) BUT, the one thing I kept was my CnC PHB and M&T...figuring it would be the best one for running a pickup game should the need ever arise. Now my 14 yr old daughter has decided she's love to give it a go, and I plan to oblige her.
Right around the time I decided to give this a whirl, the Trolls ran their sale shortly after so I have a new PHB on the way as well as a Classic Monsters and the Airdhe M&T. Decided on them after going down to my local used book emporium, which traditionally had a whole shelf of 1st ed hardbacks, and found the shelves completely empty. Apparently the "Old school gaming" deal has taken hold here too. Yeah I can find the PDFs of all that stuff....but pdfs suck. I'm a book guy.
Anyway, in a dusty forgotten corner of that bookstore I found the old 2e Realms box set...which I'd owned before and had used well. This one was in kinda rough shape, but still solid, usable...and had all the maps. So I bought it and I'm currently cooking up some kind of homespun/FR setting that hopefully plays a little more like Wilderlands did. Basically some kind of huge cataclysm that pretty much exterminated everyone but left the geography and landmarks pretty much the same. Once-great cities are now demon patrolled ruins, petty kingdoms have cropped up here and there, Zhentil Keep is just a crater, there's an Orc kingdom in Shadowdale, and no Elminster or anyone else to deal with. I don't really know what 3 and 4e brought the Realms to in terms of story....but I'm gonna go with mine.
(and hey if you wanna contribute to the central idea...knock yourself out. 
)Anyway this is all and well, just thought I'd say hi. If there's any C&C gamers in London (Canada), gimme a shout and maybe we can hook up. I don't expect to find a lot, as my FLGS says he can't get any Trolls stuff from his distributors, so it aint' on the shelves...which is a bummer. But its worth a shout aut anyway.
Cheers
