A local music shop has a corner that is rented out to a guy who used it to sell role-playing games. Said guy is now getting out of the business and is selling his stock for next to nothing.
I occasionally drop by when I get paid and snag the odd title or two, because like Pundit, I too am a game collector.
Well, yesterday I found an obscure game called "Manhunter," published by Myrmidon Press in 1993.
It's a single-book title about bounty hunters in a complex, multi-species universe, and jams together all kinds of sci-fi craziness like robots and wizards in kind of a weird mash-up that I'm going to basically describe as "Heavy Metal:The Roleplaying Game."

That's not the weirdest thing that I've ever found, and I always relish digging up another obscure title from the depths of gamedom.

I was wondering how many of you enjoy the same sort of thing, and if so, what is the most...er...unique game or gaming supplement that you've ever found?

There's a used bookstore in town that is, I believe, connected via wormhole to the RPG graveyard.  I've found TOON, World of Synnibar, TORG, Chill, the entire run of Kindred of the East, Bloodshadows, Fading Suns, an incomplete Dark Sun boxset...

If the staff there was even the slightest bit friendly I'd shop there every day.

I actually picked Manhunter up on ebay a few months back for about $4. I sometimes find really great deals on ebay. Recently, I got Palladium Mystic China for under $5. Lots of other deals in this past year.

I just got a metric assload of Champions book and paid more for shipping than the actual auction price. Not that I have the slightest idea what to do with all that stuff...

My best find ever was probably getting a near-mint copy of Delta Green about five years ago at a local Half Price Books.  It was about $15 or $16, I think, wheras buying it on Ebay at that time would probably have cost three times that easily, if not more.

Worst abomination: Enforcers (NOT Cosmic Enforcers)

Best Treat: Lace and Steel by TAGG...interesting fantasy game with PC Centaurs, harpies in a swashbuckling world. The fencing rules rocked. (Used cards--you had to declare where you were striking or how powerful the card was--but not both, enemy defended from that)--only issue I had is it didn't cover the reading of stances to get at least SOME measure of where a powerful strike would land, or how much effort were in it....

Oddest? Revenge of the Humans. The victims strike back against monsters and greeblies and bad guys of all sorts. Sick of the constant raiding by evil humanoids, suburban denizens take up pruning hooks, chainsaws, and riding mowers to slaughter malign critters of all sorts.

I write my own obscure games...

-clash

I'm getting a load of Traveller 4th ed stuff cheap.

Quote from: Dominus NoxI'm getting a load of Traveller 4th ed stuff cheap.

Blasphemy!! 1E or Bust  

So, anyone find a copy of Wraethu in the discount bin yet, anjd if so how far down was it makred?

I forgot, I picked up a copy of Sandman Map of Hallal months ago. A very cool game. Too bad Pacesetter went out of business.

My best bargain-bin prize was the Pagan Publishing Golden Dawn book.  Not a stinker at all, but certainly obscured by the looming shadow of its sibling, Delta Green.

On the not-at-all-obscure end of the spectrum, I just picked up a copy of Vampire: the Requiem for a song.  I like what they did to reinterpret and reorganise vampiric society, but why does WW's writing always make me want to throw the book at the wall?

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Quote from: mattormegA local music shop has a corner that is rented out to a guy who used it to sell role-playing games. Said guy is now getting out of the business and is selling his stock for next to nothing.
I occasionally drop by when I get paid and snag the odd title or two, because like Pundit, I too am a game collector.
Well, yesterday I found an obscure game called "Manhunter," published by Myrmidon Press in 1993.
It's a single-book title about bounty hunters in a complex, multi-species universe, and jams together all kinds of sci-fi craziness like robots and wizards in kind of a weird mash-up that I'm going to basically describe as "Heavy Metal:The Roleplaying Game."

There was actually a whole sourcebook that was a Manhunter conversion for the Palladium system (presented as a RIFTS sourcebook, but basically independent).  It was a great book, and I ran a lengthy campaign using the setting.  Good memories. Never played the original system, though.

QuoteI was wondering how many of you enjoy the same sort of thing, and if so, what is the most...er...unique game or gaming supplement that you've ever found?

Hmm.. well I do have Aquelarre and Alatriste, which are kind of common here but they're obscure from the north american POV.  I've also owned quite the collection of obscure games in my day, many of which I sadly no longer have in my collection (most of them being shed from it when I moved to south america).  Stuff like Darkurthe Legends, ARIA, Manhunter (as mentioned), Darksword, the dreaded Cyborg Commando, and others.  But probably the rarest book out of those still in my collection now would have to be the Maelstrom RPG.

RPGPundit

Best: an obscure Scandinavian post-apocalyptic game called Taiga.  Not a bad system and a wonderful idea mine.  Thinking about it, there's a lot of it's influence in Havens

Worst: Champions 2nd ed and a pile of sourcebooks/adventures.  I thought I could mine them for ideas.  I was wrong