Amberzines

JongWK · July 21, 2009, 12:59:15 PM

Is there a list of their contents?

weilide · July 21, 2009, 07:30:01 PM

Yes.

gabriel_ss4u · July 22, 2009, 01:35:40 PM

I feel for those without Amberzines... like me.

I used to have the first few (1-6) and access to some others.
Now I have none and someone else has access to them all... bastard!
If anyone has access to any PDFs or files of them, please let me know.
I have things to trade.

I almost got all Amberzines for $200 from a guy in England a couple yrs. ago, but I was broke at the time and they went fast.
...sigh, still kickin' myself on that one.

RPGPundit · July 24, 2009, 12:34:05 AM

I used to have the first six amberzines, but they were ruined in a flood.

In any case, they didn't really have anything so spectacular as to merit as much interest as they've garnered. They were mostly fiction and play reports.

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finarvyn · July 24, 2009, 03:23:57 PM

I have a full set and wouldn't part with them for the world. They don't have a lot of game content in them, but they do have words of wisdom from Erick (which I count like gold) and they are some of the very few "official" Amber products out there. Sorry you were silly enough to part with 'em.

RPGPundit · July 25, 2009, 06:50:47 PM

official or not, I always got way more out of all the Golden Circle webring pages than I did from the Amberzines.

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gabriel_ss4u · July 26, 2009, 12:40:34 PM

Well, I know they will come back my way some day... in one form or another.
Hardcopy would be best though, as a collector type, ya know.

It does piss me off to see that people actually expect those outrageous prices for them. But if they can get it, more power to them.
But if they are sitting on them with the same high-end price off-balancing the market on them, they are asses.
I can see paying double cover price, but over that is silly.

gabriel_ss4u · July 26, 2009, 12:41:22 PM

accidental 2nd post of above

Tarondor · August 17, 2009, 08:35:36 PM

I have most of them. I enjoyed reading them. A lot. But I agree - there is little there that is not covered better somewhere online.

finarvyn · August 20, 2009, 08:10:24 PM

In part I enjoy the Amberzines for their historical context. Anyone can run Amber, but not many got to play in Erick's Amber.

It's like in D&D where they sell lots of Greyhawk or Blackmoor products, but none can be as special as the actual Gygax or Arneson campaigns.

Just my two cents, however.