From:	Simon and Fiona sfuller@******.com.au
Subject:	[OT] RPG antiques (was: Gaming in the Media)
Date:	Mon, 26 Jun 2000 13:44:58 +1000

-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Harrison <mataxes@****.net>
To: shadowrn@*********.com <shadowrn@*********.com>
Date: Monday, June 26, 2000 1:22 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] RPG antiques (was: Gaming in the Media)


>----- Original Message -----
>From: Jan Jaap van Poelgeest aka nevermelt <jjp@******.nl>
>> Jan Jaap van Poelgeest, Perpetually Searching For A Cheap UB To Snap Up
>
>Since thip topic came up, I thought I'd be a minor-league jerk and gloat
>over the fact that I made a deal with a guy to get a over twenty first ed.
>SR sourcebooks in near mint condition (including UB!). And my own personal
>collection of RPG material is sizable, with a value (based purely on book
>cover price) of over $5000. If I were to actually account for the
>collector's value of some of the stuff, I could probably add another 50% to
>that total.
>
>Of course, I don't know if I'd actually part with it for any price in the
>world... but there was some bad early 90s TSR stuff I unloaded a couple of
>years ago... I'm sure it's much the same for other people around here.
>
>-- Josh
>


I find it hard to get rid of any book, no matter how bad. Most of my role
playing books have been bouncing around in travel bags for much of this
decade, and wouldn't be worth much anyway. (Soon as my SR rulebook's cover
comes off completely, I will have a legitimate excuse to buy the 3rd edition
:?))
I was sorely tempted to buy the 1st edition rulebook when MilSims had it for
$5 though. My original disappeared.