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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imperialus" data-source="post: 2729712" data-attributes="member: 893">Back when I was younger before I got into D&D I used to have an absolute blast playing Hero Quest.  The cool dice, the fast pace, the miniature heros monsters and dungon furnature and the ability to "advance" your character by buying better equipment and collecting cool items was a lot of fun.  In all honesty Hero Quest was probably what got me into D&D in the end... that and I thought the dice looked really cool.  I think a game simmilar to Hero Quest marketed under the D&D brand name could get a lot of new players into D&D.  In the late 80's when I got the game I think it was about 40$ cdn so a price tag of 50-60$ wouldn't be unreasonable now, market it during saturday morning cartoons, target the complexity towards 9-12 year olds and you'd almost definatly have a winner.  Include some adverts for the D&D basic set so that once the kids hit 12 or 13 years old they can move on to that.  Heck I still have my old Hero Quest game sitting on a shelf... now I want to go dust it off and play again.</blockquote>