A friend of mine turned out to have a bunch of old SR books - some his own, some a buddy of his dumped on him years ago when moving - so I figured I'd make a list, and run it by the fre... fine people here, see if any of it is worth reading - or worth something, period. Here it is:

7103 Sprawl Sites
7104 Street Samurai Catalog
7105 Paranormal Animals of North America
7106 The Grimoire: The Manual of Practical Thaumaturgy, 14th Ed., 2050
7108 Rigger Black Book
7110 Shadowtech
7117 Bug City (with the UB and Missing Blood booklets)
7120 Awakenings: New Magic In 2057
7121 Threats
7123 The Underworld Sourcebook

7201 Seattle Sourcebook
7202 Native American Nations: Volume One
7203 London Sourcebook
7207 Native American Nations
7210 Tir Tairngire

7303 Dreamchipper
7304 Queen Euphoria
7314 A Killing Glare
7322 Super Tuesday
7323 Shadows of the Underworld

7901 Shadowrun 2nd Edition
7902 Contacts
7903 The Grimoire: The Manual of Practical Thaumaturgy, 15th Ed., 2053
7904 Virtual Realities
7905 SR Companion: Beyond the Shadows

sprawl sites docks you karma for killing people instead of cutting their hair. despite similar inanities, it's pretty good material.

shadowtech is the best SR tech book ever.

a lot of the rest are good reading for background info on SR>

nope, it's all worthless.... pm me and i will direct you to an apporiate Sr worthless destruction center.

i'd offer my, uh, "destruction" services, but i've already got most of those.

There's a better disposal centre down here in Australia. I'll pay for postage.

Paul's lying. they're all worthless. give them to me.

You should lay them all out in a pile somewhere, and roll around naked in that pile every night before bed (or AS a bed). This will cover you in Good SR Mojo, and protect you from all evil.

The Shadowrun books near and dear to my half dead heart you have are; 7106 The Grimoire: The Manual of Practical Thaumaturgy, 14th Ed., 2050 - Changed my life I tell you - and 7121 Threats - simply a fascinating read.

I'd kill (you or whoever you ask me to) for that Seattle Sourcebook.

Dammit, looks like this guy found "where a rock meets the sun." I KNEW there'd be some good stuff there!

Bug City, Threats, Underworld, Seattle, Tir Tairngire

By far the books I'd consider most useful. I have three of the above five (BC, Threats, TT), and I wouldn't dare give them up. Especially BC. (God damn is that one of the best written books ever. Between that and UB, it's a wonder nobody plays with bugs anymore. They can be fragging scary.)

So, I've got a nice pile of books too. Should I post it to make you all drool as well?

I stilll need a Denver Box to complete my Shadowrun and Earthdawn collections. Anyone got a spare one?

A couple months ago I bid on eBay on a rather large collection of old SR books, something like around 40 to 50 books. The top 2 or 3 bidders were resellers and snipers to boot, but the auction didn't reach the reserve. The person relisted the auction and this time I was determined not to let the resellers win, but I guess they decided the reserve was too high to win and turn a profit, so no one ran the auction up to my high bid.

The auction ended, I was the high bidder, but my bid didn't get pushed past the reserve. However, the seller offered it as a second chance sale for my stated bid amount. That bid was lower than the first time the auction ran, and I jumped at it, even though I had all but about 2 or 3.

7101-7109, 7112-7115, 7117-7119, 7121-7126
7201-7208
7301-7303, 7305-7308, 7312, 7331
7901-7903, 7905-7906, 7908-7909

I like writing fiction.

tisoz: My copy of the SR2 softcover seems to have gone MIA. Doing a new book for that is definitely something I'd be interested in. I'd also like Lone Star.

What new books do you want?

All those books are old and obsolete. I urge you to donate them to some Third World country (say, mine), where they'll be put to... uh, better use. I'll do the paperwork for you, maybe even pay the shipping.

On the lucky/unlucky find story, my mother-in-law gave away to some kid down the street (for free) her son's (my brother-in-law's) Warhammer 40K stuff when he was in the UK for six months and she got sick of storing it (and without consulting him). I'm not a player of 40K myself, but I understand that a 6,000 point army of Space Marine things, all the Space Marine books and every minature professionally painted is worth a bit?

And the painting. Don't forget the monstrous, monstrous, painting. To get a paint job done well is generally priced at at least the going rate of each model, if you pay someone else to do it. So just, to be easy, double the value.

That would have resulted in homicide if it would have been my mother giving away my 40k armies.

The funny thing was he gets back from the UK, and he hasn't been playing over there and has a new career, so he doesn't check on his 40K stuff for a while. Eventually some mates give him a call and see if he wants to do a game, so he says yes and goes around to his mum's place to pick it all up. I wasn't there at the time but I understand you could hear his yelling two streets away.

The annoying little sh*t who got the free minatures was confronted and claimed he didn't know what they were worth and had sold them to some second-hand store he couldn't remember. I saw the same little sh*t six months later with an impressive Space Marine army of disturbing familiarity at a convention. I go over and ask where he got it (because he doesn't know me) and he gives this story about tricking some idiot who was in the UK out of his miniatures.

I pass this on to my brother-in-law and he goes all quiet. My brother-in-law's a really good guy, but he's well over six foot tall and gets in a lot of pub brawls. I don't know what happened but the little sh*t's family moved a continent away within two months, although he didn't get the miniatures back.

Frag, as long as were doing drool lists, here are the ones I've got.

All of them.

All 1st ed.
All 2nd ed.
All 3rd ed.
All rule books.
All source books.
All adventure books.
All paperback books.
Both Denver and DMZ boxed sets.
The extra maps for DMZ.
The fragging art book.
Every thing published for Shadowrun that came though my local gaming store. I even got the classic SR logo T-shirt.

And most of it is worthless because it was carried and used.

The 1st ed. book is hardcover BTW.

OoOOooOoOoOoOOooh.

If you like SR then this is some really good stuff. I don't know about street value but for enjoyment.

7103 Sprawl Sites goofy in it's niavite at some points but good for color and ideas, or even a chuckle.

7104 Street Samurai Catalog fun for the pictures of the guns and the color commentary but hopelessly out of date for rules.

7105 Paranormal Animals of North America really good. just adapt the stats and it's first rate, stats, commentary and pictures.

7106 The Grimoire: The Manual of Practical Thaumaturgy, 14th Ed., 2050 probably the least usueful. a few good pictures and a little commentary but no color commentary and the rules were laberinythine then, now they are out of date and were much better cleaned up in later editions.

7108 Rigger Black Book the best car book in the whole game.color commentary and PICTURES of the cars, what a concept.

7110 Shadowtech I loved this book. I really gives you ideas who the bioware is supposed to be used and work, it even has diagrams of hwere in the body it goes. Later book may have given more toys and rules but this is the book that really explained it all. I still remember buying this and settling in at a local Mcdonalds to poor over it. If you can remember where you first read something it means it really stuff.

7117 Bug City (with the UB and Missing Blood booklets) UB is great product. the adventure has tough opostion and the short story is outstanding, but hey it's Nigel Findley. Bug City itself, less so. It's good if you want a dungeon crawl but we avoided Chicago after that.

7120 Awakenings: New Magic In 2057 tightly written the first real expansion of the magical world. considering I thought some of the later weres were a little loose, this is one of my favorites.

7121 Threats check please. ok not fair but it was a little to vague on stuff we didn't know and rehashed in details stuff from other books. plus i didn't like the art. They learned from mistakes though and threats 2 was better.

7123 The Underworld Sourcebook only useful if you want to be heavily into the underworld of mafia, Yakuza etc.

7201 Seattle Sourcebook Probably one of my favorite all time SB's in ANY game I've played. Unlike later versions this concentrated on the City as a place people live and have fun, not just a home for corps to run against.

7202 Native American Nations: Volume Onethe adventure is a little off but the discriptions of the different NAN's is really good. yes it has been replaced with Shadows of NA but this is the base that built on.

7203 London Sourcebook Another GREAT SB. I lived in London for 6 months in college and this ,like the first Seattle SB really focused on the City more than runs.

7207 Native American Nations bad travel stuff, they're all the same, but a good run.

7210 Tir TairngireI have this book. I read this book. It really doesn't make much of an impression on me. SoNA does a better job with this one.

7303 Dreamchipper Kind of silly and too little time for each of 3 parts but good ideas.

7304 Queen Euphoria A classic.

7314 A Killing Glare Was this the one with the Urban Brawl team? This might be one of the rare ones I tossed, and I keep everything. If it's the one i'm thinking of there were so many plot hole I couldn't even salvage it for color commentary and ideas. (as I did Elven Fire)


7322 Super Tuesday
7323 Shadows of the Underworld These two have good short runs. Not as detailed as the earlier book that had one adventure inside the lines, but not bad.

7901 Shadowrun 2nd Edition
7902 Contacts Good for ideas but really a little weak.

7903 The Grimoire: The Manual of Practical Thaumaturgy, 15th Ed., 2053a better discription of higher magic but not much in the way of color commentary. outdated now.

7904 Virtual Realities[/B] the 1st Ed had Good story this is kind of weak by comparrison.

7905 SR Companion: Beyond the Shadows The first ed was the Grand mother of the SOTA's. I felt a little cheated by this as there was little new from the first one.

I have
All first (all the books that I know of anyway both hard and soft main books)

All second (all the books that I know of anyway both hard and soft main books)

Most of third (sorry I slacked off for a bit)

Most of fourth (hehe no limited oh well)

Don't have the art book

Have all of shadowland

None of Kage (which sucks I really wanted them)

Yes to both boxed sets

No on magnas (didn't know there were any) and any clothing

Alas no poster either (but I know someone who does have one that count? lol)

Finally both console games and they both work heck played the sega one just last week.

Don't play the snes one much as it really is bad, hehe found that with a game genie one can have 66 on all physical stats now that is an adept lol.

Anywho that is my list of SR oh and one of the hardcover 2nd's is signed if someone has all the kage issues and is willing to sell at a good price (I AM POOR!!!!) I would love to hear from ya in a pm.

RunnerPaul's sig and the SR geek code in general prompted me to pull down my BABY today and see what number of 1000 I have. It isn't numbered. Does this make it rare/more valuable or is it a clone or what?

So, you have the proper endpaper flyleaf, followed by the right first page. I'll assume that the cover and the foil stamping also pass inspection, because if they hadn't you would have noticed when you first bought the thing. Can you describe the headband of the book? (It's the cloth part of the binding that the pages are glued to, right at the ends of the spine)

The fact that there was a guy who was auctioning off several of these is interesting at first blush, but to be honest, the cost of putting together a set of counterfits that'd be convincing enough to fool at least one buyer for several years would be prohibitive. For what they were selling for on Ebay at the time, the profit margin would be too narrow.

Thast and the fact there is not way he could know if it would or would not become a collectors piece. The un-numbered page sounds odd, unless the numbers wwere done in lead and faded with time. check the page for an impression.

You must bash his skull in and devour the sweet filling inside to give you super powers.

Er... I mean, that's still a damn impressive collection.

I've got every published Shadowrun book save for Universal Brotherhood, seven issues of that Shadowland official-unofficial magazine supplement, the Denver and DMZ boxed sets, a promo poster for Shadowrun 3rd Edition, and the high-quality/thickness rollable poster depicting the cover of the Neo-Anarchist's Guide to Real Life that was the second prize in the mail-in sweepstakes surrounding the release of the Shadowrun game for the SNES. I've also got, somewhere around here, a box full of (mostly unpainted) Shadowrun miniatures.