Because reasons. 🤷 I hereby dedicate this brand-spanking-new monster to the public domain.
Just sold, now I need to figure out where to donate the spoils. 😄 Except for Haunted Halls of Eveningstar I never dug any of these very much. Of course, I never read much of them either, so they were all (almost) mint. Haunted Halls could have been great, but TSR fucked with Ed's dungeon until not even one complete level was left, at least that's my understanding. Pity! I would have loved to see the real thing.
I am a happy camper! Well... It's three issues of "The Twisting Stair" which is a mega dungeon / RPG zine by Allan Grohe and Tony Rosten. Fresh out of those United States over there. Well, somewhat fresh I guess: they published these a while ago but I really wanted the hardcopies to get that DIY vibe and they only shipped now. Still perfect! 😄
It's not going to get any better, is it? 😄
Somehow, somewhere, "DM Screen" came up. And I realized that there's not really a "clear" picture of mine. So here it is! Not that it's seen much use, but at least in theory I have one for the next open-air convention I run a game at? (And yes, it's all made with
#LaTeX of course.)
More weird basement finds? I have never once opened "Runedice" but I might make an "unboxing after 25+ years" video with it? "Rapier & Dagger" is a 1978 fighting game for that very particular kind of fencing, highly specialized. "War Cry and Battle Lust" is a strange 1978 set of wargame rules that I promised to send to Dan Collins for analysis years ago and then forgot about. I guess I'll have to finally ship 'em off to Brooklyn sometime soon... 😮
More not-so-cool basement finds? The three "worst D&D modules of all time" in near-mint condition. I started reading the first one, but yeah, this is a bad Ed Greenwood hack job. He was young and needed the money I am sure (wait, was he ever young?) but wow. There's one redeeming feature though: Large poster-size maps of various cities. Those are nice (especially in the first one) if hard to use. Otherwise: A case-study in how to railroad worse than all of the Dragonlance modules combined?
More cool basement finds? Two of the "late stage" Blackmoor modules for Basic D&D *plus* a photocopy of "Garbage Pits of Despair" also by Arneson. Sadly I will never figure out *who* sent me that photocopy since the name is "torn apart" on the back of the envelope it arrived in. Sometime in the early 1990s presumably. Whoever you were: Thank you again!
And we're "complete" as it were. As complete as I wanted to get anyway. The third box with all the paper figures is fine as PDF since all I need is the monster listings.
#DSA1It arrived. Now I need the expanded rules box as well.
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