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Hero Quest is a role-playing/board game that
was released in 1991 by Milton Bradley. It was created in cooperation with
Games Workshop. Games Workshop is known for their fantasy battle and dungeon
adventure games. Hero Quest was the "made for the general public"
version of GW's Mighty Warriors. Games Workshop then made Advanced HeroQuest,
then the most recent version of the game, Warhammer Quest. The games are
somewhat similar but Hero Quest uses a pre designed game board and the
others utilize random dungeons. Hero Quest was also a tied into another
Milton Bradley/Games Workshop game called Battle Masters. This game did
not take place in dungeons as Hero Quest but it envolves fantasy battles
over different country sides. Battle Masters is a simplified version of
games Workshop's Warhammer Fanatsy Battles. Battle Masters and Hero Quest
share the same characters (Orcs, Goblins, Chaos Warriors) and some of the
rules are the same (the attack/defend dice).
Why is this webpage here? I have really enjoyed
this game from the first day I played it waaaaay back in 91. I picked this
game up at the Kmart that I worked at and we decided to give it a shot.
I can still remember seeing the stack of Hero Quest games on the end-cap
in the store. There must have been 40 games sitting there. I remember one
day (while I was working in electronics) taking a razor and carefully cutting
open one of the packages so I could take a look at the contents of the
box. Ahhhhh............... Anywho, we got the game and started playing.
We could only play on the weekends and the it took us awhile to finish
the 14 dungeons that came with the game. I later found the 2 expansion
packs (Kellar's Keep and Lair of the Witch Lord) on clearance at a Walmart
so I grabbed them up quick. The expansion packs had 10 quests each and
also came with some more minatures. We played and played until our dice
were worn almost completely out. When we played we would listen to the
soundtrack of Army of Darkness. The music is a perfect mood setter for
the game(I highly reccomend it!). I wrote on the first quest book the date
that we started playing and the day we finished all the quests. Including
several quests we made ourselves, it took us just over a year to finish
Hero Quest.
Recently I started painting all the minatures
from the game and the expansion packs. This has gotten me back in the Hero
Quest mood. I have put a message board up for all you Hero Quest fans looking
for the games, and with questions and comments. Enjoy!
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