My homemade modular game board

[Goblin-King]

Who knows! *puts on troll-face*

[Sjeng]

Send me an autographed copy of Labyrinth please David! I'm such a fan!! Or the OST from the movie

[Maike05]

Speaking of makeing Heroquest board modular, I recently converted the first Quests using my DungeonZ! modular tiles from my tiles blog. Having a modular board is really cool because you can reveal the dungeon as you play and explore it

here is the result:

The trial


Sir Ragnar's rescue


Prince Magnus gold


Orc warlord's lair

[Sjeng]

looks badass man!! cool another one for the blog!

[drathe]

I always love these pictures from people playing HQ / painting mini's, especially the tiny bits of stuff you see around the picture. A glimpse of a person, or the living room, or just something tiny from someone's life
A bookshelf. Makes me want to see more hehe.

The Pepsi can is actually a product placement.

[Goblin-King]

...which is not allowed at Ye Olde Inn. Please remove.

It's in da rules. Look it up!

Did you look it up? How do you feel?

[Maike05]

this modular heroquest board really annoyed me
I think a bit and come up with this solution that won't requires as much small parts as Daria's version :



in grey and white : 1x4 corridors
in blue : 2x5 corridors
in orange: 1x5 corridors
in green : 1x3 corridors.

What do you think ?

[Ethica]

What do you think ?

It's good that it makes a standard HQ board. Flint's system, which alot of modular boards I've seen are based on, doesn't.

But I don't think your solution is ideal for building other modular quests. You've got no 1 x 2 corridoors, only 2 1x3 corridors and 28 1x4 corridors, so there's not much scope for odd length corridors as opposed to denominates of 4. Also a standard HQ board is lacking a 3x3 room and a way of making a room larger than the centre room (with Flint's system you can combine rooms that have the same style of tile to make larger rooms).

I think many of the official quests can be laborious becasue there's alot of walking about passing through rooms that don't really serve any purpose. The original quests would benefit from being rewritten for the modular system anyway and most of the pointless rooms cut out. I'm sure lots of folks would disagree with that.

[Maike05]

here is a working example with The Trial.

[Daria]

Maike05 - I saw you have the tiles for Warhammer Quest posted on your blog. That's badass. I'm totally going to add the quest room tiles to my HeroQuest set. I also really like how your HeroQuest rooms use the edge of the board border to specify walls, really slick effect I wish I'd thought of when printing out my rooms.

Hmm.. I also like how your system doesn't use corner pieces. I wonder if the halls would line up better with the rooms that way- or maybe not because the boarders would skew the way the floor tiles line up. I'll have to try both and see which works best for me.