Guest Book

[Sypher20]

Hi there!

I'm Esteban, ederly grinch aged 41y.o
i'm absolutely amazed by the good work done there!
As most of you i guess, i discovered and played Heroquest in 1989, i had the game for my birthday.
I felt in love with this game and played hours and hours.
I recently rediscovered the game and i play with my 2 princess' dwarves (aged 11 and 9). They love the game too.
Anyway, thanks a lot to everyone and the admins for that awesome website, i'm really impressed!

Regards,
Esteban.

[Daedalus]

I bet when you got the game on your birthday, the last thing on your mind was you would be playing it with two girls! The longevity and versatily of our game is something special.

[Sypher20]

To be honest, when i got the game, i never thought i would reached 41 yo! Ahahah
Today i printed the MJ cards and cut them to make the playing card game and add it to the next quest i'll do with my girls. Can't wait!

[HispaZargon]

Hello Esteban and welcome to the Inn!!

Here you will find lots of info about the game.

[jayofosiris1]

Hello, everyone! I'm Jay from the south of the UK. I had a copy of HeroQuest gifted to me in the 90s by my parents. A year or so later, I was also able to pick up a copy of Advanced HeroQuest second hand using my pocket money (over time I also picked up various bits of old warhammer and 40k pieces in charity shops and car boot sales my parents took me to!).
Unfortunately, being a kid with only a sister at home (who had no interest in playing the games!), I just used to set the figures up on the tiles and imagine little battles between them. Of course, when I got to my teen years I sold the copies on for a pittance as I also had a decent ps1/ps2 video game collection at this point.
Fast forward to the time where we had to remain indoors for a while and I got myself a copy of Advanced HeroQuest for a decent price because I wanted to try playing the game as it was intended (AND my friend had started to build an AoS collection and I couldn't help but recall my childhood Warhammer/HeroQuest). I had a good idea of how I thought it might play out, though. My only experience with tabletop games were Monopoly, Frustration and Cluedo, so I was really up for something more adventurous, but when I looked at the AHQ manual I can't lie; I found it a bit daunting.
Instantly, I decided to just write what I wanted to play and then read the rules after, but it turned out that most of what I had in mind was already in the ruleset, but with a lot of added padding! So, then the thought came to me to re-write the rules, mashing in whatever I had written that was different and thought would be fun, making it more fun for my little one when he got a bit older.
A couple of years on from that (I still have all my rules written in notepads, including an introduction quest to teach players whilst playing!) and I bought the "Advanced Quest" version of HQ and thought "Hey, why not do something similar here and overhaul the game a bit?". I also had read a little more of Warhammer lore between buying AHQ and HQ and realised there were quite a lot of discrepencies due to Warhammer being primarily targeted for a Wargame than an RPG.
I also saw the story of HeroQuest was certainly fun, but a little on the bare bones side and this is when I had the idea to not only write up a better guide for Solo Play (And add some components/change the enemy layouts) and add models for each of the bosses/unique units, but to write up a story that connected to itself and the Warhammer world in general (A challenge greater than I was expecting!). One thing I knew, is I wanted to keep much of the source material (Art especially) and feel of the game, so I won't be changing the basics, except to rebalance combat a little!
I have now finished the story that will play out across the base game and all the expansions and chosen some old Games Workshop sculpts (And models from another Ian Livingstone game -which I'm sure people know here- called The Legend of Zagor) for each character and special unit. I put quite the amount of hours into reading and writing to make sure continuity doesn't clash (Although, with the return of the Old World, that could change I suppose).

TL;DR:
I'm Jay from the UK and I've been working on a version of HeroQuest I have decided to call "HeroQuest: A WFRPG Version".
Can anyone please point to me the best thread to post my work in? I still need to redo the maps (I've finished them once, but overhauled the story to a point I'm happy with now and as such, they need to be redone!) and work on printing off the tokens I have made, but I'd like to start with the Warhammer friendly story and get somefeedback. On a side note, I think I'm also in the wrong thread now as I have signed up already.

Thanks, everyone!

[HispaZargon]

Hi, Jay!

Welcome to the Inn. Let's come in and see our treasures...

[Daedalus]

TL;DR:
I'm Jay from the UK and I've been working on a version of HeroQuest I have decided to call "HeroQuest: A WFRPG Version".
Can anyone please point to me the best thread to post my work in? I still need to redo the maps (I've finished them once, but overhauled the story to a point I'm happy with now and as such, they need to be redone!) and work on printing off the tokens I have made, but I'd like to start with the Warhammer friendly story and get somefeedback. On a side note, I think I'm also in the wrong thread now as I have signed up already.

Thanks, everyone!

Try Board index ‹ Special Rooms ‹ Adventurer's Guild. And welcome to the Inn.

[Parzival]

Greetings from Tennessee!
I’m a newcomer to the game, thanks to Hasbro’s reproduction. I passed on it back in the day because I was a teenager who played Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, and snobbishly viewed HeroQuest as a “kid’s game” and rip-off of D&D. (I probably couldn’t have afforded it then, anyway, which I would only have seen as justification for my assessment.) It was only as I became older that I became wiser… but alas, the game was long gone from the shelves at that point. Staring at the absurd eBay prices, I assumed I’d lost out… and then I learned of the HasbroPulse kickstarter. Suddenly, the long lost treasure was within my reach! I went whole dragon on the deal and sprang for the full “Mythic” tier (and egged others on to join in).
Now I have every Quest expansion to date! (I’ve skipped the hero sets as not being a decent value).
I’ve managed to paint the Mythic tier figs, including the included expansion sets, plus the Ogre Horde. Still to go: The Frozen Horror, The Mage of the Mirror (which always sets the old Michael Jackson song going in my head), Rise of the Dread Moon, and now the Jungles of D(somethin’)thrak. I’ve got my eye on the First Light set from Target for an eventual sale price.

So it took me a few decades, but I’m all in now!

— Parzival

[Daedalus]

Better late than never--glad you finally got in. Back in the day, I also favored AD&D (2nd edition.) Still, one of my group bought HQ for his brother for Cristmas, so we often flipped between the two games, depending on how much time we had. HQ was so easy to pick up and play on shorter nights. But it really shined when we got some of our non-gamer friends into HQ games.

[Stephen Baker]

Hi everyone, this is Stephen saying a quick hello.

I love this website; there is so much to explore. It's fantastic to see all the creativity around the game. I will be checking in every couple of weeks or so.