HeroQuest: The Obligatory Pilgrimage, Part I
One does not maintain a dungeon crawl archive without eventually confronting HeroQuest. The game that launched a thousand attics. The cardboard gateway that taught an entire generation that furniture could be threatening and that barbarians solve most problems.
Eight entries have been filed — beginning not with the famous original but with its stranger, more ambitious sibling. The Advanced HeroQuest review makes the case for Games Workshop’s 1989 procedural dungeon system as something genuinely special, house rules and all. What follows is a complete let’s play campaign: the introductory setup, then four episodes of increasingly desperate Skaven hunting (Part One, Part Two, Part Three) culminating in a finale where the dice declare open war on the player. The subtitle — “Rolling All the Ones” — is not metaphorical.
Three years later, Daniel returns to HeroQuest proper with fresh eyes and no nostalgia to cloud the lens. Episode 1 compares the 1989 original against the Hasbro reimagining, while Episode 2 evaluates the new wave of expansions for solo viability.
The Dossier:
- Advanced HeroQuest (is Awesome)
- Advanced HeroQuest - Let’s Play - Intro
- Advanced HeroQuest - Let’s Play - Part One
- Advanced HeroQuest - Let’s Play - Part Two
- Advanced HeroQuest - Let’s Play - Part Three
- Advanced HeroQuest - Let’s Play - Finale - Rolling All the Ones
- HeroQuest - Episode 1 - My history with HQ / a look at the base games
- HeroQuest - Episode 2 - the Hasbro / Avalon Hill expansions
Eight documents catalogued. Six more HeroQuest entries remain in the vault — the solo customisation guide, the infinite dungeons, and the expansions yet to come. The quest, as they say, continues.
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– The Keeper
notes that the furniture has been placed and the door is open.