HeroQuest 25th Anniversary Edition Coming to Kickstarter

Update: The Heroquest 25th Anniversary Kickstarter has been suspended over IP disputes!

Here’s an unexpected (for me at least) piece of news.

It appears that Spain’s Gamezone Miniatures have somehow found themselves with the right to re-do HeroQuest – a classic dungeon-crawling game (formerly?) set in the “Old World” of Games Workshop’s Warhammer Fantasy. Now Gamezone Miniatures are getting ready to kickstart a deluxe anniversary edition of the game.

#1 – HeroQuest History

For those of you unaware of what HeroQuest is, I am simply gonna go with Wikipedia…

HeroQuest, sometimes also written as Hero Quest, is an adventure board game that was created by Milton Bradley in conjunction with the British company Games Workshop and set in the latter’s Warhammer Fantasy fictional universe.

The setting is revealed by a map of the Warhammer ‘Old World’ printed on the back of the Quest Book for the Return of the Witch Lord expansion pack.

The game was based loosely around archetypes of fantasy role-playing games: the game itself was actually a game system, allowing the gamemaster (called “Morcar” in the original British version and most localizations, but “Zargon” in the USA) to create dungeons of his or her own design using the provided game board, tiles, furnishings and monsters.

These days, of course, a healthy selection of games like this exist. The best known is probably Fantasy Flight Games’ Descent.

Moreover, I doubt the new 25th Anniversary Edition of Heroquest will be set in Games Workshop’s “Old World”, though it might still hit that nostalgic spot for many “old school” gamers regardless.