Hellow

[Beiren]

Hellow,

I"m Beiren and I have Heroquest for a long time. I got it for my 6th, 7th or 8th birthday (I'm from 1983). I used to play it with my friends but we didn't understand the gamerules and we took each dungeon seperate. We didn't saw that it was one long quest. So we didn't quiet got everything out of it. But I remember playing Heroquest when one of my friends came over to sleep in a tent in the backyard (I was about 10year I guess). We played this game untill deep in the next with wind and rain coming down over our tent. Especially funny when my mom came to ask us if we didn't want to come inside, and we just said no and send her back trough to rain inside. We had to much fun playing.

Fast forward to these days.
Together with my family in law we are playing th settlers of catan quiet alot. But because I'm rather strong at that, they sometimes team up all against me. I don't know how, but for some reason I thought about Heroquest. 1 Evil wizard and all the others against him. Sounds like most games we play. When I was looking for info about Heroquest I stumbeled upon this site.

I have been looking around here a bit. And I have told to my inlaws that I have this game and that I will prepare it to be played with the entire group.
I have been reading through the manuals and saw that the European rules (I'm from Belgium) have some flaws. One life for every creature for instance is ridiculious.
So I'm working on a total game so that there is no misinterpretation afterwards. THey don't know the original rules so I can make up what I want.
I have told one rule to my wife: 'The heroes should always win, but they should have had a hard but fun time"

Beiren

[IvenBach]

Welcome. Use the NA rules. A lot of members on the forum seem to agree it's the way to run it.

[knightkrawler]

I second this. NA rules sprinkled with a houserule here and there, if needed.

[chaoticprime]

I have told one rule to my wife: 'The heroes should always win, but they should have had a hard but fun time"

Beiren

aAARGH, MY BRAIN

[knightkrawler]

Oh yeah, that was the passage I felt time stop, slipped through the wrong leg of the Trousers of Reality and then I just forgot about the alien experiments done to me.
Welcome, Beiren, Curtisan of Heroes.

[Beiren]

Normally I always go for the win, but I slaugther them from the beginning (the opening quest of the european package is way to though) they stop playing it before they even got properly started. So that's why I think heroes should win. Ofcourse I go for the Evil wizard myself and from time to time a hero should die.

[el_flesh]

I totally agree. There HAS to be danger about it, otherwise it isn't fun to play. But characters dying every game is also not fun, either.

By the way...WELCOME!

[Sjeng]

Welkom bij ons forum!

I killed off a dwarf yesterday. In HeroQuest that is. I also use the NA rules. I created EU cards of all the NA cards, like chaos and elf spells. Be sure to grab those too.

[IvenBach]

There HAS to be danger about it, otherwise it isn't fun to play.

Oh how I wish my group felt the same way... The thought I stacked the deck when they actually pulled traps and wandering monsters instead of all treasure like the first few quests.

Keep us posted on how it goes in your attempt to kill the heroes, or play the game as most would say.

[Daedalus]

Welcome, Beiren. It seems Hero Quest is a good choice for your group, with you as the evil wizard player. You rightly understand that the first Quest is very tough, so a simple solution that will gradually reward your group without you needing to give them the win is to start with Quest 2. Quest 1 is better balanced to be played after the first 5 Quests, so insert it then. It was made extra tough to drive home the point that the Heroes need to stick together, but your group probably already understands that, as they have been teaming up against you already.

Let us know how things work out. The Saturday Night Dungeon section of the forum is a great place to post if you want to include some detail, otherwise we can read about it in this thread.