h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Our family had a lot of fun with a game called Hero Quest. One person volunteers to be the gamesmaster who sets up an unrevealed series of rooms, deadly opponents, traps, pitfalls, bridges and chambers. As the Warrior, Dwarf, Elf, and Mage work their way around the board, the gamesmaster reveals the walls, doors, and secrets.
The goal is often a particular treasure, or the defeat of a particular baddie.
There were several packs of quest books, with associated new figures and props. Once you got the hang of it, it was also easy to create your own quests using odds and ends from other toys, games, etc. I remember using a small, rubber dragon in one particularly hot quest.

Yes, a Games Workshop game as I recall. There was also a similar one 'Battle Masters(?)' that had aq big plastic sheet instead of a board. Great fun.

Sounds worth exploring.
My son is doing more on-line gaming (Ragnarok) lately, but it could still be fun to try. That is, if I can find it.
The Hero Quest was even fun to make fun of. Every time someone found Heroic Brew, we'd all yell BEER!
Our games always had plenty of Heroic Brew!

Wasn't there a similar type of board game called "Dungeon" or something like that. Very D&D-ish, like "Heroquest".

Most probably. I remember seeing what seemed like dozens of cookie-cutter versions of D&D board games. Some area shopping malls have whole stores devoted entirely to board games, many of them military, but some are fantasy.

I'd always wanted to try Al Borland's Tool-Time game, but never found it.


[Tool-Time is actually a faux cable show featured on the TV show Home Improvement. Depending on where you live, you might need to know that.]

Not to be confused with Talisman which had a fairly simple board (rectangular with an outer ring of spaces and inner ring , lots of character cards (elf, paladin, leprechaun, princess etc.) alignment, chance and spell cards. You could also be turned into a frog if I remember correctly

Pimms

You may be interested to know that the cheap remaindered bookshop "the Works" is currently selling off a Hero Quest derivative game called "Dungeons and Dragons" for £9.99 - dirt cheap, as it contains 40 actual figures - not cardboard cut-outs - which look as if they originated with Games Workshop. As well as av. similar quest game and all the paraphernalia.

There's also a German derivative game called "Ruckherr der Helden" which is essentially Hero Quest meets Carcassone: the figures are in metal in this one.

Reccomended, as you can play it with HQ rules!

Whoooaaaahhhh!

I missed responding to this by an entire year+!!??

The whole thing has me thinking it's time to dust off the old HQ and write up a couple of new scenarios!