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MagickalMemories wrote:Third edition D&D lowered the value of everything TSR/WotC put out before it, too.

As I'm not a collector of old D&D stuff, I can't vouch for this but it would make sense to me. I think the only time that an OOP game will attain a lasting high price is either where there is no current edition or where the subsequent edition is much worse.

Manchu wrote:

MagickalMemories wrote:Third edition D&D lowered the value of everything TSR/WotC put out before it, too.

As I'm not a collector of old D&D stuff, I can't vouch for this but it would make sense to me. I think the only time that an OOP game will attain a lasting high price is either where there is no current edition or where the subsequent edition is much worse.

As a one-time private collector who sold it all off, only to get the itch & start buying it back years later for actual gaming purposes, it's what I experienced.
Also, on Bartertown, where I'm an Admin, I see it all the time. People who want 'collectors prices" for their 1e and 2e stuff don't move anything but the rarer or more popular stuff. Everything else sits.
I've bought collections so low, it might as well have been bought by the pound.
Note the plural; collections.

The other thing that makes previous editions more valuable is when the following edition is compatable with the previous one, as 2e was to 1e & (original) D&D. Since (original) D&D and 1e AD&D weren't in print anymore, but could be used with only the most minor tweaking, the stuff skyrocketed in prices.


Eric

How is 3rd and 3.5 selling right now?

I used to have that AD&D book... (I might have bought it new too. Maybe.)

Anyway, the artist in question for the FAR superior Elric covers?

Robert Gould.

Awesome stuff, and he did covers for all the 'big' Moorcock Eternal Champion series too.







My favorites were on the Corum and Hawkmoon series...

And Moorcock probably should have let the Eternal Champion series end with the second Hawkmoon series too...

I could buy books with that on the cover. The other is too much to bear.

Speaking of D & D

http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/16728.html

gang related activities ?

The Brit covers for Elrik were way better. I will try and drag out my copies and post them at the weekend.

Sort of like stumbling across a copy of the old Star League manual for Battletech. Which, sadly, I've never done.

Value and price don't always go hand in hand. There are expensive collectibles that
might have little intrinsic value. I remember when my friend bought the first appearance
of Gambit. Though Gambit was cool, that issue of the comic was a bit of a dog.