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Reply To: Could Heroquest be finally coming back again?

July 30, 2020 at 7:58 am #1554295

darkvoivod

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I’ve played both heroquest and and advanced heroquest not so long ago. I found advanced heroquest a slog. It was slow and boring. I sold of my copy to a friend, who collects GW games, for the same price I got it from ebay for.
Heroquest itself I got a pristine copy off off a site to sit on my shelf and I probably will paint it up at some point, but it’s certainly a kids game.
It doesn’t hold up to more modern games of the genre. I LOVED it as a kid and it was my gateway drug, as well.
But for modern audiences there needs to be some serious re-balancing done as, when played with adults, the hreoes have a breeze. We call it swat-quest in my gaming group. Players would methodically clear room after room. Search for threasure and prepare for the next room. That’s not to say we didn’t have a good laugh for a couple of evenings.

But If I hadn’t played it as a kid, I’d been seriously dissappointed