I was told by a friend that FFG was releasing an updated HeroQuest would that be this game just with a different name, or is this a different game all together.

Thanks, LB

Hero Quest is a different game.. this is a remake of an Games Workshop release that was a remake of an old swedish game called Drakborgen.. and in my opinion this is much funnier then HeroQuest anyways..

yeah, but both was MB games right?

I`ve got both Dungeon quest and Heroquest (packed away somewhere on the loft).

Dungeonquest was called Skatten i Borgen (Castle of treasure) in my native language.

Too bad FFG decided to put the new edition in the world of Terinoth (is that right?). don`t like that world in particular. It would be better if it had a Talisman like flavour. a non-specific fantasy world, like the first edition from sweden.

Other than that I am considering to buy it.

Actually the original "Drakborgen" and "Skatten i borgen" were made by the company Alga.

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lunchbox1584 said:

DungeonQuest is a very different game from HeroQuest. The game your friend was referring to was probably Descent: Journeys in the Dark. It's not really an "updated HeroQuest" since it's officially a different product, but it is a dungeon crawler that shares several elements with HeroQuest. It also has several differences, though. You should check out the Descent forum for more information about that game.

Mal Reynolds said:

The original HeroQuest was Milton Bradley, yes. Its immediate successor, Advanced HeroQuest, was by Games Workshop. Presumably the IP was transferred to them. That title went on to become Warhammer Quest, and ultimately Warhammer Fantasy tabletop.

FFG does have a thriving relationship with GW right now, so in theory it is possible that they could make a newer edition of HeroQuest. I haven't heard anything about such a project actually being in the works though. And frankly, I'd be surprised if they were working on it, considering how they already have Descent.

Steve-O said:

I'm pretty sure Warhammer Fantasy tabletop is far older than even the original Heroquest. Maybe you were referring to the way it's played ever since? I can see why there may be conflict between games like Descent if Heroquest or Warhammerquest were ever redone. Nevertheless, I still hold out some hope that FFG will in fact redo Heroquest with more than 2 pages of rules and Warhammerquest as well. Heroquest seems more likely, as Warhammerquest was designed by a current big wig at GW... May be hard to work with him on a product he made but is not releasing himself or through his company.

bitva said:

Indeed you are correct. What I said above was the order in which I became aware of the games, but it would seem WHFB was first published in 1983, about 6 years prior to the original HeroQuest.

While Googling the subject I also stumbled across what appears to be an entirely different game named HeroQuest. A generic RPG system of some sort that does appear to have it's own small line of figures available. That game doesn't appear to have any connection to GW's board game, but it is relatively new (still expanding as of 2009.) This may also have been what the OP's friend heard about, though he may not have realized it was unrelated to the older board game.

As an aside, the fact that GW is not actively protecting the HeroQuest brand name (as they have been known to do with their other copyrights) does not bode well for the idea of new edition of the board game. At least not under that name.

Personaly, if there will ever be a new version of Hero Quest it will be done by Games Workshop itself as they did last year with Space Hulk.
On the other hand I would not mind if FFG would do it (thinking about Talisman 2de Edition and the FFG version)