JellyPooga
2011-01-23, 11:48 AM
[NB - I'm talking about the Games Workshop update to the MB/GW board game Heroquest in this thread...just so you know]
For a long time, I've always thought that this fairly average (but addictively brutal) board game would make a half-way decent roleplaying game with a few modifications...until today when I was looking over the rules and noticed (for the first time) that right there on the front cover of the rules, it says "Rules for Heroic Roleplay"!
All this time I've been thinking of it as a rather detailed boardgame, when it's always been intended to be an RPG. Has anyone else had any experience with this game in its guise as an RPG? I don't just mean having played it, but played it as you would Dungeons and Dragons or the like, with in depth character interaction and such?
If so, what modifications or house rules did you make (if any)? How did it play and would you recommend it? Or would you suggest simply going and playing Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (...after all, they share the same setting).
For a long time, I've always thought that this fairly average (but addictively brutal) board game would make a half-way decent roleplaying game with a few modifications...until today when I was looking over the rules and noticed (for the first time) that right there on the front cover of the rules, it says "Rules for Heroic Roleplay"!
All this time I've been thinking of it as a rather detailed boardgame, when it's always been intended to be an RPG. Has anyone else had any experience with this game in its guise as an RPG? I don't just mean having played it, but played it as you would Dungeons and Dragons or the like, with in depth character interaction and such?
If so, what modifications or house rules did you make (if any)? How did it play and would you recommend it? Or would you suggest simply going and playing Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (...after all, they share the same setting).