Advanced Heroquest - A Deep Dive Look into the Rules & How to Play, with a Bit of a Review Thrown In 

A great blast from the past. I had this when I was about 13 and I really didn't appreciate what I had at the time. If only THIS Heroquest would get a re-release.

This game is one of my all time favorites! The old school black and white atmosphere is dripping from it. I love it!

Yes!!! Would love to see more Advanced Heroquest content! Thanks!

Wonderful stuff, thanks for the deep dive. Can't get enough of this classic!

Great video as always! Plus made me think on how I want to handle rules in my game.

Good video, My fave RPG ever!.. Over the years ive developed advanced rules using the originals and the ones from terror in the dark.. such as making things more streamlined like only having a max of two passages on the passage chart and the rooms charts and removing stairs out.

Yes!!! This is what I was waiting for! Looking forward to future updates as your quest for completing the ultimate AHQ collection grows 😎

I used to play this ‘back in the day’ and you have reminded me of why these games are so great! From the gorgeous artwork through the rulebook, creating unique characters, to ‘scribbling’ down notes on bits of paper, to having a book full of tables to randomly roll on… brings it all back! Even getting an old second hand copy will feel like you have got an old ancient treasure from a dungeon! Have recently got hold of 1989 Spacehulk along with its expansions and am slowly reminding myself of the rules and painting up the figures (as well as hunting for rogue trader terminator miniatures I am missing. Then making it a project to paint it all up beautifully (ot at least better than I could when I was a kid!). This is definitely a candidate for my next project! Keep the great vids going!

Oh the memories, hundreds of hours spent playing this game. I wish, I wish I had never gotten rid of it. I think that it is by far my favorite Dungeon Crawl game that I and my fellow gamers have ever played. I loved being the dungeon master in it. Thank you for bringing back those great memories.

Totaly love it. I learn many stuff I still didn't knew

Oh shiiii... This is the video I have been waiting for, according to the title. I am 40 and sitting on a stack of modern dungeon crawls that I dont have enough time to fully explore but somewhere deep inside of me I am feeling the call.. "It is time. It is time to go allll the way back to the beginning." But the rules book for AHQ is MASSIVE and there are multiple versions which combine rules. I tried to read the original book once but didnt make it passed 1/3 roughly. Having a guide should be fantastic. I haven't watched this yet, and this is my excitement level. I want to come back and watch when I can give my full attention, and I'm sure you will hear from me again friend. =)

I just read your blog about this game from 2013... and wow. You've changed your opinion on it a lot!

Very accurate portrayal of the game. I've recently pimped my copy up using material from the new edition of Heroquest since they kept the exact same scale as the original. My only gripe is they never included miniatures for the NPCs or the statue. The portcullis tokens actually came from a Heroquest magazine extension, but thanks to the new HQ box set, we now have plastic (and sturdier) versions of all types of doors (normal, steel, portcullis) to play with.

Wow, after watching this vid I really wonder if we gave it a fair shake back in the day! I think the problem may have been is that it was neither the "quick and easy" Heroquest, nor the more involved Basic D&D which we were getting into at the time. But I will definitely have to dig out my copy and give it a re-read! 👍

Nice. AHQ CONTENT!! Now for a play through….😮

Great review of what is also my favourite of the genre.

Yees! Love it!😃

I don't know why, but I never really got the hang of Advanced Heroquest - it just didn't seem as good as many others obviously find it. Heroquest and Warhammer Quest 1995 were already favourites when I tried it, but it seemed to be a lot of trudging about in empty corridors and rooms, and occasionally something happened. I understand that it is a game system, but it didn't grab me at all - maybe because I have only played it solo. This video (which was excellent) makes me think I ought to give it another go - perhaps I just didn't appreciate the depth of it, and the possibilities. Just having the basic Skaven in the box was a cheeky move, especially compared to HQ and WHQ, they could have at least put some of the other required Skaven models in there. The doors that open were a great idea, but weren't sturdy enough, unfortunately. Two of mine (out of about six, I think?) are broken.

I never got this "back in the day". I'd love to see a remake of this. I'm not sure who has the rights to it (GW?) But whoever does, there is countless money to be made surely. Each expansion could provide new minis and campaign rules. Initial box skaven, then orcs and gobbos, undead, chaos, etc etc... Also I don't think I've ever heard the term orthogonal before in my life. And it's been used a good few times in this video! You learn something new everyday!

I've been waiting for this

Thanks for the handy video. The game is much better as an adult than as a child in the 90s. Just bought it again with T in the dark. The only thing I can't seem to find are more monster stat cards, barring French versions, if you have come across any in your scrolling and can share.

Really nice guide and intrigued me since I was aware of AHQ but never came close to it. It reminds me a lot of AD&D 2nd ed. but with more approaching system, since AD&D is pen & paper with rules everywhere 🤔😄😜 . I believe you can turn normal HQ into this but without the modular map, or if you have tiles from another game i.e descent 1st you can simulate AHQ, of course my point of view and really going to give it a try. Thanks for that, looking for moar AHQ presentation and guides.

I just read the AHQ rulebook yesterday wondering if I could streamline it down into something easy to learn and play. I came up with a lot of great ideas, and I wonder if this game is a better base to expand and improve upon over Warhammer Quest for DIY dungeon crawl gamers.

I really hope Avalon Hill can remake this. I want this this type of game without having to rely on Cursed City.

I think my least favorite dungeon generated by this game was such; The first randomly generated corridor led to a dead end, and the other corridor led to stairs out. I checked each wall for secret doors, and none. I still feel 5-15 (on 2d12) resulting in Nothing, when it comes to corridors, is just too high. I've experimented with balancing out the random tables, so everything has an equal chance to come up, which seems to help.

I love the Death Zone rule, it makes beautiful sense to me.

Nice video. I'm currently BUILDING the game and am planning to play. I noticed that some stuff could be built up more. You mentioned magic lore, that's an obvious one. But also solo play... Another little thing I noticed was that the hazards table is strange, in that some things have almost NO chance of spawning (less than 1% chance), while other hazards have over 20% chance to spawn. I feel like the numbers on that table could be tweaked to give more variety of hazards, from game to game. The biggest thing with solo quests is the lack of counters for the dungeon master... I think how that needs to work is some sort of a system, that, when the dungeon master would usually collect a counter to play later, instead, the system would put a generic counter aside and the more counters there are, the more chance there is of something bad happening (a sort of pressure build up, that would eventually burst). This would mean that there'd need to be rolls for traps/wandering monsters etc taken, almost all the time. Such things wouldn't spawn often, but the more counters there are, the higher the chance that they'd spawn. And when they DO spawn, a counter is removed, so some of the pressure is relieved.

bought it in 1990, one of the best gw ever ! Rules are fantastic and it s a game really under rated ! it would have been better with more different figures and room furnitures

Your videos got me collecting blackstone fortress. Almost have all the content. I don't have no respite, nor any card packs.

Makes me want to drag out my copy. Such a wonderful classic. Honestly, the system is nearly robust enough to be an RPG in its own right. Sadly, the dependence on certain stats (Strength and Toughness) over others makes the system a little too board-gamey for true RPGing, but still a fantastic system. Thank you for dusting off this golden oldie.

Thank you for this, and perfect timing, my copy arrived yesterday! Do you think Terror in the Dark is worth buying? I have the PDF of the rules and it looks like you gain more dungeon tiles and rooms, which is always nice, but not sure it’s worth the £ the expansion goes for if most of the content is the book. Have you played this Solo, how do you find it? And did you make those monster cards yourself by copying/printing them from the rule book? Looks a much better way to use them than having to go leading through the rule book every time. (Sorry for all the questions, I never played this as a kid but it looks like something I could enjoy now as an adult with tweaks to make it play as streamlined as possible).

The D12 dice mechanic was neat, more variables rather than just the plain old D6.

I’m really excited to find advanced hero, quest. I feel like it’s got a lot of elements that I would want in a dungeon crawler. Also, a lot of elements that I can bring in to the board game I’m creating. I’m really excited to read up on how they randomly generate enemies. I’d like to borrow that system. At the moment, me and my boys use preplaced tokens, on the board which we don’t know what they are until they are revealed. But I’m wondering whether there is a better way of randomly generating enemies. Is there any place I can find a full set of rules online that I can then print off?

I read the rules of EAHQ. My current plan is to create my own quest, but for this i also wanna play with the reforged AHQ ruleset to see, which my favourite version of the rules is. I have some troubles with some parts of the rules. Like the hero creation and the random stats- some heroes have almost maxed out stats and are super powerful while others are super weak and can hardly kill a normal skaven warrior. Also the magic system seems kinda strange to me. Since i played with the EAHQ ruleset, i didnt need to use materials for my spells and this kinda made healing trivial. While using the standard magic rules is the direct opposite of making it too hard to heal. So i am currently looking for a more balanced version.

Hi! ABNB! Is it possible to play advanced heroquest rules with the normal heroquest game? :)

Im still checking EBAY for this Holy Grail! The credit card may come out very soon I think. Ive never played D&D but this seems to have a bit of that in it too. Plus the Skaven colection challenge is a hoby in itself!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

One general questions regarding the rules: how do you handle sentries getting out of Line of sight? When you kill all the monsters in an encounter but the Sentry escapes and runs around in the dungeon, do you play combat turns or exploration turns (since there are no monsters in sight?). What happens with monsters the Sentry finds on his way? I expect they move towards the heroes even though they dont see them?

Do you prefer Advanced hero quest of the o.g. hero quest? And, do you know how advance hero quest can be modernized?

Does anyone know if there are plans to re release this as the original heroquest has been?

I always find the biggest problem with AHQ, as good as you can advance the your characters, even the most basic bosses utterly dominate them, especially if, as they usually do, they come with backup. The typical game goes - assuming 2 good guy players and one GM, you explore the dungeon for a bit, kill a few monsters, try not to die, get some treasure, when you are about to die bug out and go home. Then, go back in, explore more, kill more, go home and buy more gear. Keep repeating. Eventually, you end up fighting the boss. DM - I cast Choke at the fighter. DM puts a couple of monsters in front of the boss to protect him. If you have never played AHQ and dont know what Choke is, it is, well, ridiculous. Basically its 100% chance of success, you then have 3 turns to kill the caster or the the target DIES with 100% chance. Thats it - straight death. Armour, stats, hit points, utterly useless. You just die. But its not *too* bad, your team mate can drag you out and resurrect you, cant he? DM - I cast Choke on the wizard. Wizard dies too. We even tried once with each player having FOUR heroes (using both the HQ and AHQ heroes) and lots of starting gold, because it was FAR too biased in favour of the monsters. And the result was the same - choke choke choke heroes try to kill the choking boss but cant as they have 7 or more WS and tons of wounds, choke choke choke, heroes try and run away, choke choke thats all 8 dead.

They should bring back this one as well… i would buy it blindfolded 😎

I know you done a video in the past,but if you have managed can we get an update on the minis you have sauced please. Thanks as always for the content 🤜

Do you prefer this to Warhammer Quest 95? Advanced Heroquest was my most played game as a kid, but I stopped playing games after I got Warhammer Quest. Now I am getting back into GW games, Warhammer Quest is what I am planning to play with the kids soon! Which do you prefer and why?

I just see this review and just think to myself .. just play Warhammer Quest. You can tell they learnt from AHQ and streamlined the game but had all the main elements included like randomised missions, events between settlements and events in settlements.

Also, one question, being new to the hobby, what do you mean when a character can choose to run they get an extra D 12? What does that mean?

I mainly remember how in Advanced Heroquest you could spend you could spend two hours fighting through a dungeon, then on the road back to town you roll a bad roll and instantly lose all your money. The random events seemed to have a ton more impact on the game than the actual playing of it on the tactical map.

12:54: I wonder if this is a correct interpretation of the rules. As far as I understand it, if you roll a one you just dont get any extra spaces, however you can still move your normal speed. So you don't miss your turn. I admit though that the Rules as written seem a bit pointless because whether you can move one extra space or none does not make huge of an impact I guess. So i somewhat prefer your variant.

Just bought this game in good and complete condition for 40 Euros in a little second hand shop. They guy in the Shop just wanted to get rid of it. Today I am a happy man 😊

It's a great game that I haven't played for about 10 years. The one thing you only just mentioned is that the round bases are too big for the squares on the board so it can be challenging to have models next to each other. Probably the ost irritating thing about the core game

Alright, two questions. Second question, have you ever thought of creating your own board game? I’m relatively new to the hobby, but it hasn’t taken me that long to create my own board game, obviously heavily borrowing from hero, quest, and its rules. But I’ve drawn out a board, three boards in fact on A3 card, then glued it to A3 ply board. It’s taken some time to draw out the cards. And I’m not entirely sure I’m gonna draw out a card for every ability, item and weapon that I’ve now added to the game. But it’s not taking too long. Obviously I’ve just got a bunch of mini’s (mostly GW) to act as proxies for every enemy or hero in the game. I’ve done all the stats … You are clearly far more experienced hobbyist than myself. Therefore, it begs the question. Why not create your own board game that includes all of the features that you like? I think that’s what I really enjoyed about the whole process is the board games, are so easy to tweak, mod or just downright make your own. I’m just trying to streamline my own board game. Trying to get the processes down to be quicker smoother. My only critique of my own board game, so far is the long set up it requires. I’m currently using a modular dungeon that I bought from Amazon, in order to make the walls of the rooms etc. When my boys ask “ can we play the board game Dad” - my immediate response is “sure”. But with some heaviness, I’m mindful of the reality of how much time it takes to set up, and that we might not have time to play. That’s something that I’m personally looking to address. This is why I’m trying to look into other games rules, and try to borrow where I can, and streamline where I can take in cues from how other board games have simplified things.

Do u like this better than war hammer I have only played original hero quest

Next time, "Advanced Space Crusade", them Space Marine Scouts & Terminators start to get bored... I hope you have enough Genestealers & Tyranids 😏

One of GWs all time greats. The only dungeon crawler they did better was 89 Space Hulk with expansions to create squads. I do have a soft spot for Warhammer Quest but that's mostly due to owning so many more of the minis from the 90s as opposed to the 80s. That said I had gobs of the old Skaven and beastmen.

how do you like the game in comparison to Warhammer Quest?

I bought this game when it came out, I never got around to playing it, then I moved out leaving heroquest, space crusade and AHQ in a drawer under my old bed, a while later I must have went and got them but I never took AHQ ?????? Why???? Its a mystery that will haunt me forever😔😔😔

This sounds like DnD but then its good, instead of bad

Sandbox game indeed! So easy to modify! Do you have uneventful dungeons that go nowhere? Change the tables, it's so easy.

3 ones again