From:	SyphonAC@***.com SyphonAC@***.com
Subject:	[OT] RPG antiques (was: Gaming in the Media)
Date:	Sun, 25 Jun 2000 21:28:56 EDT

I really have to agree here....much the same trend happened with baseball
cards....not too many years ago, when I was about 10, my dad might get me a
pack of say, Donruss cards (or Topps, etc.) They were maybe a buck for 30
cards, and though they weren't and aren't neccesarily collector's items, it
was fun to find my favorite players, and relatively cheap, too. Then inserts
became all the rage, and a five dollar pack of 6 cards wasn't worth anything
unless you got that really rare insert. People like me who just wanted their
favorite ball players couldn't afford to stay in, and I think the industry
took a big hit for that same reason.

RPG's, on the other hand, might be safer from speculators becuase where comic
books and baseball (or Magic) cards are cheap by comparison, and more prone
to fluctuate in price, RPG books are already somewhat expensive. I highly
doubt some kid will put down thirty dollars just to get that alternate cover
art and not use the book itself. IMHO, I think RPG books will only generate
the specualtion that antique non-RPG books do now.

Then on the darker side....if WOTC decided to get *really* careless they
could do a pretty nice job of flooding the market with ever-increasing levels
of crap ::cough Magic expansions cough::

Syphon