HeroScape Rulings and Guidance: A Comprehensive Treatise
HeroScape is a simple game with complex interactions. Many of these interactions are covered, directly or indirectly, by Hasbro, Wizards of the Coast, and their Rules Teams.
However, these rulings are not centralized: some are in the downloadable FAQ, while some are in the first posts of Book threads; and still others are buried deep in miscellaneous other threads (such as in posts from people like Grungebob and Rÿchean). Some of the rulings in the FAQ itself are entirely inaccurate in their language; while the result may be correct, the reasoning is sometimes inaccurate.
This Treatise has several main goals. First, centralizing all the Book and FAQ rulings is really important. Before this document, it was far more difficult than it needed to be to find rulings when questions come up.
Second, and perhaps just as importantly, it is helpful to understand the rationale behind these rulings. Where possible, I have added clarifying language that reflects the underlying principles. If you understand these principles, then many rulings become self-evident.
Third, I entered with three fundamental goals: to make these rulings as clear, concise, and comprehensive as possible.
Additionally, some rulings included in this document are extensions of confirmed official rulings. These have been marked as such. ScapeCon in particular will use these extensions in full.
Finally, some rulings are better ignored. Grenade and Ladder rules in particular have been revised to lead to workable results.
In creating this document, I spent well over 100 hours compiling all official rulings from Version 13.4 of the Hasbro FAQ (the “Hasbro FAQ”) and the various Books (the “Book of ____”), reordering and rewriting almost everything, researching old threads and discussions on HeroScapers, and discussing with several preeminent current community members with unparalleled experience in the rules.
Special thanks to:
Dysole for helping with the initial copy-pasting of rulings from the FAQ and Books;
Viideosayg for making this Treatise much easier to navigate with the outline and Table of Contents;
Dok, Matthias, superfrog, and especially Scytale for discussing many of these rulings and their implications; and
Matthias for discussing and finalizing the extended ScapeCon rulings.
-Mike (OEAO)
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HeroScape is a simple game with complex interactions. Many of these interactions are covered, directly or indirectly, by Hasbro, Wizards of the Coast, and their Rules Teams.
However, these rulings are not centralized: some are in the downloadable FAQ, while some are in the first posts of Book threads; and still others are buried deep in miscellaneous other threads (such as in posts from people like Grungebob and Rÿchean). Some of the rulings in the FAQ itself are entirely inaccurate in their language; while the result may be correct, the reasoning is sometimes inaccurate.
This Treatise has several main goals. First, centralizing all the Book and FAQ rulings is really important. Before this document, it was far more difficult than it needed to be to find rulings when questions come up.
Second, and perhaps just as importantly, it is helpful to understand the rationale behind these rulings. Where possible, I have added clarifying language that reflects the underlying principles. If you understand these principles, then many rulings become self-evident.
Third, I entered with three fundamental goals: to make these rulings as clear, concise, and comprehensive as possible.
Additionally, some rulings included in this document are extensions of confirmed official rulings. These have been marked as such. ScapeCon in particular will use these extensions in full.
Finally, some rulings are better ignored. Grenade and Ladder rules in particular have been revised to lead to workable results.
In creating this document, I spent well over 100 hours compiling all official rulings from Version 13.4 of the Hasbro FAQ (the “Hasbro FAQ”) and the various Books (the “Book of ____”), reordering and rewriting almost everything, researching old threads and discussions on HeroScapers, and discussing with several preeminent current community members with unparalleled experience in the rules.
Special thanks to:
Dysole for helping with the initial copy-pasting of rulings from the FAQ and Books;
Viideosayg for making this Treatise much easier to navigate with the outline and Table of Contents;
Dok, Matthias, superfrog, and especially Scytale for discussing many of these rulings and their implications; and
Matthias for discussing and finalizing the extended ScapeCon rulings.
-Mike (OEAO)
CHANGE LOG:
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