Tonight we went over to a friend's place and played the original Hero Quest from 1989! We played the introductory mission, and only @[email protected]'s elf made it out alive, my barbarian died fighting a rear-guard action trying to escape, and the Dwayne the dwarf was killed by a Chaos Warrior as he was running away (though to be fair he brought it on himself, we opened the central chamber where multiple baddies were, then Dwayne decided it would be a good idea to go and open another door down the corridor, inside which were another two Chaos Warriors and some demon-gorilla-looking thing as well). My barbarian was able to take out the big-bad Balrog without getting damaged in return, but the weight of numbers of the Chaos Warriors proved too much.
I was going to play the wizard but there isn't any magic in the introductory mission so it would have been kind of pointless because the wizard is otherwise fairly useless in combat. There are apparently sixteen missions in the main campaign so we're going to start on that next time. 😁
