Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you:
No adverts like this in the forums anymore.
Times and dates in your local timezone.
Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance.
Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely.
Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net.
If you are already a member then feel free to login now.
2024/09/22 11:09:09
Subject: Re:HeroQuest by Hasbro/Avalon Hill - First Light starter set revealed.
First Light Preorders are up for EU and UK - €44.99, £37.99 ships February 2025. Ordered a copy for myself pity it's not available for Christmas I'd have got another as a gift.
Featuring 10 fresh quests, written by the original game designer Stephen Baker. You can also create your own stories and build your own quests for limitless replayability
SamusDrake wrote: Not available for Christmas? Noooooooo! £38 is bloody brilliant though.
The existing expansions are compatible with First Light, if I remember rightly? I was thinking of getting Return of the Witch Lord, specifically.
Yep
COMPATIBLE WITH ALL HEROQUEST EXPANSIONS: An epic addition to any HeroQuest collection, this strategy board game for adults and teens is compatible with all HeroQuest expansion packs and the original 10 quests from the 2021 HeroQuest Game System
2024/10/03 18:06:53
Subject: Re:HeroQuest by Hasbro/Avalon Hill - First Light starter set preorders are live
Mostly, yes. You'll need a dragon miniature and it has some new magic item cards, but otherwise it's mostly just a lower cost main box set alternative. The dragon stat card has been uploaded online to reddit and facebook, I'm sure the other cards are out there too
GameNerdz Deal of the Day : HQ Frozen Horror : $30.
44 copies left, ends at 10am pst.
EDIT : "This was under $20 on Amazon last year which is why this is not selling well, 47 of 65 copies left. The dice in the latest version of this expansion get raves. It is VERY difficult which has generated some negative comments.
Also Crypt of Perpetual Darkness and Wizards of Morcar preorders have appeared on two distributor sites, CoPD is a smaller set €35ish and WoM is a €50ish set - nothing official announced yet but looks like they are coming soon.
This message was edited 2 times. Last update was at 2024/12/21 11:33:50
2025/01/12 00:41:19
Subject: HeroQuest by Hasbro/Avalon Hill - First Light starter set preorders are live
soooo. ones who have been through the base game and are bright enough to know that when someone says "if we split up we can search the dungeon faster!" they should be used as goblin food..
bring. it. on.
2025/04/10 03:55:54
Subject: HeroQuest by Hasbro/Avalon Hill - The Crypt of Perpetual Darkness retail expansion announced
Let me know when Dread Moon goes on clearance will ya!
The Mage in the Mirror box is a great set of new furniture, a male elf, and some good ideas in it. The Elf warriors are good foes too. If you want to know more about it, I reviewed it on my blog:
soooo. ones who have been through the base game and are bright enough to know that when someone says "if we split up we can search the dungeon faster!" they should be used as goblin food..
bring. it. on.
Yeah. The Dragon is a tough cookie. But if you’ve completed the base game, by the time you need to kick all its fangs out, you should be plenty prepared in kit and caboodle.
Fed up of Scalpers? But still want your Exclusives? Why not join us?
soooo. ones who have been through the base game and are bright enough to know that when someone says "if we split up we can search the dungeon faster!" they should be used as goblin food..
bring. it. on.
Yeah. The Dragon is a tough cookie. But if you’ve completed the base game, by the time you need to kick all its fangs out, you should be plenty prepared in kit and caboodle.
found with most monsters unless you either give them an ungodly number of body points or let them save on white shields they just go down far too fast once two or three heroes gang up, especially if they don't have some way to attack more than one at once. could be a wonderful spectacle, until three crossbows open fire then some nutter with a battleaxe piles in.
still, its fun, have found adding "immune to ranged attacks" to one or two monsters, not too many, they paid for the weapons after all, but a few helps
hoping its the same sculpt though and I really like that one
2025/04/28 15:11:36
Subject: HeroQuest by Hasbro/Avalon Hill - The Crypt of Perpetual Darkness retail expansion announced
So, does anyone hope this is a Dwarf focused box? I mean, we have one for the Barbarian, one for the Elf, and one for the Wizard..... it only seems fair for the Dwarf to get a special box too!
Support Blood and Spectacles Publishing:
https://www.patreon.com/Bloodandspectaclespublishing
2025/04/29 07:38:44
Subject: Re:HeroQuest by Hasbro/Avalon Hill - The Crypt of Perpetual Darkness retail expansion announced
I’m glad to announce I’ve managed to acquire early versions of the unreleased Wizard and Dwarf quest packs from a person who was involved in the development and review of the four north american quest packs in 1991-92.
Hasbro applied for registration of trademarks for the name of all the four quest packs in October of 1992, albeit only “The Frozen Horror” and “The Mage of the Mirror” came to fruition. The other two applications were abandoned a year later, never to be used again. Work was indeed proceeding simultaneously on all four packs, but apparently the Barbarian and Elf packs managed to secure a release, albeit being partly untested themselves as we’ve discovered. It has been confirmed the Wizard pack was further in its development stage compared to the Dwarf pack (final material ready VS. final material to be created yet based on latest notes).
£38 is bloody brilliant though. 
