the Great Clear-Out, Step One, a preview

[winterbadger]

OK, so I'm determined to start getting rid of some of the wargaming/roleplaying/general hobby material things that I've decided not to keep, which are cluttering up our project room/study. I'm hoping I may get a start on auctions this weekend, but to begin with I will post here, in case any of my friends want some of these things. Easier and happier to pass them on to folks I know...

I don't have a full list yet, but just from the boxes I began unpacking today, I can tell you what some of the topics to be touched on are:

assorted miniature wargames rules from the 1970s onward (full list later, but includes Harpoon, Command Decision, Napoleon's Battles, Johnny Reb)
The Courier back issues
The General back issues
Fire & Movement back issues
Wargamer's [sic] Digest back issues
Military Illustrated magazine back issues
Military Modeling magazine back issues
Middle Earth Role Playing rules and materials
Traveller RPG & materials (both original and Extra Crispy Mega-)
Runequest (no, sorry, not first edition...) RPG and materials
Earthdawn R&M
Star Wars RPG R&M
Pendragon R&M
Shadowrun R&M
Gamma World R&M
Star Trek RPG R&M
Twilight 2000 R&M
Fading Suns R&M
Call of Cthulhu R&M
Hong Kong Action Theater R&M
Warhammer RPG R&M
Tekumel RPG/Swords & Glory
Advanced D&D R&M

Also, just to amuse the perhaps-not-so-gaming part of my audience, I also have two issues of that classic 'Babylon 5: The Official Monthly Magazine' to dispose of and...wait for it... issues 55 through 62 of 'Tournaments Illustrated' (yes, parts of 1980-1982). These last, I confess, I'm almost tempted to keep; where else do you find articles on Elizabethan vocal music, medieval contraception, the invention of the binary code, the history of chess, treen drinking vessels, making mead, or the origin of postal services? But someoen would probably consult them more often than I...

Comments

[rolypolypony.livejournal.com]

Ohh, what Warhammer RPG stuff do you have?

[winterbadger]

I will post a list later tonight!

[rolypolypony.livejournal.com]

Awesome!

[winterbadger]

Alas, I fear I got your hopes up for only a small consignment. I have the 1990 Warhammer Companion/Grimoire, the 1987 Character Pack, and the 1986 The Enemy Within campaign pack. Interested?

[rolypolypony.livejournal.com]

Actually, I am interested in the 'The Enemy Within'!! What would you like for it?

[winterbadger]

$15 plus shipping? It's been played, so it's a bit worn. The handouts are all separated, but I'm pretty sure they're all there. The nifty map of the Western Empire is intact.

[rolypolypony.livejournal.com]

Sounds good to me! Hmm, do you take PayPal? Or I could send a check? Or something else?

[winterbadger]

Why don't you email me your address (I know I had it at one point for Xmas cards, but with the move and hard drive crash...) and then mail me a check when you get it? PayPal is OK, but then they take their % off the top to let me put it in the bank.

[rolypolypony.livejournal.com]

That sounds fine! I have now sent my address to your LJ email address - let me know if there's a different one you want me to send it to!

Yay!

[winterbadger]

Nope, that's just fine. I will send off the module.

[rolypolypony.livejournal.com]

Sweet! Thanks! If you can, will you reply to my email w/ your mailing address, in case for some reason your address isn't clear on the package? Then not only can I send the check, but also have your address on file for Christmas cards ;)

[winterbadger]

I found some additional stuff.

Current list:

Warhammer Companion
Apocrypha Now (another companion guide)
Warhammer Character Pack
Shadows Over Bogenhafen (original and reissued editions)
Death on the Reik (original edition missing module jacket)
Power Behind the Throne (HB)
Warhammer City (HB guide to Middenheim)
Dwarf Wars
Castle Drachenfels
The Dying of the Light

[redactrice.livejournal.com]

Good for you! You've carried some of that stuff around for ages!

I'm sure you'll miss bits of it from time to time, but on the whole, it feels so much better to be traveling through life a little lighter (as Brooke could write volumes about).

[winterbadger]

One thing I came across that I *will* be keeping is a copy of the NYT Letters to the Editor column from the day they ran the letter I sent them! :-)

[redactrice.livejournal.com]

Didn't that end up with us meeting some woman author who lived in Crystal City and having dinner with her (and her son?). I seem to recall there was Sara Lee cheesecake involved. But other than that, the memory is hazy.

[winterbadger]

Funny the bits we remember and the bits we don't. You are so right about that, but I hadn't remembered until you said it, and I couldn't tell you what it was she wanted. I just remember that they only printed about half of my letter! :-)

Speaking of things Revolutionary, the crazy woman whose B&B NJS and I stayed at in New Ashford was trying to find a DAR flag (she's a DAR chapter head, though I would never have guessed it) that she had stored somewhere, in order to arrange a 'DAR Honor Guard' for an ancient member's funeral. I suggested that if she couldn't find it (or even if she did), they might contact a local AWI reenacting group to provide an honor guard, if Revolutionary War heritage was very important tot he old lady. She seemed to think that was an odd and not terribly interesting idea, which made me sad, as I thought (a) it was rather clever and (b) there are probably plenty of Rev War folks out there who would think that was a neat thing to do! (How many times do you get a practical use for the "mourn arms" drill?)

[vikingcat.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's a lot of RPGs.

[winterbadger]

Enough for an entire Jaish al-Mahdi neighborhood committee!