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I actually know the idiom, Nobby-W Nobby-W but in order not to explain my joke too much: just look at the front page of the Roleplaying Games sub-forum, you might find what I was actually referencing...:devil:
 
CRKrueger said:
That's the Marsupial Supplement for FATAL Supers.
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Oh, is that what it referred to!

After the discussion about idiomatic references, I was worried that it meant something else.

The only thing I could come up with was it was somehow a reference to scrotums...... (but I didn't have the balls to ask and show my ignorance)
 
Torn between this thread and "tell me about something good", but I decide to clear a lot of the deadweight from my collection-- sell it to Noble Knight for store credit, pick up some of the TSR back catalog that isn't POD yet-- and I discovered that I have all of the rulebooks from the Buck Rogers boxed set and I never before noticed, because I didn't have the box.

Except for that period of 3-4 months that I totally did have the box, and donated it to an auction.

So I've got the original core rules still, and I've got the retroclone coming. Guess I'm going to keep a few of the supplements, and only send in the adventure modules.
 
Dammit Viktor said:
Torn between this thread and "tell me about something good", but I decide to clear a lot of the deadweight from my collection-- sell it to Noble Knight for store credit, pick up some of the TSR back catalog that isn't POD yet-- and I discovered that I have all of the rulebooks from the Buck Rogers boxed set and I never before noticed, because I didn't have the box.

Except for that period of 3-4 months that I totally did have the box, and donated it to an auction.

So I've got the original core rules still, and I've got the retroclone coming. Guess I'm going to keep a few of the supplements, and only send in the adventure modules.
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So if I understand you correctly, you donated an empty box to an auction?!! Or did it have something in it, but not the expected Buck Rogers contents???
 
burbles said:
So if I understand you correctly, you donated an empty box to an auction?!! Or did it have something in it, but not the expected Buck Rogers contents???
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No. It was a complete vintage boxed set that I purchased, stored, and eventually donated without realizing that I already had a copy.
 
When I've got a deal without knowing it, it usually means I'd missed the deal:thumbsup:!
 
burbles said:
But, but I thought a Scotsman never wore anything under his kilt??!!

And if this is true, wht's the heck is the sporran for?
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Lady: I say, is anything worn under the kilt?
Spike Milligan: No madam, it's all in perfect working order.
 
Nobby-W said:
Lady: I say, is anything worn under the kilt?
Spike Milligan: No madam, it's all in perfect working order.
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Wait that statement comes from Spike Milligan?

Every Scotsman I've met quoted that line to me at some time or another as gospel truth!
 
Dammit Viktor said:
No. It was a complete vintage boxed set that I purchased, stored, and eventually donated without realizing that I already had a copy.
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PLOT TWIST: So, my friend who was supposed to physically take the boxed set to Gen Con... somehow didn't and has been holding onto it ever since.

I told her about the whole situation. So, she'll be bringing me my complete copy the next time she visits.
 
Dammit Viktor said:
So I've got the original core rules still, and I've got the retroclone coming. Guess I'm going to keep a few of the supplements, and only send in the adventure modules.
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sorry, you said Buck Rogers retroclone? can you elaborate?
 
The original Babylon Project RPG was quite expensive when it came out - £20-30 in the UK if I recall aright, for quite a slim book that was basically just chargen and combat. I found it on sale for £4 in my local bookshop.

I saved myself £4 by leaving it there for some other sucker.

Conversely, I paid £2 for both of the Mongoose Babylon 5 sourcebooks for Traveller when they spent about a year liquidating warehouse stock on eBay. Ye gods, I miss that £2...

Although in that sale I got the entire line of 2nd Age Glorantha books for £1 each. Also 4 armies for Battlefield Evolution at £1 per squad or vehicle - the rules were decent, the pre-painted minis were less terrible than they're often made out to be, and I still have the armies. Must have got £1000 worth of stuff for maybe £60.
 
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I worked in a FLGS for many years in Uni that did trade-ins for store credit. I got so many good RPGS books that way. I mean I paid for them and shit, but they never made the shelf. Nor did I price them high. :grin:
 
Atelerix said:
The original Babylon Project RPG was quite expensive when it came out - £20-30 in the UK if I recall aright, for quite a slim book that was basically just chargen and combat. I found it on sale for £4 in my local bookshop.

I saved myself £4 by leaving it there for some other sucker.

Conversely, I paid £2 for both of the Mongoose Babylon 5 sourcebooks for Traveller when they spent about a year liquidating warehouse stock on eBay. Ye gods, I miss that £2...

Although in that sale I got the entire line of 2nd Age Glorantha books for £1 each. Also 4 armies for Battlefield Evolution at £1 per squad or vehicle - the rules were decent, the pre-painted minis were less terrible than they're often made out to be, and I still have the armies. Must have got £1000 worth of stuff for maybe £60.
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Personally I quite like Babylon Project and probably paid full whack for it. It survived the purge of '99 and I don't regret that.
 
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