Friday, July 3, 2015

Zach H ...curious as to your knowledge on the Silver Anniversary re-print of the Holmes rulebook...I of course still...

Zach H ...curious as to your knowledge on the Silver Anniversary re-print of the Holmes rulebook...I of course still have my original box set from my younger days and a few other copies of the original rulebook...I remember reading somewhere this re-print had some errors in it?..was thinking about buying one to just add to my collection. thanks!
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  1. Bryan ManahanJuly 3, 2015 at 6:09 AM

    From The Acaeum:

    "Anniversary (1999):  Rulebook print only.  Has the TSR Silver logo in the bottom left corner.  Identical in all other respects to the Fifth print.  This print was available only within the limited-edition Silver Anniversary Collector's Set released by TSR in 1999."

    https://www.acaeum.com/ddindexes/setpages/basic.html

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  2. Tony TJuly 3, 2015 at 6:15 AM

    Bryan Manahan thanks, i had already seen that.

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  3. Zenopus ArchivesJuly 4, 2015 at 8:13 AM

    Tony T I have just the post for you! http://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/2011/11/silver-anniversary-holmes-set.html

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  4. Bryan ManahanJuly 4, 2015 at 9:00 AM

    "I don't know why TSR/WOTC chose to reprint a 2nd edition version in the SA set instead of a later printing ..."

    I suspect that WotC reprinted what they had on hand at the time that was good enough quality to make a "plate" for printing.  This also might account for the Frankenstein B2 if it were comprised of the best bits of two or three different copies of "on hand" B2 by a handful of people who were not as aware of all the iterations and differences.

    If you look through the 1st Edition premium reprints, the "use what we have in hand" concept also seems to be the case, as they chose later printings to re-typeset, rather than using the "newest". (I suspect that WotC scanned the pages of the books, then did OCR and text cleanup to create them.)

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  5. Tony TJuly 4, 2015 at 9:57 AM

    thanks much Zach H ...interesting read, hadn't seen this before..still can't find my other "resource" where I read about the problems.

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  6. Eric NorredJuly 8, 2015 at 1:42 AM

    Grr. Zach H , didn't I send you some info on my copy of the Silver Anniversary edition years back. It being an iteration of the so-called 'second printing' or something. Something about the back cover being different from other printings of the 'second printing'. Ugh. I don't recall exactly. I'll have to drag it back out I s'pose. But, yeah, the final printing would have been the thing to go to for them to utilize as the master for the SA reprint...

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  7. Eric NorredJuly 8, 2015 at 1:46 AM

    Oh. Oops. Zach H  I see that you referenced my mention of the print years back on DF and your blog. Wow. How time flies. Goodness. Has it really been over four freakin' years since that exchange?!? Whoa. lol :D

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