Friday, April 7, 2017

Used Bookstore Goodness!

Once again the
used bookstore shopping pays off!I
absolutely love Half Price Books, a Dallas Texas based chain of used bookstores
that occasionally carries new releases at a discounted price.They have several locations here in
Ohio.I have indulged heavily over the
years in their paperback books with 30+ of the Horus Heresy novels, their used
magazine section with 50+ back issues of White Dwarf, untold OOP games like
WHFB, WHFRP, D&D, and as of late several new boxed games like Munchkin
Cthulhu and X-wing at a nice discount. One of them has
actually started carrying used miniatures.Not only does this place typically sell books for 50% of their original
price but they do coupon sales every few months that run a week starting with a
20% off one item on Monday and cumulating on Sunday with a 50% off one
item!And this last Sunday was one of those
days!Lately I’m been striking out with
the Horus Novels, they just aren’t getting them in like they used to, but I did
have some miniature luck with a box of Dust Tactics Heavy Red Command.

I picked up
for $5.00 for my someday Weird War II project.

I also managed to get a copy of In Her Majesty’s Name by Osprey for
$4.50. I'm excited to give this a read. Any comments on it's contents would be appreciated.

The biggest jackpot was at my
last stop where I stumbled upon a treasure trove of original run Traveller
books by Marc Miller.I cut my teeth on
the D&D blue boxed set as a pre-middle schooler and being a Sci-Fi fan
jumped on board the Traveler game shortly their after.I still have the original boxed set from
78 pictured here along with the newly acquired Book 0 An IntroductionTo

I loved the thought of some space
adventuring but quickly came to realization that the game was probably beyond
my attention span for my age.It was a
tremendous amount of work to get into it and I didn’t have a gaming group to
encourage me along so my interest petered out.I never bought more than the original boxed set with Books 1-3.I stumbled upon several of the original Books
and managed to pick Book 0 which is an introductory book from the deluxe boxed
set along with Books 4-Mercenary, 5-High Guard, and 6-Scouts.

Also Single Adventure 1 The Kinunir, Double Adventure 1 Mission on M and Double Adventure 2 Shadows. Now that my
collection is fleshed out some I’ll have to spend some time re-reading these
classics.

About Me

I'm a late 40's gamer that grew up in the golden age of miniatures and RPGs in the 80's. I cut my teeth on the likes of TSR's 2nd edition D&D and AD&D, SJG's pocket editions of OGRE and Car Wars and the glorious 3rd edition of Warhammer Fantasy Battle and Rogue Trader from GWS. Long live the games and hair metal of the 80's!