Hi,

I have a question for you guys/gals. I have almost the entire WHFRP 2nd edition line of books and I don't play anymore. My question is, would I be better selling them off one book or two at a time, or the entire lot on ebay at once? Or maybe on a web forum somewhere else?

If you plan to play 3rd edition those books would prove invaluable as a GM for reference materials and ideas. Also, loads of the tables and charts in those books can easily be applied to 3rd edition rules while we wait for more 3rd edition books.

Gitzman

I don't have 3rd edition, I have been playing GURPS mainly.

You generally get better bids by breaking it up book by book. The downside to that is, you then have to create a separate bid and ship each item separately.

I'd venture to guess that selling them one by one is the way to go since most may not want to buy an outdated version.

Gitzman

Just out of curiosity, what would you want for the lot? Do you have any idea what the whole set is worth?

...hehehe the above post is probably the #1 he posted here in the first place. Nothing like advertising without...you know...advertising.

My advice :

keep those amazing V2 books.

there are plenty of amazing supplements guides : the bestiary and its knowledge's depth level (commoner, false expert and chaos guy), the yet legendary tomes of corruption and salvation where you know everything about gods and magics...

Same for location guides, there are splendids. Even if the setting is in a different timeframe (after Tempest of Chaos), you get what you want : knowing lands of the Old Worlds. Full colors, tons of NPCs, a LOT of adventure ideas and synopsis...

Finally, you may even purchase adventures because NPCs can simply be switched with basics one for Tome of Adventure in any scenario. Last week I've purchased V2 barony of the damned so to run a 100% gritty, full flesh and blood, diseases and muds mini-campaign. No worries if it's V2, the adventure scenarios are what we need.

My 2 brass.

flyingcircus said:

Don't sell them. I use mine still for background and to create new spells in strange eons. The campaign are also easy to convert.

keltheos said:

Yeah, I know. I just can't resist.

Yay a positive thread! Enough of all this slander and confrontation gives Boze a head ache.

flyingcircus said:
The campaign are also easy to convert.

This is excellent.
Please do tell exactly how easy. Is there a thread regarding this I have missed? Definitely wouldn't want to pass that up as long as it didn't take a long time to convert it! It will make Boze your friend.

I'd sell them individually and donate the rest to your local used book store (or FLGS).

On a related note, I'm DUMPING 30 years worth of the complete set of D&D CRAP at my local used bookstore. What a sucker I was to have bought 98% of that ****.

jh

I just have allot of old games and WFRP 2.0 is just one I have not played in along time, they'res probably $300.00 in WFRP books I bought, but thousands in AD&D & D&D I have. I have a huge stock of AD&D 1e in great condition and a huge AD&D 2e collection all in great condition, Traveller Classic, Mega-Traveller & Traveller TNE along with Mongoose Traveller, I wanna get rid of it all because of space issues but I don't wanna just give it all away because I take care of my books and all are in pristine condition. Oh and No I am not the poster asking to buy the lot. I guess I can always see what Noble Knight would give me, thanks for the advice.

flyingcircus said:

there is a waterfall coming out of my mouth right now.

I'm very interested in WFRP 2nd ed books. I have a lot of them, but there is some that I miss. so, if you are not interested in a direct contact for trying a selling arrengement, please, do tell us when you decide where you are going to sell them!

in each case, my email is pedrolunaris [a] gmail.com (the [a] is just to try and prevent spams...).

thank you very much and, anyway it goes, good luck!

I´m looking for Tome of Corruption and Children of Horned Rat to buy. If you want.

If you are interested in direct-selling at all, I'm looking for a copy of the 2nd Ed. Core Book, Realm of the Ice Queen and the Career Compendium.

Just send an e-mail to jordansteelman [a] hotmail.com if you find yourself so inclined.

Thanks.

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Gotcha. My apologies, Ynnen.

theanimalcooler said:

Those are the most expensive too! Good luck with that.

I paid $50.00 per for my copies each, but I had to wait for them to come down in price forever. Normally I see these two tomes going for well over $100.00 on Amazon and Ebay. Sometimes you luck out and get someone to offer them for a more reasonable price.

Great books by the way! Well worth a little bit extra.

I know this is an old post, but I do have a similar kind of question or situation with my gaming group. The other GM in my gaming group has almost all of his books and was talking about selling them if he likes the new version (btw, he has only run the game, but never played it, so that is why I am doing that).

But, I am convinced that he should keep the books for the source material. After all, they are also pretty books.

If I was to take adventures from the 2nd edition, I really don't need to make any major chances right? Most of the stats for everything is in the new core set, correct?

Dustin said:

Depends on what you consider major changes.

The Storm of Chaos has been retconned or removed from 3e, so adventures relying on that for a premise will need to be revised.

The other area will be balance, given the performance of the new system (higher success). A straight conversion of NPC's to 3e might result in balance issues either making the adventure too easy or too hard, so you'll need to be aware of this. Also the compression of the WS and BS skills into Str and Ag can have secondary repercussions of making some creatures and NPCs perform differently.

Also bear in mind that not all careers are available in 3e. Only three winds of magic and three dieties are covered in the material released so far for 3e. You'll need to wing or create material for NPC's that fall outside these areas.

None of it is mind blowing hard, but it's also not trivial. And will require some work from the GM before the adventure.

Thanks for the heads up, Lexicanum.

I am not good at writing my adventures from scratch and the other GM said he has some adventures that I can use that he has not run or even read yet. I have had luck with improvising, but I would not prefer to risk it all the time (especially with the new system that I am learning right now).

That is one thing I have always enjoyed with Warhammer: they have never been stingy on adventures.

Thanks. This will also be proof that he should not sell his books. After all, he still has some of his old AD&D books. I would have trashed that game a long time ago!