Bought from DTRPG, Bloody Eye Games, written by Alex Hakobian.
Heroquest with one or two minor changes (like movement is d6+4 instead of 2d6) and a lot of ADDITIONS like MANY new classes (around ten spellcasting classes), races, race and class abilities, lots of n3w spells in MANY , character advancement(!!!) and a bestiary of 40 or so mostly different monsters, many quite creative and weird, mercenaries, and rules to make your own monsters.
It has the same card decks as HQ, but ALSO lists Treasure and Artifacts on TABLES so I don’t have to spend $25 on the cards.
Yeah it’s a clone that adds content and much of it is weird and interesting instead of repeating high fantasy tropes. For example, they add anthropomorphic animals. And a lot of weird monsters.
And a lot of the scenarios are outside.
But it’s still compatible with the expansions so it’s all to the good.
I haven’t taken the plunge. If I did, it would be for everything, printed, which gets pricy. Pedro Wayne is in our FB group, or at least a couple adjacent solo gaming groups. He has taken it pretty far, doing the PnP options. It looks really tight. Rangers of Shadowdeep and Five Leagues from the Borderlands are in front of this one for me. So it’s going to be a while.
They also have solo coop rules and the cards for them (not required but nice to have) are $4, so I got that and the core rule book cards and Tome of Heroes cards for 37.00 plus shipping, which is a lot cheaper than the Axianquest bundle (which I am still likely to get).
The Broadsword scenarios each use their own map. I think the map tile files are either cheap or free; I didn’t buy any because I have tons of map tiles and other scenery.
OK! News on the broadsword front! I took delivery today of three orders from drive-through cards: The solo/co-op deck ($4), which is AI cards for the monsters; The tome of heroes spell deck ($9) , which is 65 spells for the character classes in that little expansion book costing a few bucks; And “just the cards” ($24) which is the cards for the Broadsword rulebook, which is essentially “replace” the cards for Heroquest. So you get a treasure deck and an artifact deck (which are very similar to there HQ decks) a deck of skills, and a deck of 102 spell cards for various classes!
these cards are cheaper than some of the other options I’ve seen like Axianquest all-in.
I recorded myself unboxing them so as soon as I knit that together, I will post it to YouTube and throw a link in here.
It would have to take a look, but if it does, it will be in the main rulebook I’d say. Which I haven’t read cover to cover.
We began playing Broadsword on Wednesday and it replaced the HQ rules. We played a Jungles of Delthrak scenario. The wizard became the Broadsword necromancer and she had a blast with the very flavorful dark magic.
Another character played a druid and had six cards with his different Druid forms on it. He really enjoyed playing that.
you really must get the cards because then each spellcaster gets nine UNIQUE cards. They also have skill cards the characters can learn in between quests and those look very fun.
