Midnight & OD

[Old Dwarf]

It all started in complete innocence,FFG announced
it had a new Game in the works called Runewars.
& from there things began to snowball.

It was a 200+ fig game with modular tiles ,4 Fractions +
Neutrals.Build your territory,raise armies ,Heroes go
on Quest.In short the type of thing I'm a sucker for,so
it's set in the FFG world of Runebound.

Runebound,popular FFG Game with 4 Major Expansions
that I never really checked out ,actually it has a ton
of small Card Deck expansions so I thought it was a CCG
& never bothered further.However,with Runewars as a
motivator & check out Runebound & saw it was an
Adventure like ME Quest.I decided to pick it up along
with a few card deck expansions thinking it would be
fun to play & possibly provide some background to
Runewars.It turned out to be a great Solo Game & BGG
provided some interesting variants.

So far so good but alas now I'm rather hooked on the
Game & begin to check out it's Big Box Expansions.
I discover Midnight the 1st Expansion,it's not set
in the Runebound world like the base game & other expansions-no it's set in the world of the Midnight RPG.

Midnight is set in a world where Evil has won & the Heroes
are just trying to stave off the final triumph of the shadow.
It's somewhat Horror meets Fantasy,Tolkien & HPL
together at last.I want this!Problem it's OoP & with
no chance of it being reissued.But I want this!!!

I check out the people that want to Trade their copy on BGG,
but I either don't have what they want or even if I do
they won't trade.Some guy in S.Korea has one for sale
(like that's gonna to happen)Then Troll & Toad the
company I love to hate offers one up for $104 & then on ebay
for $114- hey I want this but I don't need this!

Then suddenly a copy comes up on Ebay with no reserve
& only 1 bidder trying to low ball.I jump on it for $19.& put in
a reserve bid going up to the original price of the Game.
It's a 5 day auction & on the 3rd day I get out bid.So
I rebid & set a new max at $55.The 5th day (the auction is up at
9:30PM) a new push gets the cost up to $46.So from about 8PM
on I watch the auction count down figuring in the last
minute their gonna try again..they didn't & I WON!Probably
what helped was that another copy of the game still
in shrink was offered about a day later so there were
other options besides the copy I was bidding on.
That copy went the next day for $30 more than I
paid for mine.

My copy arrived Yesterday & its now on the Table-oh
to better understand the Midnight background I
found a copy of the RPG 1st edition cheap & a couple
of the source books.No wounder I can't retire.

So this is my Thankgiving Gaming.

OD