Baroque and Other eBay "Finds"

[BobMcLain]

Baroque was a little-known PBM game run briefly in 1986 by Game Anvil.

For a mere $150, you can have a copy of the rules (replete with "staple rust"), thanks to a delusional seller on eBay:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Game-Anvil-Baroq...0559466587

This seller has a few other PBM items up for auction at equally inflated prices. Such as: the 1984 edition of the Illuminati rulebook (no staple rust, this time!) for $50. I'll sell you a photocopy of mine for $49.99.

But that ain't nothing compared to the $2000 he wants for Up the Garden Path, an "adventure module" from TSR published in 1986.

If you buy it, I think you'll have been led *down* the garden path...

-- Bob McLain

[GrimFinger]

My own interest in old PBM game materials is simply reading and re-reading them. I'm no collector of such items, though I'm sure that some are.

People collect all sorts of stuff, and at times, they ask outrageous prices for them.

[Nazareth]

Sell my copy of Baroque for half that! Decent game design, but never really took off. Not really sure why. It had a very short life, maybe a year or so. The game was good enough to compete with most of what was out there. Otto Schmidt was the designer and gm. Played a couple games with him b/4 he got into game design. After Baroque went under I lost track of Mr. Schmidt.