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It feels like this is getting close to a zero percent chance that anyone outside of maybe Spain is ever going to get this...

Insidious Intriguer 
   
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Posted on BGG by HQFrance

To answer the main questions I got in private messages and by mails :

- Cards level 1 & 3 are finished (it means all cards of the campaign)
- Character sheet basic box (8) + additional level 2 (19) are finished
- Monster cards of level 3 are finished
- Basic rulebook is finished
- Treasure results sheet is finished
- Gamemaster's screen is finished

-> Working now on heroic rules and adventure books.

Resin markers I showed in the last video (mind/life points) are for the creatures. 200 000 are made but it's an article you will be able to buy after the game release through the online store. It won't be included in the box.

You asked me why I was presenting special cards of the demo set.
So now you can see what's coming : the card format I showed last weekend is the one for the gamebox.

I will show the second level soon : all miniatures + the character sheets in details then later the level 3.

First demonstration start on this saturday to the french public.
Other countries have received their demo sets and will start soon too.


and a bit extra he added on Darkstone

On the rumor of a delivery of the game only at Christmas and after bell bonuses: Not true.
Everything will be in one shipment as planned.
Not in different shipments and for the moment no, no delivery date.

If I show the next time level 2 and things of level 3 quickly.
For me the main interest is the game and teach games to the French public.
I do not have the time to do the subtitles in Spanish now but as I said: it is not important because you are going to have demonstrations in Spain too.


and another video




(I only found out recently that Youtube has an autotranslate option for subtitles it's in the settings icon)

and in case anyone missed it in the news area Zealot miniatures are running a KS for HQ inspired minis which should deliver on time unlike this one
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zealotminiatures/twisting-catacombs-litchmyre-dungeon/description

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https://youtu.be/U4Hzxb5A_OA

From HQ France, Rules and some vague mention of the release date.
   
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San Francisco, CA

Can you please let us know what he says about the release date? (I'm assuming your french is better than mine...)

Merci!

I play...

Sigh.

Who am I kidding? I only paint these days... 
   
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Although the title says there is news, it is nearly all about the rules. One mention of the release date is at the 1:15 mark. A positive way to interpret it is that the game will be released after some edits are made to the cards. Also Je ne sais pas parler français, behold the magic of google translate.

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Heroquest France release English

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Heroquest France release English

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I will be absolutely gobsmacked if this ever shows up at my folks' house (I use their address for Kickstarters since I move often).
   
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San Francisco, CA

Yea, I'll be pretty stunned too. But what they're showing sure does look pretty neat...

I play...

Sigh.

Who am I kidding? I only paint these days... 
   
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I think it will happen. They are obviously making the game. The biggest obstacle could be legal/financial trouble from angry patrons.
   
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Dorset, UK

Keep in mind that they show nothing here that we hadn’t already seen in April 2017. So whilst I want to maintain a small amount of hope, the best we can say for certain is that they were obviously making the game at some point.

Wether or not production has advanced at all in nearly 2 years, or if they’re even close to having the funds to finish production is, sadly, uncertain.

   
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Ah, I didn't realize that.

Surely that is...not a good sign?

   
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Fixture of Dakka






from Darkstone

- After many months of closed doors, a patron of HQ25 gets accepted as a visitor in the current workshop of Gamezone . This is Uriel Garrán López who from Madrid has spent a few days in Seville and decided to go to see the local Gamezone during working hours.
Dionosio received him and tells his experience and impressions in the Facebook group Quiero mi HQ25 (February 13, 2019):

I was in the Gamezone store / workshop today.
My impression was good and I think I can answer questions.
(...)
Isabel exists, she is not a bot, she is a lady with very nice glasses.
There was Dionisio, he took care of me for a long time and I thought he was a nice person, although you could tell he had already had to deal with a lot of people on the subject and he had a lot of speech already set up.
The dice are already made, apparently all the figures are finished and packaged. The machines were not working.
(...)
Dates there is no, if what Dionisio said is true and everything depends on the company that has the order of the cartons, which are also having delays, Gamezone would have already completed all its production phase some time ago.
According to I spoke with Dionisio, they think to finish the game, but there is no date, in case the game was not delivered, they would have given the figures (which are made) to the patrons.
Obviously I have no proof of anything I have been told, but I have seen evidence of letters and other cardboard materials. In the workshop there were three people working, besides Dionisio, but I could not see what they were doing.
We discussed the issue of the whistleblower platform and the demands, yes, it was a fairly present issue.
I commented that the company that prints is having production delays as they had, did not give more details. I could see boxes full of dice. He told me the dice were finished in December.
I talked a lot with him about the lack of updates, I tried to convince him to make more publications with several arguments. I do not think he will listen to me, although he admitted to me that it is ugly that there is no more.
What I saw is that now in the company "they are calm" and they fear that to put a new publication "shake the haters".
I can swear to you that I have tried by all means and ideas that have occurred to me to convince him to publish something on the official channel point of his website, which is very unfair to patrons and a lack of respect.
According to what Dionisio told me, the only publication that he has in mind to do is when he has all the material and this is the pending game of uploading videos of peñita playing.
To me the impression he gave me is that really all the material of figures is finished. But of course, it's an impression from what I saw. On the other hand, Dionisio's table was full of papers from the cards, from the board, color tests ... It really seemed that he was working on that subject, because his work zone was full of that kind of stuff.
(...)
I asked Dionisio about the "partial delivery" to the patrons (minis but not the cardboard). I thought of it as a "solution", he told me that some people asked for it, and somehow he suggested that something is present as a last resort, but as long as he sees that he can take the game "and only the cardboard "will not make that decision.
Which by the way, will send the game first in Spanish, but the editions in other languages ​​will be delayed even more.
I actually almost asked him that "if the game does not come out I'm happy with the minis" he told me that it is reasonable, but that the game will come out.
By the way at a certain moment I search my data on my computer to see if I was really a patron xdd
I can not know what happens with the cardboard, if it does not pay Dionisio or that the company has delays due to color issues or gaks. I can only say that it gave me the impression, because of the type of "paperwork" that surrounded the table of the "boss" who seemed to be really working on that subject. (Various types of letters, panels, cardboards with different shades etc).
As I say, I strongly urged Dionisio to publish something on the official website, which can not be that almost everything we know is by seconds (myself) or third (French). He was in the plan: "fething haters have made my life impossible and if something public is going to come back" and I tried to convince him with the idea of: "look, more than what you have already done with the issue of the plaintiffs platform, something worse for you than that and I doubt they can do, so, at this point, it would be a sign of respect to the patrons. " In short "I think" that idea something came to him, I BELIEVE, because I swear I tried to be as diplomatic and good people as I could with him, but it looks like one. Careful head and that will not make me fething case. I was very good vibes, knowing that otherwise it was going "pa na".
The truth is that I went to the workshop with the fear that it was empty, when I saw people working I calmed down a bit, then when I called, they treated me right away.
(...) He
did not deny me that he had problems with money or debts, I think he has to be up to his neck, but he did not give me the impression of being desperate either. There are things you could do, how to sell the entire catalog of HQ minis on the web and you are not doing it because you want to wait for the game to come out. That can be a good sign, and that has at least three employees.
(...)
A funny moment of the conversation is when he told me that "interposed lawsuits go only 54 and patrons are hundreds" I replied that the fallacy of the silent majority does not sneak and that surely with minimal communication from the company demands there would be no .
How can you imagine I did not ask about dates because I knew it was "pa ná", I'm happy with the impression that the game is still in process, but how is it supposed to be a problem of an external company (Chinese, that's confirmed) impossible to know for sure.
(...)
If you live or pass through Seville, I encourage you to go to the workshop, at least what it is to attend to me they took good care of me and according to what Dionisio told me, many patrons have passed through there, although lately there has not been one. Although Dionisio also complained about the people who had gone to bad, I think that if you go of good vibes you can get information, although you have to scratch and keep the details, because the uncle tells more "in passing" or "unintentionally "of what he says by answering the questions, that there are many detours there. Most of the info was taken that way. (...)

   
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Hyderabad, India

"Production delays" could be a euphemism for "they're waiting to be paid"

 
   
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Dragging this up again

I can't say that I'm surprised that after 5 years the rules are a mess.

Posts by Superjavix on the Darkstone Forums - Google Tranalate hence the weird phrasing

I had the opportunity to attend a private demo of the game last week, it's something that I imagine that most of the patrons can not say

My opinion, is that the game is never going to end, in the last year I've just known of remarkable progress, the money ends and now the demands come for different reasons. The only possibility I see is that another company take it and finish it.

With respect to the game, if it is any good ... we played an adventure with some difficulty in which we ended up dying all the players, and the feeling that gave me was good. All the errors that stood out in this forum about skills, incongruities, opinions of critics and others came to light, and reminded me a lot when I met with friends to play an amateur game created by us, with a thousand errors , bad swing, rules that contradict, but very close and fun. What has given the most game and I believe that better implemented has been with respect to the original is the magic, the management of the points of mind to cast spells, both of heroes and enemies, and on the other hand the abilities of the enemies, all They have something they can make you dust with. I see it as a very good KD type candidate:

The bad ... well I said it


I do not know Dionisio, the demo was in Madrid, because he has sent it to some of his collaborators of the translation groups with which I have contact, these collaborators are those who are going to save in some way the game's rules, because to keep in touch to interpret the rules and translate them, because they are also testing and suggesting improvements that in most cases come to fruition. The problem they have is that they wait with dropper for the material to work on, now I think that the adventures begin to arrive, but they still have to be done ... we'll see who ends up taking the bull by the horns and taking care of finishing all that, but everything points out that they are going to be those translation groups and testing those that solve it


The collaborators see that it is a hodgepodge of ideas, but if they left it in their hands they could give it a proper shape and in a short time, and then there are the adventures books of 50 adventures each, in total 100 adventures that are writing Dionisio in person, and not only is writing 100 adventures, but also intends that they are interrelated. Between that and that the communication with him is not at all fluid makes time pass if nothing advances, and less now that the man will be involved in a thousand issues, demands and others.


   
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Given this game's legendary status, I never understood why they didn't just produce an official new edition. For all concerned it would sell like hotcakes and receive rave reviews across the board.

Its probably the next best-known fantasy game after D&D and Warhammer and still played at events even today.

Casual gaming, mostly solo-coop these days.

 
   
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SamusDrake wrote:
I never understood why they didn't just produce an official new edition.


It's an IP mess between GW and Hasbro and possibly others, so nobody wants to sit down and talk about it, and nobody is selling their piece a la Fireball Island.

   
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 JohnHwangDD wrote:

It's an IP mess between GW and Hasbro and possibly others, so nobody wants to sit down and talk about it, and nobody is selling their piece a la Fireball Island.


The suits have no common sense whatsoever....a cup'o'tea and some Rich Teas should do the trick!


Casual gaming, mostly solo-coop these days.

 
   
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Well it's all over folks not that it was in doubt given how long it's dragged on but on plus side Dionisio could be facing 4 to 8 years in prison for aggrivated fraud.

https://www.diariodesevilla.es/juzgado_de_guardia/actualidad/crowdfunding-Heroquest_0_1432357171.html

A judge in Seville has concluded the investigation of the case and has issued an abbreviated proceeding for aggravated fraud against Dionisio RG ., Seller of the board game called Heroquest 25th anniversary , which managed to raise 680,000 euros through crowdfunding.

It was the largest collection promoted from Seville and one of the largest in Spain for this system of financing through micro patronage. But the promoter has not delivered a single game since its first announcement to do so in December 2014.

It is estimated that he was able to receive donations from more than 5,000 people , of whom 3,434 are registered today on the Facebook platform called “I want my 25th Anniversary Heroquest”.

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Some of the HeroQuest miniatures
Some of the HeroQuest miniatures
Some of the HeroQuest miniatures

From goose to goose ... and I cheat because it's my turn
The investigating judge 5, in a car dated January 14, has concluded the investigation phase and has sent the case to the Prosecutor's Office of Seville to present its qualification brief , in an investigation carried out by the cybercrime prosecutor.

However, after issuing the PROA order, the Association of Affected Persons who submitted the first complaint requested new evidence consisting of obtaining documentation from the payment platforms used by the buyers, an aspect on which the judge will rule in the coming days.

Sources of the case inform this newspaper that PROA's car imputes to Dionisio RG an alleged crime of aggravated fraud when the circumstances arise that the fraud exceeds 50,000 euros and that there is a high number of those affected . For these conditions, the Criminal Code provides for sentences of 4 to 8 years in prison and a fine of 12 to 24 months.

The board game was announced as a special edition on the 25th anniversary of Heroquest, one of the first and most legendary “dungeon” games that was all the rage in the 90s.

The defendant acknowledged in his judicial statement that he received a net amount close to 590,000 euros in the Lánzanos crowdfunding platform , but explained that he has not delivered any copies to any patron because he does not have the necessary financial funds to finish the game. He said he was looking for financing for it.

The criminal complaint was filed by an Association of Affected Persons that has more than 700 members from all over the world. In October 2019, this association informed that the registration in Group C of those affected will not take place until the date of the trial is close and until then no new complainants will enter the judicial procedure.

To questions of this newspaper, the defense of Dionisio indicated that it has intention to appeal the judicial order.

The seller, officially "in absentia," is raining sentences
The Official Gazette of the Board and the Province of Seville have published in recent weeks different convictions against Dionisio RG, which cannot be located although its company is based in an industrial estate in Seville. Officially it is "in absentia" or "whereabouts unknown."

Thus, BOJA published on December 27 the sentence of a Social Court that condemned its company to pay 16,785 euros to a digital sculptor who worked for him and the Bulletin of the Province inserted in November 2019 the sentence to pay 9,038 euros plus legal interest and costs to a machine and tool company based in Barcelona.

The last official notification is from January 22, when the Official Gazette of the Province published the edict of a Social Court that condemned its company to pay 6,623 euros to a former employee.


   
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Ok. Time to email Gamezone and ask for my miniatures. They can keep the game, it was the miniatures I wanted. They are very, very, good.

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What a shock. Said absolutely no-one.

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That is a real shame. There was some genuine artistry going into this project and I would have loved to have seen it available in shops.

   
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Good to hear something is at least happening.
   
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dagnabit wrote:
Dear HEROQUEST 25th patrons, the game was finally going to be shipped this spring! but due to force majeure causes (coronavirus) and thinking of your health due to possible contagions due to the huge chain from packaging to shipping to your home, we have had to postpone the game until Christmas.

Late april fool's joke.

   
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Oh, that's just priceless!
   
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Will it beat the 30th anniversary?

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Hey-o, just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, Restoration Games decides to dip their toe in...

https://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/2475398/possibly-official-heroquest-reboot-horizon

I'm not holding my breath, but I sure am enjoying the popcorn!

I play...

Sigh.

Who am I kidding? I only paint these days... 
   
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San Francisco, CA

And just as I was finishing my popcorn...

https://heroquest.avalonhill.com/en-us


I play...

Sigh.

Who am I kidding? I only paint these days... 
   
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I think it's time for a new thread.


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