CGC-certified Dungeons & Dragons RPG Guides Offered by Heritage Auctions
Posted on 7/24/2024
Get ready to roll for initiative, as Heritage Auctions’ Dungeons & Dragons and Roleplaying Games Showcase Auction on August 15, 2024, is about to cast a spell on collectors everywhere with many exciting guides and modules authenticated and graded by Certified Guaranty Company® (CGC®).
Dungeons and Dragons, the first and most famous modern role-playing game, was introduced by Tactical Studies Rules (TSR) in the 1970s, and role-playing games (RPGs) quickly took off, expanding into a multi-million-dollar industry. RPGs deeply influenced the burgeoning video game market and spawned movies, cartoons, comic books and novels over subsequent decades. Today, RPGs are more popular than ever, having evolved into a networked global fandom that connects through online gaming.
A central component of an RPG is called a module (or, more recently, an adventure), which serves as a guide for managing player knowledge and activities during gameplay. In their most popular form, modules were pre-packaged book sets that contain plots or stories, maps, site inventories, creature descriptions and statistics, visual aids and rules for evaluating events and player actions. These modules came shrink-wrapped from the factory because of the loose contents inside, eventually shifting to non-shrink-wrapped editions that were glued or stapled together.
CGC announced in May 2024 that it would begin grading submissions of sealed RPG Guides and Modules.
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Included in this auction is an Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Module #G1-2-3 graded CGC 9.4 (lot 81037), and an Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Module #S1 (sixth printing) graded CGC 9.4 (lot 81035). Both were published by TSR in 1981.
Other CGC-certified RPG books in this auction include:
- an Advanced D&D: Module Planescape Fires of Dis #nn graded CGC 9.2 (lot 81218)
- an Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Module #I6 graded CGC 9.2 (lot 81062)
- an Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Module #RS1 graded CGC 9.6 (lot 81107)
- an Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Module #S2 graded CGC 9.4 (lot 81032)
- a Dungeons & Dragons: Game Accessory Gazetteer #GAZ11 graded CGC 9.0 (lot 81146)
- a Dungeons & Dragons: Module #B12 graded CGC 8.0 (lot 81148)
- a Dungeons & Dragons: Module #CM9 graded CGC 9.6 (lot 81132)
- a Dungeons & Dragons: Module #DA1 graded CGC 9.6 (lot 81108)
- a Dungeons & Dragons: Module #IM3 graded CGC 9.2 (lot 81126)
- a Dungeons & Dragons Players Accessory Module #AC8 graded CGC 9.0 (lot 81105)
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