First off Bertie I read your equipment primer before asking this.

Looking at the rules for equipping and standard characters, there's a distinction between linking and non-linking equipment. and I'm just trying to wrap my head around this distinction.

Jocasta is a linked equipment, she and the individual equipping her both need to be on the same click number, and so needs to have click numbers.

Weapon Drop is not linked, and I think because of this doesn't need click numbers to use the equipment. But I'm not sure if that was rolled into the definition of a standard character and i misread/misunderstood the definition.

Thanks for clarifying.

It comes down to what the effect says:

A.I. ENTITY POSSESSION: When Jocasta is KO'd or if you pay 25 points when building your force, equip this character to a friendly character if it has the Armor or Robot keyword and link it to that character's dial.

EFFECT: At the beginning of your turn or after this character is clicked, you may choose 1 power on the equipped dial and 1 combat value on the equipped dial higher than this character's same printed combat value. This character can use that power and modifies that combat value by +1 until your next turn or clicked.

Weapon Drop: At the beginning of the game, roll a d6 that can't be rerolled and turn this dial to that click number.

Equip: Give a friendly character in this square or holding this object a power action to equip it. Opposing characters can KO this object only by using it in an object attack.

Jocasta tells you to link her dial to the character she is equipped to, the Weapon Drop doesn't. So, Weapon drop isn't linked, simple as that.

Now, as to click numbers: the ruling on click numbers was made in relation to dials being linked. If the dial isn't linked, a standard character does not need click numbers to have something equipped to it.

To further clarify, only a few characters would fall into that category, such as Teekl, and other characters that have their own base.. Bystanders by definition are not considered Standard Characters

I assumed the question was directed at Golden Age figures that don't have click numbers but a great clarification.

First, let's look at the Weapon Drop:



Ok, so ... now what?

From the E&C thread

Ok, that means the Weapon Drop is an "equipped item".

Ok, what's a standard character? More below.
all good, but not relevant to this question.

Oh - here it is, same thread:
So, as discussed above, you can't "equip" the Weapon Drop to Despotellis (he's tiny), to Karu-Sil's The Pack (it's a bystander), but you can equip it to an old-school Parademon Grunt (who has no click numbers) if you are so inclined.

But you can't equip Jocasta to that same Parademon Grunt - because you can't link to a dial without click numbers.

(I just pulled one out my "Apokolips" keyword box to confirm - the units section shows click numbers - that's how it's programmed - the dial has no click numbers on it).

So ... it's almost the same "equip" mechanism, but not identical.

Thanks for the "plug".

I may add this posting as a comment to my blog.

Source: http://win.wizkids.com/bb/viewtopic....7a16dfd#p17860

it was, bystanders where mentioned by name as unequipable. It was a matter of if some oldie like HOTS ultron could pick up a weapon drop, or if the numbers mattered all around.

Thanks all for the information. And thanks Bertie for the long old write out you just did there.