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Avalon Hill’s new HeroQuest makes over $1,000,000 in the first 24 hours

September 23, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Slightly less than 24 hours later, the game smashed through the $1,000,000 mark.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Avalon Hill, hasbro, HeroQuest

Avalon Hill wants $1,000,000 to make a new HeroQuest

September 22, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Avalon Hill is asking for $1,000,000 raised on Hasbro’s own crowdfunding platform to make it.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Avalon Hill, board games, hasbro pulse, HeroQuest

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #66

September 18, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s a busy week of RPG news, and a quick scan will stop you missing out on the free D&D downloads from Wizards of the Coast and others, or any of the new releases and headlines.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: animal adventures, atomic ninja studios, Avalon Hill, beasts of flesh and steel, black void, bride of cyclops con, bunkers & badasses, cartel, Chaosium, chromatic dungeons, crow & crown, cubicle 7, cypher system, dark worlds, dead end, dicebound, Dungeons & Dragons, earl of fife games, exalted, fallout, Free League Publishing, goodman games, Green Ronin Publishing, HeroQuest, icewind dale, Into the Mother Lands, izegrim creations, James Introcaso, Jim Zub, judges guild, kobold press, lords of the middle sea, lost omens mwangi expanse, magpie games, manticore games, modern age, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook Games, Paizo Publishing, parselings, pathfinder, rime of the frostmaiden, roll20, romance of the perilous land, routinely itemised, RPG Superstar, savage worlds, scarlet citadel, sewer brew games, slime cave of norwal, smunchy games, soulbound, starfinder starship operations manual, stargate, Steamforged Games, Symbaroum, the city of the steam sun, the diamond throne, the grinning frog, trollish delver games, wrath & glory, Wyvern Gaming

Avalon Hill page points to new HeroQuest Game

September 12, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

A new sub-domain on Avalon Hill.com has a 10 day countdown for Hero Quest. The Quest is Calling.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Avalon Hill, board game, board games, Chaosium, hasbro, HeroQuest, Restoration Games

Wizards of the Coast lose a brand in Hasbro reshuffle

September 10, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Control of Avalon Hill is moving from Wizards of the Coast remit to a new position directly under the parent company Hasbro.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Avalon Hill, hasbro, wizards of the coast

What was the first RPG?

August 29, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The first evening of tabletop roleplaying, as we would recognise it today, was run by Dave Arneson in 1971. The campaign setting was Blackmoor, and the game system was a modified version of Chainmail. Gary Gygax and Jeff Perren created Chainmail, both members of the Lake Geneva Tactical Studies Association, after being inspired (in part) […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Avalon Hill, blackmoor, chainmail, Dave Arneson, diplomacy, dragon pass, Dungeons & Dragons, empire of the petal throne, Gary Gygax, Glorantha, Greg Stafford, jeff perren, Tekumel, TSR, tunnels & trolls

Game companies battle over Merchant of Venus

October 24, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Someone has made a mistake, an honest mistake that will leave a host of people rather upset. Fantasy Flight Games and Stronghold Games have both announced they have the license and the rights to produce a re-run of Merchant of Venus. Merchant of Venus originally came out in the 1980s as an Avalon Hill game. […]

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: Avalon Hill, fantasy flight games, Merchant of Venus, Richard Hamblen, stronghold games, wizards of the coast

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