The Best Thing About HeroQuest is….

[Daith]

The new best thing about HeroQuest is the new budget friendly starter set First Light!

Actually not so much. So First Light only comes with 4 Miniatures of the basic heroes (Barbarian, Dwarf, Wizard, and Elf) and a new Dragon that honestly looks so much better than the HasLab Dragon. That said every other monster is a cardboard standee, and the furniture is all tile based. Which honestly is a good way to knock the set down to 50 bucks.

But there are a few upsides. The new double sided game board for one. One side is the old layout and the other side is a new less centralized layout. Which also means a brand new starting quest book. It’s supposedly set at the same time as the original so if you already have a group well into a campaign it may not be for them. Plus I believe the Dwarf has a starting weapon change.

As a budget version I feel it works well enough. Everything is still here from the base set so if you had the chance to get the quests from someone or use the App you still can run them. And speaking of if you don’t want to buy a brand new starter kit like me you can still run most of this off the app. The only thing holding you back from the full campaign is having the new board.

 

[Videomaster21XX]

I picked up the First Light starter, just because I want everything Hero Quest I can get. I like the new sculpts for the four heroes, and the dragon is neat looking, but certainly feels 'cheap' So be careful with it.

I'm also hearing of people opening the new board and it tearing at the folds quickly.

I do like the new DM screen though. I think it looks better than the older one.

I'm debating if I want to add the treasure cards to the treasure card deck we are already using.

In other news my group beat 'Return of the Witch Lord' and ran into a major problem.

Quest 9 and Quest 10 are both missing a door that was present in the original release. This means that in Quest 9 the section of rooms that includes the 'boss' figure can not be encountered unless you search a random hallway for the 'secret door' behind the boss. (Which it's supposed to use to escape) I didn't notice this, so my group pretty much speed ran the quest.

Then Quest 10 has these statues that you aren't supposed to get past blocking the hallway, and one door leading into this hallway and nowhere else to go. I fixed this by including a secret door, where the original normal door was supposed to be.

It's really discouraging to find this out. I really hope other quest packs don't have this issue.