30 Days of DC Meme: Day Nineteen
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I am not a gamer. Not in the video games sense or the board games sense or the table-top RPG sense. The only card game I play consistently is one I invented.
That said, the stupid amount of Heroclix figures I've collected over the past four years sort of speak for themselves. I have all the Robins! I have all the Secret Six characters that exist in Heroclix format (except Mad Hatter)! I have most of the JLI! I have so many of these things, my childhood dollhouse is currently full of them. Every time there is a new DC set I pick through it for the characters that a) I like and b) are in the under-five-dollar range, because spending five bucks or more on a piece of plastic that tiny hurts me in the soul.
I love Heroclix because of the ridiculous variety of characters. I haven't played in literally years, but when I did I loved the way each figure's abilities were calculated to mesh with their canon powers/skillset. I love teambuilding, even though I am pretty shit at the strategy and tend to go with stupid themes like "all the redheads", "people who were in that one book nobody liked but me", or "as many blonde teenage characters as I can find". Or I'd do teams based on the characters' canon relationships, which is not always the best of strategies, it turns out! (I understand that under the current rules you do in fact get important bonuses when your whole team share keywords? I only ever owned the "DC: Icons" ruleset, which is incredibly out of date...)
At this point mostly I love collecting the figures. That's what drew me to Heroclix originally-- The first figure I bought was Spoiler, during the time when she was dead and it seemed like everyone but Girl-Wonder.org members and sometimes Cass had forgotten she had ever existed. There was no sign yet that she'd be coming back, and definitely not that she'd ever get her own series and her own action figure (Out next week! Buying that so hard.). I thought I would never get to own Steph merchandise, but there she was, in tiny plastic. Now, I own my fair share of Heroclix Batmen and Wonder Women, don't get me wrong, but the real joy is in the hard-or-impossible-to-find-proper-toys-of characters like Oracle or Red Hood or Scandal Savage or Superboy during the time the name was contested or or or...
I'm just waiting for them to release a Ragdoll and a Jeannette. And hopefully a Black Alice. Then, this game will be perfect. I might even consider playing again, if I could play as the Secret Six... (Let's face it, I would play any game that allowed playing as the Secret Six.)
I am not a gamer. Not in the video games sense or the board games sense or the table-top RPG sense. The only card game I play consistently is one I invented.
That said, the stupid amount of Heroclix figures I've collected over the past four years sort of speak for themselves. I have all the Robins! I have all the Secret Six characters that exist in Heroclix format (except Mad Hatter)! I have most of the JLI! I have so many of these things, my childhood dollhouse is currently full of them. Every time there is a new DC set I pick through it for the characters that a) I like and b) are in the under-five-dollar range, because spending five bucks or more on a piece of plastic that tiny hurts me in the soul.
I love Heroclix because of the ridiculous variety of characters. I haven't played in literally years, but when I did I loved the way each figure's abilities were calculated to mesh with their canon powers/skillset. I love teambuilding, even though I am pretty shit at the strategy and tend to go with stupid themes like "all the redheads", "people who were in that one book nobody liked but me", or "as many blonde teenage characters as I can find". Or I'd do teams based on the characters' canon relationships, which is not always the best of strategies, it turns out! (I understand that under the current rules you do in fact get important bonuses when your whole team share keywords? I only ever owned the "DC: Icons" ruleset, which is incredibly out of date...)
At this point mostly I love collecting the figures. That's what drew me to Heroclix originally-- The first figure I bought was Spoiler, during the time when she was dead and it seemed like everyone but Girl-Wonder.org members and sometimes Cass had forgotten she had ever existed. There was no sign yet that she'd be coming back, and definitely not that she'd ever get her own series and her own action figure (Out next week! Buying that so hard.). I thought I would never get to own Steph merchandise, but there she was, in tiny plastic. Now, I own my fair share of Heroclix Batmen and Wonder Women, don't get me wrong, but the real joy is in the hard-or-impossible-to-find-proper-toys-of characters like Oracle or Red Hood or Scandal Savage or Superboy during the time the name was contested or or or...
I'm just waiting for them to release a Ragdoll and a Jeannette. And hopefully a Black Alice. Then, this game will be perfect. I might even consider playing again, if I could play as the Secret Six... (Let's face it, I would play any game that allowed playing as the Secret Six.)