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You may or may not have heard of The Roleplaying Game Creators Relief Fund. It is a charity that was set up to help those who work in the RPG industry and who suffer some kind of medical emergency or other disaster. It relies on donations from companies or individuals to provide assistance in a variety of circumstances.
I am currently having a semi-regular purge of my RPG collection and have decided to run a “pseudo auction” here on the Paizo forums. I’ve divided the things I’m getting rid of into twenty five lots and will be giving them away over the next five weeks (five lots per week). Some are Paizo books, some are collectible books from years ago and others are more niche. Most are in good condition – I’ll identify which are “much loved” when they come up.
The way I’m selecting the recipients each week is via a secret auction of pledges to the RCRF. You can PM me your bid throughout the week the lot you’re interested in is up for auction and at the end of the week the highest bidder will win. I’ll then send you the books you bid on and you’ll make a donation to the RCRF via their webpage (they have a paypal link, but I suspect you can contact them to organise other ways to make your payment).
All bids will be confidential and I won’t reveal any winners nor any of the values of bids made.
If you are unsuccessful in your bid (or just uninterested in what’s on offer), please consider making a donation. The people who work in our industry are often doing it for the love rather than the money – when medical setbacks occur it can prove difficult to continue, given the realities of healthcare costs.
Any queries, please post them here or feel free to PM me.
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Week One Auction
Closes 8pm Friday 22nd January (Adelaide, South Australia time) – 1 week from now. Please PM me how much you're willing to donate to the RCRF if successful - the successful bidder will be contacted within 24 hours and the books posted on Monday 25th.
Lot One
Slumbering Tsar (Pathfinder Compatible Adventures from Frog God Games) – this is the individual paperback instalments ST1 through ST12, not the hardcover which compiled them all into one massive book.
Lot Two
Cerulean Seas Hardcover (Pathfinder Compatible Undersea Campaign Setting from Alluria Publishing)
Lot Three
A collection of Swords and Wizardry Rappan Athuk books from the kickstarter a few years ago:
- Rappan Athuk signed copy (6/300) – note this is the Swords and Wizardry version and is not PF compatible.
- 2 Rappan Athuk Player’s Guides
- 2 Rappan Athuk Pregenerated Character Books (Also for Swords and Wizardry)
Lot Four
A few sundry Savage World Sourcebooks (Pinnacle Entertainment)
- Savage Worlds Science Fiction Companion
- Savage Worlds Fantasy Companion
- Savage Worlds Horror Companion
- Savage Worlds Oversize Action Deck
Lot Five
A few Forgotten Realms books for 1st edition AD&D and 2nd edition AD&D (TSR publishing). These are quite beat up (I bought most of them secondhand and they’ve clearly been heavily used)
- Forgotten Realms “Grey Box” (the original, 1st edition AD&D version)
- Volo’s Guide to the Sword Coast
- Volo’s Guide to Waterdeep
- Volo’s Guide to the North (I believe this was Vic Wertz’s first RPG credit – he and Lisa were two of the editors)
- Set of four poster maps of the realms collected from various issues of Dungeon Magazine
Great idea and very generous, Mr. Geddes.
I had a couple of queries via email which I'll answer here as it seems my OP wasn't terribly clear. :/
1. I don't have any official connection with RCRF - I'm just giving these books away and asking people to donate to RCRF in return.
2. I won't be waiting on any confirmation of payment - as soon as the auction is finished, I'll post them to the highest bidder.
3. I'm covering postage.
4. There isn't any reserve price. If you bid $1 for the Rappan Athuk books and nobody else makes a bid, I'll send them to you.
5. You can either make your donation once I send them or wait until you receive them to be sure everything is genuine and that they're in the condition I said they were.
Any other queries, feel free to PM me.
Hi Steve, a really generous idea!
What currency would you like us to bid in?
Also are you ok posting internationally? The UK for instance?
Gosh, I'm not very good at this! More reasonable questions I hadn't thought of... :p
1. You can pm someone by clicking on their name - right at the top of the page should be a "send this person a pm" link. Although having said that, Macefield I can't send you one, so I suspect you have that option turned off?
If you go to your "My Account" page and look on the left hand side where it says privacy settings, the first should be a checkbox which allows members of paizo.com to send you private messages. See if that helps. If you can't get Private Messages to work, let me know here and I'll give you my email address (but I'd prefer to keep all the bids in one place, if at all possible).
2. I think it's best to bid in US dollars - based on past experience, most of the interest is likely to come from the US.
3. I'm fine posting internationally. I'm in Australia and expect most of the items to go to the US. Europe or anywhere else is fine too though.
Cheers
Forgotten Realms “Grey Box” (the original, 1st edition AD&D version)Exceptionally well made, I can not say how much I loved this work. Its a collectors item for sure and can stand up to material even by today's standards.
Yes, I agree, currently mine is 2 feet away from my keyboard as I was reading it last night contemplating a 2nd edition campaign starting in 1356.
It's my favorite incarnation of the realms. Over the next few weeks I've got a few more similar goodies (as well as a smattering of pathfinder, swords and wizardry, 5E and other rarer books).
Even if you're not interested in what's on offer this week, keep an eye out for the next few weeks - I tried to include 'something for everyone' in each week's lots.
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Yes, I agree, currently mine is 2 feet away from my keyboard as I was reading it last night contemplating a 2nd edition campaign starting in 1356.Forgotten Realms “Grey Box” (the original, 1st edition AD&D version)Exceptionally well made, I can not say how much I loved this work. Its a collectors item for sure and can stand up to material even by today's standards.
If you need a player or DM I'm in!
Thanks for reminding me of this, Steve. I opened it a few days ago, but got busy with the kids and forgot to read it.
I'll be keeping an eye out for some 5e stuff or any 2e planescape stuff.
No planescape stuff, sorry. There is some 2nd edition in subsequent weeks, but I never got into planescape.
Dang. That was my favorite setting. Oh well, I'll be throwing in some bids for other stuff, too.
I take it by the "secret bid" that we won't know if we've lost except by not hearing from you before the next week's lots are posted? If that makes sense at all.
Yeah, I'll contact the winners via pm and then make a post here saying "if you didn't get a pm, you didn't win".
Last time I did this my mailbox went berserk, so I'm trying to minimise that a little this time (the same reason for spreading it out over five weeks).
The auction has now closed and the winners have been notified. If you have a pm from me advising you won, please send me the address you'd like your lot sent to. I plan on shipping everything out on Monday.
Thanks to everyone who bid. :)
Next week's lots to follow shortly...
Week Two Auction
Closes 10pm Friday 29th January (Adelaide, South Australia time) – 1 week from now).
Lot One
An adventure and a planar sourcebook:
- Pathfinder Compatible - The Peculiar Alchemist of Alpentor (4th to 5th level adventure signed by Wolfgang Baur)
- 3.5 D&D – Beyond Countless Doorways (Planar sourcebook by Monte Cook, Wolfgang Baur, Colin McComb and Ray Vallese)
Lot Two
A collection of Psionics stuff from Dreamscarred Press’s Kickstarter. All books are full color and in excellent condition:
- Ultimate Psionics (limited edition #39/150)
- Classic Psionic Monsters Revisited
- Psionic Bestiary
- The Opened Mind (1st level psionic adventure)
- Psionics Embodied
- Psionics DM Screen
Lot Three
Signed copy (#5/300) of Razor Coast by Frog God Games (this is the Swords and Wizardry version, not the Pathfinder compatible version).
Lot Four
Gygax Magazine – Issues 1-4 (2013 and 2014)
Lot Five
World of Greyhawk Boxed Set (for AD&D – I think this is the second printing. Printed in 1983 by TSR)
As well as the books and maps, there’s also the four poster maps that were included in Dungeon Magazine. The box has some creases, marks and a tear in one corner, but the books are in excellent condition.
Lot Six
Kindly donated by Amora Games. This is a single copy of:
Liber Influxus Communis (first printing). A Pathfinder Compatible sourcebook – check out the link for product description and some glowing reviews!
Amora Games have donated three copies of Liber Influxus Communis - so the highest three pledgers will each receive a single copy.
The second week's auction has finished. Thank you all.
I had a much lower turnout than last time I did this kind of thing - makes me think I've made it too complicated this time around.
As such, I'm going to stop here and rethink how to do things, so I won't be proceeding with the other three weeks.