Warhammer Quest: The Undisputed King (Part II) — Beyond the Dungeon
Part I catalogued the official canon. Part II ventures into the territories beyond — the White Dwarf hinterlands, the Deathblow badlands, the fan-made empires, and one extraordinary brick of 800 professionally printed cards that suggests the king’s subjects may have surpassed the court.
Daniel (@dungeondive) picks up the White Dwarf trail where we left off. Issues 191-195 yield gold: a Skaven expansion Daniel suspects was a scrapped boxed set (the Domain of the Horned Rat, complete with Warp Fire Generator and three full adventures), a Nurgle plague expansion with similarly suspicious production values, and cardboard supplements for collapsed passages and multi-level stairwells. Issues 196-208 chart the slow fade — ocean travel rules for the Lost Kingdoms, the sewer tile of Slaanesh, and Andy Jones’s bittersweet two-year retrospective on the game that outlived its own development cycle.
Between the official and the fan-made sits Blackstone Fortress — the first Warhammer Quest in the 40K universe, with its MMO-style raid structure, legacy deck countdown, and four mandatory explorers. Daniel admires the engineering. He’s less sure about the solo experience.
The three issues of Deathblow — the official fanzine — deliver a mixed bag: Lizardmen rules, a Kislev expansion with yetis, critical wound tables, and four warrior classes released incomplete. The magazine reprinted so much White Dwarf content that Daniel suggests the issues themselves are less essential than their sources.
Then comes the real treasure hoard. Daniel’s survey of fan-created content reveals a community that refused to let the king die. Littlemonk emerges as the game’s great archivist — maintaining the Customized Runboard, producing the Hall of the Hag Queen (an expansion indistinguishable from official GW products), compiling the Ultimate Adventure Book of every known quest, and building d100 event tables that dwarf the originals. The brick of 800 cards is the capstone: professionally printed, perfectly sized to match 30-year-old originals, with corrected rules, added artwork, and six treasure packs spanning official reprints to entirely new custom content. At $175, Daniel calls it an investment in both his collection and his time.
Also freshly arrived from the surface: Dice Commandos, a tactical espionage dice puzzle game with cyber apes, a T-Rex, and a stealth system that packs six missions into a $20 box. The king would approve of such efficiency.
The Chronicle (Part II):
- Part 11 — The White Dwarf Issues (c)
- Part 12 — The White Dwarf Issues (d)
- Part 13 — The White Dwarf Issues (e)
- Part 14 — Deathblow Issues 1-3
- Part 15 — Fan Created and DIY Stuff
- Part 16 — Littlemonk’s Brick of Cards
- Blackstone Fortress — A Brief Overview
New Blood:
Eight entries catalogued. The Let’s Play campaign, Silver Tower, and the retrospectives still await in the vault. The king’s court grows restless.
241 transcripts • 320 posts archived
– The Keeper
The fan-made wing of the archive is now larger than the official one. Draw your own conclusions.