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Friday, 24 June 2022

Charity Shop Finds

 Hi!

Well we've been enjoying a weeks holiday from work and yesterday ventured up north for a day trip with the plan of visiting a rather good community bookshop in Kingussie where we've found lots of great books in the past. Sadly when we arrived via Glenshee, it was shut but when we nipped to the community hub, a very kind lady opened the shop for us to take a peek.

Amongst all the other bits and bobs we picked up, I happened across these lovelies:


Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay! I'd initially thought it was the original 1st edition but it's actually the 2nd edition produced by Hogshead Publishing in 1995 but I picked it up anyway as I've wanted to add a copy to my collection for a while and although I'm dabbling more with Sci-fi at present, there's loads of fascinating gubbins in this venerable tome. At £20 it was a bit more than what I'd usually be tempted to spend on a second hand book but I was too tempted to resist!

Next up I spotted these two for £3 each which was more of a bargain and as they're illustrated by Angus McBride, I couldn't say no!

The Barbarians will come in handy for my ongoing Dark Age project and the Medieval Warlords was too nice a book to leave on the shelf and will be added to the collection (which is already threatening to overtake the flat as it is...)

We're off to wander round town today but I doubt I'll find any more exciting oldschool goodies but one can never tell as they do crop up in the most unexpected places as I've previously found a copy of Ratspike in a charity shop for £1.25!

In other news, I've been getting more figures painted and building some small scenic odds and ends and will post an update tomorrow with some pictures and I'm waiting on some stands for my papertech convicts so I can try them out in the first of the Planet 28 skirmishes I've got planned so watch this space and until then, All the best!

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8 comments:

  1. Hobbs24 June 2022 at 12:12

    Cheers to the great finds!

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    1. SpacecowSmith27 June 2022 at 19:42

      Indeed! I'm now pondering having a bash at a solo Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay mini campaign but don't want to try too much so may delve into it later this year once I've got some figures painted up for it!

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  2. Sprinks24 June 2022 at 23:50

    Great finds, and even better when you can help out a charity while coming away with books like that.

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    1. SpacecowSmith27 June 2022 at 19:43

      I absolutely love a good charity bookshop and we ended up spending £30 in one and £58 in another and left with so many brilliant books, be they reference or just good reads that I'm now left with the problem of which to read first!

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  3. daveb25 June 2022 at 18:43

    I think it's still wfrp 1st edition. Just a later printing. Second Ed showed up mod 2000s. 1st Ed is much more a generic fantasy setting as opposed to the later much more thoroughly developed setting. Apparently the enemy within campaign created a lot of the setting and feel (it's essentially call of Cthulhu fantasy)

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    1. SpacecowSmith27 June 2022 at 19:45

      I did wonder as the shop also had a newer 3rd edition one which looked very different. This one looks pretty much identical to my friend from high schools copy that I used to peruse.

      Worryingly I now want to start picking up some of the old expansions but suspect they're going to be ruinously expensive these days!

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    2. daveb27 June 2022 at 19:53

      Certainly some of them are and will stay ruinously expensive (marienburg in particular). Cubicle 7 has released pdfs of all of them on drivethru, so maybe some deflation of the market?

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    3. SpacecowSmith8 July 2022 at 06:21

      I'll have to take a peek on Drivethru to see what they've got but I believe the newer edition of the game is somewhat different from the original but at least I'd have the setting and campaign!

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