History TabletopGame / HeroQuest

* BossFight: The expansion "Kellar's Keep" has an extra-tough gargoyle at the end.

* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: Morcar[=/=]Zargon was a pupil of Mentor who got fed up with not being taught magic fast enough, read texts forbidden to him in secret, and ran off to become the Lord of Chaos.

* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: There's not much to say about the dwarf other than that he's generic. He's a fighter who isn't quite as tough as the Barbarian (one fewer hitpoint), who can disarm traps with ease.

Later on there was Advanced Heroquest which was a version with expanded rules such as the use of critical hits and fumbles, as well as Colleges of Magics to provide different schools of spells. After Advanced Heroquest, there was the even more rules and background intensive Warhammer Quest which jumps whole-heartedly into the Warhammer Fantasy world.

* BigBad: Zargon is pretty much behind all the evil seen in the setting.

* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: There's not much to say about the dwarf other than that he's generic.

The game was originally released in Britain; later versions of the game changed some aspects including but not limited to: names, monster hitpoints, and available weapons.

*** US version gargoyles are equally rare, and always have 3 hitpoints. Then again, US version Chaos warriors also have 3 hitpoints - the only real difference between Chaos warriors and gargoyles is that gargoyles have an extra defend dice and Chaos warriors get 2 more movement squares per turn than gargoyles.

* OneHitpointWonder: (US version) Goblins, orcs, skeletons and zombies all have only one hitpoint each.

The setting is modified and simplified from the ''Warhammer'' world. Different factions of monsters are all united under the command of the BigBad EvilOverlord Chaos Lord Morkar, represented by the 'evil' player, and the heroes are students of the generic mentor known as Mentor.

* BigBad: Morkar is pretty much behind all the evil seen in the setting.
* BigGood: On the one hand, there's Mentor, whose apprentice Morkar was and who sends the heroes out on their missions. On the other hand, there's the emperor who leads the human Empire presented as the primary force of good.

** Morkar is the Lord of Chaos that leads endless hordes of monsters.

* MagicKnight: The Elf's entire role: he gets one set of magic cards besides of being a fair fighter.
* {{Mooks}}: The game is based around a small group of heroes entering dungeons containing hordes of monsters weaker than themselves. Practically all monsters only have one hit point, whereas the heroes always have several.
** EliteMooks: Fimirs, mummies and Chaos warriors are considerably tougher than most monsters, and there are fewer of them.
** GiantMook: The gargoyle is just another standard piece, but there's only one of it, it's huge, and its stats are enormous, though it still only has one hit point. "Kellar's Keep" features a super-gargoyle with a whole three hit points.

* SharedLifeMeter: ''Against the Ogre Horde'' has a single life bar for all of the generic ogres in the dungeon you're playing. At specific points, the ogre currently being attacked dies. Even so, it is a single bar instead of several in succession as you always tick off a unit in front, even if the heroes are fighting multiple ogres at once.
* SquishyWizard: The Wizard is defined by this trope. He gets plenty of spells but is fragile and a poor fighter.

* SquishyWizard: The Wizard is defined by this trope. He gets plenty of spells but is fragile and a poor fighter.

''HeroQuest'' is a DungeonCrawling style board game set in a version of the ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'' universe. It uses a board that represents an outline of a generic dungeon setting, modified to represent a different location for each adventure by placing different obstacles, doors, enemies and fixtures. Up to four heroes -- the barbarian, the elf, the dwarf, and the wizard -- explore each adventure and play against the other player, who represents the forces of evil and acts much like a GameMaster in that they know everything about the current quest in advance and reveal it as the players advance. The whole thing amounts to a simplification of a tabletop RPG.

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There's a similar board game based on ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40K'' called ''Space Crusade''.

** Melkor is the Lord of Chaos that leads endless hordes of monsters.

* BigBad: Melkor is pretty much behind all the evil seen in the setting.

* SchmuckBait: One level in the original campaign has the heroes going into a mine to find a huge horde of gold. The gold is very heavy, slowing movement and making fighting difficult, and teleports back to its starting location if dropped. And it turns out to be fool's gold when the players get it out. The kicker? In their greed, the players will probably miss finding a ''very'' powerful one-of-a-kind magic ring.

[-Not to be confused with ''[=Hero Wars / HeroQuest=]'' RPG set in Glorantha like ''TabletopGame/RuneQuest''.-]

!!This table-top game provides examples of:

There's a similar board game based on ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40K'' called ''TabletopGame/SpaceCrusade''.

!!''HeroQuest'' contains examples of:

** GiantMook: The gargoyle is just another standard piece, but there's only one of it, it's huge, and its stats are enormous, though it still only has one hit point. "Kellar's Keep" features a super-gargoyle with whole three hit points.

''HeroQuest'' is a DungeonCrawl style board game set in a version of the ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'' universe. It uses a board that represents an outline of a generic dungeon setting, modified to represent a different location for each adventure by placing different obstacles, doors, enemies and fixtures. Up to four heroes -- the barbarian, the elf, the dwarf, and the wizard -- explore each adventure and play against the other player, who represents the forces of evil and acts much like a GameMaster in that they know everything about the current quest in advance and reveal it as the players advance. The whole thing amounts to a simplification of a tabletop RPG.

** EliteMooks: Fimirs, mummies and Chaos warriors are considerably tougher than ordinary mooks and there are fewer of them.

** NightOfTheLivingooks: Skeletons, zombies, mummies.