As I sit here, browsing RPG stuff on eBay, trying to determine if there's anything out there that I actually want right now, I became curious just what everyone's "holy grail" of a game book/supplement is.

Is there something out there that you're desperately craving and can't seem to find (or find for a reasonable price)?

For a decent price: The Magic Box for Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  I'm sure there are others, but I'm not looking to buy them at the moment.

CHAINMAIL second edition.

I had to sell my copy from my Lake Geneva days in order to eat.

I honestly still cry sometimes if I think too much about  it.

The first thing coming to my mind right now is Empire of the Petal Throne, the original boxed set.

I've got 99.9% of the stuff I want, and the rest as .PDFs.  If I found those in print (and could afford them!) that'd be great but by and large, I'm good.

I don't know, would have to think about this. About six years ago my father and sister sold the old family home I grew up in. I managed to go up there for a couple days and found some of my boxes of game material and mailed it to my current home. But some boxes weren't found and one (with my hundreds of painted lead miniatures) was too heavy to mail, I had to leave it behind. If only I had more time to search around perhaps I could have found the box or two I was missing. Losing one's childhood home is a heartbreaking event.

I have heard rumors and seen listings for the old TSR product City Geomorphs or Outdoor Geomorphs. Don't think I've ever actually held the product though. It was a thing of myth in my youth during the 1980's.

I want to get the GAZ books I am missing. GAZ1 specifically. I'd also like to get the Mystara Box sets.

But I guess my ultimate goal would be to collect every Mystara product ever released. Especially the poster Maps. I'd like to get the Greyhawk maps as well. I'm a sucker for maps...


I also want a copy of Glory Hole Dwarven Mine, just because of the name.


I'd also like complete sets of the Marvel Superheroes Basic and Advanced boxes.

Oh, and an 1981 Expert set to go with my Basic set.

A copy of the Holmes Basic set. It has my favorite cover.



Mostly its an issue of not having the money at the time I see them come open on Ebay...

Quote from: kythri;747877As I sit here, browsing RPG stuff on eBay, trying to determine if there's anything out there that I actually want right now, I became curious just what everyone's "holy grail" of a game book/supplement is.

In games? Book of Drastic Resolutions (Chaos), maybe some combination of the Flame Kings Dynasty / Hrestol's Saga / Book of Kings books the Gloranthan super-fans have had access to in the past.

Quote from: thedungeondelver;747896I've got 99.9% of the stuff I want...

Same for me.

I've found and purchased pretty much everything rare or hard-to-find that I've wanted over the past ~10 years. Some of it I've spent a bit of cash on, and some I've found for cheap. I don't really do much trawling on eBay anymore.

I did recently get introduced to WEG Star Wars 1e (for cheap through Half Priced Books). I'm not sure whether some of its supplements count as 'rare', but I may try tracking down some. It's not really something pressing for me, though.

When I went off to law school, I gave away 99% of my gaming stuff to friends, never expecting to have time or inclination to play again.  The friend who got the lion's share sold it on Ebay(!) when I assumed he'd keep it in trust to take care of, but enh, I should have been more specific.  Still, I had every book ever released for CP2020, third-party and otherwise, and those are gone; and every Werewolf The Apocalypse book.  I can probably rebuy those through DriveThru nowadays, but it rankles a bit.

With that said, the three or four games I hunted for for years have finally become mine after various searches: a complete run of Underground, Ringworld (including the companion), Living Steel, and Ghostbusters.  I would like to someday get my hands on the original Black Box Cyberpunk, but that doesn't nag at me like the ones listed above do.  

Sometime when I was down south, my Unknown Armies collection got rained on -- that's tough, and I'd really like to replace those in hardcopy one day.

Right now, it'd be West End Games' Price of Freedom box set for a reasonable price.  It's one of those things where I either miss the auction entirely, wind up as a losing bidder or the seller wants an incredible amount for it.

In general and in practice, I've found that every time I've gotten a "holy grail" of something I've been looking for, in the end it turns out to be either completely mundane and/or an outright disappointment.

(Whether rpg stuff, books, movies, music, etc ...).

The Mystara Gazetteers I'm missing - Elves & Dwarves are the main ones, Atruaghin & Shadow Elves & Halflings for completeness.

Ringworld
Temple of Existential Evil (for HM)

Bifrost (UK Fantasy RPG circa 1977).