Windows would add so much... attacks between rooms, rules for climbing through, bonuses for dwarves and halflings to squeeze through. Imagine walking into a room, the doors slam shut, hidden windows slide open, and all manners of evil arrows, bolts and rays stream in to decimate the heroes... Love it!
I bought the single hallway larger heroquest board from Etsy and once you use it you can never go back it gives you way more space inside the rooms without the board becoming too large itself it's really good I totally recommend it you have to make sure you get the right size tomorrow morning I will link the mat that I purchased in case anybody's interested
For the wide corridors, we can make choke points with rocks and traps, as well as the big barrels/urns. Love the Witch Lord center room, I have a foamcore version on my workbench atm. May have to grab some of their ideas and incorporate it. Love the Primal prints and spins. Especially the WoM twist.
The problems I have with that first board are legion. For a number of quests, you'd have to change the layout of the quest to account for the changes to the changes. Basically anything involving the centre room needs to be changed. But you also can't use any tiles because they won't fit. This is particularly a problem with room tiles and other multiple square tiles. Furniture will also be comically small and even more problematic. I get what it's trying to do, but it messes with a lot of things. Those prebuilt ones seem to be modular, kind of like using geomorphs. The pics just seem to be showing one configuration. Wondering why dungeons are always gridded out. Lol. Adventurers all have bad OCPD and refuse to step on the cracks. I like that upgrade pack. Playing the game again, I find that I can't see the stone wall tiles. I think traps and secret doors are fine, but the stone wall tiles are a pain. That archway wall one looks like that floor grate/portcullis tile from the main box. I think those are just the double stone walls, but more interesting. Those coasters are pimp. I might consider that. Those Lost Maps boards are pretty cool. I appreciate the ones that reference the actual board, but do different things with it.
I built my own modular dungeon with 40mm squares. This way I can use bigger monsters on one hand and have small figures on 20mm bases in one square. And that makes for some awesome rules and tactics. For example, when the heroes walk around with 5 attack and 6 defend, it still makes goblins worthwhile. Normal figures are on 30mm bases. That and the double wide corridors are the most important changes one should make for HQ, if any.
Dungeon Blocks are fantastic... takes forever to print and paint but worth the effort when done....I've printed about 700 parts so far... still so much more to print... but they are beautiful when done!
Dungeon Blocks are sold as 3d files on MyMiniFactory, and people on Etsy are selling them as PLA plastic as you point out. Individual blocks fit into the 3x3 grids. I purchased the first set (basic dungeon) STL files and printed about a 12x12 square dungeon in resin. I calculated it would cost me about $200 to remake the HQ board in resin (plastic grids printed by a friend. I'm probably only going to use them for smaller custom quests, rather than trying to recreate the full board.
The Lost Maps look really cool. You can order them without the furniture graphics, which I did because it makes them less busy. I ordered 3 of them with their recent sale. Looking forward to when they arrive.
Yeah I'm in UK and I got one of the battle mats from these to use for Keller's keep and or orgre hord just need to get the frozen horror one.i do have a question though what should the mage in the mirror themed
