by Bfriudo » May 28th, 2017, 10:05 am
Hello everybody. Another Hero Quest freak has joined the ranks today, inspired during yet again another search for cards and stuff. Can't believe I didn't notice this forum during the past years. My apologies...
To be honest, I have been lurking on this forum for a couple of months already, and it does deserve subscriptions. The quantity and quality of the resources is amazing, and rushed me towards yet another complete game overhaul. I hope you want to bear a little of my own HQ experience...
It was a gift from my mother on such a far Christmas, I can't recall which year it was. Although to the day I have only met a couple of guys from the towns and cities around that owned the game, it was for us a huge success. I often read of people not finding others to play the game and that saddens me: this never happened here. Whoever tried to play with us was completely hooked, from the geekest geek to the rough street boy who spends his afternoons harassing other kids, and this went unbelievably on through the years. Til a few years ago, people would still pull our sleeve from time to time asking if we had any new maps or campaigns ready, asking to bring Hero Quest along when we met at their homes, organizing weekly meetings to play yet another map. Having a slightly younger brother with the same interests has only doubled the effect and brought in twice as many people in the thing.
The bad thing is that the game was just too good that we overplayed it, meaning that it's in a pretty battered state by now. Also, being young kids around playing too, it has been often "mishandled", if you allow. One idiot guy marked the treasure cards with small pen marks while my brother was in the toilet once, and then claimed it wasn't him though it was only the two of them. Ah. Since that day I can't let players draw treasure cards, they have to say a number and the master draws from the hidden treasure deck...meh. That guy is still an idiot.
Miniatures are in poor conditions. More than half of the miniatures lost their weapons over time, including heroes (the elf is broken from his base...), furniture has various damage. Fortunately, we managed to strengthen the ranks through Battlemasters, 6th ed. Warhammer (I believe) and some game a friend owned and I believe it was called Zargon's something...
Our painting ability is far from good. Being kids we were just satisfied with putting some color straight on the mini without bothering to give white bases, etc. Also, we used brushes dating back to the 60s...yeah, my father's old brushes he used at school. We managed to get a few decent ones though, but the paint isnt holding too well as the years go by.
The final coup-de-grace was given by my mother's dog. She found Heroquest and happily chewed through some of the box cardboard and god knows what small parts she ingested. Also ate some bookcase...
I will let you know one last anecdote from my HQ gaming experience for now: I never played a game with 2 mummies. All I remember is I was so freaking excited when I opened the box, I broke one of the mummies while removing it from the sprues. The miniature broke right at the ankles and we never managed to keep it on his feet with glue, it would always bend down. Poor mummy. But as a result, you really don't wanna meet a mummy in my maps.
And in case you're wondering: yes the Dwarf is intact.
Hello everybody. Another Hero Quest freak has joined the ranks today, inspired during yet again another search for cards and stuff. Can't believe I didn't notice this forum during the past years. My apologies...
To be honest, I have been lurking on this forum for a couple of months already, and it does deserve subscriptions. The quantity and quality of the resources is amazing, and rushed me towards yet another complete game overhaul. I hope you want to bear a little of my own HQ experience...
It was a gift from my mother on such a far Christmas, I can't recall which year it was. Although to the day I have only met a couple of guys from the towns and cities around that owned the game, it was for us a huge success. I often read of people not finding others to play the game and that saddens me: this never happened here. Whoever tried to play with us was completely hooked, from the geekest geek to the rough street boy who spends his afternoons harassing other kids, and this went unbelievably on through the years. Til a few years ago, people would still pull our sleeve from time to time asking if we had any new maps or campaigns ready, asking to bring Hero Quest along when we met at their homes, organizing weekly meetings to play yet another map. Having a slightly younger brother with the same interests has only doubled the effect and brought in twice as many people in the thing.
The bad thing is that the game was just too good that we [i]overplayed [/i]it, meaning that it's in a pretty battered state by now. Also, being young kids around playing too, it has been often "mishandled", if you allow. One idiot guy marked the treasure cards with small pen marks while my brother was in the toilet once, and then claimed it wasn't him though it was only the two of them. Ah. Since that day I can't let players draw treasure cards, they have to say a number and the master draws from the hidden treasure deck...meh. That guy is still an idiot.
Miniatures are in poor conditions. More than half of the miniatures lost their weapons over time, including heroes (the elf is broken from his base...), furniture has various damage. Fortunately, we managed to strengthen the ranks through Battlemasters, 6th ed. Warhammer (I believe) and some game a friend owned and I believe it was called [i]Zargon's something[/i]...
Our painting ability is far from good. Being kids we were just satisfied with putting some color straight on the mini without bothering to give white bases, etc. Also, we used brushes dating back to the 60s...yeah, my father's old brushes he used at school. We managed to get a few decent ones though, but the paint isnt holding too well as the years go by.
The final coup-de-grace was given by my mother's dog. She found Heroquest and happily chewed through some of the box cardboard and god knows what small parts she ingested. Also ate some bookcase...
I will let you know one last anecdote from my HQ gaming experience for now: I never played a game with 2 mummies. All I remember is I was so freaking excited when I opened the box, I broke one of the mummies while removing it from the sprues. The miniature broke right at the ankles and we never managed to keep it on his feet with glue, it would always bend down. Poor mummy. But as a result, you really don't wanna meet a mummy in my maps.
And in case you're wondering: yes the Dwarf is intact.