Heroquest remake by Hasbro - The BIG discussion thread

[Kurgan]

I haven't had a chance to play the actual remake set, but I've made mods for it and my niece played around with the minis. Not much of a showing yet I guess? It's been hard to get together and when we do, people wanted to do other stuff. I haven't played a zoom game of HeroQuest all year, unfortunately (the people I played with before have had other things going on).

I think some of it was that while covid lockdowns were happening, people were more inclined to try stuff out like that, but as restrictions were lifted and people felt a little safer, they didn't have as much time or desire to hang around trying to play a game like this for hours at a time. Maybe others have had different mileage. My thing was always wanting to connect with other fans, especially those who hadn't played in a long time or rarely get a chance otherwise.

Eventually I hope to play the remake for real, but apart from having some extra cards (we used custom printed equipment cards anyway) it's just a re-skin for us since we have played HeroQuest together in the last year with the classic NA sets.


I guess playtesting the new quests and new heroes would be something interesting sometime.

[Nlinindoll]

So, all criticisms aside and other critiques, has everyone enjoyed getting into playing this again? I haven't played yet because my two kids are too young, but I am working on painting every single figure (taking longer than I thought).

I'm just loving the revival, and that community is so active again.

I am loving it as well. I’ve got seven players who are playing regularly with me (six of them completely new to the game and one who played the original with me from 2011-2015). Not all seven show up at once, but I’m hosting an almost weekly game night since I received my Mythic Tier at the beginning of November. We are about 25 quests in…. Finished the core quests, did quite a few side quests (homebrew and one-offs) and now we are part way through Kellar’s Keep.

It’s been a blast. My players have almost no tabletop or RPG experience (except for the one player). We have a private FB group that’s very active. I’m so grateful that Hasbro has brought the game back.

[MacSteve75]

I am enjoying the new HeroQuest game, but mostly by myself at the moment. I downloaded the Dungeon Master App to my iPhone and have been playing through the base game. It also has two of the expansion modules--Kellar's Keep and Return of the Witch Lord--so I have some adventures left to play.

My oldest son and three of my grandsons live in Arizona and we play when I get down there a couple of times a year. They have my original 1990s classic game at their home which my three sons and I played when they were boys.

HeroQuest in our family is multi-generational.

[Kurgan]

That said, I DO want to play, whether it's over zoom or in person, it's just there haven't been as many opportunities for that lately.

[elvyler]

Since I haven't had my original set of Heroquest for a almost 2 decades, I'm enjoying the remake. I played it a few times with the kids while a friend of ours was visiting from out of town. Now the kids refuse to play it with me until he comes back because they don't want him to miss anything!

The kids had trouble with Lair of the Orc Warlord. Lost the Barbarian pretty early on and everyone else was pretty badly injured. They just barely managed to escape. I had to create a Return to the Lair of the Orc Warlord quest with a slightly modified layout.

[AndYpsilon]

Is it just me? I don't like a SINGLE mini from this rerelease aside from the furniture updates. When comparing to the original there is no comparison, but even as a standalone game with no past reference or comparison I don't like any of the model designs. The barbarian is the only one that is passable.

100% agree. They just don’t feel like the ‚real‘ HQ for me, besides the quality issues.
I stick to my oldschool set and maybe just print some of the new cards that are missing in the original edition.

[Fullork345]

I saw the barbarian pack was confirmed on Twitter and they implied ogre hordes is comming, that could be neat. Then they just have 2 more and then actually making wizard and dwarf packs would be neat.

[Blayze]

I saw the barbarian pack was confirmed on Twitter and they implied ogre hordes is comming, that could be neat. Then they just have 2 more and then actually making wizard and dwarf packs would be neat.

There's also The Dark Company.

[Fullork345]

I saw the barbarian pack was confirmed on Twitter and they implied ogre hordes is comming, that could be neat. Then they just have 2 more and then actually making wizard and dwarf packs would be neat.

There's also The Dark Company.

That's true, that could easily be added on to one of the others though, unless they change it to officially 4 boards.

[Kurgan]

Imagine if they did that... "hey fans, you have to buy three more copies of the base game in order to play this extra long quest!"

I can almost guarantee they won't do this, it's just a super fan dream.