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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DragoonLance" data-source="post: 5290447" data-attributes="member: 76135">I have two boys, ages 9 and 5 that have been playing a simplified version of 4e with me for several months now.  The entire family also enjoys board games (mostly eurogames these days.)  My oldest son owns lots of heroscape stuff which usually ends up getting used in our RPG, so when I saw the Ravenloft board game coming out I thought it would be of great use both for our RPGing and for the times when I don't have anything prepared and they just want to play a game.But then my FLGS got a copy of HeroQuest that someone traded in, and it is in nearly mint condition.  I remember wanting this game so bad when I was a kid but only got to play it once or twice at a friend's house.  So I think they would like HQ and it has some nostalgia value for me. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />So which should I pickup?  I sadly can't afford both, at least not at once.  If you have played either, which do you think kids would enjoy more, and which do you think I would get more use out of as RPG aid?  Right now I'm leaning toward Ravenloft.</blockquote>