Heroscape 2.0 and Halloween: On Gaming Moral Sensibilities

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Originally Posted by chas

Evil Raelin

Having revealed that I was upset about her change of alignment, I note that Craig Van Ness himself said it made him sad, during the PulseCon panel. On the other hand, Encarmine said she had fallen due to her craving for power and other aspects of her own personality. Its good that everyone has lore in mind, but this is very different than the old animation, which shows her succumbing to the magic amulet of Su-Bak-Na (with Utgar looking over her shoulder). Of course, one could argue that the amulet works more strongly on those with their own evil tendencies, like Tolkien's One Ring.

I also note that as one of the five old heroes from Swarm of the Marro, which now form the Stretch Goals of the offering as appearing now on Haslab, Evil Raelin is the last, final, and therefore Most Desireable Superbonus Figure out there! Whereas Sgt. Drake is the first. Go figure.

It did seem to start with the pure hero figure through to the most morally ambiguous figure of the 5 in order; Drake the main hero, Sonlen with a dragon, lovesick robot, ninja, and finally evil Rea.