Collector’s Edge – Dear Santa pt 1

Dear Santa

I’ve been good.

Mostly.

My Christmas wish is really a simple one. If you can look past my ‘mistakes’ in the field this year all I really want is for the glorious return of Heroscape. You know, that bad ass collectable board game? It was so awesome. You got to build the terrain with hex tiles. There was grass, sand, rock, water, trees and a whole lot more. And then you picked your army. Each unit was based off of something in history, like Gladiators or Minutemen, as well as mythological beings like Dragons and Elves. There were even aliens in it. The concept was brilliant and there was so many expansions for it that introduced Lava and Castles and all sorts of fun. You could go into any store and see this stuff, and it was all fairly priced. For years it was the greatest time you could have with your friends cause the thought of some Roman Archers squaring off against Zombies and a Dragon was just too much fun to pass up. And then they announced the Marvel expansions! WOOT WOOT! Super heroes! And to top it off they were hinting at pursuing adding in Star Wars!!!! What could go wrong????

Wizards of the Coast, that’s what. For some reason Hasbro let Wizards of the Coast take it over. Gone forever were the community/maker interactions. Gone forever were the great availability of all aspects of this game. Gone forever were the continuous releases. Instead of keeping everything that worked to make Heroscape what it was, Wizards of the Coast decided that Heroscape needed to become a specialty shop game, jacking up prices and making it harder to continue having Heroscape love.

Santa, this is the perfect example of greed and stupidity. Why would anyone take something that was so fun and ruin it for no reason? Oh yeah, that’s right – Wizard of the Coast are a bunch of dicks. That’s why. Well, knowing that, my Christmas wish is for you to fix that. Return Heroscape to where it belongs, which is in the hands of the creators, and let the glory that is Heroscape be returned to the masses so that the best gaming experience ever can live on.

And I promise next year I will be 100% good.