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Started by Draigh, December 04, 2003, 12:10:00 AM

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Draigh

Is the same HeroQuest that Milton Bradley put out? Or did that become WarhammerQuest?
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pete_darby

Quote from: DraighIs the same HeroQuest that Milton Bradley put out? Or did that become WarhammerQuest?

Not a stupid question at all: no, it's not. Warhammer quest was an "advanced heroquest plus" that Games workshop put out after developing the orginal baord game for MB.

Heroquest was proposed as a name for a role playing game set in Glorantha shortly after the first such game, Runequest, debuted in the 70's.

It was never completed, and GW/MB produced the boardgame of the same name (drawing from the random fantasy word pool "sword dragon hero world quest dungeon wizard"), which had nothing to do with Glorantha.

The first version of the rules discussed here were publilshed as Hero Wars: the release of HeroQuest as a copyrighted term from GW/MB co-incided with the schedule for a heavily revised rule set.

The current game titled HeroQuest is a pen & paper role playing game set in one of the oldest FRP campaign worlds, Glorantha. I happen to think it's the spiffiest game out there, but I'm very biased.
Pete Darby

Draigh

Drink to the dead all you, still alive.
We shall join them, in good time.
If you go crossing that silvery brook it's best to leap before you look.