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Mons Johnson on Banning Miniatures

Mons Johnson, from Wizards R&D, has this to say about the possibility of banning miniatures from competitive play:

"Our policy is make the game experience as fun as we can. Wizards wants to avoid bannings if at all possible. There is a cost when something is banned. That cost is (obviously) in player dissatisfaction, confusion over what figures are legal, getting the word out, etc. We (Mike, Rob, Ryan, myself, etc) have spent some time discussing these issues and understand the players concerns.

"On the other hand, we need to insure that the play field is sufficiently diverse and interesting. If there is ever a figure and/or army that was so powerful/undercosted that it prevented most or all other armies from contention, then banning that figure(s) will have a lower cost then leaving it warping the play enviroment.

"We are also very concerned about inflation/deflation. It is quite important that the figures from the earlier sets remain competitive, yet are not required to field a competitive army. Which means we need to continue to make figures like HEBI, figures that can compete with the Orc Champions, but avoid making figures that are obsolete the earlier figures. When you consider the possibility of making errors in the testing cycle vs the need to make interesting and powerful figures, the danger of banning figures is there." (posted here)

Comments:

Long before they ban any miniatures, why not just change the cost? Yes this is "errata", but if they limit errata to JUST the cost of the figure, then people can still use their figures as is. Yes, the warbands change, but then, warbands change with every new release.

Gerry Smit,
Toronto, Canada

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