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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 4517332" data-attributes="member: 2067">Actually, the CCG element I was thinking of was the &quot;collectability&quot; of powers.Before, powers were always purchased in sort of &quot;all-at-once&quot; sourcebooks, usually with overreaching themes or classes or whatnot. You might call these pre-constructed &quot;decks&quot; of powers. You might use a power, but you would get 30 of them at once, many related somehow. Everyone who bought the book got the same thing, and while some people might not get a particular book, it was fairly easy to keep up with the &quot;collectible&quot; aspect of the game. One purchase per month in 3e basically had you covered.Now, you get, what, 3 powers that no one else does? For the price of some plastic?Now, you have created &quot;elite&quot;&nbsp; D&amp;D players who splurge on minis in order to collect the powers (I'd be surprised if people played 3 different characters in a given year). &quot;Gotta Catch 'em All!&quot; applies to this nature of hunting down individual powers in order to collect them. &quot;Wow! My character is a swashbucker! I already have the Martial Power book with the swashbuckler build, but now this new pack of minis has a new swashbuckler piece of plastic with a new swashbuckler power! GOTTA CATCH 'EM ALL!&quot;I dunno, that might be incoherent, I'm sick. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 4517332, member: 2067"] Actually, the CCG element I was thinking of was the "collectability" of powers. Before, powers were always purchased in sort of "all-at-once" sourcebooks, usually with overreaching themes or classes or whatnot. You might call these pre-constructed "decks" of powers. You might use a power, but you would get 30 of them at once, many related somehow. Everyone who bought the book got the same thing, and while some people might not get a particular book, it was fairly easy to keep up with the "collectible" aspect of the game. One purchase per month in 3e basically had you covered. Now, you get, what, 3 powers that no one else does? For the price of some plastic? Now, you have created "elite" D&D players who splurge on minis in order to collect the powers (I'd be surprised if people played 3 different characters in a given year). "Gotta Catch 'em All!" applies to this nature of hunting down individual powers in order to collect them. "Wow! My character is a swashbucker! I already have the Martial Power book with the swashbuckler build, but now this new pack of minis has a new swashbuckler piece of plastic with a new swashbuckler power! GOTTA CATCH 'EM ALL!" I dunno, that might be incoherent, I'm sick. ;) [/QUOTE]

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