Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fiendish Dire Weasel" data-source="post: 1425068" data-attributes="member: 12951">In order to make them really collectable you would have to make it so you just bought "DnD Book, Set 1" and it would come in a brown cover/sleeve type thing and you wouldn't know what you were getting until you bought it and opened it up. I think all this would do is piss some people off and game store owners would just open the books up and sell them for $5 more so you know what you're actually getting. See, CCGs are about competition, you want the best deck, which somtimes requires rare cards, so you can win games and tournaments. This same idea applies to the "Clicky-Minis" games. It is both the spirit of competition as well as collectability that drives the markets for the rare cards/minis. RPGs are about teamwork and cooperation far more than competition (I'm sure some groups or players are competative, they're still working to advance the group though for the most party). On top of that some cards/minis are supposed to be better than others, it's about competition, so thats Ok. RPGs should be about balance, classes and races and other aspects are supposed to be fair, that way everyone can do thier part and have fun. There would still be the issue of colectability but just the nature of RPGs it wouldn't be a strong enough pull for this type of thing. I don't let you use my Magic cards because I want to be able to beat you, why would I not let you use my D&D collectable books, I want you to make a strong character for our D&D game.WotC could release limited editions of D&D books, White Wolf did it, I know I have some nice fake-leather bound books with a nice slipcase and stuff for Revised Vampire and Mage, of which they make limited printings of. I don't think they could do some kind of collectable aspect to it, especially with random books or one version of s PrC being better than the other. I just don't think the idea would fly with the normal RPG crowd, I know I wouldn't buy them.</blockquote>

Verification