Re: I won Advanced Heroquest on Ebay! AHQ vs. WHQ

Posted by MortiS-the-Lost on Jul 28, 2009; 5:11pm
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/I-won-Advanced-Heroquest-on-Ebay-AHQ-vs-WHQ-tp3206983p3344598.html

Billiam Babble wrote

 the chances are that whatever I play next will be a sort of hybrid game with pieces and rules stolen from here and there and I can always claim that it was -ahem- research for floorplans, honest

The games we are playing at the moment are also based on an hybrid/home-brew system my players have dubbed ‘Mortis Quest’ , it started out as HeroQuest with a few rules added for game play ability and quickly snow-balled into a whole new system.  We use a mixture of rules borrowed from AHQ, WHQ, the D&D Board game, classic D&D and a few other places all working on top the HeroQuest combat system.  I’d be interested to see what you come up with for your games ... who knows between us we could come up with a whole new system ...

The Warlock of Firetop Mountain board is nice, the figures are a rather nice example of early citadel plastics and the artwork is great, but the rules aren’t that well written ... despite providing figures for a great range of classes there is no difference between the character types (it would be nice if the wizard cast spells, the barbarian could hit harder in combat, the armoured knight was more difficult to damage, the cleric could ward off creatures ... ect), the key puzzle is too easy to cheat and feels tacked on afterwards. For the most part the game is just a race to the finish line with a few encounters added, the maze is good idea, but I feel more could have been done with the game when you consider how much more detailed the book is. Who knows maybe The Legend of Zargon Board game has a bit more depth to it ...
I’ll see if I can get you a components list for Warlock

Yea, If you can get copy of HQ cheap I’d go for it, I own like 5 copies plus a bunch of extra HQ figures most of which (apart from my first copy) I picked up at car-boot sales and charity shops ... so keep an eye out ... but anyone with a decent sized collection of fantasy miniatures will have enough to cover the HQ bestiary - except perhaps the fimir -  but you could easily substitute fimir for creatures of a similar size (lesser demons, Black Orcs, larger beastmen or mutants, lizardmen warriors, ect)

I’ll make spate post about the HQ computer games as I have recently discovered D&D Tactics on the PSP which is very similar