Advanced Heroquest Playthrough - Episode Three | Fearsome Creatures

[@the_Sleepy_Druid]

Fantastic narrative ending there friend. Loved it!

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thanks. That's very kind of you.

[@LaMOi1]

I have the rules to Adv Heroquest now… and I am frankly blown away! Why would you need any other board game, or at least dungeon crawler? It has bloody everything. Every aspect, to completely immerse oneself in this world. I mean, the amount of stuff in this game, is slightly intimidating to be honest. To play this game in its full breadth, would require some considerable investment in learning all the rules, and the minutia of the game. I mean, you even have to maintain your firearm weapons, tuning them in between missions, etc! It is dizzying for a noob like me. But it certainly seems like a complete experience !! This is the template right here.

[@erfbeto]

These playthroughs are a treat! Good job, sir!

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thanks. I enjoyed making them.

[@DiscobiscuitUK1]

I really enjoyed this series! Selfishly, I enjoyed it a little more so as I recently nabbed one in near-mint condition myself. Its the top game in its genre.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Well done on scoring a near-mint copy. It really is a great game.

[@David-mx1os]

There's a fan made variant of Advanced Heroquest called Advanced Heroquest Reforged. It adds more control and variety when creating heroes and also adds more depth to the overall gameplay. If you enjoy the base game you'd probably also enjoy the fan made content too

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

I don’t play reforged. I like the original rules.

[@David-mx1os]

@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring Fair enough, the standard rules are good anyway. One of the things that I like from reforged is the changes to hero creation - more options and no pot luck from dice rolling. I think starting stats are too important to leave it down to chance. I also like how it starts your heroes off with bunch of skills from the outset.

[@Dubstyles84]

This was the perfect accompaniment to assembling my new Chaos Warriors. I spent countless hours as a youngster solo delving into the dungeons of the old world, glad to see the torch is still being carried!

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thanks for watching.

[@coolgreek79]

I was glued to the screen of my phone till the very end.... Awesome playthrough!!!!!

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thanks. I'm glad you liked it. It was a fun one to make.

[@dylanspencer759]

Fantastic game

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thanks for watching.

[@stephenoshea3471]

Leaving the door open (resi style) for a rescue mission ;) Great vids, more please!

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thanks. You can expect more Advanced Heroquest content on the channel at some point.

[@loken67]

Dungeon crawling at it´s best. Epic last stand for Sleepy. Very well done...

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Advanced Heroquest always does a great job of telling an interesting story.

[@MatthewCaunsfield]

Great series, really highlights how dangerous an AHQ mission can be!

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

The odds were stacked against the heroes, but even under regular conditions the game can be brutal. Thanks for watching.

[@jeffdave8884]

Enjoyed that from start to finish, a truely enjoyable series 👍

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thanks so much. It was a lot of fun to put together so I'm glad people are enjoying it.

[@georgemallard7116]

Thank you so much for making these. Thoroughly enjoyed them from start to finish. I was literally on the edge of my seat for that last battle. I didn't know anything about this game before but now I really want to play it. Cracking stuff!

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thank you so much. I’m so glad you enjoyed the series.

[@hispazargon]

Great game! Not always things happen as wished, but that's the challenge. Sleepy passed away with quite courage. Very good videos to have a quick look over how Advanced HeroQuest works. It has been a good time watching this series. Congrats and thanks for sharing!

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thanks for watching, and for the kind words.

[@recowabunga7200]

I didn't expect the ending! I love it.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thank you.

[@preacherbeeman3437]

Fantastic play through.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thank you.

[@dansmith263]

These really inspire me and fire up my imagination, hope you do more!

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thanks. There will be some different types of Advanced Heroquest content coming soon.

[@MediaFilter]

Great intro and outro. Well done, I enjoyed the series.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thanks for watching. I'm glad you enjoyed the series.

[@nickgraney2119]

Great playthrough! I havent seen any play through's of advanced heroquest, it does seem pretty brutal (I leg lost, one apprentice wizard slaughtered, one sergeant dead, one dwarf killed). Love your dice tray! As usual, solid production, thanks for sharing.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

It can be very brutal. Sleepy was at a disadvantage from the start with some poor stats and a wizard's apprentice rather than some more muscle in support. We also rolled quite high on the monster tables, which meant we had quite a few tough fights, and unfortunately I did forget to use my fate point to save the Sarge's leg. Things might have been a bit different if he was at full mobility with his original toughness of 10. Thanks for the kind words. I made two dice trays with salvaged bits of the box from my beat up second copy of Advanced Heroquest. The box was beyond saving, but I couldn't bring myself to throw it away.

[@bernar65]

@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring It's more than understandable that you can't throw this piece of artwork away.

[@dylanspencer759]

Keep these playthroughs coming they're great. And space crusade

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

There should be an Eldar Attack playthrough at some point.

[@brokenhomepod]

Man, I really wish I knew how great this game was when I was a kid. Had the expansions and everything.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

It really is a great game.

[@peteypartypablo]

Great play through of an awesome game 🫶🏽

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thanks. It really is a great game.

[@glenndavis1245]

Hope someone is planning on avenging the brave Sgt Kaldor soon! Haha great play through and narative! Watched the play through several times now. Thanks

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thanks so much for watching (several times!). I'm really pleased you liked the playthrough. I am currently painting up my Advanced Heroquest miniatures, so who knows what may happen...?

[@zombiedad]

‘Cowardly’ the dwarf. Lol. Great stuff. Thanks ABN

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

When push came to shove, he tried his best. He almost took down a whole room of the undead... but then, he didn't have a lot of choice in the end. Thanks so much for watching.

[@zombiedad]

@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring I really enjoyed your narrative and story too. Seriously Good Sruff.

[@zombiedad]

-Narration-

[@jonathan2950]

Thanks, really enjoyed this little mini series. I hope there are more Adv HQ playthroughs in the future. Maybe Sleepy’s older brother who can lift up a two handed axe wants to go looking for him, as despite his little brother being an annoying little weasel who always runs away, he’s still family.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thanks. This was a fun series to make. I have more Advanced Heroquest content planned, but taking a break from the playthroughs. Views naturally tail off for something like this, so it's good to have a break before trying again. Besides I have Space Crusade and HeroQuest playthroughs to get through. If I do another Advanced Heroquest series it will most likely be after painting the core set and doing a full adventure with the four pregenerated characters and skaven.

[@jonathan2950]

@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring that all sounds great, I look forward to it all. I’ve enjoyed your previous HQ and Space Crusade playthroughs so more of those are always welcome. And I’ve liked your painting videos so seeing how you paint the Adv HQ miniatures would be great. When I get around to painting all these miniatures I’ve acquired in recent months, I’ll be following your videos as they seem within my ability (famous last words!) but the end results are great too.

[@kimok4716]

Discovered this channel today and i gotta say it is amazing. I am in the process of buying my first dungeon crawler right now (D&D the fantasy adventure) when i stumble onto that. Really makes me wonder how a multiplayer game with Advanced heroquest must feel like. Really loved that playthrough. Would love to see another one on that same game just for the fun of it. Perhaps with stronger characters and a different mission

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thanks so much for checking out the channel. There is definitely going to be more Advanced Heroquest playthroughs on the channel. I am planning to run the four heroes from the core game in a skaven quest, but I need to do a bit more painting first.

[@aaronchiusano8732]

*raises flagon* to sergeant stumpy...I mean Caldor. Really enjoyed this playthrough! I look forward to seeing who comes to the rescue of the real hero of this campaign.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

I had to name him at the end. He'd earned that much, at least.

[@Heroes_of_Qalanor_RPG]

As these videos show - ive found that the dungeons can become rather large and blank. I have modded the corridor table to have either 1 or 2 passages instead of 3 and also modded the passage contents table to have more of a chance to find a door.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

I don't mind the length of the corridors; I think that works well with pursuit rules. However, they made a mistake putting all the "nothing" results in the centre of the table as those numbers are going to crop up more frequently. My next Advanced Heroquest video is about little tweaks to the rules, and I talk about this and some of the other charts.

[@matthewkirkhart2401]

RIP Sleepy

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

He rests in peace, Caldor rests in pieces.

[@bernar65]

@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring Me think that's a very british sense of humor and it fits very well.

[@johnclarke9498]

Very enjoyable, poor sleepy 👏👏

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[@73Xerxes]

Great story telling and quest. Very enjoyable and great to see the action. Thank you Hope to see another one with higher statistics on the character you create 👍👍👍👍👍👍🛡⚔️🛡⚔️🛡⚔️⚔️🛡🛡🤺

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thanks. I need to see how this series does overall before I plan any more playthroughs, but I do have more Advanced Heroquest content on the way, including a video on little rules tweaks (including for when you create a hero). If I did another playthrough it would probably be the works - using the pregenerated heroes and skaven adversaries, and running the game using the full gamesmaster rules.

[@73Xerxes]

@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring That would be great too see...

[@robertlykins728]

Loved it great stuff

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thank you.

[@Ayeshteni]

Wonderful run through. Enjoyed it :)

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thank you.

[@nickellingham1764]

Seeing how popular D&D is these days, im amazed this game has not been picked back up by many. It seems like the perfect D&D/Warhammer sort of combination. Ive not played D&D or this but its seems such a cool overlap.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

It's the perfect blend for me. It has RPG elements in it, and the rule set makes it very easy to layer in special scenarios or events, but it'ss still very much a board game. And it has the right amount of RPG elements, because if there was a lot more I would probably just play D&D instead.

[@Geerdie]

What an epic story, loved it

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thank you. I'm really pleased you liked it.

[@stevereuter9657]

Great story. I recently got my original version of Advanced HeroQuest out to introduce it to my daughter. I got a Demogorgon that will be the boss as she's a big fan of the show.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thanks for watching. I hope you and your daughter have a lot of fun.

[@dysonraf]

Brilliant mini series! Really enjoyed it. Here's hoping you push AH out to a full campaign at some point 🤞

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

If I did that, it would be once my set is painted so I could do a full playthrough with the pregenerated characters and skaven.

[@Wilberon_McBane]

I've really enjoyed this "mini" adventure series to see a playthrough of AHQ it was brilliant, funny and entertaining to watch it all unfold! The narrative of the back story intro and then the final scene with the (now) legendary Sgt Kaldor was just the icing on the cake and very well done indeed. Please find a way to reincarnate or revive him for a future storyline! He was definitely the MVP of the whole story! No doubt a lot of work to edit and get that together so thanks for keeping us all so entertained! Oh and the Res Evil door openings were absolute genius! 😂

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thank you so much. I'm really pleased you liked it. The Resident Evil "zooms" were suggested in the comments of the first video so I went back into the final edits of the other two parts and added them in.

[@ΣπύροςΚουκάκης-ι6β]

Role playing perfection!!!!..Excellent job!!!

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thanks. I had fun doing this.

[@georgeadsett-knutsen829]

Thanks for this, I finally tried a few rounds of the game that I bought at a car boot for £5.50 maybe 50 years ago! Going to give it a proper airing soon. Terrific stuff 😎👍

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thanks for watching. Advanced Heroquest is so much fun.

[@BubbaBobba]

What an awesome set of videos. Not only entertaining but great visual guide to how the game plays and flows. I'd love to see another play through at some point, maybe a loose sequel with sleepy having turned into a zombie foe as a quest room boss battle 😂

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thank you so much. There will be more Advanced Heroquest, but I want to run the skaven and need to get them painted up.

[@BubbaBobba]

@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring that's exciting. I really enjoyed the series and your videos are the primary reason I'm deep down the AHQ rabbit hole. It's a pretty incredible game that has some amazing customisation through the homebrew community. Can't wait to see the next one. Keep up the great content!

[@Moseth7606]

Still absolutely loving g this playthrough dude!! And that narrative ending was just amazing dn perfect for a follow up with taht emblem! We need more!!! 😁👍

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thank you so much for the kind words. I'm so pleased you enjoyed the playthrough. I will definitely do more Advanced Heroquest on the channel, but I want to get the box painted up first and I'm going to run a full party.

[@Moseth7606]

@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring love it!

[@asowle]

My heart raced as sarge woke up... and faced a bunch of green skins dropping their dirty pants... Looks like you truly buggered now... well you will be soon enough... and in the last of the dying flames of a distanced torch screaming could be heard...giggles.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Think that's more of a Slaanesh deal.

[@1000jjwalker]

Well done

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thanks.

[@daviddupont517]

What a epic final !! Thanks for the game it was very fun to watch

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thanks. I'm glad you liked it.

[@ellesse3862]

Surely some weathly family will offer a suitable cash incentive for a group of brave individuals to discover the fate of the lost questers and recover shiney things of sentimental value. If they do, I'll tune in for that adventure. What a sad end to brave sargeant whats-iz-face.. as for Sleepy, I have a feeling theres Gnome in his family line. Thats was great fun, thank you.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Ha. Thank you. I'm really glad you enjoyed the adventure. Sleepy didn't.

[@Trencher1375]

This was great would like to see more.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thank you. I have plans for lots more Advanced Heroquest content in the future.

[@ampao]

I know its been a while any other playthroughs like this? Loved the whole narrative!

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

I love doing playthroughs, and I have plans for more. Unfortunately my workload in the past six months has exploded, and I am frantically trying to get ahead of the curve to the point where I can slot a more labour-intensive playthrough into the schedule. The next playthrough will be the conclusion of the Space Crusade campaign I started what feels like a lifetime ago, but there will hopefully be more Advanced Heroquest on the channel eventually!

[@fortesqueca]

"A battle not fought, is a battle you can't lose." - Sun Tzu (also said by a Sleepy dwarf bravely running away!)

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Sleepy was an excellent military strategist.

[@jameswhitehouse5706]

This was so enjoyable. It’s made me want to play too. I loved the epilogue though it was a bit grim. How is the wizard more useful in this game? He seems quite weak

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

The wizard's apprentice isn't a great companion for a one-shot like this. Normally only a real wizard can take an apprentice, but they basically get them for free because the apprentice just wants to learn new spells. You effectively get a second wizard on your team for free, albeit a much less powerful one. A real wizard has more wounds, more fate points, and starts the game with four spells, including some powerful attack spells. Later on wizards can even bring dead characters back to life if they know the right spells.

[@stevemerrifield5580]

Good fun watching this playthrough. As a kid, I struggled with the step up from basic Heroquest. Wish I'd kept my copy now! Good narration by the way--if you don't write fiction, you should be!

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

I am a writer... or more specifically, used to be... Some of my books are available on Amazon. I poured all my creativity into my KZbin channel a while back and put the writing on the backburner. It's something I have always planned to go back to, but I'm enjoying what I'm doing here and it takes up all my time right now.

[@stevemerrifield5580]

@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring just had a nose on Amazon and there you are! Multi-talented. Your writing might be on the back burner at the mo, but your writing head clearly serves your playthroughs, and your writing will always be something you can do. I write too, and while the writing is fun, I find the business side of it and building a readership not so much fun! Dice chucking is my outlet!

[@MikeRenouf]

Sleepy made an unexpectedly epic last stand. 😂

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Necessity created a hero... for a moment.

[@godofzombi]

14:40: If you are surrounded by undead and they all fail to lay so much as a finger on you, it stands to reason you don't fear them any more.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Yeah, he had a moment of "Hey, I can do this after all."

[@cjanquart]

That's a great playthrough, although I can't recall if there was a rule for scaling encounters without a standard sized party of four (that might have been Warhammer Quest). I need to revisit this since it can be run solo.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Solo heroes get to take two henchmen to compensate for the smaller team. Other than that it’s just something you can eyeball and adjust however you like.

[@bernar65]

Some years ago i played a mission to save tobaro as a soloquest and uses four heroes. But we fail and the town was lost, but the only member of the group who survives this fiasko was the Halfling.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Yeah, Tobaro's Bane has a special set up requiring four heroes, four henchmen, and one sergeant. It's a tough quest.

[@gordonbrown5641]

Great run through 👍

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thanks.

[@TheSonicSE]

Haven’t watched this yet. But I’ll be amazed if Sleepy and the Captain make it through this.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

My lips are sealed.

[@TheSonicSE]

Brilliant storytelling ABNB! I did enjoy that little adventure…

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Thank you.

[@bigbloke2000]

AHQ: Amazing dungeon generation, but really needed a higher quality hero generation system. A low strength cowardly dwarf should have the option to be a class suited to such stats -- as life would have taught them!

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

I could have given him a crossbow. He had decent bow skill and toughness. I purposefully made a choice that would fit with the narrative I was formulating in my head as I created him, and I wanted to veer away from a ranged class.

[@JeffWittyArt]

I figured out the sergeants name - Sir Speedbump. 😂

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Such a shame to see him go out the way he did. He was doing so well.

[@johnmiddleton4291]

Once you start running away, this game kills you. It becomes self-fulfilling. A door spike might have helped.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Unfortunately the guy with the door spikes was the same one drawing the map.

[@HivisoftheScale]

Hmm... Good Sergeant names... Gritty McSquarejaw?

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

I was thinking Sergeant McBoing Boing would be a good name.

[@Ayeshteni]

Sergeant Stumpy McLegless

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Sergeant Legoless.

[@jayandreas1131]

Obviously Sergeant Hodor.

[@ElTsunamiDiablo]

This was a very entertaining adventure despite the tragic conclusion. I'm left wondering if this really is better than regular Heroquest because at times it seems much the same except you have to roll ten times as many dice and refer to lots of tables. It's probably a better system for a solo player since you don't need a Dungeon master. Maybe a hybrid version of the two could be made.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Advanced Heroquest addresses a lot of the things that people in HeroQuest sometimes mention (roll and move, not enough strategy in combat, modular boards, more events, and so on). It's a much more sophisticated system, and steers much more towards RPG element, including a stronger campaign system, with really interesting mechanisms for going to town, training, hiring henchmen, and keeping your money safe. But ultimately the two games are very different, they sit at 5 and 4 in my top ten list of games. Also Advanced Heroquest already includes rules for playing all of HeroQuest's core missions with Advanced rules, plus rules for using furniture, monsters, heroes, and even the board, in Advanced Heroquest, so it already sort of blends the two systems.

[@ElTsunamiDiablo]

@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring I used to have it when I was a kid but I had no patience for learning rules back then so strangely I took the path of even greater effort and made my own rules. The combat seems a bit better. I always thought original Heroquest was weighted too much in favour of heroes and it seemed like monsters rarely managed to defend anything. Combat in advanced reminds me of how Warhammer Fantasy was back then so I guess they kinda borrowed their own stuff. I've found a pdf of the rulebook so I will probably use some of the ideas and tables for my own homebrews. I hope you'll do some more playthroughhs of both versions of heroquest as they have been great to watch.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Balance is always such a hard thing to get right in a dungeoncrawler. Having a good GM helps because they can always course correct if things start getting too lopsided. Thanks so much for watching the videos. There will definitely be more of both games on the channel!

[@tekay44]

sarge is now driven by revenge, like The Revenant. lol Call him Hodor.

[@garicb9271]

More, more.

[@manaman6971]

This game is like watching paint dry

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

It's something of an acquired taste. Thanks for watching the series, and making it to the end, anyway.

[@godofzombi]

9:00 Que Benny Hill theme.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

I think Yakety Sax would be a great soundtrack to a super edit of this playthrough.

[@nickk.6735]

Poor Sleepy...

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Taking the long sleep, now.

[@blackraptor311]

Screw the hero card, I want to li..eeh eehh!

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Dwarfs can only run so fast.

[@blackraptor311]

@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring And he ran out of distractions hence why he died.

[@JoeyJoJoJoestarJuniorShabadoo]

That level generation seems a bit tedious. I think I'd prefer Warhammer Quest's card system, since it also ensures dungeons don't drag on for too long.

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

It's not. It's really quick to do, adds much more variety than Warhammer Quest can, and is easy to adjust and adapt to make different types of dungeons without having to make loads of cards every time. Ultimate sandbox.

[@Priamus07]

Hey do you have a discord server? Id love to join and talk rangers of shadows deep and warhammer with ya!

[@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring]

Hi. No I don't. I always do my best to respond to comments in the videos though, and I can always be contacted on my email in the "about" section of my KZbin channel.

[@Priamus07]

@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring all good! I was just curious!