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Tszii
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Post Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2019 3:33 am 
 

Are these reprints? The covers are different than I found at RPG Geek.


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Post Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2019 7:48 pm 
 

I wonder whether they may in some way be related to the 2015 kickstarter project. There were only 5 issues in the run, but the KS added a sixth.
  

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Post Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2019 9:03 pm 
 

I haven't heard about a reprint of the individual issues---only the collected hardcover, which we carried at Black Blade for several years.  

The cover art for at least two of those issues is also lifted straight out of D&DG's Arthurian Mythos (Merlin and Morgan le Fay), and doesn't match the covers shown in the KS campaign @ Kickstarter

I also wrote to Tim Hutchings to confirm/deny.

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Post Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2019 9:10 pm 
 

I would not buy anything that seller sells for fear that they are not originals. Full disclosure: he banned me for reporting him to ebay.


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Post Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2019 9:38 pm 
 

stratochamp wrote in The Oracle Magazine:I would not buy anything that seller sells for fear that they are not originals. Full disclosure: he banned me for reporting him to ebay.


Second this. Lots of older stuff that looks pristine. I asked him once before if they were reprints. No reply


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Post Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2019 10:11 pm 
 

I wonder what the story is. I suppose they must be reprints given so many of those items look brand new. He's not charging collectible prices, maybe the $5-$12 is what the various items are worth as physical product, but you can't just print up someone else's work (if that's what happened)


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Post Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2019 7:40 pm 
 

Thunderdave, I assume what you mean is, one is not supposed to simply reprint other people's work. That does not stop some people from doing that anyway.


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Post Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2019 9:28 pm 
 

From a non-RPG listing by this seller: "2018 reprint by Sangraal Press of the classic (and extremely rare) 1950s New Age publication." I did not check every listing, but there seems to be a pattern whereby the non-RPG items are admittedly reprints (no mention of whether they're authorized or not), while the RPG items don't mention this.
  

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Post Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2019 1:21 pm 
 

Not that it matters much, but I have absolutely no doubts those are BS reprints.  He has a multitude of virtually perfect "collectors" items, all of which are in an apparently unlimited supply(just check his sold items).  

Now, if this was someone tied to being verified as the original distributor or creator of those items(like maybe he had a huge storage of them for decades, as a result) it might be in question, but this guy is pretty much the same guy that dndplayer from a decade ago was and still currently is: a unrepentant copyright thief, selling a litany of unauthorized copies of multiple items that he has absolutely no business selling.  I'd avoid all of that stuff like it was the plague.


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Post Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2019 4:30 pm 
 

I asked this guy years ago when he first started with Trav fanzine issues and he said they were reprints.


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Post Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2019 2:16 am 
 

illegal reprint.. he had done one for a small press d20 I reported him to the author about.. I had warned about this guy a long time ago.. I do think he has been buying some zines and then reprinting them

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