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Thread : What exactly did I find in my basement?
Started at 08-06-04 02:48 PM by Q(00Q)
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[Post 1]
Author : Q(00Q)
Date : 08-06-04 02:48 PM
Thread Title : What exactly did I find in my basement?

It a dungeon's and dragons box, with a dragon sitting on a pile of treasure with a wizard in the bottom left and an armored archer in the bottom right attacking it. There are three beige books inside, titled:"Men and magic", Monsters and Treasure", and "The Underworld & Wilderness Adventures". There are some other books inside aswell...

What is this thing?

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[Post 2]
Author : diaglo
Date : 08-06-04 02:50 PM

a combination of several editions of Dungeons & Dragons

i'm guessing the 3 brown booklets are from the Original Collector's Edition of the white boxed set

the other box with dragon and wizard and warrior are from the Holmes edition of Basic D&D. otherwise known as 2edD&D.

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[Post 3]
Author : Gandalf_Istari
Date : 08-06-04 02:53 PM

This site:

http://www.acaeum.com/

And this site:

http://home.flash.net/~brenfrow/


Might help you to sort things out. Good luck.

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[Post 4]
Author : WizO_Catoblepas
Date : 08-06-04 10:51 PM

Seriously, whatever you do, don't throw them away.  People will pay good money for them depnding on the book's condition.  Growing up, my father was disappointed that I blew my money on D&D books.  When he realized how much they still were worth later on in my life, he took back those words.

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[Post 5]
Author : Algolei
Date : 08-09-04 05:26 AM
Thread Title : Re: What exactly did I find in my basement?

Egad man, you found TREASURE!!

Originally posted by Q(00Q) 
There are three beige books inside, titled:"Men and magic", Monsters and Treasure", and "The Underworld & Wilderness Adventures".
What diaglo said:  Precious old books.

Originally posted by Q(00Q) 
It a dungeon's and dragons box, with a dragon sitting on a pile of treasure with a wizard in the bottom left and an armored archer in the bottom right attacking it.
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There are some other books inside aswell...

What are the other books called?

If that box with the dragon, wizard and archer (http://home.flash.net/~brenfrow/dd/dd-1box.htm) is basically a blue colour, then you've got the box I started D&D with when I was young and happy.

Mine got treated poorly, then eventually was thrown out one day in one of those fits of despair and depression that led me to think I had to completely clean out my room to "get my life in order."  Painful mistake!  I threw out so much stuff that day!  Stuff I'd been hanging onto because I loved it....  I even threw out my Differential Aptitudes Test result, the one proving to all my teachers that, yes, I really was a genius after all.  (I was a C student all through school until I hit university.)  (Then I became an A student for a year, followed by a D student, then an F student, and finally a working class shmoe.)

(Oddly enough, I'm happier now than I ever was in university.  And during my D and F years, that's really saying something!  Good times.... :embarrass :D )

So yes.  Treasure.  You've found a worthy haul indeed.

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