Map as Character (Re: Maps as opponents)

From: BEThexton <bethexton_at_...>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 16:40:47 -0000

• In HeroQuest-RPG_at_yahoogroups.com, "epweissengruber" <epweissengruber_at_h...> wrote:
  > It sounds as if the map is not just an augment to decision making
  > characters -- it is an agent inside the gamespace, capable of
  > independently (through dice randomizaion) of making "decisions"
  that
  > affect other agents.
  

I'm sure it was unintentional, but you just caused me flashbacks of watching "Dora the Explorer" with my son, and being subjected to the singing map (naturally my son must sing the map song whenever we use a map now....). It is really scary when heroquest and kid's cartoon shows merge!

--Bryan