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<blockquote data-quote="CinnamonPixie" data-source="post: 4124918" data-attributes="member: 59187"><p><span style="color: Pink">This doesn't equate to a good thing for the gamers though. Imagine if your wizard has attained one of these rare powers, do you (as a player) want to have to buy dozens upon dozens (or more) randomly assorted $8 "booster packs" of powers cards until you get the ONE CARD you really want/need - or often just as expensive and just as bad, but generally a lot faster; do you want to have to be forced to pay much higher than the price of the card from a booster or card set to get the "rare" card b/c some price guide marks it as more valuable just because its collectible?! </span></p><p><span style="color: Pink"></span></p><p><span style="color: Pink">I think that's a large part of why D&D Miniatures aren't doing quite so well for the average gamer (not counting the minis gamer, naturally). To get a horde of skeletons (how else do you ever really see skeletons - and various other "en masse" monsters- anyway?) you have to buy them at more than $1.00 a piece (b/c they're in an older, no longer produced, set) or buy several "boosters" of the set(s) they were released in - often at much higher than originally marked prices b/c they're no longer made - and they're tagged as "collectibles" so they limit the numbers of them made and jack the price up. This HURTS gamers that just want to use them for their D&D games - as they don't give a hoot about collecting them as collectibles. A nice tagged "unlimited release" of all the most common things (and even some of the less common ones - if anything miniatures companies have proven that the more variety in figures you have for players and GM's to choose from to represent characters, monsters, NPC',s etc the better!- then D&D minis players and collectors would have their limited series and be happy and RPG table-top gamers could get what they want cheaply and still line the ridiculously wealthy pockets of the folks at WotC and Hasbro and everyone would be happy. </span></p><p><span style="color: Pink"></span></p><p><span style="color: Pink">But to suggest that you'd WANT a limited or "rare" card to represent your character's powers is silly... It'd take the strongest (and IMO the ONLY real) tangible advantage/benefit of the cards in the first place - the convenience of them. If they are hard or overly expensive to get due to some "rare collectible" status they're no longer convenient and no longer just a simple add-on for the player -they're in investment into a collectible aside from their game that's pseudo-related at best.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CinnamonPixie, post: 4124918, member: 59187"] [COLOR=Pink]This doesn't equate to a good thing for the gamers though. Imagine if your wizard has attained one of these rare powers, do you (as a player) want to have to buy dozens upon dozens (or more) randomly assorted $8 "booster packs" of powers cards until you get the ONE CARD you really want/need - or often just as expensive and just as bad, but generally a lot faster; do you want to have to be forced to pay much higher than the price of the card from a booster or card set to get the "rare" card b/c some price guide marks it as more valuable just because its collectible?! I think that's a large part of why D&D Miniatures aren't doing quite so well for the average gamer (not counting the minis gamer, naturally). To get a horde of skeletons (how else do you ever really see skeletons - and various other "en masse" monsters- anyway?) you have to buy them at more than $1.00 a piece (b/c they're in an older, no longer produced, set) or buy several "boosters" of the set(s) they were released in - often at much higher than originally marked prices b/c they're no longer made - and they're tagged as "collectibles" so they limit the numbers of them made and jack the price up. This HURTS gamers that just want to use them for their D&D games - as they don't give a hoot about collecting them as collectibles. A nice tagged "unlimited release" of all the most common things (and even some of the less common ones - if anything miniatures companies have proven that the more variety in figures you have for players and GM's to choose from to represent characters, monsters, NPC',s etc the better!- then D&D minis players and collectors would have their limited series and be happy and RPG table-top gamers could get what they want cheaply and still line the ridiculously wealthy pockets of the folks at WotC and Hasbro and everyone would be happy. But to suggest that you'd WANT a limited or "rare" card to represent your character's powers is silly... It'd take the strongest (and IMO the ONLY real) tangible advantage/benefit of the cards in the first place - the convenience of them. If they are hard or overly expensive to get due to some "rare collectible" status they're no longer convenient and no longer just a simple add-on for the player -they're in investment into a collectible aside from their game that's pseudo-related at best.[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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