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unearthing the societies gaming cupboard
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Here's the board games i found;
Talisman 1st ed - with dungeon and adventurer expansions (it has 49 different character cards! including a zulu)
Railway rivals - A games workshop train game with pens and stuff
The Peloponnesian war (victory games) appears to be unplayed
History of the world - gibson games
Divine right - tsr 1979 and in pretty good condition. appears to be a hex and counter fantasy war game, has a very cool map. Also some silly high second hand prices on bgg
Star fist - steve jackson games, based on triplanitary apparently, space combat game on a hex grid
blood berets - looks like a poor mans legion of steel, doesnt appear to have ever been played, ive read the rules they seem simple enough, Ken ive seen what i think is your review on bgg
Kings and things - west end games edition
Babylon 5 wars with several expansions and some metal ships - space hex combat game
battletech with city tech and quite a few extra maps, only card board mechs though
aces high - boxed edition simulations games, hex and counter dog fight war game
wooden ships iron men, avalon hill, hex and counter ships of the line
2 copies of kingmaker, neither complete, one gibson with big boards one avalon hill book case
battlecars - weird looking games workshop game
Shattered states - alternate future scifish america post civil war game with lots of low quality paper cards
Any way, ive posted here rather than in the trade forums for the scoop on these games. Has anyone played any of them? any worth keeping? any really really work selling?
I expect we will sell or trade a fair number of them, a few (divine right, blood berets peloponesian war, kingmaker) i'd like to play before we consider getting shot of them.
There's perhaps a 100 rpg books in the back of the cupboard too but thats a challenge for another day. There lots of james bond 700 rpg books, a host of Cyberpunk 2020, Harnmaster, Traveller, Glurps, some call of cthulu, some 40k and warhammer stuff and then the usual ton of D&D. again any experience of this kind of stuff would be useful. Harnmaster Traveller and 2020 all appeal to me but my rpg experience is limited to DnD and ive never gm'd.
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I really like History of the World, but no one plays it anymore.
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My buddy's wife says we absolutely must play on our next gaming get together. She says it's the one game she has fun at even when she is losing. I have never played.ubarose wrote: You found Talisman 2nd Edition. You should play it.
I really like History of the World, but no one plays it anymore.
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DukeofChutney wrote: There's perhaps a 100 rpg books in the back of the cupboard too but thats a challenge for another day. There lots of james bond 700 rpg books, a host of Cyberpunk 2020, Harnmaster, Traveller, Glurps, some call of cthulu, some 40k and warhammer stuff and then the usual ton of D&D. again any experience of this kind of stuff would be useful. Harnmaster Traveller and 2020 all appeal to me but my rpg experience is limited to DnD and ive never gm'd.
I just sold a bunch of WH/WH40K 2nd Ed. books on eBay and I can tell you that, unless you do bundles, you're looking at about $5-$10 per book for 2nd Ed. stuff. Most of the Codexes have been supplanted by newer editions so they're just not going for much. The most valuable books I sold were the Sisters of Battle Codex (goes for $20-$30) since they only ever printed one edition, and a bundle of Necromunda books (Rulebook, Sourcebook, Outlanders book, painting guide, etc.) that sold for $31.
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I had a look at the rules to divine right, seems like some diplomacy and card play fueled war game, the rules will be work to learn though. Why are people charging silly money on bgg for it? It coudl easily be print and played given the components are just a paper map, some poor quality cards and a lot of counters.
We have talisman 4th ed and play it regularly, i have infact played 2nd ed but many years ago, might give this one a rerun soon.
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tscook wrote: Traveller is fucking awesome.
Traveller is one of those games where I believe you can die during character creation. I love vintage RPGs for stuff like that. I'm pretty sure CP2020 was the same way, you could at least be seriously hosed if not outright die, all while filling out the sheet.
Traveller was how I learned hexadecimal as well, before I started programming. (and Champions made me fast at algebra...)
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I'd keep the good stuff, though...
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Not Sure wrote: Traveller is one of those games where I believe you can die during character creation.
It's also possible your guy is fifty years old when you're done with character creation too. We played a ton of Traveller when I was a kid and I still have all the specs on my main character and his ship. You have the small book rules? Maybe 5x8 black books with a stripe across the cover? I don't see huge prices for the main ones (books 0 through 4 I believe) but some of the supplements can pull some bucks and, frankly, I may buy a couple of them off of you.
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I've played Pelo war, its a good game, but its a solo war game designed to teach you history. It does that very well, but once you've done it once it doesn't really demand replays. I look forward to playing Divine Right.
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