Stumbled upon a gold mine!

brotherdew · Post by **brotherdew** » Sun Aug 01, 2010 12:33 pm

I went into a flea market yesterday and stumbled upon a gold mine of AD&D source material!!!!

I had a few minutes to kill while out with the family and thought I would take a stab in the dark and see if they had anything. I walked into a booth with a lot of sci-fi collectibles and asked if they had any D&D books. The guy said he did and started digging through a cluttered mess. He came out with two stacks of 2E AD&D source material. I got the Magic Encyclopedia, Creature Crucible (a book about werecreatures), A Forgotten Realms The Dalelands book and the old basic set players handbook from 1980. All for $20, with maps.

I was brought into the game during 3.5 so this is a god send to me. I will go back and get the rest when finances allow.

I love flea markets.
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Rigon · Post by **Rigon** » Sun Aug 01, 2010 2:22 pm

Nicely done sir, nicely done.

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anglefish · Post by **anglefish** » Sun Aug 01, 2010 3:09 pm

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Good find! It's a real pity that WotC doesn't sell the old products on PDF anymore.

serleran · Post by **serleran** » Sun Aug 01, 2010 4:40 pm

Did you get the 2 volume Magic Encyclopedia or the 4 volume Encyclopedia Magica? They both do a similar thing, but the latter goes into much more detail.

Either way, nice score. One never knows where the heart of darkness... err, the best finds for this stuff, are.
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brotherdew · Post by **brotherdew** » Sun Aug 01, 2010 5:26 pm

Unfortunately I only have one volume of the magic encyclopedia (vol. 2), but I am planning on loading up next time I go.

I just hope no one else stumbles upon my horde lol
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Post by **Breakdaddy** » Mon Aug 02, 2010 1:17 am

Nice find, Dewayne! I figured that you'd been playing since at least 1st edition AD&D.

brotherdew · Post by **brotherdew** » Mon Aug 02, 2010 4:50 am

Breakdaddy wrote:
Nice find, Dewayne! I figured that you'd been playing since at least 1st edition AD&D.

Thanks for the compliment, but sadly no.

I had purchased a basic set back in the early 80's, but didn't have a group to play with so it wasn't until a about 7 years ago that I found a group to play with. By then we were well into 3.5E

I do truly enjoy playing and wish there were more people in my neck of the woods who played.
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Post by **Breakdaddy** » Mon Aug 02, 2010 1:12 pm

Yeah it stinks when you're stuck in a gamer's no-man's-land. I've been there. When I was in the military LOTS of folks gamed, but when I left and moved back to a small(ish) town in Texas, I couldn't find any gamers. Luckily, when I made my way to Little Rock I quickly located fellow gamers and it was great. I left 3.5e D&D a few years back (around 2005 or so) due to the ever greater amount of prep time that was required for me to run a simple 4-5 hour session. C&C has greatly mitigated that issue for me and I've never really looked back. 3.5e is a good game which I enjoyed playing, but my time is far too limited to bother with the rules upon rules necessary to properly run it anymore.

CKDad · Post by **CKDad** » Mon Aug 02, 2010 3:50 pm

Nice score! And it's always a good day when gaming stuff finds it's way to a loving home.
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Aladar · Post by **Aladar** » Mon Aug 02, 2010 6:42 pm

Nice haul! I am always in the market to score older D&D stuff myself. I never though to check out the flea markets. Thanks.
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brotherdew · Post by **brotherdew** » Mon Aug 02, 2010 8:25 pm

Aladar wrote:
Nice haul! I am always in the market to score older D&D stuff myself. I never though to check out the flea markets. Thanks.

I have found that the larger flea markets will usually have someone selling old Magic, Pokemon, or Yu-Gi-Oh cards and maybe comic books. These are the best places to start looking. You can also hit stalls that specialize in used books. Usually you can get a good deal because they are just trying to get rid of something they don't usually deal with.
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serleran · Post by **serleran** » Mon Aug 02, 2010 8:28 pm

Yeah, other good ones are the people selling Nintendo or Sega games; also those freaky-deaks with the action figures. I try to check flea markets whenever I can... never know what you might find, like the one time I found the original Dr. Who box set for like $3.
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