dialNforNinja Posted June 30, 2019 Report Share Posted June 30, 2019 Of course, for Hero we buy the box separately from a third party, though they have to call it a "bookshelf" for trademark reasons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Stanfield Posted June 30, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2019 10 hours ago, Duke Bushido said: Oh: almost forgot! One was a bootleg (box and all!) I picked up as "new in box!" from -- -well, let's say a famous and reputable online vendor of out-of-print game material. I'm not trying to call them out because I think they were suckered, too. It was one of the greyscale covers (easiest to bootleg) and was created from a _beautiful_ scan or a new PDF someone put a lot of work into. At any rate, the give away was that none of the originals were printed in _TONER_! The map was on white stock, and the dice were casino size. The Viper's Nest scenario was on too-high-quality paper, and the catalogue insert was from the wrong year (though it even included the marketing card; nice touch, that. But it wasn't on card stock: it was on regular paper). 5 hours ago, Scott Ruggels said: Well I seem to have two sets of Justice Inc in boxes . One unopened, the other used and abused. Yeah I miss boxes as well. Uh oh. I have a shrink-wrapped box of Justice Inc., and now I'm wondering if it's legit. But I'm not going to open it to find out! But in all honesty, I only bought it because it was paired with Aaron Allston's Lands of Mystery, which I had been trying to get but was impossible to find. That book was going for around $90 at the time (I think) if I could find one. This particular pairing showed up for much, much less, and I got both! eBay is such a funny place. And I found a bunch of HERO stuff yesterday that has been out of print for a long time, all new, and all hardcover, so I ordered new copies only to discover in one of the reviews that they were actually paper copies of PODs someone was inserting into the market. I canceled the 6e1/6e2 books, since I already have them, but went ahead and got the 6e Champions since I was going to get a POD anyway. But it seems awfully shady for Amazon to list something as hardcover and find out it's a black-and-white reprint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted June 30, 2019 Report Share Posted June 30, 2019 Agreed. Bugs me to find a listing of "softcover" and find out it's a POD. Honestly, it bugs me that PODs are black and white, somehow almost (_almost_ is still a lot in this case) as much as it rankled me the 5e PDFs were coverless and black and white. Us poor people like the pretty colors, too, ya know.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted June 30, 2019 Report Share Posted June 30, 2019 You never know, Scott-- you might have one copy of each printing. The first printing cover art for the campaign book featured smaller characters and the back cover had Peterson and Alston as characters dead-center. The second printing used a different artist and featured larger characters (making the "real" characters more easily identifiable: I always thought the first printing cover art was more concerned with skirting possible legal issues ). Can't tell you about the rules book, though. For some reason, the Justice Inc I have (picked up at a yard sale) had one of each campaign book in it. Kind of neat to see side by side. And while we're at it: Chalk me up for missing boxes: nothing like a little box for organization. And of course, making for thinner rules books, as "rules" and "theme" could be split into two books. you could toss in a couple of folders for NPCs, villains, what-have-you... And a map! It was so much easier to provide maps when you had a box-- or even a saddle-stiched rules book (the way Autoduel Champions did it). But this is getting me nowhere, so.... Brian Stanfield 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Stanfield Posted June 30, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2019 1 hour ago, Duke Bushido said: Agreed. Bugs me to find a listing of "softcover" and find out it's a POD. Honestly, it bugs me that PODs are black and white, somehow almost (_almost_ is still a lot in this case) as much as it rankled me the 5e PDFs were coverless and black and white. Us poor people like the pretty colors, too, ya know.... The thing that irks me is that it is listed as "hardcover," and only after the order shipped did I discover that it's probably going to be paper. I'd rather just purchase it from DriveThruRPG so HERO at least gets some of the revenue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Stanfield Posted June 30, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2019 1 hour ago, Duke Bushido said: And while we're at it: Chalk me up for missing boxes: nothing like a little box for organization. And of course, making for thinner rules books, as "rules" and "theme" could be split into two books. you could toss in a couple of folders for NPCs, villains, what-have-you... And a map! It was so much easier to provide maps when you had a box-- or even a saddle-stiched rules book (the way Autoduel Champions did it). But this is getting me nowhere, so.... When I take over the world, my first plan is to buy DOJ and start producing boxes of the different HERO games again! And lots of adventures. Amorkca, Chris Goodwin and Duke Bushido 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher R Taylor Posted July 1, 2019 Report Share Posted July 1, 2019 I would so very much love to put out a boxed set of Jolrhos Campaign books (scenario, hero dice, character sheets, player's book, GM's book, map) but it costs real money to set that up for very uncertain sales Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Stanfield Posted July 1, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 1, 2019 2 hours ago, Christopher R Taylor said: I would so very much love to put out a boxed set of Jolrhos Campaign books (scenario, hero dice, character sheets, player's book, GM's book, map) but it costs real money to set that up for very uncertain sales I’ll add that to my to-do list when I take over the world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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