Where Heroes Dare (a board game by Stephen Baker)

[HispaZargon]

Hi.

As Stephen Baker already advanced to the Fans Community in this interview, he was already working in a new project for late 2024, so I think opening this new thread could be an interesting fresh discussion for anyone interested in this new game designed by the creator of HeroQuest.

Thanks to wallydubbs recent face to face chat with Stephen Baker (post here), now we already know the title of the game which is "Where Heroes Dare" and some other details about it: "(the game) was supposed to come out in October, but it looks like it's been moved to March 2025. It's HeroQuest like, a little more advanced but not as complex as D&D."

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If you search a bit through internet you will find this official website about the new game, showing details about its prototypes, crowdfunding and even include collaboration forms for playtesting recruitment or giving feedback.

As curiosity, I was rather surprised about the game title since there is already another board game released in 2009 with the same title just adding an exclamation symbol at the end (Where Heroes Dare! see BGG entry here). It is true that both games seem to be enough different despite of their similar titles, but not sure how this will deal with trademark legal topics, just thinking now about it.

Well, thoughts about this new Stephen Baker (I guess) independent creation? Anyone has more info about this game? does this game have 'love' for you?

[cornixt]

So it's not based on the WW2 movie starring Clint Eastwood, Where Eagles Dare?

The little info available seems to show something very like HeroQuest but with a little more strategic depth. It will be nice to see where it goes. Looks like it might have been held up a bit, the supposedly monthly updates haven't happened since October.

[Kurgan]

So it wasn't an April Fools joke... cool!

Sadly, I can't really afford Dwarven Forge, but happy to see another Passion Project getting off the ground from the look of it, I'm seeing parallels with early versions of HeroQuest via the Baker interviews.

[HispaZargon]

Our member wallydubbs is participating in some playtesting of the game and gave us some valuable info here about the game...