HeroQuest
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HeroQuest is a board game made by Games Workshop and Milton Bradley with two rules:
- Everyone wants to be the barbarian
- No one wants to be the wizard
The basic idea of Heroquest is that you control a pre-built party of stock fantasy characters (Barbarian, Dwarf, Elf and Wizard) running through pre-made or custom-made modules on a board while another guy plays the evil wizard and his armies of monsters of the greenskin, viking, Fimir, and undead varieties. It is, in essence, an extremely stripped down version of D&D made to be as simple as possible while still providing a dungeon-crawling experience.
Comes with awesome 25mm dungeon furniture.
HeroQuest is the not the first of it's kind, but it is considered the progenitor of a lineage of minis and dungeon-crawler games:
- HeroQuest (1989)
- Advanced HeroQuest (1989)
- DragonQuest (1992)
- Mutant Chronicles: Siege of the Citadel (1993)
- Warhammer Quest (1995)
- BrickQuest (2003)
- Doom: The Boardgame (2004, 2018)
- Descent: Journeys in the Dark (2005)
- LEGO Heroica (2011)
The Best Thing About HeroQuest
- The miniatures, made in the days before GW had been destroyed from within
- The gargoyle
- The tiny furniture (it helps with mormons)
- The cards - even in the local international poker tournament
- The board, with its vibrant colours
- The quest book
- The box art
- The inside of the box - clear instructions of how to assemble the miniatures. With WORDS
- The crrrracking screen. Prominently features the gargoyle
- THE BRODE SODE
- Rolling to move
- Ignoring the roll to move
- The combat dice
- The BARbarian - look at the MUSCULAAARRRITEEEEEEEE
- The dwarf
The expansionswhich you should immediately discard to obtain the Fortress o'peril or Gravityland
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Classics: | Backgammon - Chess - Go - Tafl - Tic-Tac-Toe |
Ameritrash: | Arkham Horror - Axis & Allies - Battleship - Betrayal at House on the Hill - Car Wars Clue/Cluedo - Cosmic Encounter - Descent: Journeys in the Dark - Dungeon! Firefly: The Game - HeroQuest - Monopoly - Mousetrap - Snakes and Ladders - Risk Talisman - Trivial Pursuit |
Eurogames: | Agricola - Carcassonne - The Duke - Settlers of Catan - Small World - Stratego - Ticket to Ride |
Pure Evil: | Diplomacy - Dune (aka Rex: Final Days of an Empire) - Monopoly - The Duke |
Others: | Icehouse - Shadow Hunters - Twilight Imperium - Wingspan |