HeroScape for Dummies

[knightdog15]

I'm trying to teach my dad how to play HS and I don't know where to start.
I saw the "Intro to Heroscape for the HeroClix Player" article and it got me thinking (I do that sometimes you know).
Anyway, I was thinking:

Someone should make a "Heroscape for Dummies" type thing for new players.
And by "new players" I don't mean Clix Players.
I mean REALLY new players who still consider playing a game of "Monopoly" as "Gaming"! (Run! Shield your eyes children!)
That may be a bit extreme, but I think you get my point. After all it'd be a "For Dummies" book.

Then I had another idea:
Maybe a certain Online HeroScape Community with experienced players should write "HeroScape for Dummies".

Hmmmm....... What do you guys think?

[STAROCEAN980]

Hey, thats a good idea knightdog15 !

[Blue Dane]

I'd buy it, but then again, I buy anything Heroscape.

[ProfessorDocker]

Sounds like an good idea, though I doubt many "clueless" players would know where to find it.

And anyway, the game does come with a rulebook...

!Docker

[ron3090]

Ah yes, but it would be a book with the rules, explanations of the rules, answers to common arguments, strategies, good buys; the list could go on and on.

[DeadEye]

its also the problom of printing and getting tstore shelves and what not.....yet i would buy it.

DeadEye

[Sci-fi Messiah]

I love the idea! But if you just want to teach your dad the basics, play the basic side of the card. Play a few games like that and then when he gets it - flip 'em over.

[Hedge Knight]

Originally Posted by ron3090

Ah yes, but it would be a book with the rules, explanations of the rules, answers to common arguments, strategies, good buys; the list could go on and on.

My only problem with this idea is that...the rules are written for 8-12 year olds, and the master rules only fill 10 pages. If that's not already a bare-bones, "for dummies" version, then I don't want to see one.

I'd love a supplemental book with the things you've mentioned, but that would actually make a LESS handy, simple guide to the game than the main rule book. Maybe I don't grasp the 'for dummies' concept, but what you suggest sound more like "the Thinking Man's Guide to Heroscape" or "The Complete* Guide to HS" or maybe...a Heroscape Codex?

*and "complete" would be obsolete by the time the next wave came out.

[brickman1444]

Have you tried the basic game?

[Revdyer]

Originally Posted by brickman1444

Have you tried the basic game?

Once...that was more than enough for me and my (then) nine-year-old grandson.

[brickman1444]

Originally Posted by Revdyer

Once...that was more than enough for me and my (then) nine-year-old grandson.

I was talking to knightdog but, okay.

[Revdyer]

Originally Posted by brickman1444

I was talking to knightdog but, okay.

You didn't say to whom you were speaking...sorry to intrude into the private conversation.