What's the consensus on Heroquest? I only recently got into warhammer and I need something easier for my well adjusted friend to play.
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What's the consensus on Heroquest?
What's the consensus on Heroquest? I only recently got into warhammer and I need something easier for my well adjusted friend to play.
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Casual fun. Don't let the players over-gear, however, or the combat becomes trivial.
is HeroQuest even set in the Warhammer setting?
Yes. Both original and advanced hero quest were set in the Warhammer world. They then expanded into Warhammer quest which was even more detailed.
Modern re-release still pays homage to its warhammer roots as well, despite having the serial numbers filed off.
Just play Combat Patrol with them, it's cheaper and less involved but I guess it comes down to if your friend is even interested in Warhammer at all.
The classes are blatantly unbalanced between each other, and the strategic depth is shorter than your figurines. Fun if you're having a goofy night with your friends, but it's a "roll dice, cheer if they're high, boo if it's low" experience. The stories are mostly just excuses to go murder-hobo'ing as you find room after room of unnamed mooks you're supposed to kill, loot, and move on from, so I'd recommend going all in on describing details of the rooms and making every named npc overly dramatic so they have something to roleplay with.
Its current popularity is probably only because of the nostalgia factor. Hell, I bought a copy of the remake because my dad used to run it for me, my brother, and two of our cousins in the summers.
I'd add that the combat mechanics are very simple and elegant, it's pared right down so kids can understand what is going on.
You can absolutely ham up the RPG aspect of it, and throw extra monsters at players who are faffing around.
The game RAW is a push risk reward mechanism - if you keep exploring you risk finding enemies and taking damage - and you can't replenish HP or spells during a mission without using spells or items that do not replenish at all.
However, searching and exploring can reward you with gold and useful items - so if you are doing well, your risk tolerance gets higher and if you are getting hammered you might want to limp out of there asap
Enemies don't have HP in most versions, they either save all the damage or they die. This cuts out any kind of bookkeeping that doesn't involve player resources and keeps threat level apparent.
Spells vary in power level from autotake to situational but being able to walk through walls and shut down an enemy for a turn are examples- there is no fireball equivalent that you can use to farm enemies and the spells are used once per misson, then discarded. This means the wiz is really useful but not OP- you will rely on sword to back up that sorcery.
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It's a very basic grid combat board game with some light roleplay flavour. Difficulty level mostly relies on how smart the players are, how smart the GM is, and how punishing the GM wants the game to be
It's good fun if you have a 2-5 players group and want something simple to play, I'd just recommend houserulling the search mechanic because if you have autistic players they WILL search every single room 4 times, wasting an hour jerking around
not OP but how does Heroquest compare to Advanced Heroquest and Warhammer Quest?
It's for babies. It's a product of the 90s and not worth playing today when there are actual good dungeon crawls to play. Even Advanced Heroquest is better today than HQ.
>t. someone who actually loved HQ and AHQ
Same setting. Otherwise not even a little alike. AHQ is the better game. WHQ replaced AHQ and got over complicated and changed some things for the worse but on the whole is better than AHQ.
I'd love some alternative suggestions. Preferably something that's contained to just 1 box with no gay expansions. I've been hunting for a proper boardgame with all the bells and whistles.
I'd like something like Jumangi or Fire Island with traps worked in, but add a catapult, armies of skeletons, and pack-in a soundtrack on CD I can listen to on loop while playing.
>proper boardgame with all the bells and whistles
You want a good game with all the bells and whistles but you don't want expansions? You're almost out of luck there. Standard industry practice for dungeon crawls nowadays is release expansion after expansion and put out lots of desirables. You basically can't get Imperial Assault because Boba Fett and Obi Wan and lots of characters are add ons. Frosthaven is good and pretty new and hasn't been swamped with expansions. You're not going to find anything WH fantasy like from GW because it's GW.
>I'd like something like Jumangi or Fire Island with traps worked in, but add a catapult, armies of skeletons,
So you don't actually want a real recommendation, you want a game for kids. HQ is right up your alley.
>and pack-in a soundtrack on CD I can listen to on loop while playing.
You really do want a fantasy game because that wish list item is a fantasy.
not the same anon but are there any decent fantasy alternatives to warhammer quest these days? ( I just noticed WQ starts at $400us on ebay now so not a realistic option ) I just want something with a deeper game system than heroquest with good miniatures, i dont mind expansions or anything you have to buy in modules, as long as its comfy.
Shadows of Brimstone: Swamps of Death revised edition. Gameplay is essentially Warhammer Quest with a different random encounter timing mechanism.
There's tons of expansions for Brimstone but every core set is a complete game.
Swords and Sorcery maybe? I haven't played it but the Xcom clone it was based on is decent. If you're fine with Japanese fantasy or viking fantasy than Shadows of Brimstone Forbidden Fortress or Gates of Valhalla.
I also have Dungeon Saga but was turned off by the restic miniatures. Everything in the box needed hot water straightening.
Ahq adds complexity but not necessarily depth.
HQ is great for onboarding young and new players, AHQ is good for continuing adventures.
If you have played D&D you'll know how often 'roll high on dice' is the extent of combat- HQ pares down all the stats and feats and nonsense to roll high on dice.
It's fine as a system
The game comes with a premade campaign that is hilariously stuffed full of traps and also has a "goldmine" mission that ends with the reveal that all the gold you found was, in fact, fool's gold.
I'm not sure whether that's bad or good, but it was definitely memorable.
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Absolute classic. Wish I could meet a wizard like this at my local places but they're all sadly full of fat women with dyed hair.
in the 90s I thought it was the coolest game ever. Going back and playing it again... it's not great. Very very basic. Better if you roleplay it up and/or are drunk, or if you are playing it with your kids.