| From: | Ojaste,James [NCR] James.Ojaste@**.GC.CA |
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| Subject: | Choices: |
| Date: | Tue, 23 Feb 1999 14:00:11 -0500 |
> Anyway, I just wanted to ask how easy it is to get Shadowrun sourcebooks
> where you are were it some part of the USA, Canada, Europe, Australia
> or any other place. Judging from what I have heard it would seem that
> most of you really have to hunt those books when here in Finland you
>
I don't have to hunt. I live in Ottawa (Ontario, Canada), and there's
a few places around to go. On gaming nights I just drop by Fandom II
(recently reviewed (!) at rpg.net) after work. They actively carry
just about every RPG under the sun from (let me see if I can remember
the order the shelves are in):
Call of Cthulu, Rolemaster, AD&D, RIFTS, GURPS, L5R, ED, SR, Ars
Magica, WW, Battletech, Silhouette, Fuzion, Star Wars, Paranoia, Castle
Falkenstein, WFRP, and a bunch of other stuff (mostly one or two book
runs). I think I remembered most of it at least... :-)
They've also got an aisle full of minis, a section full of wargames,
another with more mainstream games, a few racks of books and the
typical counter covered in CCGs. Most importantly, they're located
2 doors down from an ATM... :-)
> have it in stock and if they don't, they order it. Only downside is
> that it tends to take some time for new products to get here and the
> cost gets up on the way. Sourcebooks that cost 15 US dollars have here
> price tags of 100 Finish marks which I believe is something like 20 US
> dollars. But the point is that I could easily get any Shadowrun product
> that's "in stock" and a lot of the older material too. How is it where
> you live?
>
I end up paying about $20 CDN for source material, $25 for the bigger
stuff. That's about $14 US, plus the 7% GST, minus the 10% club
discount. The only place that I know of that's cheaper than Fandom
in Ottawa is a small place (I forget the name) whose distributor went
bust and sold them all their FASA stock for peanuts (they had several
copies of Centurion for $10 each). :-)
My SR collection expanded suddenly when that happened. "$5 a book?
How much will you give me for this watch?" ;-)
James Ojaste
