Heroquest remake by Hasbro - The BIG discussion thread

[lestodante]

They posted a new pic a couple of days ago...

[iKarith]

The proportions are definitely too manlike for my taste. But aside from that, the above mini doesn't feel "off" too me in the same way the orc bard does.

The thing is, the classic HQ orc doesn't look all that "I am EEEVILLLE!" to me. More the more classic D&D alignment evil, sure, but frankly they look too stupid to be otherwise. I kinda like them that way, actually. But again, I grew up without really having access to the Warhammer universe, so I see them as following orders. Kill pink skin things? Okay, kill is fun. They squeal when die. Good meat. Hunt is fun too!

That doesn't seem to be lost in the mini above (but maybe it was not intended?) The thing is, if the orc is too stupid to be consciously choosing evil over good, he's also too stupid to choose good over evil. And that's why an orc bard makes no sense, even assuming he didn't need to be a master of song and verse, an eloquent storyteller, a charismatic, a musician, a performer, and other traits I would associate with the gleeman's trade—since that is the RP role of the bard class in D&D when they're not working certain magics to make them actually useful in a fight.

Feel free to tell me where I've gotten things wrong in terms of the Warhammer setting. One should never fear being wrong if it means a chance to learn something interesting.

[lestodante]

Another possibility, the Orc Bard is just a Bard Hero trapped in an Orc body by some sortilege from the Spirit Queen!
(simlar to the frog prince)

[Cael Darkhollow]

Another possibility, the Orc Bard is just a Bard Hero trapped in an Orc body by some sortilege from the Spirit Queen!
(simlar to the frog prince)

The best reasoning I've heard to "explain" the otherwise incongruous orc bard yet. What sorcery is this? I have been turned into an orc!
Unfortunately makes me think of Shrek even more though as if the figurine didn't already scream Shrek knock-off, or at the very least Pirates of the Caribbean.
Sad really, that in our despair we have to concoct such far fetched nonsense to accommodate a character we know doesn't fit HeroQuest.


I do like the look of that furniture though. Excited for that.

[Kurgan]

Thanks for sharing!

That's Zargon... I mean Mentor's face on the fireplace? Granted, this is the "painted" version...

That Mummy is doing the "walk like an Egyptian" pose, isn't he? I always loved the classic Orc pose and expression but this is just okay, aside from the super sword.

[Kurgan]

I updated the "Unboxing" thread with a list of questions. I'm open to suggestions here too...

[Shadzar]

I think I will be replacing the fragile skeletons shown in the preview with these guys to have more fitting to the chaos dread warriors with it.



Also it seems HASBRO has placed Avalon Hill back under Wizards Gaming and Digital, so WotC is again in control over HeroQuest and all other Avalon Hill properties.

[iKarith]

Also it seems HASBRO has placed Avalon Hill back under Wizards Gaming and Digital, so WotC is again in control over HeroQuest and all other Avalon Hill properties.

Disappointing, given recent trends in D&D and MTG.

But I stand where I've said I do: If the HQ remake comes to the open market, online via the Pulse website or retail, I'll buy a base game and any quest pack they release. Probably a second base game as well, just to ensure that I have sufficient STUFF for whatever I want to do with it.

It's a proper scale board and fresh minis and extra furniture if it's nothing else. If new quests come along and they're decent, then it's that too. I don't care if Hasbro considers this just a cash grab—give me plastic and cardboard that suits my gaming interests and I will give you money for them. I'm entirely prepared to cast aside anything I can't use (so far just the orc bard) and use anything else to my own ends.

We've always got the Inn and its resources and, failing that, I'm pretty sure someone out there has set up a wget to download the …

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… of content from the site even though robots.txt explicitly tells bots not to do that … and if Hasbro made drathe pull all that stuff from the site, it would absolutely find its way into as many hands as wanted it via other means. Can't stop the signal, and what the Internet has, the Internet shall keep. We don't NEED Hasbro, Avalon Hill, or Wizards of the Coast to keep this game alive and playable by anyone who wants to play it. They're making my favorite fun little board game more accessible to more people? I'd much rather give them money to keep doing that than give it to some eBay scalper!

[Shadzar]

Disappointing, given recent trends in D&D and MTG.

You think you were disappointed before...

More bad news for HQ, and we already can see D&D is dead....

Teos, who admits "working on the HeroQuest Project", doesnt understand either property. It is bad enough for D&D, but he is likely bringing this to HQ also.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=natiiY9eFl0

Designing or building a world is the job of the DM, if you want to make the world, then you aren't a player, you are a DM. This goes true for HQ as well but you are Zargon/Morcar, not one of the Hero players.

[Kurgan]

Hmmm.... (above video) so Pennywise out of makeup and the gal from 50 Shades play "MadLibs Quest." I just call it brainstorming.

Imagine a quest book where the players basically decide the story. If it went that direction I guess we wouldn't have to worry so much about having corrupted lore foist upon us. Something so generic would make those who fundraised it feel pretty foolish...
I picture a Mad Libs quest where you draw random cards for the artifacts you're looking for and the bosses you fight. Actually wouldn't be too bad, but we could always create our own quests, the point is we wanted new "official" quests like he was writing (I cared less about those than the Stephen Baker book, to me this fellow was an unknown quantity... I'm not a D&D player).

"Yo Zargon, so I want to fight lots of Orcs, and Treasure... I'd like to find lots of Treasure. Maybe there should be some magic. But not too many traps..." ??

Then again this could also happen...