricing history) This is simply amazing.

Personally, I'd prefer to use the money for a new car, but if you have the spare cash? Good for you.

So, who wants to but my OCE for $1k? ;)

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Dyson LogosDecember 9, 2016 at 7:20 PM
I thought the old record was around $6k... which was the price this was getting close to when the geek media picked up the story. Which of course pushed a LOT of new bidders into the mix.
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RipperXDecember 9, 2016 at 9:31 PM
That is disgusting. Whose entertainment budget is $22,100?
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Anthony N. EmmelDecember 9, 2016 at 10:29 PM
Meanwhile, at Trump Tower....

"Ok, Pence, roll for initiative!"
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MelanDecember 10, 2016 at 6:26 AM
Still doesn't hold a candle to Action Comics #1, which fetched $3 million for a high-quality copy. It is a niche hobby with niche millionaires looking in now and then. :)
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AndyDecember 11, 2016 at 3:34 AM
You'd have thought they would have offered free shipping. Still, not a bad price for a first eBay sale :-)
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Why "Swords & Wizardry?"

Believe me when I say I have them all in dead tree format. I have OSRIC in full size, trade paperback and the Player's Guide. I have LL and the AEC (and somewhere OEC, but I can't find it at the moment). Obviously I have Basic Fantasy RPG. Actually, I have the whole available line in print. Way too much Castles & Crusades. We all know my love for the DCC RPG. I even have Dark Dungeons in print, the Delving Deeper boxed set, Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea. BOTH editions of LotFP's Weird Fantasy and some dead tree copies of the Greyhawk Grognards Adventures Dark & Deep

I am so deep in the OSR when I come up for breath it's for the OSR's cousin, Tunnels & Trolls

So, out of all that, why Swords & Wizardry? Why, when I have been running a AD&D 1e / OSRIC campaign in Rappan Athuk am I using Swords & Wizardry and it's variant, Crypts & Things, for the second campaign? (Actually, now running a S&W Complete campaign, soon to be with multiple groups)

Because the shit works.

It's easy for lapsed gamers to pick up and feel like they haven't lost a step. I can house rule it and it doesn't break. It plays so close to the AD&D of my youth and college years (S&W Complete especially) that it continually surprises me. Just much less rules hopping than I remember. (my God but I can run it nearly without the book)

I grab and pick and steal from just about all OSR and Original resources. They seem to fit into S&W with little fuss. It may be the same with LL and the rest, but for me the ease of use fit's my expectations with S&W.

Even the single saving throw. That took me longer to adjust to, but even that seems like a natural to me now. Don't ask me why, it just does. Maybe it's the simplicity of it. At 45 52, simplicity and flexibility while remaining true to the feel of the original is an OSR hat trick for me ;)

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Friday, December 9, 2016

New Record - Original Dungeons and Dragons Set - Woodgrain Box - First Printing - Sells for Over $22k on eBay

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