$6,155


Ebay Original D&D Sale
http://www.ebay.com/itm/3rd-Printing-Of-Original-dungeons-and-dragons-With-Supplements-In-Woodgrain-Box/182814153141?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649

Do you shellac that for posterity, or does that ruin its patina?

I'm trying to care and failing. So somebody has a lot of extra cash, I guess? :rolleyes:

I wish I had one or two of them laying around...

Did you notice the link at the bottom to another set for sale apparently owned by Steve Perrin?

Quote from: Dumarest;1001066I'm trying to care and failing. So somebody has a lot of extra cash, I guess? :rolleyes:

Off topic:  Why are you here?  This site is based on everything you apparently hate: D&D and all it's derivatives.  And 90% of your posts are about how you're not part of the hobby in the first place.  Personally, and this is just me, but if I don't have anything to actively contribute, I try (and probably fail) to not post.  But you?  Are you really that bored?

On topic:  Now there's someone who really wants a piece of history.  I wonder what they'll do with it.  Put in a box, or actually use it.

Quote from: Christopher Brady;1001095Off topic:  Why are you here?  This site is based on everything you apparently hate: D&D and all it's derivatives.  And 90% of your posts are about how you're not part of the hobby in the first place.  Personally, and this is just me, but if I don't have anything to actively contribute, I try (and probably fail) to not post.  But you?  Are you really that bored?

To actively annoy people like you, of course.

And I call bullshit on you not posting when you have nothing to actively contribute. As well as bullshit on what I have posted about. Go check my posting history, you dumb shit. It's nothing at all like what you claim, so clearly you haven't been reading or you've failed reading comprehension.

Also: what is there to contribute to this thread? "That's nice, someone bought a game"?

Jesus, you are about the dumbest fuck I've ever seen on here including Biscuit.

Quote from: Christopher Brady;1001095Off topic:  Why are you here?  This site is based on everything you apparently hate: D&D and all it's derivatives.  And 90% of your posts are about how you're not part of the hobby in the first place.  Personally, and this is just me, but if I don't have anything to actively contribute, I try (and probably fail) to not post.  But you?  Are you really that bored?

On topic:  Now there's someone who really wants a piece of history.  I wonder what they'll do with it.  Put in a box, or actually use it.

He likes FGU, so he can't be all bad.


But don't buy any of the land his shirtless avatar is peddling... $6000 for a D&D set is a much better investment than California Pines.  

Quote from: Dumarest;1001097To actively annoy people like you, of course.

So you're saying that you're just here to troll?  And here I was hoping you'd have something of value to discuss with.  Oh well.  Oh, and I don't annoy easily, it's more that I'm just disappointed, son.

Quote from: Dumarest;1001097Also: what is there to contribute to this thread? "That's nice, someone bought a game"?

Last thing I'm going to say:  Why waste the energy to even bother posting?

Quote from: Toadmaster;1001111He likes FGU, so he can't be all bad.

A friend picked up a few of their old games, but I missed that era of gaming.

Still not gonna sell mine.

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;1001167Still not gonna sell mine.

I didn't get a brown box. My first book set was a very early Whitebox set, However book one, Men & Magic had the rider on horseback on it, even though the fighting man was on foot on the box cover. The monsters book had the Tolkien stuff in it, Hobbits and Balrogs... I literally played so much I wore out the box in just a year and a half or so, and sold the loose books ...then bought a second whitebox in 79 and was very surprised and dismayed that the books had changed, and the Tolkien stuff taken out of the books.   I have one whitebox set now which I do use for play, as well as a second set of books, loose without a box, and all four supplements, of course. These I use almost every time I play D&D, however I'm very careful about moving and storing the box. My third White box had the collector's edition red stamp on it, and was at least a fourth printing.

Pretty soon, I'm going to probably just scan the books and play from printed copies of my scans, because a white bookset in good condtion with the box is typically going for $250-300 these days. that's 25-30x its original price and far greater than inflation would account for.  As fewer originals remain, I expect the price will rise, ...well just about astronomically. I really do enjoy the look on players faces though, when they sit down at the table, and they realize we are playing with the original D&D edition books and supplements. Anything from the 70's is appreciating very nicely and gaining value.

Average price of a brown bookset sold publicly this year, about $12,000, or 1200x it's original $10 price tag. I wish our original house would appreciate like that, in 1977 we paid $27,000 for it, so it would be worth a cool 2.7 million about now.

Some peoples houses did appreciate like that.  In Toronto and Vancouver.

Quote from: Headless;1001200Some peoples houses did appreciate like that.  In Toronto and Vancouver.

The housing market in T.O. is insane. My parent's first house, which I think they bought for $16,000, is now worth 1.2 million. The following is from a Sept 6, 2017 article in the Toronto Star, and will give you an idea of the situation:

      "The Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) reported that the average cost of a home in August — $732,292 (including all house types and condos) — was still up 3 per cent or about $20,000 compared to August 2016.
But that is still down about 20 per cent, or $187,000 lower than April, when the average price peaked at $919,086."
 
If my old AD&D books appreciated that much I'd sell them in an instant. Sorry for derailing the discussion.

Quote from: GameDaddy;1001175IPretty soon, I'm going to probably just scan the books and play from printed copies of my scans, b

I would just buy the PDFs. Way better than anything I could do at home or have the time for. I owned the originals from having bought a White Box Collectors in 1980 the supplements slightly later. I bought the PDFs anyway and was glad I did.

Looks like the woody didn't sell afterall:  https://www.acaeum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=277959#p277959

Allan.