Use any HeroClix minis in your RPG?

[tetsujin28]

Does he refuse to play if you use the D&D Collectible miniatures? They are made in the same place (indeed, I saw someone claiming they used the same factory).

Yes. He won't play with any of them.

 

[megamania]

Does anyone know of a good place to check out all the Hero Clix and Mage Knight minis? I checked out the WizKids site but it's a pain to browse through them all (and there are SO many of them). Is there a thumbnail gallery of them online anywhere?

That's all I know of.


Wizkidz stuff works well. I also use Yugi-oh-go figures and many better toys.

 

[megamania]

What's not made my Chinese slave laborers these days?

total crap...... we REALLY need to get our heads out of our *** or ... oops can't talk political stuff.

 

[GlassJaw]

total crap...... we REALLY need to get our heads out of our *** or ... oops can't talk political stuff.

[OT]My comment wasn't meant to be politcal at all. It was definitely off-the-cuff but I work in an industry where almost everything is manufactured in China. Slave labor is too strong of a description but it's not too far off.[/OT]

Ok, I'm done. Topic dropped.

 

[Firebeetle]

Troll for a Half-Ogre PC

I use a Troll for a Half-ogre PC in one of my games. It's perfect.

Worldworks games produces 1 1/2" squares as an optional base for their products, so you can use Heroclix figures to your heart's content. The always use Heroclix mini's in their advertising.

I've also used a select few Yu-Gi-Oh miniatures to some success, although most are too weird to use for much.

</OT>As for Chinese slave labor, does anyone know exactly what factory/manufacturer? I'd like to check this one out. The Chinese are notorious about their labor prices, and I would hope Wizards would demand an ethical code of conduct from them. Wal-Mart (great force for social change it is, in China anyway) has done so to great effect.</OT>

 

[Romnipotent]

I can't use anything by WizKids, as one of my players will refuse to play, claiming that they're all made by slave labourers in China.

I'm serious.

Inform him that until he forks over cash for locally forged minis and painting goods that it's whats needed. Before he sits down, double check where his seat is made. Before he uses a pencil or pen, check where that too was made. Then tell him the true meaning of slave, and endentured and underpayed labour; discuss its differences. If I refused to play because a product assisting in gaming was made in china I could never game...
*starts checking manufacturers of light globes, plastic drinking containers, pens, markers, maps, erasers, locations of printers for books (even India has "slave" labour), and various other things used.*

Good thing I dont game with that guy, he'd try and kill me for being such a tyrant

 

[frankthedm]

One of My Players whose character is wearing living armor is using a Killer Croc fig with a ball, long chain and grappling hook weapon.[made from fatality's spear and hawkman's mace]

The Morlocks make wonderful orc mutates.

Indyclix abounds with minis ready for D&D, too many to list.
http://www.wizkidsgames.com/heroclix/indy/figuregallery.asp?releaseid=29

 

[wingsandsword]

Inform him that until he forks over cash for locally forged minis and painting goods that it's whats needed. Before he sits down, double check where his seat is made. Before he uses a pencil or pen, check where that too was made. Then tell him the true meaning of slave, and endentured and underpayed labour; discuss its differences. If I refused to play because a product assisting in gaming was made in china I could never game...

Thank you for saying it so I didn't have to.

Now, I appreciate having some principles about where you get your goods, and being aware of where things come from, but with where so many of our goods are imported from, and their local labor conditinos, if you refused to use anything made by any questionable labor, you'd have a hard time buying just about any routine consumer goods. I can understand buying American-made when possible, shopping at local stores and eating at local resturants instead of big chains (I do that whenever possible), and writing Congress and newspapers to raise concern and awareness for working conditions in countries we trade with, but refusing to play in an RPG because the minis used were made in China is foolish (especially if you check the labels on the clothes he's wearing, books, random household goods and so on he may have). Heck, I even refused to go see "War of the Worlds" because Tom Cruise was in it and I didn't want one penny of my money going to support Scientology (since he probably had a profit-sharing deal with the movie, and doubtless a share of his money would go to them), but not using minis already bought and paid for won't change a single cent on anybody's balance sheet.

It's sort of like the time when I was a kid and I had a distant cousin visit. She was an author for a greeting card company, who insulted and verbally assaulted me for our family having a live Christmas tree instead of an artificial tree. Someone who worked as a writer for a greeting card company is verbally lashing out at a 11 year old kid because their family is using an actual tree for Christmas instead of an artificial one. Fumbling for an answer to this ambush (at an otherwise happy Christmas), I said they were already cut down and not buying them wouldn't re-plant them. She said it is every consumers duty to reduce demand for tree products. Ever since then, I've never bought a single greeting card from her company

 

[Commonblade]

We use them for our MnM campaign. Eh, what can I say, they work.

 

[tetsujin28]

Inform him that until he forks over cash for locally forged minis and painting goods that it's whats needed.

That's what he does. Seriously. All of that.