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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5144738" data-attributes="member: 58197">Speculation is in bold:Hasbro owns Heroscape and D&D minis. The D&D minis line is seen  as competition for Heroscape and the D&D minis do not sell as well.  D&D minis are currently going onto Heroscape bases and sold as  Heroscape minis in a trial period. If its a success with the Heroscape  people D&D minis will be no more and the models will be made for  Heroscape.I mean, regardless of the futures of the respective lines, using DDM sculpts for Heroscape is just good business sense. If you have a critter you want to make for Heroscape that resembles an existing one in DDM, it's silly to pay for a new sculpt and molds.[Edit: Removed paragraph doubting whether the mythos of D&D could work with Heroscape, since apparently there is a full-scale crossover planned... still, doesn't mean one line will be killed off outright.]Anything about 5E is speculation at this point. Even if it comes straight from WotC brass. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />But tokens... mm. Is there really that much profit to be had in selling tokens? If not, then 5E has a strong incentive to support combat without minis. (Not exclusively, mind you. D&D has supported battlemat combat since before it was D&D and probably always will. But a game that can be played with or without battlemat is a different beast from a game that essentailly demands one.)</blockquote>

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