The board is more related to the the story of the game, as the sourcerer can all talk to spirits.
Besides that: I am actually myself on the fence about the collector's edition. Hardcover lore and art book sound great, but the cloth map was garbage my d:os. Will it be the same lousy thing again? In that case I have to agree, cut the board and give us instead as high quality large size cloth map. *shrugs* Or even just give us a digital vector version of your map and a licence to do it ourselves, quite sure it would look awesome on a high quality fabric when you use some stitching automaton for it.
edit: Oh and btw, Oujia boards are scientific explained since ages, nothing necessary superstitious about them anymore. Even when still quite a lot people are not aware how they really work. They are for sure just a game. ;-)
Last edited by Apocalypse; 05/09/15 02:04 PM.