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Contents 1 Company 2 Expansions 3 Article title 4 Actual title of the game... 5 Quest Packs 6 More Detailed Info On Included Items? 7 Where are these cards from? 8 Where are these minis from? 9 Contents List 10 Body points and one other type of points? 11 HeroQuest isn't a game system 12 Jigsaws 13 is/was 14 Remakes (HeroQuest Online)

[edit] Company

Umm, it appears that the company which first released heroquest was Milton Bradley (MB), not Parker Brothers. (Both are owned by Hasbro today.) regards, High on a tree 18:41, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Expansions

I remember more than 4 expasion packs, at least 5 (and surely there are some more) plus another pack for creating new quests.

[edit] Article title

Wouldn't HeroQuest (board game) be a good deal clearer and more accurate? Alai 05:05, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)

You are correct. This article should be renamed back to the (board game) page, as HeroQuest is an RPG with no relation.WildElf (talk) 03:07, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

The board game is the better-known use of the name, so per WP's naming conventions it should be named as simply as possible and any variants should be linked from a disambiguation page. This is already the case. Chris Cunningham (talk) 11:02, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Regardless of what is "better known" name for the board game, the title HeroQuest no longer belongs to Milton Bradley. HeroQuest have reverted to the roleplaying game which originally held the IP and has no relation to the out of print board game. So, just like films get dates appended to them for proper article titling, Wiki rules uphold that this article title is incorrect.WildElf (talk) 01:07, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Actual title of the game...

Is the game called "HeroQuest", or "Hero Quest"? If the latter, the article ought to stick to it. If the former, the page ought to move, as I suggested earlier. Alai 16:37, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

No answer, was the loud reply... I'm standardising in favour of "HeroQuest" on the page -- that seems to be the more popular. Comments, please, if the other is more correct. Alai 05:39, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

HeroQuest seems to win the google battle over Hero Quest. 505,000 vs 347,000 Mathmo

[edit] Quest Packs

Could somebody update this page to show what the quest packs include?

Done. / DerfelLink 17:47, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] More Detailed Info On Included Items?

Can anyone tell me which artifacts specifically came with the Elf Quest Pack? I've tried Google, but it seems everyone is just copying the contents list from here (or from the listing on the box.)

Done. / DerfelLink 07:27, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Where are these cards from?

I have 10 Artifact cards here, and I think some were from Return of the Witch Lord, and some from the Elf Pack. Specifically, they are:

Anti-Poison Quill
Dust of Disappearance
Rabbit Boots
Arm Band of Healing
Magical Throwing Dagger
5 Spell Scrolls
 Pass Through Rock
 Courage
 Fire of Wrath
 Ball of Flame
 Heal Body

These are definitely cut out from Quest Packs, and are not from the Basic Set.

Update... Turns out all of those artifact cards were from Return of the Witch Lord.

[edit] Where are these minis from?

Also, can anyone here shed some light on which Quest Pack(s) these figures are from?

And apparently, those figures aren't from any HeroQuest set. Any ideas what game they are from then?

They come from a game called Dragon Strike.

[edit] Contents List

I merged back in the article HeroQuest Contents because it was proposed for deletion as gamecruft. --Pixelface 09:22, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

I think it being deleted would be just fine. It was moved out of this page because it makes this page far too much of a laundry list. I've reverted its readdition. ^L_Wizard @ 16:36, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Actualylth ere was some useful stuff in the contents list once it was paraphrased down - I've been able to deliver a section on the published expansions. GraemeLeggett 17:21, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Body points and one other type of points?

Wasn't each of the four characters given two types of points? Body points, and one other type which was probably called either Mind points or Magic Points? I seem to recall that this second stat was printed on the character's card but was never used at all in the rules. Yet the article does not seem to mention this highly embarassing game design error at all. Can somebody who still owns the original box verify this? --Peter Knutsen 16:05, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Mind Points were printed on the character cards. Mind points were occasionally used to defend against certain spells (Sleep comes to mind), but usually did not come into play, as few of the quests in the basic box included spell-casting villains. 65.42.26.190 19:13, 20 April 2007 (UTC) Schoop

[edit] HeroQuest isn't a game system

It isn't technically a game system (otherwise all games would be, more or less, game systems). It was dubbed a game system only because offgame promotion seems to attract to Americans, whereas ingame promotion attracts to Europeans. (Compare "Game System" with "High adventure in a world of magic!" and "Quest Pack" with "The adventure continues...")

[edit] Jigsaws

where in the world did this term for expansion/quest packs come from?

shadzar|Talk|contribs 03:38, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I think that section is actually referring to the jigsaws that were made from the box art, rather than the expansion packs themselves. 82.6.97.81 15:18, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] is/was

my recent edit to revert the tense is due to the fact the game didn't spontaneously combust when its production run was stopped, therefore the game still exists even though it may not be able to be purchased form a retail outlet at this time. TSR was the company that made Dungeons and Dragons and that company no longer exists, thus past tense. if this is wrong then please explain here because i have always known it to be this way and would rather not get into an edit war over something like this if i am wrong about it. and sicne the game HeroQuest still exists, yup both my copies as still on the shelf, then past tense doesn't make any sense here. shadzar-talk 04:25, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Remakes (HeroQuest Online)

HeroQuest seems to have a moderately sized online comunity using various tools, like client/server map viewing programs. Some more noticable online tools include: http://www.cokeandcode.com/hqabout (Unfinished and seemingly abandoned) http://www.kitana.org/playground/heroquest/heroquest.html (In Beta stage and tested regularly Wednesdays at 8:30 CET) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cabbruzz (talk • contribs) 11:14, 9 June 2008 (UTC)