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  6. Posted

    6 hours ago, Zorua said:

    Show of hands: how many people aren't surprised? *raises hand*

    Yeah, I seem to remember a lot of people speculating on Noah's ponytail being antennae.

     

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    Also, is it just me, or are there some parallels here between Uryuom/Seyunolu antennae sensing stuff and autism? What with the whole 'can't handle crowds and everything is loud' thing. Or am I misinterpreting things?

    As someone with autism who has experienced degrees of sensory overload, I can see that.

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    Ashley's excuse here is that successful snark from a character who has to literally look up while doing it can be more fun and impressive than a character who is towering over everyone in the scene.

    We already know that Dan is a "Cheers" fan. Clearly he has Carla in mind here.

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    8 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

    The game was a forerunner, incorporation D&D style gaming into a bite sized ready made framework. Today there are many iterations of this play style, including Warhammer Quest, which derives from the same origin. I would be curious how it compares. Gloomhaven is one of the top rated games on Board Game Geeks right now. New Hero Quest is not showing up yet, although there is a Hero Quest card game published in 2021. Does not seem to have the features you mentioned. Is it branded Hasbro?

    Here is a write-up.  One review, another write up, and another.

    It is Hasbro, and there have always been cards as part of it - spells, treasures, and artifacts mostly. This new release also uses the Equipment deck from the Euro release rather than a big cardboard sheet, in addition to equipment from said Euro release. And yes, Hasbro is publishing it now.

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    In 1989, Milton Bradley worked with Games Workshop to produce a fantasy adventure board game called Hero Quest. It was, I believe, the first of it's kind, a simple dungeon crawl - go in, fight the monsters, find the treasure, and make it out alive. A board provides the basic framework, and a quest map tells how each individual adventure is set up. Four heroes - a fighting barbarian, a spell-slinging wizard, an elf who does a little of both, and a dwarven warrior-rogue good at disarming traps. Several expansions came out, the last one in the mid-90s. MB eventually let their trademark lapse, but a fan following has endured, making new quests, new tiles, and new adventures.

    A year or two ago, someone at Hasbro (which has apparently bought Milton Bradley) apparently looked through the game, and discovered that Games Workshop's contribution included very little of the lore that came from Warhammer, and decided to re-release the game. It's been sized up a bit, and received a cosmetic upgrade. Cardboard furniture and brittle plastic hero/monster pieces were replaced with sturdier plastic. The result looks glorious, and I got a copy of it for Christmas - including the first two original expansions, three completely new quest books, and three new playable options for heroes.

    Does anyone else have any fond memories of this game?