Until recently.
I took the game down a few months back to show my son, and he was definitely interested. Time passed with the busyness of work, school, and extracurricular activities, and the game sat close to the dining room table for months. My son asked if he could play, so I got it down for him, and he would do what I did: play with the minis and setup the board as a playset. But that just wouldn't do. I told him we were going to play for real! He was pumped. Again, I had actually never played the game before, so I browsed through the rulebook, and we played a quick home-brew game on the fly, just to get used to it. Then his SISTERS got interested. We played another home-brew game just to get the rules down. Then we cracked open THE QUESTBOOK (which I printed off the internet because I seemed to have lost the real one).
THEY LOVED IT! We played the first quest over 2 or 3 30-45 min sessions, and they can't wait to play the next one. I have the original set that is 99% complete and just recently purchased a large lot off ebay that looks like it has the Kellar's Keep and Return of the Witch Lord expansions sets, plus 2 copies of the game (which may be incomplete).
I am also a collector of CMON boardgames (don't play them, just collect them), but since my kids are now interested, I plan on adapting monsters from the games to use in Heroquest. They will also use the heroes from these games, but in the same classes as the original. Right now I am working on adapting Zombicide: Black Plague, Zombidice: Green Horde, Massive Darkness, and Rising Sun. I'm also looking into adopting the Massive Darkness dice to use to ease the confusion of rolling skulls, white shields, and black shields. Eventually I would like to create a boardgame based simple RPG to play with my kids.
I hope to be a great fit here. Thanks!
Here are some pics of the CMON boardgames I listed:
Z:BP 'Survivor' PCs and Zombies -
Z:GH 'Survivor' PCs and Orc/Goblin Zombies:
Z:GH Feral DRAGON!:
MD Heroes, Monsters, and Dice:
