The Year is 1989 - Games Workshop worked with Milton Bradley to produce HeroQuest (1989), an adventure game where the players cooperated against a single adversarial Games Master. HeroQuest was created by Stephen Baker, who worked for the UK division of Milton Bradley (MB). The game was released in Britain, Europe and Australia around 1989. It was released in America and Canada in 1990 in a slightly different version. The game consisted of a board and a number of individual miniatures and items. The protagonists were 4 heroes ("Barbarian", "Dwarf", "Elf" and "Wizard") who faced a selection of monsters: Orcs, Goblins, Fimir, Chaos Warriors, a Chaos Warlock/witch Lord (which represented many of the named characters for the various quests), a Gargoyle and a number of Undead: skeletons, zombies and mummies. Many expansions for the game were published, starting with Kellar's Keep, released in Europe and Australasia in 1989, and The United States and Canada in 1991. Kellar's Keep added new quests, new items and artifacts and a further batch of monster figures (more Orcs, Goblins and Fimir). Released shortly in the same years was Return of the Witch Lord which extended the undead with more skeletons, mummies and zombies. The publication of expansion sets was then split between the Europe & Australasian markets and the North American market. In Europe and Australasia, Against the Ogre Horde was released in 1990, and included Ogres, a more powerful monster type, while Wizards of Morcar was released in 1991, themed around the addition of enemy wizards. In 1992, the United States and Canada saw the release of two sets of their own: The Frozen Horror, with a snow and ice theme, featured a lone "Female Barbarian", Mercenaries, Ice Gremlins, Polar Warbears and a pair of yeti as well as the "Frozen horror" of the title, while The Mage of the Mirror had an Elven theme: Female Elf against an evil Elven Archmage, Elf warriors and archers, Giant Wolves and Ogres. Fast forward to Sept 2020, Hasbro bought the HeroQuest trademark from Chaosium in September 2020. This allowed Avalon Hill, a subsidiary of Hasbro, to launch a teaser website with the HeroQuest logo, art and a countdown timer, leading to speculation that an official remake or app is being produced. On September 22, 2020, the countdown revealed a Hasbro Pulse crowdfunded campaign for $1,000,000 to produce a new version of HeroQuest with 2 expansions available to the highest tier, which is scheduled to ship in late 2021. The project reached its goal within 24 hours. Taken from the Hasbro site: What’s in the box?You can expect updated versions of Miniatures, Tiles/Markers, Character Cards, Combat Dice, Movement Dice, Gameboard, Character Sheets, Quest Books, Rules of Play, Sorcerer Screen, Turn Cards, and Game Cards. What version of the rules are you using?We have an updated (U.S. version) rule book. You can expect that there will be only minor changes to this resource. New rules will be added to the heroes in our Mythic Tier unlocks. Are the quest books the same?We have updated (U.S. version) quest books. You can expect that there will be only minor changes to this resource. New quest books could be added to our Mythic Tier unlocks if we meet those funding goals. What is the estimated ship date?If the campaign is successfully backed, we currently estimate shipments of HeroQuest to begin in Fall 2021. so looks like it will be a mix of old and new designs and rules, the fall 2021 shipping date sucks, BUT! we have preordered so watch out! if you want to see our review of the preview toy can watch it here:
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On Friday, toy maker Hasbro dropped a bombshell on the world of tabletop gaming. HeroQuest, the classic dungeon-crawling adventure first published in 1990, is back. The Rhode Island-based company launched a new website, including a mysterious timer. It’s currently counting down to an announcement at noon ET on Sept. 22. Hasbro’s website includes art showing a skeletal minion with an elaborate gold mantle around his shoulders. Both the skeleton’s headdress and his mantle resemble art for Return of the Witch Lord, an expansion for the original HeroQuest game first published in 1991. Sets go for nearly $200 on the collector’s market today while the base game can command upwards of $250 or more.
The Arena of DeathThe current season of Warhammer Underworlds comes to a close with Arena Mortis, an exciting expansion that sees between three and six players battle it out with just a single fighter each. Rather than seeking to gain glory by scoring objective cards, Arena Mortis is all about slaying your opponents and, in the arena of death, there can be only one victor.
The expansion features a new double-sided game board, all the tokens that you need to play Arena Mortis, and additional universal upgrade and gambit cards that can be used in your other games of Warhammer Underworlds. If you’re looking for a completely different tactical and deck-building challenge, then Arena Mortis is for you. |
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