Heroquest remake by Hasbro - The BIG discussion thread

[elvyler]

I don't think it will be a big deal if the campaign reaches 3m and we get the orc comedian. It's a crowdfund exclusive item correct? If they do take HeroQuest to retail, they won't include any of the extras, only the people who backed the project would have the bard. I don't think that would make him an official part of the game. Maybe just a legend, that some people have heard about.

[arntisdale]

I always think to Fortnite - this is the kind of art that is popular now and sells like hotcakes. So, we get a new Heroquest that kinda looks like fortnite with the style and proportions

Hasboro cares more about selling to the millions of new kids that dont know about Heroquest rather than the sizable but likely tiny in comparison "Real" fans that want more from a new release

I'm not a fortnite player, but from what I've seen I don't think HeroQuest matches fortnite style at all.
Where's our super hot scantily clad/skin-tight-outfit big boobed chicks? There aren't any in HeroQuest. There are in fortnite.

[arntisdale]

So they have a downloadable quest. https://heroquest.avalonhill.com/en-us/article/heroquest_rogars_hall
I don't know if I have anything good to say about it.
1.) It is a 'training quest' but it is way to hard for new characters (You can tell that just at a glance... There is a room with 3 chaos dread warriors in it the 2 chaos warrior room in The Trial is a death trap.)
2.) I literally cannot tell what monsters are what at a glance. (I think I've got them all through process of elimination, but the quest map is not somewhere to flex your artist muscle, it is where you ask yourself can a 7 year old understand the picture? and if the answer is no you fix it.)
3.) The map itself is hard on my eyes. (This may just be me... but it is hard to look at.)
4.) There is no letter G on the actual map. I'm assuming it goes by the secret door by the ?zombies? in the hall to the east of the center room, but that is just an assumption.

It's definitely too hard, but from the quest description, that seems to be the point. It's an 'illusory simulation' designed to test the heroes in an extremely tough dungeon. Mentor is following them around giving them potions, so that should help.
The map looked fine to me, and I was able to ID all the monsters at a glance, even though I didn't recognize the icons for all of them, I'd bet money that my first guess ID's are correct.
There's no G, that's for sure.

I really like the unique mechanics that they've thrown in here: the poison Goblins, the gargoyle that casts a random chaos spell at the beginning of is every turn, the random artifact in the chests.
The idea of Mentor following them around handing out potions when they hit zero BP is a little weird. What's the point of the Mentor mini other than 'lookin' cool'? Instructions tell us he can move to any space, so other than lookin' cool, I suppose he can get in the way a little bit, but without rules on how to move Mentor, you could scoot him to wherever you want whenever you want.... soo.... back to just for lookin' cool?

If this is an illusory simulation dungeon, are the heroes still permitted to search for treasure? If they are, isn't any gold they find not real? So what's the point of searching for treasure. In a true HeroQuest dungeon runthrough, heroes must to balance combat and treasure-seeking carefully. This quest seems totally combat-based, and wouldn't necessarily help the players learn the nuances of when and how to best use their available actions.

Maybe I'm overthinking the whole thing.

[Oftkilted]

I always think to Fortnite - this is the kind of art that is popular now and sells like hotcakes. So, we get a new Heroquest that kinda looks like fortnite with the style and proportions

Hasboro cares more about selling to the millions of new kids that dont know about Heroquest rather than the sizable but likely tiny in comparison "Real" fans that want more from a new release

I'm not a fortnite player, but from what I've seen I don't think HeroQuest matches fortnite style at all.
Where's our super hot scantily clad big boobed chicks? There aren't any in HeroQuest. There are in fortnite.

I am not sure that you’re really familiar with the sword and sorcery genre.

Let me Google that for you...

As a heads up ... There’s a lot of that in classic sword and sorcery artwork ... maybe not in Warhammer. But definitely in Les Edwards work. But there was a crazy amount in the 70’s and even in the 80’s.

Take a look at Frank Frazetta’s work as an example:
https://www.geek-art.net/en/frank-fraze ... ntasy-art/

[Darkfox190]

I always think to Fortnite - this is the kind of art that is popular now and sells like hotcakes. So, we get a new Heroquest that kinda looks like fortnite with the style and proportions

Hasboro cares more about selling to the millions of new kids that dont know about Heroquest rather than the sizable but likely tiny in comparison "Real" fans that want more from a new release

I'm not a fortnite player, but from what I've seen I don't think HeroQuest matches fortnite style at all.
Where's our super hot scantily clad big boobed chicks? There aren't any in HeroQuest. There are in fortnite.

I am not sure that you’re really familiar with the sword and sorcery genre.

Let me Google that for you...

As a heads up ... There’s a lot of that in classic sword and sorcery artwork ... maybe not in Warhammer. But definitely in Les Edwards work. But there was a crazy amount in the 70’s and even in the 80’s.

Take a look at Frank Frazetta’s work as an example:
https://www.geek-art.net/en/frank-fraze ... ntasy-art/

That's wonderful and all, but that's entirely not the subject you're responding to.

[Oftkilted]

I’m looking at HeroQuest as an implementation of Sword and Sorcery. Based on the artwork on the cover of the original Box.

And there definitely were scantily clad chicks in the sword and sorcery artwork.

Were there any in Warhammer ... not so much. Though you could argue that some of the Wood Elves and Druid are skimpily attired, and the Slaanesh Chaos Daemons definitely had a lot of that going on. Both of which were in the old HeroQuest universe. Even if they weren’t directly in the game.

The new box art style is a different style of artwork, it is less “real” from an artistic standpoint and more stylized.

The art by Les Edwards on the cover of HeroQuest is a direct hearkening back to the Sword and Sorcery styles from the 70’s. You can see the influences when you look back at the old Sword and Sorcery art.

The new art is a more minimalistic interpretation that aligns with the current day artwork, much like the old style was aligning with the artwork of its timeframe of 30 years ago.

[Orc26]

Other than failing to scratch the nostalgic itch with their box cover and failing in every way with druid1 and druid2 I'm fine with the art.

[Pancho]

Don’t forget the Witch Elves. When I was younger I wanted to, ahem, “date” a Witch Elf.

[Orc26]

What is a witch elf?
My purititanical eyes have been scared by that Google search...
Kidding about the puritanical eyes part.

[Pancho]

What is a witch elf?

Very scantily clad Dark Elf females who take hallucinogenic drugs and delight in torture and slaughter. Warhammer fantasy players use to call them “bitch elves”.