Over the years I’ve expressed my fondness for Monsterpocalypse: Privateer Press’s game of giant kaiju battling it out in cities that players put together before thrashing them to smithereens. It’s an awesome game that has a lot of appeal and when it first came out a decade and a half ago it enjoyed quite a dedicated fan base.
Then some decisions were made. And they weren’t necessarily for the better. In its original iteration Monsterpocalypse was a “blind box” game that you bought a package of without knowing what was in the box. The idea was that you could trade game pieces with others. Some of us filled out our factions by purchasing the wanted pieces on eBay. That in itself was sort of a fun pastime “game within the game”. That wound up being replaced by traditional packaging that let you see what you were getting. And then ...
