My local game store is advertising these newly printed reissues of the original "ADVANCED DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS" hardbacks.
• 1st Edition Premium Dungeon Master's Guide (240p HC $44.95)
• 1st Edition Premium Player's Handbook (112p HC $34.95)
• 1st Edition Premium Monster Manual (128p HC $34.95)
I still remember buying the originals in a B. Dalton bookstore in Laredo, Texas. DMG was $15. The PH and MM were $12 each.
I am SO old...
Reissued 1st edition D&D books
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, Feb 21 2012 08:35 PM
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Posted 21 February 2012 - 08:35 PM
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Posted 21 February 2012 - 10:03 PM
You must have got some kind of sale price. My first edition DMG was $24.95, back in 1983. I saved for months to buy it.
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Posted 21 February 2012 - 10:28 PM
I looked at my copy of the 1e DMG. It's 14th printing dated 1990(!), and it has the printed price of $18. ISTR the DMG was $15 when the Elmore covers first came out...
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Posted 21 February 2012 - 10:43 PM
Economy. Kids don't know how spoiled they are. I also remember saving for months for every purchase.
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Posted 22 February 2012 - 12:18 AM
Huh. I got my books in 1981. Don't remember how much they cost, but it couldn't have been too much, since I was a pretty broke 11-year-old.
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Posted 22 February 2012 - 08:30 AM
Must....resist....nostalgia....trip.
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Posted 22 February 2012 - 09:36 AM
I seem to remember the price point being $15/$18 as well...
I thought about pulling the trigger on these when someone first linked to the page on WotC site. (at least some) of the proceeds go to the Gary Gygax fund to get a memorial statue put up in Lake Geneva.
Then I thought some more about it and I think (if I needed new copies) I would rather get old ones (with original covers for nostalgia's sake) from ebay and if so inclined I would donate the $115 directly to the Gygax fund.
Edit: maybe it was $12/$15...I do remember that it was a $3 difference for the DMG and that they were <$20
http://gygaxmemorialfund.com/
I thought about pulling the trigger on these when someone first linked to the page on WotC site. (at least some) of the proceeds go to the Gary Gygax fund to get a memorial statue put up in Lake Geneva.
Then I thought some more about it and I think (if I needed new copies) I would rather get old ones (with original covers for nostalgia's sake) from ebay and if so inclined I would donate the $115 directly to the Gygax fund.
Edit: maybe it was $12/$15...I do remember that it was a $3 difference for the DMG and that they were <$20
http://gygaxmemorialfund.com/
Edited by Baphomet69, 22 February 2012 - 09:44 AM.
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Posted 22 February 2012 - 03:59 PM
I think I got my first books, DMG with the efreeti, monster manual with all the critters on the cover & of course the iconic statue PHB cover, at a yard sale.
Let see I was probably 9 or 10 so that would put it around 1982 or 83 for me.
All I know is I was highly jealous of a friend who found the "motherload" of old D&D & AD&D books, modules at a different yard sale!!!!!
Let see I was probably 9 or 10 so that would put it around 1982 or 83 for me.
All I know is I was highly jealous of a friend who found the "motherload" of old D&D & AD&D books, modules at a different yard sale!!!!!
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Posted 22 February 2012 - 08:12 PM
I'm glad to see that I am not alone in remembering both AD&D 1st ed. and the 80's 
I never owned the books ( always played in others' campaigns) though, but the jump in price over the last 30 odd years seems more proportionate than the jump in price of model kits (styrene). 
I never owned the books ( always played in others' campaigns) though, but the jump in price over the last 30 odd years seems more proportionate than the jump in price of model kits (styrene).
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Posted 23 February 2012 - 07:12 AM
You must have got some kind of sale price. My first edition DMG was $24.95, back in 1983. I saved for months to buy it.
Well, that might be because I bought mine in '78 or '79. I'd gotten my first paycheck from my first real job, and blew it all gloriously. Bought the three hardcover D&D books... and an Atari 2600. Best paycheck I ever spent!
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Posted 23 February 2012 - 12:04 PM
I'll have to check the prices on my copies, I imagine that they still have the price stickers on them. I don't remember the DMG being over $20 though. Mine is a first edition purchased at the GenCon that it was released at.
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Posted 23 February 2012 - 01:32 PM
Anyone have a link to these online?
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Posted 23 February 2012 - 04:13 PM
They haven't been released yet. I think they're April or May time frame.
Wizards announced them around the time they announced D&D5 but really haven't shown them off yet.
Wizards announced them around the time they announced D&D5 but really haven't shown them off yet.
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Posted 24 February 2012 - 07:22 AM
You know, it occurs to me that Dallas, just south of Denton, has an enormous Half Price Books outlet. They have an entire section devoted to used games and RPGs, too...
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Posted 24 February 2012 - 08:54 AM
Here is the blurb from Wizards on them:
http://www.wizards.c...=dnd/4pr/201202
You have to scroll down a bit.
http://www.wizards.c...=dnd/4pr/201202
You have to scroll down a bit.
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