Avalon Hill HeroQuest The Frozen Horror Quest Pack for Ages 14 and Up, Requires Hero Quest Game System to Play, 64 x 267 x 267 Millimeters

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LIMITLESS REPLAYABILITY: This expansion gives you more opportunities to delve deeper into the HeroQuest game, and adds to the replayability. Players can also create their own stories and build their own quests

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With this generation of HeroQuest, the folks at Avalon Hill are working on releasing the original expansions and adding brand-new content, much to the welcome of fans, old and new. Frozen Horror is the third expansion and contains an entire ten-quest campaign with new monsters, hazards, traps, rooms and rules to add more challenges and provide greater rewards. The first three quests can only be played by the Barbarian. If you are used to playing as a party, this can immediately be a turn-off, as everyone else watches instead of participating. As the Barbarian has to rely on healing potions that you can STILL only find via treasure cards, some bad dice rolls can badly impact the ability to progress or complete the solo quest.Component-wise, I really like the attention given to the little thematic extras, like the new door design and the thematic dice. The miniatures look like great designs, much more in line with the original concepts as updates, than did the core or first two expansions. If I were to point to a production missed opportunity here, it would be that AH could have designed a new thematic game board (As a separate standalone product). It's not too late but I don't see it happening. Spookyhappyfun wrote:I would love a frosty board, but I know that that's so much more work and would increase the price substantially. The original never had it and the original expansions just made do with room tiles, so no reason to deviate from that. But god it would be sooo cool! Speaking of the Guardian Knight, that "Barbarian" looks very much like one, down to the pose and choice of weapons/armor, since if I recall correctly, those characters were wearing fur trimmed outfits already (guess the cover is just depicting the game system barbarian, like the original did). A concession to the disgruntled fans perhaps? Just found on Reddit a bit ago ( https://www.reddit.com/r/Heroquest/comments/tta1gu/frozen_horror_looks_pretty_damn_amazing/). It's probably real? Looks real.

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Considering the number of miniatures you get, it is a very compact box. It complements the base game nicely, making all monsters and companions easily accessible. In Hero Quest fashion, all items fit into plastic moulded compartments. It stops everything moving around in transit, but some miniatures can feel too snug and offer a small challenge to get out. The Rulebook New treasure, inventory and artefact cards for all players, including items tailored for the Barbarian (he or she is the focus in this campaign, after all)

In the HeroQuest: The Frozen Horror expansion, players must destroy the evil Frozen Horror, a ferocious creature that threatens the icy realm of the Northlands. The powerful Barbarian must survive a series of dangerous solo quests, with success bringing other heroes to join him. On a first playthrough, this expansion comes out swinging, making good use of new room tiles to help set the scene. New monsters are present early, almost like they are on parade to get the Barbarian character (the only hero that can play the first three quests) a taste of the types of monsters to come.

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It's hard to tell if there are any females this time. All the ice gremlins appear to have beards and the mercs are dupes of each other which was a little surprising after the coed nature of the game system (to be fair a lot of the female characters were pledge exclusives, but not all, we had female orcs, goblins and the elf). In this expansion, one player must take on the role of the barbarian, whose aim is to defeat the frozen horror and banish it to whence it came. All whilst the other player commands the chilling monstrosity that is the Frozen horror. That does mean that this adventure is not a soloable quest, as two players are required to command both forces. This is the first of several campaign expansions that provide the history and depth for individual heroes, providing environments, monsters and a story. This expansion offers depth and a compelling story for the Barbarian. INCLUDES 10 EXCITING QUESTS: The Frozen Horror expansion includes full-color tiles, artifact cards, and quests that players haven't seen in previous editions of the HeroQuest Game System Quality-of-life additions, such as new combat and movement dice (blue because it’s cold!) and a pad of more detailed character sheets, weren’t essential but do enhance the experience.This campaign feels like the designers set the difficulty to hard mode. The new monsters are fantastic but can be very powerful, especially if encountered in large numbers or in corridors, and you can't get all of your characters engaged. Encountering a Yeti in a corridor can mean death for a hero. The wandering monsters feel especially brutal in this campaign.