D&D General Now That We Have HeroQuest, Do We Need D&D?

[Monayuris]

I used to play Advanced HeroQuest all the time as a kid. Never played the original.

D&D is a better dungeon crawler than any board game dungeon crawler can ever be. D&D can have story, and plot, and characterization, but none of that is necessary to play D&D.

Just make dungeon, put some monsters and treasure in it and play D&D. You have so much more content and possibilities than any board game can provide.

 

[overgeeked]

The story and roleplaying can be done just as well with HQ as you do in D&D, using HQ for combat encounters as needed. It's the same excuse that 4e forbade roleplaying because most rules were focused on combat.

You can role-play your pawns and knights in chess. Doesn’t make chess a role-playing game. Glad you dig HeroQuest, but this is a silly argument.

 

[darjr]

More than ever!

I am glad it’s back. I hope HQ brings in more people and also spawns an industry of making “adventures” for it.

 

[payn]

More than ever!

I am glad it’s back. I hope HQ brings in more people and also spawns an industry of making “adventures” for it.

I'd love to see some homebrew adventures. We might need a thread for that!

 

[jgsugden]

If you're looking for a light version of a Dungeon Delving game, there are a lot of options out there. I prefer Gloomhaven and Descent to HeroQuest, but to each their own. I'd also pick Zombicide, Claustrophobia, Mansions of Madness, Mice and Mystics, Cthulhu Death May Die, or KDM - all of which give you something similar to HeroQuest in a better package.

 

[payn]

If you're looking for a light version of a Dungeon Delving game, there are a lot of options out there. I prefer Gloomhaven and Descent to HeroQuest, but to each their own. I'd also pick Zombicide, Claustrophobia, Mansions of Madness, Mice and Mystics, Cthulhu Death May Die, or KDM - all of which give you something similar to HeroQuest in a better package.

Those are not as casual as HQ, which I think is what the aim is. Trying to determine that line of its ok to be a board game or maybe you should just be playing a TTRPG instead?

 

[Retreater]

If you're looking for a light version of a Dungeon Delving game, there are a lot of options out there. I prefer Gloomhaven and Descent to HeroQuest, but to each their own. I'd also pick Zombicide, Claustrophobia, Mansions of Madness, Mice and Mystics, Cthulhu Death May Die, or KDM - all of which give you something similar to HeroQuest in a better package.

For my tastes, I'd put HQ above the ones I've tried (Gloomhaven, Descent, and Zombicide). I also put HQ above "hack and slash" sessions of D&D.

 

[vecna00]

Oh, yes! It's that time again!

The best thing about Heroquest is more Heroquest!

 

[Shiroiken]

Best use of HQ in a D&D group is for when the DM cancels.

 

[Composer99]

If this is going to be on retail, I'm gonna have to put it on my Christmas list.