RISE OF THE DREAD MOON discussion

[LucaRocks]

Or what if they do Prophecy and Spirit queen together ala KK and RotWL? Prophecy did have a smaller KK like box after all.

Hmmm...

[Maalicia_Ironhoof]

that would be cool! All 3 would be better

Although I believe there were comments somewhere they there are complications around the possibility of releasing COPD due to issues tied up with the Joe...

I'm not fussed as I own mythic but having corrected versions with tiles will be great.

[Kurgan]

27 quests in one box? Sure, why not. Both books would fit...


photo from Reddit by vincezo1985:

[Kurgan]

The Stephen Baker narrated story promo video is up on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS0PwjhoxIg

Virg pointed out there is an "A" on lots of the various bad guy models and artwork throughout the remake and he suspects that little divot you glimpse on the edge of the Dread Wraith model may be a stamp of that image on the bottom (similar to how the Frozen Horror had a cool looking, but useless for actual gameplay "black shield" carved into the bottom of its base):

[Kurgan]

From the newly released video... (thanks Ribby for sharing it with HeroQuestFans discord!) even though these guys aren't in the box on the left and right of the main knight, here again we have the blind captain and the dashing orc guard...

Cadre of the Raven's Veil. He pronounces it like "Carder" (he's British).

Always attentive to detail, Virg pointed out that the Dread Warriors are portrayed here as being much larger than the Magus Guards...


Special thanks to Encarmine for teasing us again & again!

[Kurgan]

I don't have the expansion yet (and probably won't for a few weeks at least), but just reporting here...

More from reddit's vincezo1985 (posted 7/3/23) a fan who got it early from a store in the UK, reportedly...

Note: There is only one elf table in the box, according to the back of the box.
There are only 4 "Elven Mercs" in the box (the dark red ones; one of each "type" as confirmed on the back of the box).

[Kurgan]

HeroQuest Day tomorrow has caused us to change our plans...

New Sat plans... we'll be watching 4pm ET/1pm PT Shelfside – “Knight Fall,” https://www.youtube.com/c/Shelfside. Then immediately after we'll start our HeroQuestFans stream on http://www.twitch.tv/heroquestfans and stream until the event at 7pm ET/4pm PT Paula Deming – “Ancient Waterways Within” (quest 1) https://www.youtube.com/@PaulaDeming which we can break for and watch unless the group is wanting to avoid spoilers I suppose. Then if people aren't too tired, we'll resume our stream until 10pm for Frozen Horror. All are welcome at our interactive stream!

https://www.twitch.tv/heroquestfans/schedule Twitch schedule. Obviously shout out to those youtubers doing the official partner streams for Avalon Hill, showcasing the Game System, Mage of the Mirror and Rise of the Dread Moon... Read more at the link here.

[Kurgan]

New CGI images and youtube partner ShelfSide (who is showing off the prequel quest tomorrow afternoon right before it goes up for download) posing with his box (youtube Paula Deming does the first quest three hours later). The guy has done some popular heroquest videos in the past (I hadn't seen those but I recall his LOTR game video).

Though they are streaming live, you'll still be able to watch the videos after too, I presume. Not sure if they'll have moderators on hand to answer questions. That they have 3 hours setup could mean they are going to really play it live and allow time for a replay if there's a total party kill. Or perhaps they're allowing time to do other demo stuff at the same time. Assuming it isn't pre-recorded and they do answer questions during the premiere. Or maybe there will be a break in between... EQP & BQP had longer quests (2-4 hours instead of 1-2 hours for GS/KK/ROTWL). Then again if the two Rise of the Dread Moon quests are solos they might only take 1 hour, which would mean lots more time to schmooze or a bigger break in between.

Either way I'm going to stream in between as much as we can to get more Frozen Horror action in. Good luck to all those streamers!

[Kurgan]

Gamestop screw up... funny to imagine though!

Virg posted a link to Paula Deming's (Rise of the Dread Moon Quest 1) stream tomorrow evening: here on discord.

Direct Link: https://www.youtube.com/live/Wr83VV0CG-s?feature=share

[Kurgan]

Virg reported that actually the official release date is NOW back once again to the 15th (tomorrow).

Virg also points out that a more direct place to get the PDFs (and different file size versions of them in different quality) is here: https://instructions.hasbro.com/en-us/all-instructions?search=heroquest