Hmm, I wonder if this will let the original designers (Rob Daviau, Craig Van Ness, and Stephen Baker) continue to work on the expansions.  AFAIK, MB and WotC are headquartered in different parts of the U.S.

Larry I think it was said yesterday on the geek and heroscapers and Rob and Craig would not really be working on it going forward.

The Heroscapers site is all over this one:

http://www.heroscapers.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=18398

Looks like development will mostly change hands to WOTC in Seattle instead of the Mass-based Hasbro crew we know.

The worst part is no jungle expansion soon.

To clarify what we’ve seen so far (as I understand it): Milton Bradly isn’t a company, but an imprint owned and developed by Hasbro located on the East coast (this is why Rob and Craig could design both MB and PB games). WotC on the other hand is a separate company owned by Hasbro—and run rather independently from their parent company (as Larry pointed out) on the other coast. Habro/MB/PB aims at the ToysRUs lines.  WotC aims at the comic/game shop lines. Wotc picks up lines (or Imprints) dropped by Hasbro if they feel it will work in the hobby niche (which means both a lower acceptable net profit and a different product focus.)

Ray has it pretty much spot on.  This is the same thing that Hasbro did with the Avalon Hill line.  Someone in a suit decided that it was a waste of time for the main company to continue to do it, so they shipped it out west to Renton.

Considering what WotC has done (or rather hasn’t done) with the Avalon Hill brand since they got it from Hasbro, I really don’t see this a good sign for Heroscape.

I don’t think Hasbro assigns or ‘ships out’ anything to WotC (they are separate companies with the same owning body).  More like Hasbro puts it in the unused pile and WotC decides to pick it up as they think they can make it work.

Yeah, Ray, I think you’re right about that.  It just seems like they’re sending all the “weird” stuff west :)