What is Advanced Heroquest?

Advanced Heroquest is a 1989 board-game released simultaneously with HeroQuest, published by Games Workshop and designed by Jervis Johnson. While the basic concept of both is the same, four heroes venture into a dungeon to fight monsters and gain treasure, but Advanced HeroQuest's rules are more detailed and complex.

The major differences to HeroQuest include:

    • more gritty combat rules with 12 sided dice (D12)

    • random dungeon generation system

    • modular game board

    • ranged combat

    • multiple colleges of magic and spell books

    • henchmen

    • critical hits and fumbles

    • fate points (the "undo" feature)

    • bestiary with many creatures from the Warhammer Fantasy universe

In 1991, an expansion to Advanced HeroQuest called Terror in the Dark, written by Graeme Davis and Carl Sargent, was released. Terror In The Dark added new monsters, henchmen, treasures and spells. An original quest was also included, titled The Quest of the Lichemaster which featured the heroes being pitted against the Lichemaster, based on the character from the scenario pack for Warhammer 2nd Edition. The expansion contained no plastic miniatures but several cardboard components.

Several Advanced HeroQuest quests and articles were also published in White Dwarf during the game's run, containing new adventures, treasures, spell books, and more.