This post was originally posted on Reddit after a user asked me for it on the r/HeroQuest subreddit, then I thought it would be good to keep it here on the blog too. This is the finished mini:  I had received it from Pablo at Minis3d as a bonus to one of my orders. This is how it looks like, unpainted, on the website: The mini I got was this same model, except for the base which was square, original HeroQuest style, and it was one with the model. I have the new HeroQuest which has round bases, so I took a round 25mm base and checked how it went with the mini... and I hated it b ..read more

The New Year New Game Sale is on at DTRPG, and it's got a lot of cool OSR titles I recommend! The theme of the sale is getting to start a new rpg, so a lot of game systems are on sale, along with low level or introductory scenarios. Here are my favorites! Old-School Essentials Official: The Old-School Essentials Classic Rules Tome, by far my favorite OSR game The Hole in the Oak and The Incandescent Grottoes, adventures for level 1-2, by Gavin Norman OSE compatible: Wyvern Songs four-adventure anthology (level 1-6), Hideous Daylight by Brad Kerr Tomb Robbers of the Cryst ..read more

 New solo HeroQuest game with the Infinite Dungeon deck, continuing the "Goblinization" campaign to stop Skagor the Warlord. [Links to quest 1, quest 2, and quest 3] I played this game two weeks ago, but I've only had the chance to post it now. So after the druid guest, the elf is back in the team. I prepare the dungeon deck and this time I roll a 1, which means the dungeon deck is the smallest it can be, so hopefully this will be easy! I choose to use the Loke Dungeon Books of Battlemats, a great twin set that offers a lot of combinations. The main quest is The Mysterous Lette ..read more

New weekend, new HeroQuest game! [Links to quest 1 and and quest 2] For the second time, my son Federico joins the game, and he says he doesn't want to play the elf from the other game: he wants to use the cool alterante "druid" mini & accompanying "pet" I got a couple weeks ago, so goodbye elf, welcome "Fenril the druid".... Except I don't like the official druid at all: I don't like the mini, and I don't like the hero's skill. So you know what? It's a great chance to test a couple skills I had been working on for a while. The Heroes So our guest druid has a fairly standard 2 AD and 2 DD ..read more

My day job kept me busy all through Saturday, but on Sunday morning I got the time to do what I want: continue the adventures of the HeroQuest elf and dwarf duo from last post! I had also received Ian Schofield's Barax's Chambers battlemat printed on PVC so I was super eager to give it a try with the Infinite Dungeon deck. So I figured it was time to turn that Saturday one shot dungeon into a campaign, then! ABOUT THE CARDS IN THE PICS: For this game I've used the Italian version of the decks, but they are available in English too, of course. Setting up a Campaign Last week ..read more

for those who somehow don't know: in the last few months I've published the AxianQuest deck series, which consists of seven unofficial decks that expand the HeroQuest board game. The decks been a huge success, with over 3000 decks sold so far and enthusiastic reviews both on the dtrpg product pages and several youtube video reviews (I'll just mention that The Dungeon Dive review titled "HeroQuest + AxianQuest Infinite Dungeons = the way it should be played"!!). For those interested, the full series of decks is available as a bundle, or individually. So today I decided to play a game using t ..read more

  The Christmas in July sale is on again at DriveThruRPG. For the next 14 days, more than 70.000 rpg titles are available at reduced price! The list of OSR titles currently discounted counts a big 4241 items, which is still a lot. The sheer amount of titles available makes it hard to create a list of OSR recommendations, so this time I'll focus on some of the 332 titles listed for Old-School Essentials as it is my current go-to ruleset. OSE Rulebooks As with other large DTRPG sales, the core OSE books are discounted, both the Classic Rules ..read more

 This post is basically me trying to establish the answers to questions the keep coming on and on: What is a lair? What is a dungeon? Are lairs and dungeons the same thing? I'm going to answer these questions first of all with what's in the Old-School Essentials core book, then trying to make logical conclusions from it. Since OSE is a bx d&d clone, such conclusions should apply to the "whole family" (probably including BECMI and its clones). What is a lair? Ok let's begin with good old Merriam-Webster dictionary: Lair a: the resting or living place of a wild animal.  &n ..read more

 So you got the new HeroQuest and you are thinking of painting it, but you have no idea how to even start? This is the guide for you! This post will guide you through the optimal steps to have the whole game painted with a time-efficient effort and more than decent "tabletop" quality, taking advantage of the "slap chop" technique. I won't go into all the details of each technique, but instead provide you with a working road map for the whole journey of specifically painting the HeroQuest board game. For each step, you'll probably want to delve into video tutorials on youtube. A painted H ..read more

 The Christmas in July sale is on at DriveThruRPG. For the next 14 days, more than 70.000 rpg titles are available at reduced price! The list of OSR titles currently discounted counts a big 3716 items, which is still a lot. And to those, we must also add 109 official OD&D/BECMI titles, and 135 AD&D1stEd titles!  The sheer amount of titles available makes it hard to create a list of OSR recommendations, so this time I'll focus on some of the 169 titles listed for Old-School Essentials as it is my current go-to ruleset. OSE Rulebooks As with other large DTR ..read more