HeroQuest

Hero Quest is a board game, which is based on fantasy role-playing games. The game of Stephen Baker was created in collaboration with Games Workshop and was released by the label Hasbro Milton Bradley in 1989 in different languages ​​in Europe and Australia. In 1990 a revised edition in the U.S.. Games Workshop sold all available materials in April 1993 Hasbro; Since 1993, the game is no longer produced.

Gameplay

In HeroQuest each participant as these dungeons for monsters ( enemies ) and makes an estimate of four heroes ( barbarian, dwarf, Alb or wizard ), which all have different abilities, and searched ( rewards ).

The background story of the game is based on well-known fantasy games and tabletops. Here, however, do not occur armies against each other, but a small group of heroes in typical RPG style against a relatively small number of opponents.

A field in which several rooms are located, serves as a game board; three-dimensional furniture, doors, figures, etc. are provided depending on the situation gradually on the game board. It is interesting that the player is not at once can see all the rooms ( the board is initially empty), but the rooms to be set up at the entrance and equipped with monsters; So the players explore their surroundings. Another feature of the game are the Citadel ( Games Workshop ) modeled, paintable plastic figures.

As in role-playing games play the four players together as a group against the game master (who " Morcar ", the evil, personified ); he has the game plan, to which all rooms, traps, monsters, treasures, etc. are recorded. Fighting is done with a very simple and uncomplicated cube system. Commercially available equipment, artifacts and treasure maps serve the gradual development of your own character.

Extensions and Versions

In addition to the basic game are in Europe yet appeared four extensions:

Two further extensions are published exclusively in the USA:

All extensions are a new quest book, new overlays (which can be placed over the existing field to change its appearance) and other miniatures with. In addition will be more Match Cards ( treasures, spells, ... ) with some extensions. The appeared in the USA extensions are also with female game characters ( barbarian or elf ) equipped, but do not increase the number of potential players, but merely serve as a substitute for the male characters from the base game.

In Europe 1990 Adventure Design Kit also appeared. An extension with templates, stickers and blank plans are helping to build your own levels.

Published in Europe 1992 Master Edition (Advanced Quest Edition) - an alternative version of the base game with additional content - also included the Extension The Black Guards ( The Dark Company).

Similar Games

Production of the game was set years ago; the parts of the extension sets have become coveted collectors' items worldwide among gaming fans. Games Workshop published 1989 Advanced HeroQuest (marketed in Germany as a master of the sword of clover ), which players aged 14 and over should introduce rules with advanced further into the RPG world. After the expansion, The Terror in the Dark in 1991, however, this has been discontinued. A simplified variant thereof called Mighty Warriors was formed in 1991 to a spin. Published in 1995 Games Workshop another game with this gameplay, Warhammer Quest. Although initially strongly supported with extensions, and wanted by the fans today as a collectible, it has now been set.

Nevertheless Hero Quest is considered a spinoff of tabletop games Warhammer (or Star Quest for Warhammer 40k ), so the Hero Quest World has striking similarities with the Warhammer fantasy world. So the dwarf festivals hot there also mostly " Karak ..." and " Karak Varn " ( the first expansion for Hero Quest, which is a place ) is also found in the east of the Empire of the Warhammer fantasy world again.

The gameplay and the success of Hero Quest inspired many other companies and licensors, to bring your own board game variants thereof on the market, but often without much success. Noteworthy are, among others, the following systems:

  • Lord of the sword, from Clover games ( German version of the board game Advanced Hero Quest )
  • The DSA series (DSA - Castle of Terror, DSA - Village of horror, DSA ​​- Valley of the dragon, DSA - Battle of the dinosaurs )
  • The Legend of Sagor, a variant with electronic accessories
  • Dungeons and Dragons, the current board game by Parker
  • Descent: Journeys in the Dark ( German: Descent: Journeys in the Dark ), published in 2005, now (as of January 2011) there are five extensions
  • Doom - the board game, published in 2005, the computer game Doom 3 modeled
  • The Claymore Saga

Others

In the North American version (USA and Canada), the game, the game master / the evil one " Zargon " means.

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