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I was going through my old board games the other day and found this!



This is an old boardgame designed to be sort of a light DnD experience without the role playing. Copyright 1989 - 1990 making this thing about 20 years old! The box and some of the items have seen better days through, time took a harsh beating to these things. I remember playing this with my cousins so much to the point that we MEMORIZED the entire main quest book. I also have two of the expansions (but missing half the box for the one) and maybe even thinking of updating the models with models from Warhammer Fantasy.

But I also am bringing this up here for an other reason too! Check the lower right corner!



Anyone else remember playing this back in the day?

Yes, I still have mine. Wish I could get the Quest Packs, besides the general released ones.

Dice made in Germany.
Made in USA.
Colour parts may vary.

What am I supposed to be looking at?

Yup, had this plus the various expansions they released. I also used to play Space Crusade too (which was a kind of Space Hulk lite).

Yep, I've still got mine tucked away under the bed.

If you have a quick look on Evilbay some of the rarer expansions (like "agianst the ogre horde") are going for anything up to £80 if in good condition!

We still play ours. We've been playing through with my fiance's little brothers, and having a blast with it. We have all of the normal expansions... Tried getting a hold of the more rare Elf-and Barbarian-quest expansions, but they go for well into the several hundred dollars on the second hand market.

I've been slowly painting up the miniatures... what I have done so far is here.

The expansions are ridiculously hard to get hold of. I had Heroquest and the Kellar's Keep expansion from a charity shop when I was young for all of £2 and played it many times. Recently I saw a expanded version of the game in another charity shop for 75p and snapped it up. It's got extra figures in it, all human knights that were also used in the Wizards expansion set. The extra booklet in the game has a continuous game that reuses the main board several times in one sitting to journey your way across and back.

If you like Heroquest you should check out Descent from Fantasy Flight Games.

It's like a much better version of Heroquest. Fantastic.

Ah happy memories Mine was ditched about five years ago when the parents were having a clear out of their house. Some of the minis were great fun, I particularly liked the Chaos Sorcerer who I painted with a red skull. I used to have the Ogre expansion too. £80 you say Squilverine? Bother!

Also ,check out Advanced Heroquest.
d12s FTW!!!

Alex Kolodotschko wrote:Also ,check out Advanced Heroquest.
d12s FTW!!!

I have a copy of AH - horrible ruleset. They got it right when they made it into Warhammer Quest though.

Noob! I still have FIVE complete sets!

After cannibalizing the other three to make 5 complete ones...

My mother assaulted garage sales to get my brother and I copies. And she just KEPT BUYING THEM.

Wow, good job, Mattlov's Mam!
I used to play it with my next door neighbour. So much fun!

What a game
my mate has an ancient copy of it that's still in perfect condition, its always a good day if we crack it out

I finished my full set of Heroquest and all expansions about 2 years ago some bits and pieces were hard to come by. What made it difficult if I remember was the Elf and Barbarian Expansions were USA only and the Ogre and Wizard expansions were Eurpean only. In total there were 7 expansions 6 actually game ones and 1 that was a make your own quest thingy.

Ah Heroquest how I love thee. Now if only they would get rid of that GW idea stealing A-Bom they called D&D. In other words it just Herpquest but no where near as cool.

I used to play Warhammer quest with a group friends. My Dwarven Trollsalyer had the worst luck. Rolling double 1's was brutal!

I used to play hero quest with my family back when it was still a "new" game. over the years and several thousands of miles of moving cross-country most of the pieces went missing, but about 6 years ago I found a near-complete set at a flea market.... bought it for $1. added my few models to it, and my family still likes to get together occasionally to play a few rounds (family has grown to include a few brother-in-laws, and I'm the only one who had the game memorized from back in the early 90's so my sisters are playing it though like its the first time.... but with nostalgia)

J-Roc77 wrote:I used to play Warhammer quest with a group friends. My Dwarven Trollsalyer had the worst luck. Rolling double 1's was brutal!

I had the Empire Noble, it was always "fun" trying to take down a minotaur with a rapier, "Have at you, foul bovine creature..."

Flashman wrote:

J-Roc77 wrote:I used to play Warhammer quest with a group friends. My Dwarven Trollsalyer had the worst luck. Rolling double 1's was brutal!

I had the Empire Noble, it was always "fun" trying to take down a minotaur with a rapier, "Have at you, foul bovine creature..."

Witch Hunter for me. He still makes it into Mordheim gang whenever I build Witch Hunters.

I loved this game when i was younger...played it many times with friends.

Platuan4th wrote:

Flashman wrote:

J-Roc77 wrote:I used to play Warhammer quest with a group friends. My Dwarven Trollsalyer had the worst luck. Rolling double 1's was brutal!

I had the Empire Noble, it was always "fun" trying to take down a minotaur with a rapier, "Have at you, foul bovine creature..."

Witch Hunter for me. He still makes it into Mordheim gang whenever I build Witch Hunters.

The Brettonian Knight was nails So was the Elf ranger once he leveled up a bit.

Nostalgia kicking in...must resist.......e-Bay temptation.....

Bloodthirster wrote:Ah Heroquest how I love thee. Now if only they would get rid of that GW idea stealing A-Bom they called D&D. In other words it just Herpquest but no where near as cool.

I pray to all my twenty-seven gods that the part I've bolded is sarcasm. If not, well... lol.

I still have 2 boxes of the game. But both incomplete :(

I would love to have the 4 heroes again :3

I recently got back into a HeroQuest kick with a couple of friends. I luckily still have the complete game, but I was desperately searching for the expansions and had little luck (aside form hideously expensive ebay results). I finally stumbled upon a site that appears to be legally posting scans of all the expansion quest books, including print outs for the cardboard pieces:

http://heroquestbaker.altervista.org/indexenglish.htm

Enjoy.

I still have my copy of Warhammer Quest knocking about somewhere, I used to love that game. I played with the Imperial noble and still use the model as a champion for my Great sword regiment.

It was a cool model, wish I still had mine somewhere. Damn my lack of hoarding space and constant moving around over the last 10 years.

Platuan4th wrote:

Flashman wrote:

J-Roc77 wrote:I used to play Warhammer quest with a group friends. My Dwarven Trollsalyer had the worst luck. Rolling double 1's was brutal!

I had the Empire Noble, it was always "fun" trying to take down a minotaur with a rapier, "Have at you, foul bovine creature..."

Witch Hunter for me. He still makes it into Mordheim gang whenever I build Witch Hunters.

I stuck with the Wizard myself.

Freaky, I was going to make a thread earlier on in the week about Heroquest.
Many happy memories of this game, I had all the expansion sets. I must root out it again for a game.

Is it as good as I remember or is it a little dated/simplistic nowadays?