HEROQUEST:
What You Think

After I got the game, I also got all the expansions available here in the Netherlands - Kellar's Keep, Return of the Witchlord (man, is he cool), Wizards of Morcar, and the Adventure Design Kit. I notice that the American editions look quite different from mine, though it's just the cards, books and boxes.

What has not been mentioned here is that it's also easy and fun to design your own adventures and additional rules (and there are lots available on the net).

Then, I heard that there were expansion packs for it, but unfortunately I didn't have enough money to buy them, so the passion just faded after a while. But then, I got inspired again while watching the movie Beastmaster II so, a couple months ago, I went in search of the expansion packs, and was kinda saddened when I found that they were no longer in production.

And now, I got inspired once again, so this time I looked online for a possible answer and stumbled upon this site. I was ecstatic! I'm so happy there are other people out there just as enthusiastic as I am about a game that in my opinion has set a very big stepping stone for other, more advanced games to come forth. I dearly hope that the producers of HeroQuest (MB and Games Workshop) will come together and remake this game for us to enjoy once again...Does anyone out there know of a site that features a profile on the characters and enemies, with like pictures if possible?

I was...about ten years old. I got it for christmas and was so excited. I remember two things - my grandfather accusing me of being Satanic...and first putting together the components (and breaking a few minies in the process) :(

I still have it, though, and the Dwarf, Elf, and Witch Lord expansions. :)

I still use those old minies for my other games (I really like those Fimir).

I owned Ogre Quest and The Return of the Witch Lord. (I have long since sold them.)

I had an elf named Magily who was a true hero in any world. He began in Melar's Maze and finished with the Witch Lord. He continued to defeat him again in his return, and went on to fight the Ogres. In the final game of the Ogre Horde, only Magily and the Barbarian (Gorfiller) remained, and they confronted the Mummies. Seeing so many young heroes die, I made Magily in his weakened state attack both so that Gorfiller could go free. Magily finished one off but fell to the last one, the last monster in the game, three steps from freedom. Gorfiller lived, but I will never forget Magily. My recollection tells me that he completed something like 19 games. That is not bad. I cannot forget such a great game!!! It is things like this that some more complex games lack. I would love to see it re-made!

I played HeroQuest for the first time last summer, although I saw the game for the first time many years ago. It is the best boardgame that I know of!

I don't play it much anymore; but that's because I don't have many people to play with. I think a lot more people would play it if it was more complex and customizable. I do that anyway, but it's harder than with FRPGs where you can just do anything you can think of. I think Games Workshop or MB, or whoever has the go here, should team up with WOTC or something and make an FRPG. It would be a lot more involving, and a lot more people play big complex RPGs than board-based ones. However, HeroQuest is easily expanded, but it is time consuming. If you collect Warhammer figures, you can incorperate some of them into it.

About the best thing to do is buy that fantasy board game from TSR (which, although bigger, wasn't better). It had four boards and pieces which can be used with HeroQuest, so you can have outdoor adventures and things. The TSR boards are a lot more detailed than the HeroQuest board. You can buy any miniature gaming board to play with!

So even though HeroQuest is basic and it's not made anymore, doesn't mean it can't kick if you put in a little effort and ingenuity, not to mention imagination.

A great quote came from one game. I, my best friend, and our wives were playing Heroquest. It was the wives' first time. At one point, my buddy (who was running the elf) refused to go into a room first. His wife glared at him and said "Oh, so you're one of those Keebler elves, huh?"

Anyhow, get it and play it. And the combat system isn't a bad system for skirmish games either.

Unfortunately, we have beat all the quests and it takes a while to write an entire quest book for new quests. I hope that MB does re-release it. If not with new quests then at least re-release the old ones that weren't released in the U.S.

If anyone has any good new quests, please put them on the Web so we can all share them.

Please make your own maps for me to see. I have tons of them, but they are easy or impossible to beat. More maps would make this more interesting.

That's too bad, that they are not remaking the game.

My friends and I have played it many times and have created many adventures of our own. We have even taken multiple boards and multiple heroes and had some huge campaigns. GREAT GAME!!!!!