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is official!!!

http://www.gamezoneminiatures.com/tienda/es/

But there isn't new info :|

The website has been updated with new information.

http://www.heroquestclassic.com/

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-1 BOARD – ALFA Model
Reversible, with two usable sides, Side A is with a Classic Dungeon simulation, while side B brings into play ruins and exterior scenes. The squares on the board are slightly larger than the original to provide more comfortable figure movement and scenery/element placement

- 1 MENTOR SCREEN
The game screen is for dual use. The Mentor Side (inside) displays the tools that the Game Master will need to direct the game, creature stats, game symbol keys codes, weapon characteristics, etc.. On the Player Side (outside) there will be an illustration of a temple on which the essential rules for the adventures will be written into stone like reliefs. This way any novice player at a glance will have all the necessary information they need without having to badger the Director with continual basic questions.

-8 DICE
The 25th model dice will have squares representing boxes instead of round dots. The 25th model battle dice will have the already known symbols but appear more consistent with the actual skills or the characters / current technology available.

-1 RULE BOOK
Rule book, highly illustrated, to explain every rule that needs it with a corresponding clarifying image.

- ADVENTURE VOLUME I “No Threat Unanswered”
In this Book you will find the missions that Mentor will entrust to the adventurers. Formatted as standard stand alone adventures or missions that will continue as if chapters in a series. Others will be set up in an independent campaign structure that will evolve in parallel within a common storyline. The total overall quantity of adventures will be around 50.

-8 Adventurer Cards
The Adventurer Cards will have the values ??and the different characteristics between the male characters and their female counterparts. Life and mind/will points are shown in wheel-cut windows in which the corresponding number is displayed and can be changed by rotating disks, added to the rear or the cards. This way you will not be writing the values ??of each character on a separate sheet, you can modify them directly in the windows that each character card offers.

-86 Cards
Every spell element in the cards is written in Latin and the symbols used have their origins in classical antiquity
The Chaos spells are a recourse that will only be utilized by the Evil Wizard player.
10 Artifacts
30 Treasures
16 Equipment
6 Ignis Spells
6 Aqua Spells
6 Aer Spells
6 Terra Spells
6 Chaos Spells

-46 PLASTIC RESIN FIGURES
The figures will have the standard Gamezone® miniature size of 28mm/30mm. This way is a sure way that they will also be compatible with other popular miniature games.
Plastic Resin is a high quality material with and extraordinarily high degree of detail, making for a clear and clean finished product. The presence of bubbles, common in all resins to a larger or smaller effect, has been practically eliminated through the modeling process. The final weight of the miniatures is lighter.
The bases are round and transparent; being round helps with easier figure movement across the board and the transparency of the base allows players to effectively see the floor of the map their characters are standing on. The figures will be different colors the same as the miniatures in the original box set.
(8 HEROES)
1 Barbarian
1 Dwarf
1 Mage
1 Elf
1 Huntress
1 Female Dwarf
1 Wizard
1 Female Elf
(38 MONSTERS)
2 Mummies
4 Zombies
4 Skeleton Warriors
6 Goblins
8 Orcs
4 Chaos Warriors
3 Drrakks
1 Petrified Gargoyle
1 Gargoyle
1 Chaos Witch
1 Wraith
1 Ogre
1 Black Orc
1 Viscosity of the Abyss

-48 Resin SCENE ELEMENTS
These elements will also be made of resin as this allows us to create pieces with greater details. Some elements will come separate and will need a simple assembly.
- The wardrobe pieces are interchangeable making verity a real possibility in the 25th.
- The doors will be able to be open or closed as the door frame will have hinges.
- The treasure chests will have open able lids to see what is inside. The interior will be empty and ready to have a treasure inserted in the form of a token that will represent a bag of coins, a pile of coins, or an empty bottom with a singular coin. The interior chest tokens are also interchangeable with other elements .
- The gargoyle pedestal has a space for a treasure token when the figure is removed
- The Cell door can open or close depending on the mission guidelines
- The sarcophagus also has an area to add treasure tokens if you wish to show different contents
18 doors
4 Treasure chests
4 doors
1 Throne
3 wardrobes
1 Armory
1 torture Rack
1 chimeny
1 sarcophagus
1 well
1 Pendulum of death
8 treasure chest inserts
1 dimentional portal

-35 Resin Marker Tokens
All with volume to represent scenery and not the cardboard tokens of old.

Updated first post.

Plastic-Resin game pieces has me hesitant, but that may just be the PTSD from the Sedition Wars release.

Plastic terrain and plastic markers is a great addition and is enough to hold my interest.

I also notice they have gotten rid of mention of the name "Zargon" and "Fimirs" and replaced then with "Gamemaster" and "Drakks". Everything from the original Hero Quest otherwise seems there with more stuff added.

Hopefully the female counterparts won't be stripperiffic. Even more interestingly, the female counterparts having different stats is a nice way to vary things up while maintaining the original core Heroquest for those that are into that.

Do we still not have a rough date?

twitch....

twitch...

(want)

-Porkuslime

Male and female elves? You mean there's a difference?


Interested to see where this goes though. Loved the older versions as a kid. It's too bad I let it get thrown away at some point.

I don't remember heroquest having a GM....

 Palindrome wrote:
I don't remember heroquest having a GM....

It did. There was a controller of monsters called "Zargon". He was the character you saw in the big gamemaster's screen.

Picture: http://www.therobotspajamas.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/heroquest-game-action.jpg

Warhammer Quest was the one that didn't have a DM.

 Absolutionis wrote:

 Palindrome wrote:
I don't remember heroquest having a GM....

It did. There was a controller of monsters called "Zargon". He was the character you saw in the big gamemaster's screen.

Picture: http://www.therobotspajamas.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/heroquest-game-action.jpg

He was called Morcar in the UK version.

Great stuff, have been looking forward to hearing more about this.

And.. OP, the name should be 'Heroquest', not 'Hero Quest' !

Explains why I couldn't find the thread with the search function when I looked a while ago..

Just curious, did anyone work out any possible IP issues with the (very different) Heroquest game that's currently in publication? It showed up after GW abandoned Heroquest, and is basically a replacement for the IMO awful Runequest/BRP system for Glorantha.

I'm personally very interested in seeing some of revival of this game (first RPGish game I played as a kid, it really got me ready for D&D) and I don't want it to fall apart due to IP issues.

Oh man, I used to love playing this game as a kid. I can't wait to play it again!

hands_miranda wrote:
Just curious, did anyone work out any possible IP issues with the (very different) Heroquest game that's currently in publication? It showed up after GW abandoned Heroquest, and is basically a replacement for the IMO awful Runequest/BRP system for Glorantha.

I'm personally very interested in seeing some of revival of this game (first RPGish game I played as a kid, it really got me ready for D&D) and I don't want it to fall apart due to IP issues.

At least the UK trademark for Heroquest is still owned by Hasbro until August 2015:
http://www.ipo.gov.uk/tmcase/Results/1/UK00001355870

Since Gamezone is only claiming to have Spanish rights, I'm sure they've looked up the various intellectual property issues that could arise.

Or maybe they're just getting around it by naming one of their kids "Heroquest", and naming the board game after that kid.

edit: Here's a pretty good discussion of the rights:
http://www.yeoldeinn.com/hqforum/viewtopic.php?f=143&t=272&sid=7f29f565d682d178dba1e39a01ffc2db&start=10

edit2: Looks like there wasn't a registered trademark in Spain before November 2012.

http://www.oepm.es/en/signos_distintivos/detalle.html?ref=M%203040965
http://www.empresia.es/signo/heroquest/oepm/M-3040965/

Kickstarter starts November 22. Ends December 23.

Really? The day before Christmas Eve?

I was really hoping this wouldn't happen until early next year but I'm in regardless.

From Gamezone tweets kickstarter prices

Basic boxed game $89

Boxed Game and 15 heroes - $110

Boxed Game, 15 heroes and all stretch rewards - $150

EDIT: Apparently that's 15 heroes in addition to the 8 in the box. There will be 50 all new adventures in the rulebook, every model even minions will have unique poses and the baord will have the classic dungeon design on one side and an outdoor shore line scene on the other, the Drakk are humanoid dragons and replace the Fimir.

Thanks for the info.

Now I just need to find out if they have the rights to ship outside of Spain.

The problem with that Dave is when they get funded through the roof and we have another $50 or $100 worth of stretch goal add-ons.. I emailed them on their site to ask them to push it back till Jan 6th or something like that. The day before Christmas Eve is, well, just a bit much (and the main reason I may have to drop or pull right back from G&G terrain boards).

Grak. It'll be a Spanish release, but since international trade is a thing, we'll be able to buy it from them directly according to their FAQ from awhile back.

I may have to rethink some of my current, ongoing KS pledges to make room for this one...

Well, dang. This sounds awesome. But no monies for it...

150 for an all in pledge?

Dragon humanoids in replace of Fimir?

15 heroes to choose from?

Plastic at some point?

Yeah, I'm in without a doubt.

Like Barzam said too, we had a lot of good memories playing this game when we were kids. Even our non- gaming brother used to play.

Only thing I hated was I always had to be the GM! I never got to be the hero!

That's basically the equivalent of being picked to go in goal right?

I too am really excited by this, although agree the timing could have been better.

For anyone wondering about the miniature/sculpt quality of Gamezone I can vouch for them as being absolutely top-notch. Have a load of their dwarves and some undead, quality and sculpt detail are brilliant - I would say better than GW's own for the minis I have, although usually the price (for the metal range especially) can be inhibitive if you want a whole army of them.

Have their been any rumblings about what currency they are going to run their campaign with?

It seems the ones that run it in American dollars tend to clean up a lot more than Euros or Pounds.

Maybe this one will break that streak if it's in currency besides $$$.

Does "plastic resin" mean PVC?

No, it's restic, which could be any number of formulas and be anywhere from really good to kinda crap depending on which formula and how much experience they have casting it. If you're familiar with Privateer Press plastics, that's restic. So is a lot of what Mantic has been making and the Sedition Wars stuff.

It is going to be really hard to justify $150-200 (I'm assuming S&H fees) for a box of something I already own.

... but there are good odds I'll be in all the same.

Oh hell yeah.

I've had to ditch AVP/Battlesystems as they don't come at the right time re: cash flow.

This sounds like it'll finish just after a pay check hits my account in December.

Worth binning those off for this (imo)

Yea... going to be in for at least one of these. Damnit, I wish I had kept the original board and not just the plastic pieces of mine from when I was younger. Stupid basement flood :(