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I’m thinking of selling some of my old D&D stuff (1st and 2nd ed), but I’m not sure how to go about it. I’ve never used eBay, and I wouldn’t know how to evaluate whether something’s “Mint” or “Very Good”, or “Average” or “Bad” condition. Obviously, I wouldn’t want to under-grade something.

Can anyone offer advice, please?

I would be interested in any Forgotten Realms material you have and possibly some of the character handbooks; email me at klauswitz@hotmail.com and let me know what you have.

Loki_d20 wrote:

Surprisingly this is far from what is being seen in the entertainment industry, specifically in regards to computer games. The most anticipated games are all based in Forgotten Realms (NWN2 and BG3). The two games based out of Eberron, Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach and Dragonshard, have many complaints in regards to their current setting. Sure, there's the whole new slate with which to build upon with Eberron and Xen'Drik itself, but Forgotten Realms for most gamers interested in the new material seem to have a soft heart for the story that they've known all these years. The Eberron novels also haven't done as well as the Forgotten Realms novels. Though, that may be heavily due to the editing work on them, which was very poor in comparison.

Hmm... The computer games aren't a good illustration though. My wife loves the computer games, but has never seen the Realms outside of that context. Same with most of my friends... I know a lot of people who seek out the video games but have never seen the Realms.

I think the real reason the Realms games are better-received is that they're a lot closer to what people imagine as D&D -- armour, swords, magic, monsters. Eberron, though, is a complex setting with a number of concpets that fall far outside of the usual swords-and-sorcery high fantasy stuff that even non-gamers understand. Lightning rail? Dragonmarks? Warforged? It's the very things that make Eberron a fascinating campaign setting that make it unapproachable for the average video game player. Forgotten Realms serves as an excellent backdrop because it really is so generic and mundane, whereas Eberron suffers as a result of its innovation.

Personally, the reason I dislike FR is already in this thread: too much existing plot, too many existing Epic NPCs. When you play in the Forgotten Realms, you've got to take into account all these other stories that people have already told about the world. With Eberron, there's no worry about that: you can have the...

you say it halfway through: warforged. i HATE warforged and everything associated with warforged. Nothing pisses me off more than opening a box of d&d minis and pulling a warforged. Also, in my gaming communities i've yet to meet anyone interested in eberron. iron kingdoms yes arcana unearthed yes eberron no. let me reiterate. DO AWAY WITH WARFORGED!!!!