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Issue #8 from November 30, 1999 [HTML with links, full text]
  • NEWS -- Nathan Stout's HeroQuest page moves, Dragon Compendium Released, Mystic Knights set price reduced
  • FEATURE -- Warhammer Quest Review
  • QUEST AND ATTACHMENTS -- Carag Eight Peaks and Fire Elemental Monster Card
  • NEW MONSTERS -- The Fire Elemental
  • FAN FICTION -- Verag
  • NEW RULES -- Unarmed Combat
  • NEW MONSTERS -- HeroQuest Hall of Foes 1
  • QUEST DESIGN -- Doing Something Different

     

  • Issue #7 from October 3, 1999 [HTML with links, full text]
    • NEWS -- Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast; Red Dragon's Guild update; Games Workshop's discontinued items sale
    • FEATURE -- TSR's New Miniatures Plans
    • QUEST DESIGN -- A Notch Above: HeroQuest Improvements
    • MINIATURES -- Female Heroes
    • GAME PROFILE -- TSR's DragonQuest
    • NEW MONSTER -- the Manscorpion

     

    Issue #6 from August 12, 1999 [HTML with links, full text]
    • NEWS -- Carl Forhan, Uncle Owen and ChaosOrc
    • QUEST DESIGN -- Temporary Heroes
  • NEW HERO -- The Cleric
  • CRAFTS -- Creating a Larger Board for HeroQuest
  • QUEST DESIGN -- Tips for Creating Great Quests
  • GAME PROFILE -- GW's Advanced HeroQuest

     

  • Issue #5 from June 30, 1999 [HTML with links, full text]
    • NEWS -- Site updates by Red Dragon's Guild, Uncle Owen's Moisture Farm and the HeroQuest Resource Page;
    • QUEST and ATTACHMENTS -- Necromancer's Lair and Dark Spells
    • CRAFTS -- Making New Furniture and Scenery
    • GAME PROFILE -- TSR's Dragonstrike
    • NEW MONSTERS -- Necromancers, Liches, and Undead Champions
    • QUEST DESIGN -- Creating the Maps

     

    Issue #4 from April 21, 1999 [HTML with links, full text]
    • NEWS -- New Material on Red Dragon site; Karnov moves
  • QUEST and ATTACHMENTS -- ChaosWar and cave tiles.
  • FEATURE -- Finding HeroQuest sets and used miniatures online
  • GAMEMASTER HINTS -- Incorporating Other Game Components into Your Hero Quest Adventures
  • IN THE STORES -- MicroTactix Games
  • NEW MONSTERS -- Giant Spiders

     

  • Issue #3 from March 10, 1999 [HTML with links, full text]
    • NEWS -- The Adventure Quest program, New HQ websites, Action on eBay
    • QUEST -- "The Attack on Oakdale."
    • ATTACHMENTS -- In addition to the Oakdale quest, we've created HQ play aids in a variety of styles and formats.
    • IN THE STORES -- Cardboard Heroes
    • NEW MONSTERS -- Skaven, HeroQuest style
    • MINIS -- Painting Skeletons, plus a look at Skaven miniatures.
    • QUEST DESIGN -- Filling in the Plot
    • GAMEMASTER HINTS -- Ways to beef up the game's existing monsters. Second in a series of two.

     

    Issue #2 from February 3, 1999 [HTML with links or full text]
    • NEWS -- Where to find two quests and a contest
    • IN THE STORES -- Software for making paper castles; clearance sale prices on games and toys containing minis
    • QUEST DESIGN -- Finding plots for your original quests
    • MINIATURES -- First in a series on painting your minis
    • NEW HERO -- Mean, nasty, brutish and tall: The Ogre Mercenary
    • GM HINTS -- First part of a two-part article on characteristics and special powers that can make the game's monsters more challenging

     

    Issue #1 from January 5, 1999 [HTML with links or full text]
    • GM HINTS -- How to handle heroes with too many artifacts. What do you do when the monsters don't impress them anymore?
    • ARTS & CRAFTS -- Huge cardboard castle scenery
    • NEW HERO -- An elf with a really big sword
    • FEATURE -- Action figures
    • ARTS & CRAFTS -- Homemade photorealistic board overlays
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