Zhu Bajie
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OK this is not my listing! A copy of ST1 Up The Garden Path has gone up for sale on eBay. It's probably the rarest Dungeons & Dragons module ever published. It was produced by TSR UK for the 1986 National Garden Festival.
And the front cover is an awesome picture of a centaur by Jez Goodwin. The style and design sense is clearly his, but it also carries his JG triangle monogram, which kind of confirms it. I'd have loved to see him sculpt this guy, but anyway...
The listing correctly states that the last time one of these sold it went for $2,500 USD. The current sale has an upper limit at £3,250 GBP.
This raises all sorts of questions for me. The reason for the price is obvious - there are D&D collectors out there with very deep pockets, and the item is ultra-rare, and imho, a handsome object, although the interior illustrations are a little bland.
Are there any Goodwin collectors out there who need this to complete their collection? Does anyone have a copy? At what point do elf-games and toy-soldiers become serious collectables? How much is too much? Is just seeing a dirty jpeg of an eBay auction (or a dodgy pdf scan, or a rip-off reprint - both exist btw) enough to have 'seen' the art or does a minty original offer a different experience? Why doesn't Warhammer have any 2-3K collectables?
OK this is not my listing! A copy of ST1 Up The Garden Path has gone up for sale on eBay. It's probably the rarest Dungeons & Dragons module ever published. It was produced by TSR UK for the 1986 National Garden Festival.
And the front cover is an awesome picture of a centaur by Jez Goodwin. The style and design sense is clearly his, but it also carries his JG triangle monogram, which kind of confirms it. I'd have loved to see him sculpt this guy, but anyway...
The listing correctly states that the last time one of these sold it went for $2,500 USD. The current sale has an upper limit at £3,250 GBP.
This raises all sorts of questions for me. The reason for the price is obvious - there are D&D collectors out there with very deep pockets, and the item is ultra-rare, and imho, a handsome object, although the interior illustrations are a little bland.
Are there any Goodwin collectors out there who need this to complete their collection? Does anyone have a copy? At what point do elf-games and toy-soldiers become serious collectables? How much is too much? Is just seeing a dirty jpeg of an eBay auction (or a dodgy pdf scan, or a rip-off reprint - both exist btw) enough to have 'seen' the art or does a minty original offer a different experience? Why doesn't Warhammer have any 2-3K collectables?