by Sphere
rattkin wrote:
Since it didn't introduce new board (which would be mighty expensive), it forced players to remember "when you land on this field, you can do the old action, that is depicted on the board or a new action and you have to remember which old field translates to which new action". They didn't have much choice really...
Lord of the Rings: Friends & Foes, published by Fantasy Flight back in 2001, handled the same sort of problem with stickers that could be applied to the original board. The stickers had matching artwork, so they didn't ruin the beauty of the original board, but added links to new features included in the expansion. The material cost for doing it that way is virtually nil - the expense is in production of the compatible artwork - but sticker art is orders of magnitude less involved than printing new mapboards. I could name other games where the publisher took this approach a decade or two back, but I haven't seen it done lately. It's worth consideration in such cases.