Heroica: The LEGO RPG You Forgot
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- Опубліковано 15 бер 2024
- LEGO have made hundreds upon hundreds of different sets over the years. But out of them all, there exists one specific series that remains one of LEGO's most unique. It is a series that has been mostly forgotten over the years.
And that just won't do...
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On my knees like a starved man witnessing the divine mercy of a loving god, I haven't seen anybody mention LEGO Heroica, Minotaurus, Creationary, ANYTHING
Why you on your knees dude, pretty gay behaviour
Same…. I’ve been hoping for years the heroica fandom isn’t dead… please stay with us…
@@CaptainTimeStories we stand strong, brother, yet silent.
On my knees spreading open like a hooker, does anyone remember the Lego CDs or Blue Rays(Forgot which one) where you could choose answers and shit. Literally all I remember.
MINOTAURUS WAS THE SHIT
"Heroica: The LEGO RPG You Forgot"
* me looking over ar the Heroica poster on my wall *
No, I don't think I forgot about it
Autistic?
I have one too!
I also have that poster haha
Me who still has 4 sets stored safely at my mom's and sometimes forces the family to play it with me
I think the world needs to get out of the "it's for kids so it doesn't need to be good" mindset.
I agree, but it doesn’t make as much money, which is all the executives think about
@@NathanielKolk I thnk the world needs to get out of the "top priority is making a profit" mindset.
Agreed
@@lexibyday9504 But money is the only language they speak, it runs our capitalist society.
If you make it too good, adults will force their way in and push younger audiences around. Then it stops being for kids, and starts being for pushy adults who don't like sharing with anyone else. There needs to be a fine veneer where it's for families, not for everybody. That way, the context is around kids and adults, instead of one or the other.
I could NEVER forget Heroica.
You and me warlock , you and me.
Same
Me too
I *LOVE* that game, i really want a new computer to play it online, because here there weren't any of them
I really loved these as a kid and my parents actually got me all of them. Probably never once played the game correctly or even read the rules but more or less just had a dungeon crawler for a kid.
It's almost like a VERY simplified Hero Quest. You don't have to worry about having to find somebody to be the dungeon master. You just play through and fight the monsters until you either die or get to the end of the game, and its endlessly expandable. If somebody wanted a single player fantasy adventure game without having to shell out a crapload of money, this would be a good one.
I used to make entire new AREAS to play with dude. I loved heroica
damm, you must be rich or sumn, as an ex-kid from the third world country, buying lego was never even in my mind for how expensive it was. We got the fake and the big one instead. But hey, i played the shit out of it no matter what. Ahaha, simpler times.
@@kegeramanyanghakiki9576 well, Lego is actually starting to get expensive even for people in first world countries lol.
Brooo i used to do the same with the one my grandpa and grandma gifted me
Been playing this every (almost) Friday for the past year with my friend, I’ve added my own desert, graveyard and frozen tundra level, the graveyard has crypts with different seals and the frozen tundra has a mansion you need keys to enter and slippery ice paths, and the desert has booby traps!
The original rules are lacking… so I’ve made my own rules, there’s camps with shops where you can buy potions (and weapons) and enemies give gold and higher level enemies gives victory points (encouraging battling them)
That’s just scratching the surface I have a note on my phone with over 300 lines for text!
I love this game and I really like making my own rules for it, makes me think feel like it’s my own game :)
Damn would you mind posting your rules in the comment?😅
I also would like to see your extended rules if you want to post them or maybe link them
Hey I’m wondering if you know anyone else that does this? I got my own moc too and crazy ruleset… I’m hoping the fandom isn’t dead
@@CaptainTimeStories I've seen vids of people making grand Heroica moc gameboards, so I'd say more dormant or niche than dead
@@matijakovac473 it’s very long but I’ll try
Heroica casually being one of my top 5 LEGO Themes. It really deserved more
what's so casual about it?
miss when lego just threw out random themes
The pro-level tech for the scepter of summoning is actually to pair it with the rogue's ability and use it to farm gold.
never thought I’d see someone metagaming lego’s heroica
How dare you accusing me of forgotting Heroica. I had the starter set and the forest one. In fact I still have them, although a few pieces lost or broke (The red guy my beloved :( ) over the time. I really liked back then and still love it to this day, but I always faced the problem, that I didn't had anyone to play with. My family deemed it to dificult. Not that they wouldn't had the mental capicity to learn it, but they lacked the motivation.
Anyway my faveorite game mode was the team heroes vs team monsters. When one of the players controlled all the monsters. That really brought some life in the board.
Man as a kid I never had a single set of these but I remember watching the little 3d how to play the game tutorials over and over religiously, so I still remember the series fondly
I would just play the web game over and over with the different characters until my computer time was up ✊⛓️
Me too!
This is me but instead of the internet my school or one of my friends had the lego sets as I never got one. (any chance I got to buy a new lego set would just end up being a Ninjago one)
Same here. Lego wasn't really a big thing where I lived so there was no hope of ever getting the sets
Same. I never owned many legos as a little kid because we couldn’t afford them but I remember the pyramid one specifically because one of my cousins owned the set lol
Man, Heroica was such a cool concept and fun to play.
Though most of my enjoyment of the game was seeing the possivel potential with the game.
I didn't forget. These came out at the exact right time to be permanently stuck in my memory. I was at the age where I felt a pressure to ditch my "kids' stuff," cartoons and toys and such, so Lego Games and especially Heroica always struck me as the way to do Legos while being a grown-up. After all, it's Lego D&D before Lego D&D!
6:23 looking at releases of the instructions, the polybag looks safe enough to remake from pick a brick places.
That’s what I was thinking as well, the only pieces he would have trouble getting would probably be the minifigs
Ganrash looks like it has common enough parts to buy and piece together. It's a little detour from Draida Bay for an early weapon pickup.
I still own the entire series of Heroica. I also have a few of the other games, Atlantis, the Minotaur one, and the dragon one.
Funny that you mention Ninjago; Season 13 actually came with a board game which played very similarly to Heroica. All of the sets had some structure with board game tiles, your characters had health bars, there were traps and enemies and your movement and combat were determined by spinning a 6-sided Lego top. The sets could be placed on an included paper board, but they could also be connected directly together.
Maaaaaan. Used to love this game. Me and the boys would disregard the hero's sometimes and play it with the monsters. 4 players, one for the goblins, one for the forest, one for the caves, and one for the undead. Use to play it like a turn based strategy game. Goblins always had the edge thanks to owning the bay. But I remember building little structures to act as a barracks or defensive walls. Even went to some lego stores to get more of the space pieces to make more board. We made our own sub game with Heroica. I need to rebuild those sets and call the boys. Tonights a Heroica Night.
I've wanted LEGO to revisit Heroica for YEARS; when I was younger and used to mess around with LDD I remember workshopping a Marvel-themed version and trying to rework the rules to create more proper boss encounters and such, using different colored tiles to show where bosses would move next after the players' turn, having marked "hazard" spaces, new item types, et cetera. I remember specifically having a prison set built out where you had the main boss behind three security doors, which you had to unlock by fighting three different mini-bosses, each guarding a backup generator that could be used to unlock a door.
That sounds really cool. Who knew that Heroica has such a fan following even after all of these years?
I adored these LEGO boardgames, so sad they didn't really take off.
Funny you should mention that. With Lego announcing the D&D set my mind instantly went to Heroica. I got one set from that theme and I wish I got more because that was a very fun game. Very simple with easy rules.
Maybe after this D&D set is released it might create a resurgence of the game?
Dang, now I really want to play it again xD
2 things are missing. The Storage Box/case with extra pieces and the PlayMatt. And the Card set, a card for every hero/item (a free giveaway)
Wow I forgot: these spawned an era of lego game-design for me! Absolutely loved Lego Games and especially Heroica. Also that is the proper reaction to Ninjago still making seasons.
I was just old enough when Heroica came out to be responsible with the sets... As such, I still have all the instructions and boxes... Except for Fortaan which got moldy due to water getting spilled on it that I didn't know about until it was too late. Looking forward to when my nephew is old enough to teach this game to!
bro that’s awesome I found a box my brother used to have and built the Fortaan set back up, just ordered waldurk forest and am looking forward to building the set aswell and play it lol
Never forgotten...
Mine are still well kept and pristine, held in the highest regard as one of LEGO's best tabletop game.
I absolutely loved the Heroica games. My friends and I played over and over during speech and debate trips. It's a shame that they were LEGO because trying to get all of them now would require a bank loan. But man, these games were great!
Heroica will always have a place in my heart as it is the only Lego theme where I've ever collected all the sets.
I never forgot. Heroica is what got me back into collecting Lego in 2012. For a while I was intentionally collecting in Microfigure scale, treating full sized minifigures as "Giants" for my Heroicas to fight. I sometimes go back to the set of houserules/combination with the fanmade board game BrickQuest and try to revise them despite having no fellow players to do a full tabletop RPG in Lego...especially not at microfig scale, since people are obviously gonna want the customization of full minifigures.
Holy shit finally I see someone else acknowledge Heroica I loved playing the Fortaan castle board as a kid. Me and my friend would also make our own custom boards this was so fun
This! I used to have a Heroica poster, and greatly enjoyed the flash game before it was deleted from existence.
you can still play the flash game using the wayback machine
Okay so I've been designing a ttrpg for my master project for nearly 2 years now, and I'm honestly impressed LEGO even picked up this project, but I think the main way they dropped the ball is the following: as you mentioned, the dice make up a big part of the players' decisions. A simple way they could have given the players more choice would have been to let players throw 3 equal dice and pick whichever result they wanted... And i honestly can't believe not a single person designing this project had this single idea, since I came up with it in like, 2 seconds and I hope LEGO at least hired semi-capable and experienced game designers to make this thing. Game designer who could have come up with the same solution in the same time period
The die piece was a pretty expensive one so they likely couldn’t include multiple in a single box. Likely they didn’t want it to be unplayable with just one box.
@@ezraho8449 i wasn’t aware of that! Thanks for the insight
So when my brother and I were kids, we had a similar but slightly different idea: utilize the fact that the dice are *also* lego. Each character has three dice: physical, mental, magical. And as your character levels up (we never did decide precisely how this should happen) you could add points to each of these three attributes, and then distribute them among the faces of the relevant dice. And when you want to do something, you decide which die is relevant and how difficult it should be, and roll it. I think the highest any one face of the die could go was 20, because there's 4 studs on each face, and differently colored round pips had different values. Don't think we ever said what the maximum total was, but I don't think we planned for anything to hit 120. Similarly, each stat started at 6 (enough for one one-point pip on each face) but nothing said you had to have *anything* on any given face of any of the dice. You could totally stack all points in a stat on one face of the die, and have a 1/6 chance of blowing it out of the water, but at all other times completely fail to accomplish anything.
Also, this being lego, your character was a minifigure, go ham with the lore, go ham with any of the various bits of equipment that could be equipped to a minifig. What your gear *did* was dependent on spending money (we used the Heroica inventory/HP as a basis for this part) and was usually to the tune of making certain actions easier (or possible at all by having a more specific power), but the more elaborately overdesigned it was, the better.
My god…never clicked on a recommended video so fast. I always wanted to have this game as a kid, even tried to remake it myself.
I have a couple of these sets kicking around - I got them both 2nd hand around 2012, Hero pieces were missing. But being a big TTRPG fan I could see the potential in them for getting kids playing. Shame they never made anything more of it
I do remember Heroica. This is the best video about it I've seen. I loved it, and had the third set and base the others based on pics and stuff I found from other sets and prices I owned as a kid
Oh man, Heroica. I still have all of the sets from when I was a kid, and this video makes me feel very nostalgic for the good ol' days. Might have to shake the dust off of them...
OMG I still play this! I have a moc that I still tinker with. I compulsively buy microfigures on bricklink to add to it.
Seriously where is the heroica fandom at, I’ve looked all over and I can’t find it. Hit me up if you wanna talk.
Seriously I still spend so much time playing heroica.
You. good sir, have unintentionally unlocked childhood memories in thousands of people(myself included)
This unlocked some seriously old beautiful family memories, my parents got me all of these lego games as a kid, used to get them for Christmas and birthdays, unlimited memories playing these with my siblings and neighbours, wow thank you so much for bringing these memories back, the pyramid and Minotaur ones have the deepest memories… and then I also remember at my Nan and grandads I used to play the lego ninjago game on their laptop lol, what a beautiful childhood I truly cherish…
I had all of these when I was younger, I never forgot.
This brings back so many memories. These sets are definitely responsible for some of the things I’ve come up with and it actually makes me want to do something kind of like it
I'm so happy you and others here remembered Heroica. That shit was what made my middle school lunch time very fun. I'm honestly sad it and other lego table top games are now usually just remembered in small circles, and lego really never went back to it.
Had the minotaur one as a kid. Didn't even play the game that much, just loved the little minifigures and making my own mazes and stories with the pieces. Loved how customisable the dice was!
I had so much fun building my own layouts and boards for this game as a kid
I still have my Caverns of Nathuz.
I remember staring at the pictures and pages of these sets in the lego magazine wanting them so badly
I never forgot about it. I just wish they would continued it. I have a set in my room.
You just showing the LEGO games clip at the beginning of the vid immediately flashed me back three centuries ago. I completely forgot about those, I was OBSESSED with them as a kid...
Bro the memories that flooded back watching this is insane
I absolutely LOVED this LEGO series and I remembered watching the animated series over and over again.
It's good to see someone talking about Heroica. It was a part of my childhood and even though I couldn't get my hands on any of the LEGO sets, I've played the video game a lot. The music and sound effects from the game live rent free in my brain. Lots of nostalgia and a well made video. Good job
It's insane how i found this video now and its aonly a month old because I'm currently lookign through everything Heroica related that I can find online
this is an awesome video!!! Thanks for making it. I wish these were continued I really do... Heroica has always jsut had that SPECIAL sort of VIBE to it, yknow?
We have the Minotaur set of this game. I think that's what it was called.
the minotaur was a separate game in the bigger series
Minotaurus
We need the ninjago video asap
I have literally been waiting for this video to exist on the internet for years. Thank you for touching on this wonderful game!
I loved Heroica, I played it obsessively with my friend, with whom we were building our own maps, having multi-character battles and so on... but man, watching your video I just couldn't get over the fact you used ost from Skylanders. I mean, I love that game, I'm collecting these guys since 2013 and argh, something so nostalgic to me with music from game I play since childhood, I love that so much
God, I wrote that comment before finishing the video and then heard Rayman music. Another great throwback. Man, this video is literally me
What is the URL of the Heroica website, so I can have a look at archived content on the Wayback archive.
Just FYI, and I know this is a nerdy nitpick, there is no such thing as 'A dice" the singular of dice is a die. And the plural of lego is lego.
Core memory unlocked. thank you for bringing back nostalgia and fond memories
Had that poster on my wall for nearly 10 years. I never forgot it… amazing to see it mentioned in this current year
I've been thinking about this game for years, thank you for letting me remember the name.
I did forget this one. but as a tabletop rpg fan trying to teach this to kids from time to time when this came out, I followed it with special interest. Thanks for bring back the memories.
I remember having these lego sets and trying to play with my siblings. It's a shame that we've more or less lost parts of the sets or some pieces got either missing or broken. I'll miss Heroica, it was a fun game idea.
So glad you made this video! About a month ago i tried to find a video like this and was shocked to not find one. Thought I was the only person with fond memories of this series. I owned evey set in the line but never knew there was a website... I was too young at the time to have unfettered internet access.
You just unearthed some OLD memories. Great vid
I had all 5 of the sets and loved them. I played w all of them combined for hours at a time.
YOU UNLOCKED A MEMORY OMG Lego games and the animations were crazy!! I wanted this lego set so bad! Thank you very much for the Lego lore :D
THANK YOU FOR TALKING ABOUT THIS! When I was little I saw a video on the LEGO website of all the Heroica sets put together and it made me want them all so bad. Im so glad somebody else was just as impacted by these as me lol
When i saw this video pop up on my for you i actually started to tear up, like i almost cried. So NOSTALGIC!!
Dude I had like half of these games you showed on screen and I haven't thought about them in years. I remember loving Heroica. I begged my grandparents to get me one of the expansions for my birthday. I remember it being pretty simple but very fun.
This video just unlocked so many memories of Lego games I used to play on the Lego site
YASSS! I had this paper catalogue with the GAMES section in it, and it was my favourite one. I also tried to recreate some of the sets and come up with some rules to it. Such a good time it was
Thanks for this video, man. ❤
Thank you for this moment of nostalgia 🥲🥲
This just reminded me of the Adventure set, as each box was fairly large with a lot of in it and the board game and cards you got with every box was so cool.
I have several sets in pieces scattered across my lego boxes I still have. I absolutely loved to build custom campaigns with it, incredible product. I hope it returns someday.
I only had one set. However ! I am now realizing that it inspired so much in me. It was my first experience of heroic fantasy and the classes stuck with me leading to me wanting to make a game, then a book and now a TTRPG. The first inspiration never truly disappeared. So that was a nice throwback
I loved Lego Games, man the memories, the times rewatching the tutorials over and over again cause I only find them on english and it isn't my mother tongue
Thank you for making me remember
I just stared at the preview for about 10 seconds thinking whether I know what this about or not. Then I felt a shiver go down my spine. HOLY SH*T. I REMEMBER THIS GAME. I am Siberian and my family never had much money for LEGO so my mom bought this game because it was cheaper and had the LEGO logo on it. Damn, what a memory you helped me uncover! Thank you!
Dude, I'm so happy I found your channel
I'll never forget Heroica
Oh my god I totally forgot about Heroica. But when I saw this video I got flashbacks and nostalgia :D thanks for doing video about this.
I barely played with these lego games at all, but I remember always seeing them. Just the box art at ~90s in gave me so many flashbacks to my childhood (and I remember watching the heroica animations, gosh seeing those again hit hard)
Out of all of the LEGO tabletop games, Heroica is still the one I remember fondly as a kid.
I never forget my Childhood, never forgot the old sets, games, board games, and video games.
Man, the whole LEGO Games series was so peak with those tabletop games. I loved to watch all those sets and trying to recreate them with my poor cheap chinese legos. Actually if you have all Heroica sets and a bunch of lego, you could use them to play actual DnD with terrain, mini-figures and others
So many memories came back watching this. Definitely dusting the boxes off and playing some rounds.
I will never forget the amount of fun I had with it with my friends when i was younger
it was my childhood! I hold on to building instructions, posters, rulebooks and ofc sets themselves to keep the memory of Heroica alive
God I loved these Thankyou for reminding me and giving me some good nostalgia
A friend and me went crazy with this concept and did a bunch of expansions on the map, like a dnd campaign kinda. We found it’s much more fun for the special ability icon on the dice to represent ability recharge. So you roll it x times to charge the ability and use it whenever you want.
I just unlocked a childhood memory I had long forgotten, thanks
criminally underrated. loved everything about these.
Oh man i remember those. A friend of mine had a few sets. We ended up homebrewing our own thing with it.
Somewhat forgot but constantly reminded by it seeing all 5 sets sitting on a shelf in my room after finding them in a box a few years ago.
Having made my own heroica map before i have to say I LOVE THIS THEME, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING A VIDEO ABOUT IT
OH MY GOD, you just reached into my memory and pulled out an absolute gem. I swear I had like a ninjago one or something that my brothers probably played completely wrong.
I had the Lego Games Minotaur Maze set!!! Thank you for making me remember this!!!
i had three heroica sets and the minotaur game, good memories :)
I really loved Heroica concept as a kid. Sadly, my family was to poor to buy me those and I only got the first, smallest set. But even with just that, I remember playing this quite a few times.
These were awesome. Funny to see how this led into my taste in role playing games before I had any idea what those were
So glad to see someone cover these again! Supposedly these sets didn't sell well, but as a kid I was always into odd black sheep lines like this one. Heroica as a game is very basic, but the fact that you can literally build your own modular dungeon boardgame is still so cool to me. It's no wonder I ended up getting into D&D later in life.