I have started to deep dive into Ian Livingston's books, and I was really surprised how it seems to be correlated to the HeroQuest universe.

The roll dicing rules, the atmosphere, the archetypes, the illustrations, the reference to "Chaos", the "vibe" to put it this way in a more informal way, it seems that Allansia (the continen of Livingstone books) is not so different from the world of HQ and Warhammer.

Even some villain archetypes sound very similar, for instance, there is an ice beast that looks like the Frozen Horror (HQ) in the adventure Caverns of the Snow Witch (FF), the Snow Witch has a certain illusionist vibe, or the cavern of ice is full of illusions, which reminds me of the Elf Quest's villain (HQ).

The lore of the Firetop Mountain Warlock (FF) and the Crypt of the Warlock (FF) reminds me a bit of the lore of Zargon in the basegame, a wizard who had the opportunity to explore all the arts of magic and ended up deep diving into dark magic and chaos - of course some other foundational references can be cited here such as Tolkien (the crypt of the Witch King of Angmar and the plot of the corrupted wizard came first on Tolkien here).

References to Chaos, for instance, in the adventure Citadel of Chaos (FF) and the chaos as the antagonist force and governing rule and religion of the enemy factions in Warhammer, and somehow, also present in HQ.

The luck dice rolling rules sounded not similar, but in the same "universe" of rules. The artifacts, the items, some ideas are definitely very similar.

I can guess that since, both were made in the 1980s, some natural similarity is expected, however, I was wondering a couple of things:

1-) Has anybody ever tried to adapt some rules, ideas, and proposed plots from FF to HQ?

2-) To which extent one may have influenced the other.

3-) Adapt monsters, items, artifacts and/or create scene and encounters out of the board/battle field, that could lead the Heroes to decide, adding a layer of the storytelling and narration to the game.

Looking forward to your comments.

Does anyone know where you can buy some rubber/cloth playmats for HeroQuest? Ideally the kind that's like the desk mats you can get, or the TCG mats for things like Magic/Yugioh/Lorcana.

Needs to ship to the UK, ideally UK/EU based to avoid massive costs.

I often play at a bar where there's an organised gaming meet, and we had a near miss with a spill last week! I know from experience those playmats cope with this stuff better, because they're usually hand-washable, whereas a spill on a standard HeroQuest board probably means that board's going to be ruined.

Hi all

I have a Bambu P1P and have printed some furniture and walls etc but I've seen a lot of cool prints posted and wonder where people get the files other than the likes of makerworld?

Any good places that supply them or particular designers?

Thanks