Hi Allan,

I too would be interested in any info on these products. I have three different printings of Tractics: (2)Wood-Grain Sets, and a white box with the wizard logo. I know there is at least 1 other white box printing by TSR out there. The oldest printing that I have has two books by Guidon and one by TSR. Does anyone have any info on the Guidon editions?

Someplace I've got a white box of Tractics.  



Anyone have the original die that came in it, or did it not have one?



Not sure what edition it is or where it is exactly.



Contacted EGG a few years ago asking about it and he gave me some eratta for it in an email.  The message was lost in a harddrive crash last year.

Just to give you an idea of what we're talking about here -- if you check the TSR Stock List (in the Library), you'll quickly see that probably only 1/5 of the items on that list are covered on this site.  Maybe less.  The Acaeum currently weighs in at about 120 megs, which, if you consider that the bulk of the site is scans (around 100 megs worth), means that to cover everything TSR would require in the neighborhood of 500 megabytes of space.



Not that space is the biggest problem -- the biggest problem is time.  Yes, it's only little ol' me slaving away on this end.  Because of real-world constraints, I'm not able to put the time into the site that I used to.  Frankly, I'm not even able to keep up with the current flow of submissions.  Just wait for this next update -- several of you sent submissions six months ago, and I still haven't gotten around to 'em yet.



I've actually been curious as to why nobody else has taken up the gauntlet and put up their own site.  There's several venues still wide open -- non-D&D TSR being just one.  There's also Judges Guild (the Judges Guild Codex is a bit of a mess, and it hasn't been updated in over two years now, so I'd say it was dead in the water).  Etcetera.



While I think it'd be nice from a completist's point-of-view to have everything TSR under one roof, I think it's unrealistic.  Besides the time requirement (and from long experience, many people volunteer to help but don't often come through in the clutch...), I think the challenges of maintaining a navigable web structure for something so large would be a problem.  As evidenced by a few recent posts, many people probably don't know every nook and cranny of this site, let alone one that was five times bigger (for that matter, I often get lost myself, especially when trying to figure out every hyperlink reference to a Basic Set, etc).



Just my long-winded two cents.  The short of it:  it can't be done on this website.  But for those with the motivation to bite off a small chunk of the material remaining out there, I think the opportunity is golden.  I'd caution anybody about trying to tackle it all, however.



Foul

Ralf Toth wrote:Scott, one possible solution for the problems you mention would be to generate the contents (item descriptions) dynamically from a database.

I was thnking (Haha) of doing this as well, if makes it so much easier to put new items up, instead of 1 page per item and the repetive html code you have to generate.... I usually put my pages up on free sites, but every time I have to move (either do to too many pop ups being introduced, the provider going under, i have to change the code on 100 odd pages, not exciting on my end for sure) actually my last one looks like it has just erased me as I didn't update often enough, I'm thinking of just buying a domain name and getting it over with...



Brette:)

How about someone picks a topic (Planescape for instance) puts together a web using the Acaeum as a template and then submit it to the Acaeum.  That way the Acaeum guys only have to review it and not generate it from scratch.

While I agree with the idea of having it all under one roof, I think it should be devoid of prices. Auction sale prices would be fine, but estimated values would just cause some of the same problems we see now: "Well, the Acaeum says it is worth $970,000".

I can probably help with some Tractics information.  I've got a few of the old Guidon sets.  I'll try to put in some time to find the differences in the printings, they are quite similar.  I have one set , maybe the oldest, that  has a misprinted page which is printed upside down.

I have collected a lot of the other TSR non-D&D games and would be happy to share information.  I hate to say it, but I don't have the savvy to create a web page.