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October 27, 2020 10:14 PM
April 3, 2020 9:08 AM
We open and are BUYING. If you need to thin your collection, now is the time to do it.
Cash for collections or individual pieces. Most 1970s-1990s RPG items will be of interest.
All D&D/AD&D 1st-3.5, all TSR related products (Star Frontiers, Boot Hill, Gamma World, Marvel, etc).
Battletech and most other FASA lines, Chaosium, GDW, some Games Workshop (mostly RPG related), Star Wars RPG and most other West End Games, Mayfair Games RPG items, Avalon Hill RPG items, Kult from Target Games, Judges Guild, Hackmaster, Dungeon magazines, select d20 related items, Worlds Largest Dungeon & City sets from Alderac,White Wolf products, ICE Middle Earth Role Playing and some Rolemaster products, Babylon 5 from Mongoose, Harn from Columbia Games, James Bond RPG from Victory Games, Runequest RPG, etc.
Send a list of items, and a few pictures of the assortment (don't need to photo each item, just put them in groups so I can get an idea of the collection condition).
Please share this post out to your gaming friends. You never know who might be looking for a way to take care of some bills.
Also willing to do trades.
More information at www.dragonstrove.com/trades
December 11, 2019 1:35 PM
One of the first Sci-Fi RPG's from the dawn of the industry. It lead to the TSR Gamma World system, which was always one of my favorites. Metamorphosis Alpha has been rebooted a number of times, always as kind of a one off. The Goodman Games version had a few modules and the Epsilon One box set.
Well, we are finally getting all 17 decks (plus the dome) of the famed Starship Warden in a new Troll Lord Games product. Now funded on Kickstarter, the new product will showcase the full ship in a huge 650 page monster book.
Have to say, I am looking forward to this one.
November 7, 2019 10:12 AM
I was recently reading the Occam's Razor blog of Avinash Kaushik, a Googler who I was fortunate to see speak a few years ago when I visited Google for an event with my day job.
He spoke about the recently published achievement of an AI program now being ranked higher than nearly every active Starcraft II player. It's been years since I was an active PC gamer and haven't played Starcraft in a long, long time. I do recall that game AI started surprising me occasionally in the early 2000s. There was the time a couple of guards in Half Life used cover fire and a grenade to break up an assault my character was making. But a machine learning how to beat nearly every human player? I've seen that movie....it didn't end well. And really, what do we expect to happen when we test out robots like this?
Paging Mr. Asimov.....
October 16, 2019 4:08 PM
Often asked, very hard to answer. For newer items, it typically means just adding the item to the next order with my suppliers. Depending on the company, there may or may not be extra product available for reorder. It’s getting harder and harder to restock some lines, as companies move to a model like Print on Demand, Print to Order, or distributors aren’t willing to put much, if any shelf stock beyond what was initially ordered by retailers. It’s part of the business. But when an item goes out of print, then the real hunt begins.
The older the item is, the less likely there are copies to just be reordered. Gone are the days of many regional distributors, who might still have some copies left. Odds are once it sells out with one supplier, they are all going to be sold out.
For long out of print items, it’s likely to only find an item as part of a collection or possible being sold off individually. Since it rarely works out that I can buy single pieces and still be able to price them to make a profit, the main source of used items is a collection someone has put up for sale. You take the good with the bad.
Over the years, I’ve noticed a few significant trends on used product re-enters the marketplace. In no particular order:
In the early 2000s, people dumped their 2nd edition
AD&D books to jump into 3.0. That lasted up until 2008, roughly around when
Gary Gygax passed away, when suddenly people started seriously looking for 1st
and 2nd edition books again and the supply really dried up. With 5E
out, I’m seeing more and more 3.0 and 3.5 being sold off (4th
Edition never really had much demand as a secondary market). And now we are starting
to see the oldest members of the RPG hobby, leaving it completely (due to
health or other reasons). If they don’t have a family member to pass their
collection on to, then those 1970s and 1980s books are starting to trickle back
into the market. Rare items that hadn’t been seen for years are popping up more
frequently. Conversely, the people who cut
their teeth on AD&D 2nd edition are now in their high-income
earning years and have been filling out their collections. What was common to have in stock in the early
2000s is now in enough demand that finding a book is often a real unknown.
Invariably, it comes down to finding that seller looking to find
a home for the 12 boxes of old gaming books that their Uncle X left them and
making a deal that makes everyone happy.
Hopefully the book you need is in that next collection that comes through
here.