Ye Olde Inn

by **AerynB** » Sunday April 28th, 2013 12:55am

LordZeke wrote:I have a brother in law who speaks Japanese, is the Japanese version posted somewhere?

This is a link where all the Japanese cards, rule book, and quest book are.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B47Van3 ... ring&pli=1
Can't remember who first posted it.

Aha! Here it is. Shoulda known it was knightkrawler.

viewtopic.php?f=143&t=166&hilit=japanese+heroquest&start=30#p17883
This thread has some good info and images.

Anyway, a volunteer started translating the Quest Book but only got through Quest 8. Somebody here started going over the various cards, and I've been going through the Rulebook.

@Sjeng: Yeah, I guess the next step is to match my pseudo translation to the EU and NA rules. It definitely comes from the EU version, but there seem to be some NA tweaks. The one that comes to mind is increasing the chaos warrior's and gargoyle's BP to 2. Then again, some rules are strictly Japanese. Because they don't have Skull Tiles, if you only do 1 damage to a 2-BP monster, it automatically recovers that damage before the next attack. Essentially, you have to do 2 points of damage in a single attack to kill a 2-BP monster. It would be impossible if they made the chaos warriors and gargoyles have 3 BP! :shock:

hey look! i'm an ogre warrior now. moving up the ranks. :lol:

by **AerynB** » Sunday April 28th, 2013 11:52am

Been doing really well this weekend. Just finished the Intermediate Rules which took us to page 18. There's only 3 pages left plus an index page, so I'll keep working on it today and try to get the whole thing reattached to the topic post tonight.

by **Daedalus** » Tuesday April 30th, 2013 2:59pm

@Lord Zeke-
That would be awsome!

@AerynB-
Keep it up! Sorry I haven't been too helpful. I've been busy with another translation, myself. Perhaps I'll add in some comments later.

by **AerynB** » Wednesday May 1st, 2013 12:02am

Ok, got the Rulebook about 98% translated -- check out the topic post for the download. Page 22 is a blank board so I didn't have to translate it

and page 23 is an Index page so I didn't feel like translating it just yet. Maybe another day. Also, I had a lot of trouble with page 21. It sounds like tips for the Demon Lord/Evil Wizard/Mentor/Game Master/Zargon/Morcar/Grimdead player. Most of the other pages had rules I could compare to our familiar rules, but there were a few sentences on this last page that I couldn't figure out what was meant. It's probably just because I was tired and wanted the project to be over. I'll take another crack at it soon I hope.

Anyway, do enjoy. As you'll see, the Japanese rules seem to be much, much easier than what we're used to. Interesting.

by **Sjeng** » Saturday May 4th, 2013 6:50am

Thank you for all the hard work! Really Awesome!

Now I would suggest that someone could perhaps gather all information, and recreate a US and EU quest book and rulebook. US cards are done, I could try my hand at making EU card versions as well.
Feel like doing it drathe?

Some work has already been done by bastianbux here.

by **drathe** » Sunday May 5th, 2013 1:33am

Once it is all completely translated, I will indeed create a full quest book for them. Rule book too. And post everything on the Homepages. I still have to add the original Japanese scans to the Japanese homepage... among other things... :bites-lip:

by **AerynB** » Sunday May 5th, 2013 1:46pm

Thanks, drathe! That would be great! No hurry just yet, though. I'd still like someone who's more familiar with Japanese to take a look at my rough google-aided translation and approve it. Maybe that ScooterAB guy will come on back and take a look.