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Post Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2017 1:40 am 
 

I got a copy of the 1999 module "The Displaced" made of loose pages with two staples on the side. The staple binding seems to match the scan in the AG Index here, but I'm concerned because the pages look like second-generation photocopies. My collection of five other AG modules are all saddle stitched and look clearer (though the b/w maps are almost always bad). Interestingly, my copy of A Simple Errand is saddle stitched, but the Acaeum's scan isn't. These modules fetch premium prices and I'm worried my Displaced may be counterfeit. Can anyone confirm?

  


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Post Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2017 2:41 pm 
 

I'm sorry to inform you, but your copy of the The Displaced is definitely a photocopy. The 71 Adventures from Series One through Series 8 should all be saddle-stiched.


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Post Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2017 5:55 pm 
 

For some of these adventures, there are the Adventurer's Guild versions (saddle-stitched, etc) but there are also the versions that TSR used at conventions, etc.  The convention used ones seemed to be photocopied and stapled but also didn't contain the formalism of the Adventurer's Guild versions; i.e. the didn't state "Adventurer's Guild scenario" or have the TSR logo or addresses, etc.

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Post Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2017 11:26 pm 
 

I would not agree with the way that you put this Mark. There was nothing stopping an individual running an Adventurer's Guild module at a convention from making a photocopy of the adventure and "running" it, but anything other than a saddle-stiched AG module should be considered a photocopy, and command the price of a photocopy; i.e. very little. In my opinion.

I do not know anything about informal copies that lack the TSR Logo or address but are still part of the Adventurer's Guild set of 71 modules run in the late 1990's. I am familiar with many adventurers that were run at conventions during that period that were NOT Adventurer's Guild adventures, but like LIKE Adventurer's Guild adventures. And yes, the Judges were given photocopied versions to run events. I would say that is why they don't sell for very much when they show up.


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