As
I've mentioned in my previous ramblings on the subject Dragon Strike
bears a lot of similarities to HeroQuest. Recently while getting my
thoughts together for my rather long in-depth DragonStrike article I
noticed that the way the stats/attributes work is so similar that it
would be very easy to convert the Monsters from HeroQuest to
DragonStrike (and by reversing the process DragonStrike to
HeroQuest).
This
article is only an off-shoot of my thinking when comparing HeroQuest
and DragonStrike, so I've tried not to go into too much detail, but
rather present the information you'd need to convert Monsters from
one game to the other should you want to so. Thus to keep things
short and so I don't have to explain how both system work, for the
purposes of this article it is assumed that the reader has access to
a copy of the rules of both games (what with the internet being the
way it is it shouldn't be too hard to find copies of both rules sets)
Attack:
to covert
HeroQuest Attack to Dragon Strike Dice use the following table
|
Number
of HeroQuest Combat Dice
|
Type
of Dice to use in DragonStrike
|
|
1
|
D4*
|
|
2
|
D6*
|
|
3
|
D8
|
|
4
|
D10
|
|
5
|
D12
|
Armor
Class:
to work out a
creatures Armor Class take the number of HeroQuest Combat Dice rolled
for Defend and add 2
(Armor Class
= Defend +2)
Save
vs Magic:
to work out a
creatures Save vs Magic use the following table
|
HeroQuest
Mind
Points
|
Type
of Dice to use in DragonStrike
|
|
0-1
|
D6
|
|
2-3
|
D8
|
|
4-5
|
D10
|
|
6
or higher
|
D12
|
Hit
Points:
Dragon Strike
Hit Points = HeroQuest Body Points
(no maths
needed)
Speed:
to
work out the DragonStrike Speed, simply take the HeroQuest Move and
deduct 2
(Speed
= Move -2)
Special
Features:
the
monsters from the basic HeroQuest game don't have any special rules
apart from a few noted for specific monsters in the Quest Book, so
you shouldn't need to worry too much about converting them. However
you may want add a few special rules to certain monsters to make them
more interesting. For instance you might decide that (like in a lot
of rule systems) the Mummy should be vulnerable to fire-based
attacks, therefore you might want add a Special Feature which means
the Mummy looses 2 hit points instead of 1 when it is hurt by a Fire
Ball spell or the Dragon's Breath Attack ect.
Using
the HeroQuest Monsters in DragonStrike games:
The
Heroes in Dragon Strike are a lot more powerful than their HeroQuest
equivalents, therefore a lot of the weaker HeroQuest monsters will be
very easily cut down by the Dragon Strike Heroes, so remember to use
them in greater numbers than you would the Dragon Strike Monsters to
keep encounters challenging. Maybe use a group of 3-4 HeroQuest
monsters in conjunction with a more powerful Dragon Strike monster,
for example: a Death Knight leading a group of 4 Skeletons or a group
of 5 Goblins lead by a Bugbear and so on.
The
DragonStrike Heroes probably represent a D&D party somewhere
between levels 5-7. Where as the HeroQuest Hero's mostly like
represent (when they start out at least) the equivalent of a Level 2
or 3 D&D party (please note this isn't idle fact - it's cold hard
speculation based on vague comparisons and extensive guess-work).
In
the UK version of HeroQuest (and I believe also the European
versions) all the HeroQuest Monsters had 1 Body Point, this always
seemed like a mistake to me and I suggest going to one of the many
HeroQuest fan-sites to get hold of a copy of the monster statistics
from the US version if you havn't already.
The
HeroQuest Gargoyle was intended at a 'boss' monster in HeroQuest and
you'll notice once converted, it is a little more powerful than the
Dragon Strike Gargoyles. Should you choose to use the HeroQuest
Gargoyle in Dragon Strike it should be treated is as a Gargoyle
leader and given a name such as Great-Gargoyle or Gargoyle Champion
to distinguish it from the smaller DragonStrike Gargoyles
It's
up to you to decide whether a monster from HeroQuest would be able to
talk or not and how clever it would be in DragonStrike. I suggest
looking up the equivalent monster in a D&D or AD&D
Monster-manual (Fimir of course are a creature unique to the
Warhammer background)
Although
Dragon Strike did not come with a D4 or a D6 these dice would have
been used to represent the abilities of weaker creatures than the
ones that came in the game. D4's and D6's can of course be purchased
at most gaming stores
Final
thought:
it may also
be possible to convert between The D&D Adventure Board Game and
DragonStrike or HeroQuest but I havn't looked into it (yet)
PS: sorry if the format of this article looks a little odd, I had to convert it directly to HTML from the OpenOffice document I wrote it in to keep the text in tables lined up
PPS: on 8th June 2012 I noticed a mistake in the Mind Points to Save Vs Magic conversion table - this has been corrected in this post but you may want to check over the stats of any monsters you've converted before them
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