HeroQuest: Jungles of Delthrak REAL Cover Revealed + Official Details & Commentary! (Aug 1st)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- Jungles of Delthrak finally has an official cover & details long posted on pre-order pages have been partially officially confirmed along with some new details via Doug Hopkins of Avalon Hill. An event change at GenCon indicates JoD expansion will be available for sale & play on August 1st on-site too! Big thanks to Encarmine as this is the last HeroQuest expansion (we have it on good authority) under his leadership. Spoilers? Release date of August 1st and GenCon purchase & demo/play dates confirmed!
Big thanks to the folks at ModenaPlay (Italy), @heroquestitalia9347 (GROG!), @DungeonMaster_HeroQuest , HeroQuestFans discord members, YeOldeInn.com forums, and many youtubers for reporting this info from the convention early this morning, and we've been playing catch up. Shout out to all those brave reporters (and brave adventurers) as well as to Karl Casey @WhiteBatAudio for the music. This talk was recorded prior to our twitch stream game on Saturday. Enjoy!
World's End Mountains? Gorillas? Huge snakes? Giant spiders? Translucent minis & Dice? Dwarf friends? Barbarian adjacent characters? Choose your Own Adventure style campaign play! Skill/force/strength cards...
Speculation about the future OF COURSE including HeroQuest: First Light (which wasn't touched on at the convention presentation).
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(thanks Ribby!): "Doug Hopkins On introducing the new pack 0:33:00
"For the first time in HeroQuest we're going to give you a choose your own adventure style quest. There are 16 quests in this book, you will go on a 10 quest storyline with your team. We really wanted you to have a story that you could share with other people who go through the quest book in a completely different way. So that you can say how you completed the Jungles of Delthrak. And I can talk about how I completed the Jungles of Delthrak. And we can judge each other a little bit, you know, if you don't make the right decisions. That's one of the key beats for this, one of the key features.
You might notice there are some new monsters on this box. I also can tell you that that's not the dwarf hero, nor is that a barbarian hero."
Asked about the differences between remixing an old quest pack vs making a new one from scratch
"I will say that there's a lot of similarities. I still want our superfans, the people who play our game, to love what we give them. When we restore an old quest.. that is something that exists. But when you do something new you want people to be excited about it, but you get to take it to a different place. I thought jungles were perfect for that sword and sorcery vibe. We oldschool players tend to quest in and have it in our games so I thought it would be a great opportunity to bring this to you for HeroQuest."
Asked about the Italian and the world community of HeroQuest
"The best thing about HeroQuest is the fans! Since I started this I've got nothing but love and passion and respect from the fan community. It is so amazing. I hope that you see that I listen to all of you, and when you ask for things we give it to you. Continue to use that voice, ask us, tell us what you want. Ask us for what you trying to find in your game and the [Avalon Hill] team will make opportunities to put them in our games."
Is the new hero a ranger or not?
"Since we released the character packs people have been asking for powers and skills for the dwarf and barbarian. I didn't want to give you that because I want you to play the dwarf and barbarian in your game. I didn't want to feel like they're replaced, because those heroes are great as they are. So you'll find in this some heroes that may be adjacent to those, but are not those heroes, that you can play with those heroes. Again, we listened to what you wanted. We want to give you something very close to those characters, but not be those characters so that you can play those characters in the game together. So, 2 dwarfs, for example! I mean, we need "all dwarf party" at point, I think!? I can't answer [the original question], but I'll just give you a little bit of insight into my inspiration."
Is this character on the box an old character, or something completely new?
"This is a completely new character."
Why are we as heroes going to the jungle? Why did you choose to have this expansion take place in the jungle?
"We want to give the characters in the story of HeroQuest their, ya know, we want to reveal more of the story of these characters in HeroQuest. So there is a story about why you're going to the jungle. This expansion will peel back the curtain a little bit on that story."
That was basically it. There's a lot he can't reveal yet - thanks Ribby! (re-posted from HeroQuestFans discord...)
Ash has commented that his Delthrak video is coming tomorrow (Monday)
it should be a popular one!
Avalon Hill has an event at Gencon now registering - " HeroQuest: NEW Quest Pack" which is most likely this one. They have a number of 2 hour games of this... Gencon is in August
sign me up!
(PREVIOUSLY RECORDED). ENJOY!
I'm excited about it
Well damn. I was hoping we were getting a hydra boss, but it looks like we're just getting a giant snake.
Oh well, we have enough humanoid monsters so i'll take whatever official alternatives i can get.
we're signed up to play this at GenCon... join us! (If you're going too). We booked a session on Thursday and another on Friday
Cristobal's thoughts coming soon: th-cam.com/video/G2g6esiof0E/w-d-xo.html&pp=ygUTanVuZ2xlcyBvZiBkZWx0aHJhaw%3D%3D
With this box art, I’m immediately taken back to horrific scenes in Peter Jackson’s King Kong [ circa 2005 ]. Refer to ravine flora & fauna scene 😱.
The jungle biome is completely in-keeping, should HeroQuest intend expand its lore, world & audience. & so it should. Jungles would lend itself to the elusive ‘wilds’ as referee to in TPOTWM. After all this expansion introduces ‘choose your own adventure’ … or path remember the monks tournament map?
My initial reservations are what tokens will feature where they should really be miniatures instead & what tile overlays should not be missed out [ think Prophecy of Telor for example ].
Ape seems to be holding a bejewelled bone weaponry.
I’ll have issue handling the arachnids sure but that’s a personal ick. Some arachnids lack the red circles on their abdomens. Do the others represent fresh hatchling swarms 🪺🤢. As much as it creeps me out, how IMMERSIVE would it be to mechanise as I have called it many moons ago: bite > symptoms > contagion > parasite > hosting > cordyceps > chest burst > duplicity > sabotage > alchemy > cures. I’m mixing a lot of wishes here based on films like The Thing, Alien, Last Of Us!
Elephant in the room … “subject to availability”, is the flow of HQ base box peaking!
I grew up with the black & white original and the 70's remake. I've seen PJ's version but it wasn't that memorable to be honest. Skull Island was just kinda there in comparison, but maybe if he had a better editor, the 2000's one would have been best of the color versions? anyway, yeah, makes one wonder the context of all these things!
Its called a Wyvern
we can't see the rest of it to see if it has limbs and wings, but maybe
come chat with us Friday morning for the big reveal: discord.gg/2R9pEP4cty
Our fellow HQ youtubers chime in: th-cam.com/video/h9gUw2SidYo/w-d-xo.html (Ashguest!) ; th-cam.com/video/Wt4aVHyqJtY/w-d-xo.html (Always Board Never Boring!)
come play with us (after the holiday weekend anyway). See what we're all about... th-cam.com/play/PLzUPPmTBi5hRVIRGEN4atmtKA_oDTYJof.html , th-cam.com/play/PLzUPPmTBi5hSauvfYlrk362GRSGR_vgko.html