Nu-Slambo is an abomination, very much the epitome of the flanderisation of fantasy art. He is easily readable as some sort of knight. The original is a prime example of the old school fantasy style, being at the base level a regular armored figure with fantastical elements and proportions merely added. Not much demand in Frazetta or Ken Kelly style artwork when there's cheaper digital art that is also much more palatable to the mainstream.įor instance, look at poor Slambo (green chaos warrior to the immediate right of barb). Even GW succumbed to that trend with AoS, though 40k is still intact and Fantasy is coming back. I personally blame Warcraft and Anime for the decline in more grounded, not to say realistic depictions of fantasy characters but who knows. Furthermore, tastes have changed in the last decades. On a serious note, the most likely answer is that traditional artists are very expensive and this is a kickstarter project. The problem is that the more tactical dungeon crawling games do not have Heroquest's (or Warhammer Quest) charisma. You get them searching for half the treasure deck in the first room, then proceed at a snail pace so that the positionning is optimal before breaching each door. To put it bluntly, they look more like Trademark trolls to me, and maybe it is a good thing this KS did not make it.Īnyway, I still have my copy of HQ, and replayed it this summer : the game does not work well when players exploit the rules.

So they did no work on the game (except for a few renders), paid around 200$ for trademark in Spain, and that's it. That said, it looks like GameZone had not worked any deal with Hasbro/GW, and only secured the Trademark in Spain as it was not claimed there. I was wrong, it was not GW/Hasbro sending the Cease and Desist, it was Moon Design Publications LLC the TradeMark holders of Glorantha's heroquest (which is a RPG set in the same universe than King of the Dragon Pass, that has nothing to do with MB/GW's Heroquest).

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