I don't talk about them much here, but I've got an older brother and sister.

While my sister and I were growing up, I'd drive her crazy every time we'd go to a fast food place. You see, she did something which I absolutely couldn't comprehend.

She never ate ketchup. Ever. She still hasn't to this day.

But for many years, I'd ask her why.

"Why don't you eat ketchup?"
"It's gross."
"But you've never tasted it."
"It smells bad."
"But it tastes good." Then I'd put my fry into some ketchup and eat it for emphasis.

I didn't get it. She ate spaghetti. She liked tomato sauce. She liked dressing, and some other things made with vinegar. Yet she arbitrarily decided at some point in her life that she would never eat ketchup.

Now, she lives a perfectly fine life sans-ketchup, but I think about her every time I enjoy that...

Jexik

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Unsung Heroes of Heroscape.
I know what you're thinking. Unsung heroes? Must be an article about Kee-Mo-Shi! Or perhaps the underused Sir Denrick. Or poor Parmenio. Nope on all accounts.

In the spirit of the hero-heavy release of the new Master Set, Road to the Underdark, this edition of Week@HSers is dedicated to the heroes - a few of the unsung heroes - of heroscapers.com.

First off, we have Rodriquez. And contrary to his user name and posting habits, he is neither Hispanic nor Dwarvish. Every summer, Rod runs a Heroscape tournament at DragonCon in Atlanta. He drives all the way there by himself and lugs upwards of 20 or so maps each time. He charges the convention-mandated minimum for the tourney. He brings lots of extra figures to lend to last-minute players...

truth

Allopatric Speciation
Or is my Heroscape your Heroscape?

“Allopatric speciation is the phenomenon whereby populations are physically isolated by an extrinsic barrier and evolve dissimilarly due to the isolation- becoming two separate but related species.”

I am a single father with four kids, two jobs and a cat that throws up on everything. You might not think that we are scapers, but we are.

My son received SOTM one year for Christmas- after Santa had been looking at it in a TRU store for over a year. Money’s always tight, so Santa tries to be careful. The boys were small, 5 and 8, and games had to be simple and quick. We began to play Scape, the basic game.

Then we found a beat up ROTV on clearance at a big store. The boys loved all of the new figures, especially the Tarn. Quickly the basic game was not enough and we began to incorporate elements of the Advanced game while still keeping much of the basic game....

Sylvano the Wasabus

The Houses of Heroscape
Or Who's Your General?

My sons and I started playing heroscape when they were little. We play our own weird version- and one of its weird aspects is the whole “summoning generals” theme. I'm familiar with the backstory mythology but my sons never really bought into that. Instead, over time, Jandar, Utgar, Ullar, etc have evolved from something quasi-religious (they first decided that Jandar was a god) into something like tribes, or nations. And then into something like “houses”- like at Hogwarts. That is probably the best description for the current state of our game.

My fifteen year old daughter is a dedicated Harry Potter Alternative Universe creature- All Slytherin, all the time. She likes to debate and we have many discussions about Utgar- are they evil, or are they just misguided? Not evil, she insists, just self-serving opportunists- she sees selfishness as a survival mechanism. Not misguided- those Utgarites...

Sylvano the Wasabus

Templar Trouble

http://www.heroscapers.com/community...Bleakwoode%202


This is about:
1)Repairing broken Templar Lances
2)My first attempt at photos
3)My little obsession

If you've read my other blog posts you'll know I have a three year old son. His older brothers (and me too) desperately want him to be old enough to Scape with us. We're trying to be patient. So in the meantime, we let him play with the figures, which he absolutely loves. Sometimes it’s eye opening to see a warrior of Ashra driving a little dump truck. Or Major Q10 herding cows. Most of the figures are pretty sturdy. We have a box of fragiles that he's not allowed to touch, but somehow Mister Three Years Old got the Templars.

1)I love the Templars. It was my first real present as a Dad, when my boys were ten and seven. For my birthday,...

Sylvano the Wasabus