Heroquest from Hasbro/Avalon Hill

[Easy e]

For Christmas this year I got this nostalgia-bait. I had this when I was a younger person, and played the heck out of it. I also used my existing D&D and WHFB minis to expand the heck out of it. You could say, it was the first game I actually heavily modified as a budding wargame designer! New enemies, new heroes, and new magic! I also used it as a gateway to suck a lot of folks into RPGs and Wargaming back then. Mwahahahahahahaha!

Therefore, when it came back out I knew I would eventually get it. Lo and behold, here it is! One of my big projects for this year will be to get this bad boy painted up so I can use it to corrupt more people into wargaming! So, let's dig in and take a look at what is in the box.



I am sure many folks are all ready familiar with this game, so I just highlight the box contents, some of the simple mechanics, and talk about what its potential is. You can read about it on the blog if you are so inclined.

https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot....sbro-plus.html

However, I wanted to make this thread to talk about what you have done with this game. Have you played through the Quest book? Did you paint your boxed set up? Do you have the expansions? Have you made any of your own content?

Please share your experiences with the game here.

[zlefin]

I had one a long time ago. Never got to play much as I didn't have much in terms of friends at that point, mostly was content just to read it and use the dice for it, I think I only played a couple adventures ultimately. Years later I scavenged the pieces from it to use for bloodbowl leagues which was good fun.

[Anonymouswizard]

I was very disappointed with the miniatures, the plastic is too soft and they're not chunky boys like in the original version. It pretty much killed any desire I had to paint them.

Gameplay-wise? It's Heroquest but with this weird addition of multiple hit points for the monsters.

[LibraryOgre]

I was very disappointed with the miniatures, the plastic is too soft and they're not chunky boys like in the original version. It pretty much killed any desire I had to paint them.

Gameplay-wise? It's Heroquest but with this weird addition of multiple hit points for the monsters.

I'm pretty sure HQ always had multiple HP for a number of monsters.

[Anonymouswizard]

I'm pretty sure HQ always had multiple HP for a number of monsters.

Maybe some of the ones you used the Morcar figure for, but not Chaos Warriors and Gargoyles.

(Note: I played the original UK version.)

[Rodin]

Maybe some of the ones you used the Morcar figure for, but not Chaos Warriors and Gargoyles.

(Note: I played the original UK version.)

By crazy coincidence one of my work colleagues was asking about the new game today, so I dug out my US Milton Bradley edition. I can definitively say (and am rather proud of having my memories confirmed) that the US version had hitpoints for a bunch of different monsters. Fimirs and Mummys had 2, Chaos Warriors and Gargoyles had 3, and specially statted boss monsters might have more.

Sadly my box version is in worse shape than I remember - a dozen moves including an oceanic trip has not been kind to it, and I'm missing some of the minis which were presumably raided for D&D once it became unlikely that we would play the game. I'm very happy to see the new version get a release, because the original was the perfect gateway drug to get me interested in D&D.

[AMX]

Yes, normal monsters with multiple HP was a feature of the US edition.

[Glimbur]

My brother picked up the edition with the added quests at a garage sale. He played the actual game at his bachelor party, but generally he uses the minis for other games. Which is a good use for the price.

[Easy e]

I still have parts of the original, but it was scavenged for parts and conversions long, long ago. Same with my old Battlemasters set.

I wish I still had that one knocking around too.

[J-H]

I got it a couple of years ago, and we played through the 15 quests. Unfortunately, when I went looking online for expansions, almost all of the user-created maps expected content from some kind of expansion that included guards and spiders and whatnot. I wasn't able to come up with anything easy to print and use with the base game.

[Kardwill]

By crazy coincidence one of my work colleagues was asking about the new game today, so I dug out my US Milton Bradley edition. I can definitively say (and am rather proud of having my memories confirmed) that the US version had hitpoints for a bunch of different monsters. Fimirs and Mummys had 2, Chaos Warriors and Gargoyles had 3, and specially statted boss monsters might have more.

That was a difference between the US and Euro original editions. In the European edition, all big monsters had only 1HP.

[Easy e]

I have started to paint up my boxed set.....



Some Heroes ready to go on a quest..... a Heroquest!