Trying to build a home-made AHQ with the TitD expansion

[Maximillian]

Hi everyone!

I am trying to make for myself a home-made version of AHQ with the Terror in the Dark expansion. I have been able to purchase an original rulebook for AHQ and plan to start from there. I have some of the miniatures, some other period-accurate minis and plan to purchase more (when I can afford to) or alternatively find suitable alternative sculpts as prints, other old-hammer type minis etc. I have files of artwork to recreate tiles, and dungeon doors can thankfully be printed (or purchased) from many places.

Unfortunately, I have been looking for months to try and find the Terror in the Dark rulebook with no luck whatsoever. Prices at Ebay (for the entire expansion only) are ridiculous, and much higher than for the base game. I cannot possibly afford any of that. I found a circulating pdf scan that is of pretty poor quality and not something I would ideally want to work with (beggars can't be choosers of course and all that...).

If you have any advice or tips for me I would be beyond grateful.

In any case, thank you in advance for taking the time to read this.

P.S. I have seen the post of the fella who is looking to sell his entire collection. I can't possibly afford to purchase it unfortunately, let alone ship it to Canada.

[Dieterdg84]

Been looking for a decent scan all over the internet aswel. It seems there's only 1 version around at this moment.
I happen to own the original expansion with a clean rulebook. But I'm afraid to use it
I'm currently playing the Enhanced AHQ version anyway, so printed out that rulebook instead.

Always Board Never boring did a recent video on this by the way. I think he printed out that scanned pdf, and it seems decent enough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsACJVErZYw

I think this is the same scan you can find on my public Google Drive. Been making alot of content for the "Enhanced" version of the game.
But there's lots of stuff on there that works with the base game aswel:
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/3/fold ... XkVzczf6vj

[Maximillian]

Hi there and thank you for responding! I have watched all of Always Board Never Boring's videos; they are awesome. I do not think he used that pdf, or it doesn't look like it. His print seems very clean and crisp and the pdf I have seen circulating is noticeably poorer (at least in many places; I guess it is very inconsistent, weirdly enough). That said I could be wrong. Perhaps I should try to contact him.

I hear you about not being eager to scan your original. I would be too. I did do that on my original for the base game though. My copy was clean with some (minimal) wear. I scanned it to the most ridiculous specs I could find ending up with a pdf about 150mb. But it looks great! And I did not end up damaging the original either. Saddlestiched booklets are usually pretty good about being scanned flat. In any case, I am not suggesting you should scan yours unnecessarily.

Thank you for sharing what you have! I will keep looking; let me know if you hear/see anything.

All the best!

[Calmethar]

The one linked above by Dieter is decent. There's another one around of 64 images which might have been made into a PDF as well, which is much, much worse. Or that might only be of the original rules and not the TitD expansion.
Either way, be sure to check it out and see what you think, is what I'm trying to get at

[Calmethar]

Hi there and thank you for responding! I have watched all of Always Board Never Boring's videos; they are awesome. I do not think he used that pdf, or it doesn't look like it. His print seems very clean and crisp and the pdf I have seen circulating is noticeably poorer (at least in many places; I guess it is very inconsistent, weirdly enough). That said I could be wrong. Perhaps I should try to contact him.

I hear you about not being eager to scan your original. I would be too. I did do that on my original for the base game though. My copy was clean with some (minimal) wear. I scanned it to the most ridiculous specs I could find ending up with a pdf about 150mb. But it looks great! And I did not end up damaging the original either. Saddlestiched booklets are usually pretty good about being scanned flat. In any case, I am not suggesting you should scan yours unnecessarily.

Thank you for sharing what you have! I will keep looking; let me know if you hear/see anything.

All the best!

Are the rule-books only in black and white, by the way, or are they just scanned that way ?
The scan of the original rules linked above is about 30 MB, so your 150 MB version might be a great addition there as well, if you're able to share such a large file anywhere
In comparison, the TitD rule-book scan is about 45 MB.

[plazma1982]

wow you are good!!! I have been looking for tiles that have the same design that the regular heroquest board has do you know where I could find any? I'm rubbish at photo shop so I don't think I could make any.

[Calmethar]

Hi everyone!

I am trying to make for myself a home-made version of AHQ with the Terror in the Dark expansion. I have been able to purchase an original rulebook for AHQ and plan to start from there. I have some of the miniatures, some other period-accurate minis and plan to purchase more (when I can afford to) or alternatively find suitable alternative sculpts as prints, other old-hammer type minis etc. I have files of artwork to recreate tiles, and dungeon doors can thankfully be printed (or purchased) from many places.

Unfortunately, I have been looking for months to try and find the Terror in the Dark rulebook with no luck whatsoever. Prices at Ebay (for the entire expansion only) are ridiculous, and much higher than for the base game. I cannot possibly afford any of that. I found a circulating pdf scan that is of pretty poor quality and not something I would ideally want to work with (beggars can't be choosers of course and all that...).

If you have any advice or tips for me I would be beyond grateful.

In any case, thank you in advance for taking the time to read this.

P.S. I have seen the post of the fella who is looking to sell his entire collection. I can't possibly afford to purchase it unfortunately, let alone ship it to Canada.

Found out that Andreas has hosted more or less everything HeroQuest in high resolution PDF's and images. Really a great, great resource, so can't recommend it enough. He's e.g. uploaded ~700 MB versions of the TitD rulebook, among much, much more

Here you go:
https://heroquestadventures.com/scans.php

[Dieterdg84]

Found out that Andreas has hosted more or less everything HeroQuest in high resolution PDF's and images. Really a great, great resource, so can't recommend it enough. He's e.g. uploaded ~700 MB versions of the TitD rulebook, among much, much more

Here you go:
https://heroquestadventures.com/scans.php

Thanks for sharing that page! Had no idea of it's existence. Alot of high quality tiles as well. Very nice.

[Calmethar]

Thanks for sharing that page! Had no idea of it's existence. Alot of high quality tiles aswel. Very nice.

Np at all And yea, he's really done a great job with that page, loads of quests and tiles as well