Topic: Shadow World collecting: a question about the SW Master Atlas 2nd Edition...

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I've been collection Shadow World books and I just had a question about the SW Master Atlas 2nd Edition for anyone who bought this book from new.

The map that comes with it is the 3' x 4' one that was in the 1E boxed set... but, when folded, it sticks out about half inch from the top and sides of the 2E book (see photo attached). So I was wondering how it was packaged when originally sold.

I can only think of 2 possibilities:

1) It was placed at the back of the book with a backing board and then the whole lot shrinkwrapped. This would mean the backing board or a loose sheet would need to have the back cover printed on it so you could still read the blurb and the barcode could be scanned.

2) It was placed in the middle of the book with a backing board and the whole lot was shrinkwrapped.

Did anyone out there buy this from new? As an RPG book collector, I'm curious to how it was packaged.

Thank you

[Majyk]

Great question.

Working for a comic and games shop, Back in the day, all maps did get shipped within the centre of the books/magazines.

…but agreed about a cardboard backing board(or two to sandwich the map between) needed to give protection to such flimsy and frail loot!  Otherwise, the 1st ed Boxed set had it on the top of the books within, loose.

Interested to officially know, also.

[cdcooley]

I bought it new, but that was a long time ago and my memory isn't quite that good. My copy of the book as a tendency to open between pages 146 and 147 with a noticeable gap there even when it's closed, so either I've looked up information about Navigators more than anything else or that's where the maps were inserted in my copy.

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Thanks for the replies, folks, and very sorry for my late reply on this... I've been busy collecting Rolemaster and Shadow World stuff.

I still don't know the answer to this question. I've picked up several copies of the SW Master Atlas 2E and only one of them has a little bump between the pages where a map could possibly have been inserted. The funny thing is though, that copy and its map came out of a box set that was called Shadow World Supreme. See photos attached.

Shadow World Supreme, in a rather dodgy way, uses the SW Master Atlas 1E box but has a sticker on the front saying: "Shadow World Supreme - Contains the following: Shadow World Master Atlas 2nd Edition, Sky Giants, Cyclops Vale, Nomads of the Nine Nations, Norek. Total Retail Value: $66.00. Suggested Retail Price: $40.00"

A "Shadow World Supreme" seems to suggest to me that there was a non-Supreme version. Could ICE have sold the SW Master Atlas 2E and its map in the old 1E boxed set? And that's how it got around the issue of the map being oversize?

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...Actually, I just found this photo on RPG Geek. Looks like a shrinkwrapped copy. And the map is poking out the side, also in the shrinkwrap. Looks like that was how it was done. Just the map shoved between the pages, I guess...