HeroQuest was an adventure board game released in the UK and Europe in 1989, it was later released in the USA and Canada.
DESCRIPTION
HeroQuest was loosely based around archetypes of fantasy role-playing games. The game itself was actually a game system, allowing the gamemaster to create dungeons of their own design using the provided game board, tiles, furnishings and monsters.
The game consisted of a board and a number of individual miniatures and items. The four heroes were Barbarian, Dwarf, Elf and Wizard. The heroes would face-off with monsters such as Orcs, Goblins, Fimir, Chaos Warriors, Chaos Warlock, Gargoyle and a number of other undead such as skeletons and zombies. The original UK version differed slightly from the version that saw US release.
GAMEPLAY
Throughout the years many different expansion sets were released in different regions around the world. Advanced HeroQuest was a revised and expanded version of the original HeroQuest game. It featured the same heroes but a much more detailed and complex set of rules.
The game required between 2 and 5 players, one player being the evil dungeon master. The other 1-4 players would take the role of the heroes. The game used a very simple combat scheme that was copied by several other games. Your character rolls attack dice while the dungeon master rolls defence dice. The different monsters have body points, to defeat them you must roll higher than the dungeon master. If you manage to roll higher you would take a body point from them.
HEROQUEST - HOW TO WIN THE GAME
To finish the game every player has to return to the spiral staircase, exited by a door or been killed by the wizard. If the objective of the quest wasn’t accomplished then the wizard wins. There was of course much more to the game than just fighting, treasure could be found and traps could be sprung.
