NyxiaSnow Posted August 13, 2023 Share Posted August 13, 2023 (edited) As a little kid me and my dad collected cards, from Pokémon to Yugioh to random cards from all sorts of places. In 2006, with the release of the City of Heroes CCG, we started collecting them too. Now years later I have adult money that I can spend on frivolous things, and since Homecoming has brought me back childhood nostalgia I started collecting cards again from the COH CCG. After a few years of hunting on second hand websites and nerdy thrift shops, I collected all the base Arena cards! Chuffed that I managed to accomplish this feat, I thought it would be simple to get a few of the Secret Origins cards and complete that collection too.... how wrong I was... After a few months of searching I managed to scrounge together just over half of the SO cards, but I feel that my luck has finally run out. So I've come here to ask for advice, help, or maybe even find people who might have a few of the SO cards lying around that they would be willing to part with. Would anyone be willing to help by providing collector websites that wouldn't be readily available on Google, or know of someone who might even have some of the cards lying around? I'm not all that interested in foil cards - they would be cool, but I think my Arena collection has like 2 in total since they're so high in demand. I've set realistic expectations that they're probably impossible to get. P.S.: I was even thinking that if I can get higher quality images than those on the wiki I could even print them out myself (maybe even make a custom character card using the wayback machine on the old website alongside a few ~Warshade~ powers). I found a handful of websites that offer similar card stocks so it would be doable if a comprehensive high quality picture database could be created. Edited August 13, 2023 by NyxiaSnow 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greycat Posted August 13, 2023 Share Posted August 13, 2023 Oof. I look on Evilbay every once in a while when I remember the CCG existed 😄 but I don't know of any sites that would really have them. Primarily on Everlasting. Squid afficionado. Former creator of Copypastas. General smartalec. I tried to combine Circle and DE, but all I got were garden variety evil mages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solarverse Posted August 13, 2023 Share Posted August 13, 2023 City of Heroes had a card game? Next thing you know you are going to tell me that it was a RPG as well... SFX and Music Mods by Solarverse (Consolidated) WP/EM God Mode Tank Guide and Build Help Support the Return of Missing Code for Sound Files! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greycat Posted August 13, 2023 Share Posted August 13, 2023 Well, at least the quickplay for that is still out for download... Primarily on Everlasting. Squid afficionado. Former creator of Copypastas. General smartalec. I tried to combine Circle and DE, but all I got were garden variety evil mages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted August 13, 2023 Share Posted August 13, 2023 hmm, i might have some cards somewhere. I'll have to check. wouldn't be very many Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Fabulous Posted August 13, 2023 Share Posted August 13, 2023 There's a whole bunch of them eBay. Are these not what you're looking for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NyxiaSnow Posted August 14, 2023 Author Share Posted August 14, 2023 10 hours ago, Greycat said: Oof. I look on Evilbay every once in a while when I remember the CCG existed 😄 but I don't know of any sites that would really have them. 8 hours ago, Captain Fabulous said: There's a whole bunch of them eBay. Are these not what you're looking for? Unfortunately I think I've exhausted all the sellers on Ebay, I even know two know on a first name basis since they were able to supply most of the cards I collected! I still need roughly 77 cards from the expansion 'Secret Origins' that came out a year after the core set 'Arena' came out. 8 hours ago, lemming said: hmm, i might have some cards somewhere. I'll have to check. wouldn't be very many If you do check and find some you'd like to trade/sell, send me a DM please! 😄 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solarverse Posted August 14, 2023 Share Posted August 14, 2023 10 hours ago, Greycat said: Well, at least the quickplay for that is still out for download... Oh wow, nice! Thanks for the link. SFX and Music Mods by Solarverse (Consolidated) WP/EM God Mode Tank Guide and Build Help Support the Return of Missing Code for Sound Files! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go0gleplex Posted August 15, 2023 Share Posted August 15, 2023 Used to be a thing online where you could put screen clips of your toon into a combat card format like these. Dunno if it's still around; doubt it, but it was pretty fun. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanguinesun Posted August 15, 2023 Share Posted August 15, 2023 (edited) On 8/14/2023 at 6:22 AM, Solarverse said: City of Heroes had a card game? Next thing you know you are going to tell me that it was a RPG as well... Well sorta... City of Heroes RPG Quickplay Pack - Eden Studios | City Of Heroes RPG | DriveThruRPG.com But the early 80's Champions pen and paper rpg is also a good fit with a more fleshed out rules and play system imo. Edited August 15, 2023 by Sanguinesun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solarverse Posted August 15, 2023 Share Posted August 15, 2023 26 minutes ago, Sanguinesun said: Well sorta... City of Heroes RPG Quickplay Pack - Eden Studios | City Of Heroes RPG | DriveThruRPG.com But the early 80's Champions pen and paper rpg is also a good fit with a more fleshed out rules and play system imo. I used to play Heroes and Villains Unlimited. I got quite a lot of enjoyment from those back in the day. 1 SFX and Music Mods by Solarverse (Consolidated) WP/EM God Mode Tank Guide and Build Help Support the Return of Missing Code for Sound Files! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sykar Posted August 15, 2023 Share Posted August 15, 2023 4 hours ago, Go0gleplex said: Used to be a thing online where you could put screen clips of your toon into a combat card format like these. Dunno if it's still around; doubt it, but it was pretty fun. 🙂 Major... Holocaust.... just.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Game Master GM Crumpet Posted August 15, 2023 Game Master Share Posted August 15, 2023 9 hours ago, Solarverse said: I used to play Heroes and Villains Unlimited. I got quite a lot of enjoyment from those back in the day. I had that!! And most of the Palladium games 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solarverse Posted August 15, 2023 Share Posted August 15, 2023 40 minutes ago, GM Crumpet said: I had that!! And most of the Palladium games I absolutely loved it! I miss it, wish I had folks to play it again with, sadly, not many my way want to mess with it. SFX and Music Mods by Solarverse (Consolidated) WP/EM God Mode Tank Guide and Build Help Support the Return of Missing Code for Sound Files! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herotu Posted August 18, 2023 Share Posted August 18, 2023 On 8/15/2023 at 1:45 PM, GM Crumpet said: I had that!! And most of the Palladium games It looks like they're publishing them again... or something. Probably in the wake of the Critical Role surge.https://palladium-store.com/1001/category/Heroes-Unlimited.html ..It only takes one Beanbag fan saying that they JRANGER it for the devs to revert it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WumpusRat Posted August 19, 2023 Share Posted August 19, 2023 My friends and I played a few superheroic games back in the day, but the one we played the most was Champions/Hero System. I still have a ton of old character sheets in my gaming filing cabinet (back before we moved stuff to computers). And the old information on the game world I made for our games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronastiny Posted 15 hours ago Share Posted 15 hours ago I see you're diving into the City of Heroes Collectable Card Game, which is awesome! If you're aiming to master the game, here's a bit of advice that might help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rishidian Posted 15 hours ago Share Posted 15 hours ago I've been reading the Champions RPG and came across this in the latest edition. I don't know the implications here. On 8/13/2023 at 2:22 PM, Solarverse said: City of Heroes had a card game? Next thing you know you are going to tell me that it was a RPG as well... I noticed nobody has brought this up before. -Rishi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted 11 hours ago Share Posted 11 hours ago 3 hours ago, Rishidian said: I've been reading the Champions RPG and came across this in the latest edition. I don't know the implications here. I noticed nobody has brought this up before. -Rishi Yes. When Cryptic bought the Champions Universe IP to use with Champions Online in 2009. Nothing to do with City of Heroes. They redesigned some stuff, and iirc, the only two characters not transferred over were Harbinger of Justice (Steve Long's char) and Darren Watts' Dr. Silverback. They then crammed the IP into a reskinned Marvel setting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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