R.I.P the City of Heroes Collectible Card Game.

Yep. One of many things that was dropped along the wayside. At least it got farther than the PnP RPG. Seem to remember a contest for a player character getting made into one of the cards, too.

CoH had a card game, Heroclix, a monthly comic book published by Dark Horse, two full length novels (with a third that never happened) as well as misc busts, t-shirts and even had the movie rights optioned.

Honestly, I miss those days. It made the game feel like it was part of something bigger that was City of Heroes. Now, it's only a game. A decent game, but just a game.



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I miss getting an actual on paper comic book in the mail as part of the subscription.

As for the card game, at the time CoH was first released practically every IP with "nerd appeal" was having a CCG release for it. Most, of course, vanished without a trace in a short time.

Yes, and people who bought the CoV DVD Collector's Edition box even got a sample pack and an exclusive Statesman card.

I recently bought this because I wanted the Arachnos cape, and I was happily surprised to see the box also included all 7 HeroClix. Mainly because the one Statesman one I had out of the normal CoV box somehow got trashed.

Me too. At least I still have all 20 issues of the Top Cow CoH comics.

Sometime before summer, then?

Oh! Thank you for reminding me about the 7 coh heroclix, THOSE are what I'm putting in my hami-jello now.

As far as I know, there are no online clients for the CCG. There are a couple of generic "card table" type of programs out there could possibly be used, but not without violating AEG's IP rights, of course. If they've gone so far as to remove the old domain (they had ceased linking to it from their home page years ago, so the ability to still access the old hero builder was something of an "easter egg" at this point) then they may not care any more what happens to it.

Dave Williams designed the game with a lot of story input from Sean Fish (and much of the art is borrowed from the comics). Dave was hired away from AEG to work on an unspecified MMO. That was just after Secret Origins was released and more-or-less tanked, and AEG hit hard times as the recession clobbered pretty much every gaming company out there.

I doubt that AEG would be willing to license online client given that the MMO is still running and therefore the IP has some sort of intrinsic value. However, I suspect that they'd take a "dont' ask, don't tell" approach towards any fan-made online client whose purpose was to promote the game without making a profit on it.

For that matter, if a business case could be made for a profitable online game, they might be all ears, so to speak. I don't know that there's a market for an online version of the existing CoH game, though. I think something new might have to be designed and the subset of CoH players that would buy into a CCG at this point is a very small one, in any case.

If Paragon Studios was rolling in excess dollars, I'd suggest that they buy the CCG license back and implement the CCG as a sub-game of the MMO, much as one or two other MMO publishers have done by releasing a companion online card game to complement their MMO offering.

I was looking for the PnP game for the longest time until I realized it was canceled. I would have bought it.

And the card game, I looked for it everywhere but couldn't find a single vendor that sold it. These things could have be great if marketing was better. I mean they could have at least let us buy it or linked us to someplace where we could buy it via the coh.com website.

The up side is that everything in this game can be replicated with Hero System, Gurps, Fuzion system, and Mutants and Masterminds.

A table top game would be pretty using Paragon Wiki as a resource for power and world building with one of the above systems.

As for the CCG, iirc Jack got his start making CCGs. AEG was a great company, but they sold their rights to there big table top games (L5R and 7 Seas) both great games that are now part of the d20 system. :/ Really I think the 7 Seas d10 system was the best ever made, putting the crap WoD to shame (horrible system).

I am pretty sure if you really want the cards they can be found somewhere on the internet or at a con.

It is weird, for a while there people in the table top industry were worried that CCGs may be the death (or a hard blow) to table top games. That obviously was not the case, and I never really thought it would be. CCGs tend to take a heavy investment (I played the L5R CCG) where as I can buy one or two books and some dice and be set for life if I want.

Personally i enjoyed the D10 system, particularly in Aberrant/Trinity. oWoD i tended to avoid mass dice rolls, but that was more due to my DM'ing style.

Shadowrun 2nd Edition still is IMHO one of the best (unfortunately some updates were required to make it better), and i *STILL* need to find someone to run Earthdawn with, and also maybe some nice Star Wars D6 era...

Hell, for a "magic based" system, i still reckon that Ars Magica was one of the most flexible ones out there.

L5R's D10 system is alive and well, and into it's 4th Edition (I'm currently in a weekly game). Not 100% sure what AEG's ownership status is, but their logo still appears on the books.

Rokugan was adopted as the "Oriental" setting for D20, but that may not currently be the case, haven't played D20 in some time.

Could you PM me a link where I could get the books? My first edition L5R book is falling apart.