Reviving Heroquest

[ClemGrt]

There are different squares.

22mm-25mm is about right, but the squares adjacent to walls are smaller and the ones in the middle of a room are bigger.

Thank you for your answer, could you illustrate this on a picture of the board please ?

[ClemGrt]

Playing with the kids showed that the soldier was just a weakened barbarian, so I changed his skills like this :


more info on my Blog

[ClemGrt]

I've also modified my character sheet :

[Maurice76]

Is the spelling of Skeletons as "Squeletons" on purpose? Or something lost in translation?

[ClemGrt]

It's another awful mistake I made. Fixed now :

[ClemGrt]

Work in progress :

[ClemGrt]

I've just published a first report on playing Heroquest with children between 4 and 8...
Any comment or suggestion is welcome

[ClemGrt]

To go further on the "Playing heroquest with children" I'd like to have your answers to this question :
https://www.quora.com/How-could-I-turn-a-board-game-like-Heroquest-into-an-educative-tool-for-children-to-go-further-than-counting-and-adding-dice-results

I've also published two new quests on my Blog, https://revivingheroquest.blogspot.com/2019/05/two-new-quests.html : The Chaos Den and The Knight's Tomb...

[Maurice76]

To go further on the "Playing heroquest with children" I'd like to have your answers to this question :
https://www.quora.com/How-could-I-turn-a-board-game-like-Heroquest-into-an-educative-tool-for-children-to-go-further-than-counting-and-adding-dice-results

Perhaps the best aspect that games like these bring, is the way people work together to achieve the overall goal. Children are still learning this aspect. If you really want to bring education to the (gaming) table, perhaps you can focus on that aspect. When a situation arises that can be beaten (far more) easily with teamwork, where a group of individuals would just pursue their own interests and fail, you could see how they play through it and then pause the game to reflect on it. Ask them why they did what they did and have them think about it. Then provide suggestions in the line of team work and how that would have helped the situation. Explain to them the differences in approach and how they all depend on one another to get through it more easily. Make them see that relying on one another in such situations is better than letting the others fend for themselves.

But I agree with the sentiment of the first reply to your post on that website: try to keep the game a game. Once it becomes too educationally focused, it stops being fun to play.

[ClemGrt]

Here is a short article about children's attention span while playing heroquest : https://revivingheroquest.blogspot.com/2019/08/childrens-attention-span.html
What do you think about it ?