Hero Quest and 4e

[LibraryOgre]

So, we're playing again next wake cycle (it's after midnight, here, but I have to sleep and work before the game), and something occured to me: I've got a great supplement to 4e:

HeroQuest.

It's perfect. It's got a bunch of miniatures (we've unfortunately lost all our Chaos Warriors, Chaos Warlock, Gargoyles, and Hero figures... but there's still plenty of fimir, orcs, goblins, and undead!) in about the right scale. It's got a board which is just covered with squares, giving you a nice stable field to play on, and it's got a ton of tiles and such for marking out difficult terrain, special bits on the field, and the like.

I only wish we still had the wizard, so I could have him as my miniature.

[Tsotha-lanti]

My HeroQuest beats your HeroQuest.

I've been using GW's wonderfully customizable plastic miniatures for ages now, personally. When you just gotta have 20 goblins... and the Imperial Militia boxes have such an array of human bits and weaponry, you can put together just about any human or human-shaped PC.

[Colmarr]

I used the figures from Warhammer Quest for D&D for the longest time.

As a general rule, I like GW figures (plastic or metal) and would happily use them for D&D were it not for the extremely high cost.

[Thurbane]

I will avoid making a wise-ass crack about 4E and boardgames, and say that yes, I too have raided GW/MB boardgame pieces to use as D&D minis, in the days before prepainted DDMs.

Battle Masters had a LOT of plastic minis...

[ghost_warlock]

HeroQuest also has furniture, which means you can place a table in the room that the characters can actually interact with - stand on, flip over to use as cover, etc. Very nice! Hide a secret door behind a bookshelf. Or, place captured NPCs on the rack surrounded by hobgoblin torturers for when the PCs burst in to save them...

Fun times.

[Swordguy]

HeroQuest also has furniture, which means you can place a table in the room that the characters can actually interact with - stand on, flip over to use as cover, etc. Very nice! Hide a secret door behind a bookshelf. Or, place captured NPCs on the rack surrounded by hobgoblin torturers for when the PCs burst in to save them...

Fun times.

Yup! Picked myself up three HQ sets several years ago for general RPing use, and they've been brought permanently out of storage with the advent of 4e. Incredibly, incredibly useful.

[bosssmiley]

And people thought I was just trolling when I said 4E = Heroquest/WHQ.

Smell my vindication!!!

[Swordguy]

And people thought I was just trolling when I said 4E = Heroquest/WHQ.

Smell my vindication!!!

Well, you ARE a "Troll" in the Playground...

[Narmoth]

I use GW miniatures, chess pieces, D&D 3.5, Hero Quest and some other company's miniatures when play AD&D. It's wonderful for combat, but it's a problem that I have to set up the rooms, as I lack furniture and such

[Thurbane]

The sad thing is, towards the end of it's run, Heroquest was going for $5 a copy at my local FLGS. I always meant to pick up a few sets, but never got around to it.

[ghost_warlock]

The sad thing is, towards the end of it's run, Heroquest was going for $5 a copy at my local FLGS. I always meant to pick up a few sets, but never got around to it.

Yeah...looked up "HeroQuest" on ebay lately? $5 for the whole boxed set is a bargain in comparison.

[Thane of Fife]

Dragon Strike would work, too, and has the benefits of four boards (town, cave, castle, valley) and different monsters than are in Hero Quest (Bugbears being the best example).

[Swordguy]

Dragon Strike would work, too, and has the benefits of four boards (town, cave, castle, valley) and different monsters than are in Hero Quest (Bugbears being the best example).

But that would require admitting that The Video existed.

It's a terrifying concept...

[Thane of Fife]

Oh, come now, the video wasn't that bad - it was just... inadvertantly humorous, that's all.

(I could never figure out what happened to that Minotaur, though...)

[Thurbane]

Another one I own, and scavenged for minis, is Dragonfire.

[KillianHawkeye]

I don't really get what this has to do with 4e. I've been using HeroQuest minis since I started DMing my 3.5 game. I mean, they're pretty much the right size no matter what system you're using.

[crimson77]

I actually started playing HQ before I started playing D&D. It was great, I bought the game after seeing an ad for it on TV. It launched my hobby of RPGs. I still will GM IRL games using my hero quest stuff (both original and advanced). I still wonder if i had not purchased the original box set would I still be playing d&d?

[Matthew]

Me too. Hero Quest was great.

[ghost_warlock]

I actually started playing HQ before I started playing D&D. It was great, I bought the game after seeing an ad for it on TV. It launched my hobby of RPGs. I still will GM IRL games using my hero quest stuff (both original and advanced). I still wonder if i had not purchased the original box set would I still be playing d&d?

Ditto.

LOL HeroQuest: the Gateway Drug Game.

[crimson77]

Here is the commercial which got me hooked.

[Matthew]

I don't even have to look...

"I'll use my broadsword! Fire of Wrath!"