Ye Olde Inn

Does anyone have the raw art for the back of all the various cards in Hero Quest - that is, without the scroll obscuring a small part of the image at the bottom? I would like to standardize them so that all of the various spell groups "match", and so forth.

So far, my hunt has gotten goose eggs. However, I did notice something that has strangely escaped my notice before: the Spell Cards have two different art styles. Anyone who has both EU and NA cards probably already knows this, but I think its strange that the art was redone.

Were the newer, airbrush-styled NA cards introduced as part of a liscensing go-around by MB, or was the art simply upgraded/changed with the new rules? Could the NA cards have been redone by an artist other than Gary Chalk?!



The 1991 Japanese edition uses EU art, while the 1994 Brazilian edition uses NA art. That tells me the original GW-Gary Chalk art wasn't available after the MB-GW split. Apparently GW retained it. Sadly, Gary Chalk related in an interview that a lot of his liscensed art was seen by a reliable source in the GW dumpster back in the nineties.

I didn't know this... Naturally I prefer the EU edition cards even more now.