Re: HeroQuest rules questions

Posted by uncle phil on
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I can see that names sometimes need to be changed due to undesirable meanings in other languages, but why the American HQ has to be Zargon and the UK Morcar is a bit of a mystery? Any ideas? We see this in a few other places too -the film "The Assassin" (a US remake of Nikita) is called "Point of No Return" in the US? Lynx deodourant is Axe (insert you own joke here about the smell of pussy and choppers).

The whole "white shield for heroes, black for villians" always seemed a bit unnecssary to me and was obviously intended to make things easy for the heroes. When I was contributing ideas to the Netherhells game I was an advocate of dice that had two skulls, two shields, a pentagram and an "!". Rolling a certain number of ! would be a fumble, letting the attacked model strike back if I recall. Pentagram was a neutral magic symbol, but there would be a character advancement/skill that let a fighter count Pentagrams as Skulls.