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Tuesday 11 February 2014

Dungeons and Dragons

Yet another little find amongst my old chums bits and pieces.

A relatively anonymous white box, slightly bigger than A5 sized, about as heavy as a paperback book so I knew it didn't have metal figures in it as I rattled it a bit to shake off the dust and stour.


Dungeons and Dragons it said on the lid. I remember them. I partied down a dungeon or two in my earlier years at the club. I was surprised that Iain had this as we always had used Advanced Heroquest whenever he or I hosted a dungeon adventure.

Never mind, lets have a look inside. The lid said a 3 volume set.




Yes, 3 booklets, all in very good order. Dated 1974 so these are the original set.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons

And:





Three supplements, all from the same time period and the Reference Sheets.

So this is a very complete set of the original Dungeons and Dragons rules, in very good condition, owners name in ink in a few locations and several notes in pencil here and there.

I can see that these are on offer on sites such as eBay for silly money, £75 a booklet or so. I wonder what they really sell for. I would be open to a sensible offer. All proceeds to Combat Stress.

3 comments:

  1. Sir,

    A good way to valuate this item is to go through this site:

    www.acaeum.com

    specifically this link:

    http://www.acaeum.com/ddindexes/rulebooks.html

    ...and you should be able to sort out what the "actual" value would be. Given that it is a charity sale you might offer it up to the folks on that particular 'site's forum as well.

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    1. Thanks for your suggestion about the ACAEUM site.

      I would hope to be able to process all of the collections, figures, books and rules through the local network of clubs and shows, hopefully to gamers who knew my friend.

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    2. God bless you. You're a champion!

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