Thank you Ash for reviewing Megaquest. I'm so happy to see this project come to life and look so good. :) I may revisit it for a 3.0 in the future but for now I'm moving on to the Megaquest Monster Pack. :)
Tried to get the text as big as possible without increasing the size of the card. Maybe when I revisit this project in the future I might make the cards bigger than tarot size.
So your mana pool is determined by the hero's Mind Points. If you have 3 Mind Points then you have 3 mana. I left some of this open ended but here are a few ways I have seen people play with this. 1. Your mana only gets replenished at the start of each quest unless someone finds an item that will give you mana. If you find a card that gives you a spell back just treat it as if you get 1 mana back. This is very similar to the normal Heroquest game and can be pretty brutal. 2. You may spend an action to gain 1 mana not passing your max mana pool. You may also add that the hero cannot move that turn if you want but that is up to Zargon. I would only suggest this if you use Dungeon event cards for example AxianQuests Dungeon Event cards. This will give a risk to the players to stop to rest and gain mana between combat. Just in case you don't know how Axianquest dungeon event cards work after each round you roll a die and if you roll a 5 or 6 you reveal a Dungeon Event card. Sometimes they are good things and most of the time they are bad. Lol honestly can't imagine playing without them now. Adds pressure to the adventuring party.
These look awesome! You may have addressed this previously, but can i run these alongside axianquest? Will it bolt up or are there compatibility issues?
My local group prefers using Axianquest with Megaquest. I designed this in mind. We even use the Axian skill cards as added traits for each character giving each character even more customizability.
I'm using Mega Quest skills and spells as the next tier upgrade to Axianquest skills. So once you get three Axian skills you can change out one to Mega Quest skills. Spells work the same way with some homebrew modifications.
The art work on these cards is pretty poor. Decent art has to be a selling point initially. It has to pop. Think about all of the fantasy art in the past created by Chris Achellios and Boris Vallejo. Version 2.0 etc will keep folks coming back as rules and mechanics are refined as long as the original mechanic's are well thought out and we have some cool artwork keepsakes. This does not mean commission some famed fantasy artist if you are on a budget, Get your mate do do it if he is a cool artist or ask about for a decent artist and give them a slice of the profits. Heroquesters love the lore, the minis, the artwork, the homebrew, the painting and the game which is the glue that brings all of it together. The artwork is probably the first thing anyone becomes aware of and draws us in. The box for 'Against the Ogre Horde' is an epic take on the original artwork, and on the merit of that purchased the expansion confident it was going to be money well spent. I think this requires a version 3.0, which I don't think is unfair, but would sort out the final niggles. This could easily become a stalwart of my heroquest setup, the idea is there. It just requires that final polished execution in my opinion before I spend my money. ATOH was £40 in the uk. Not cheap. Fuck AI and pay a GUY to do some art.
Thank you for your feedback. I do try to take note of each comment so I can try to make the best stuff I possibly can. The artist that made the character art didn't meet my expectations and admitted to using AI which almost made me refund it and find a different artist. She scrapped the ones she claimed they used AI on and started over. I requested she send me the original sketches and I posted those on the discord server. She says that she didn't use AI which Ash and I have our doubts about. Sadly at this point I invested a pretty good amount of money into the art. I will not be using that artist for future projects and if you wish to know who the artist was I posted a link to the artist page and their username in the directions. I'm in the middle of a second project for Megaquest so it will be a good while before I revisit this project. (Need a mental break from the Hero Pack lol) I'm reviewing a new artist right now that I'm really enjoying. Might have him rework the art for the Hero pack in the future. We will see. Depends on how well the set I just released sells.
I have a project kinda like this and tbh I'm really happy with the art from Microsoft image creator, there's a few I can't quite convince it to do but a lot of them look amazing. It's easy to say just get an artist but art takes a lot of damn time and not very many people are gunna spend that much time for little or no compensation. I get what you are saying, the pack is £30 and that's a lot of money for some cards, so the art should at least be sweet, but you gotta remember art gets expensive fast and he could quickly find himself in the red on something he probably just did for fun. That said, I do agree about the character art being poor (I do think the cards look nice aside from that though), you can do better than that yourself in about an hour with image creator...I'd be having words with that artist about a refund as well...
Thank you Ash for reviewing Megaquest. I'm so happy to see this project come to life and look so good. :) I may revisit it for a 3.0 in the future but for now I'm moving on to the Megaquest Monster Pack. :)
You mentioned that you would send out a coupon to Mega Quest vol 1 buyers to buy vol 2. How will that be delivered? Good job revising Vol 2!
Nice look at these. I just got them a few days ago as well. They seem pretty cool. Although the text is still WAY too small for my old eyes. :)
Tried to get the text as big as possible without increasing the size of the card. Maybe when I revisit this project in the future I might make the cards bigger than tarot size.
Thanks Ash.. your channel is one of my favorites!
Amazing,well done. This will give many ideas on us.Perfect for the adventurers of hero quest.
Can someone explain how much mana a character starts with and how it is regained?
So your mana pool is determined by the hero's Mind Points. If you have 3 Mind Points then you have 3 mana.
I left some of this open ended but here are a few ways I have seen people play with this.
1. Your mana only gets replenished at the start of each quest unless someone finds an item that will give you mana. If you find a card that gives you a spell back just treat it as if you get 1 mana back. This is very similar to the normal Heroquest game and can be pretty brutal.
2. You may spend an action to gain 1 mana not passing your max mana pool. You may also add that the hero cannot move that turn if you want but that is up to Zargon. I would only suggest this if you use Dungeon event cards for example AxianQuests Dungeon Event cards. This will give a risk to the players to stop to rest and gain mana between combat.
Just in case you don't know how Axianquest dungeon event cards work after each round you roll a die and if you roll a 5 or 6 you reveal a Dungeon Event card. Sometimes they are good things and most of the time they are bad. Lol honestly can't imagine playing without them now. Adds pressure to the adventuring party.
Nice job !! I'm going to have to photocopy those cards don't want to write on them and cause damage
I have been using card sleeves with dry erase markers. :)
@@bravo320zf I will check online for this appropriate card size since it's larger than normal
@@darkstranger777 I ordered Tarot size card sleeves and they fit like a glove.
@@bravo320zf will do 👍
Need more variety in the characters and definitely some mages.
These look awesome! You may have addressed this previously, but can i run these alongside axianquest? Will it bolt up or are there compatibility issues?
My local group prefers using Axianquest with Megaquest. I designed this in mind. We even use the Axian skill cards as added traits for each character giving each character even more customizability.
I'm using Mega Quest skills and spells as the next tier upgrade to Axianquest skills. So once you get three Axian skills you can change out one to Mega Quest skills. Spells work the same way with some homebrew modifications.
@@MattPrestage-g4e don't mind if I steal this idea for my group. Good idea :) slows the power curve.
@@MattPrestage-g4e that sounds cool, i will have to try that!!
@@bravo320zf ok cool! Thanks for the feedback!!
full points for the bladeward pun. :)
The art work on these cards is pretty poor. Decent art has to be a selling point initially. It has to pop. Think about all of the fantasy art in the past created by Chris Achellios and Boris Vallejo. Version 2.0 etc will keep folks coming back as rules and mechanics are refined as long as the original mechanic's are well thought out and we have some cool artwork keepsakes.
This does not mean commission some famed fantasy artist if you are on a budget, Get your mate do do it if he is a cool artist or ask about for a decent artist and give them a slice of the profits. Heroquesters love the lore, the minis, the artwork, the homebrew, the painting and the game which is the glue that brings all of it together. The artwork is probably the first thing anyone becomes aware of and draws us in. The box for 'Against the Ogre Horde' is an epic take on the original artwork, and on the merit of that purchased the expansion confident it was going to be money well spent.
I think this requires a version 3.0, which I don't think is unfair, but would sort out the final niggles. This could easily become a stalwart of my heroquest setup, the idea is there. It just requires that final polished execution in my opinion before I spend my money. ATOH was £40 in the uk. Not cheap.
Fuck AI and pay a GUY to do some art.
Thank you for your feedback. I do try to take note of each comment so I can try to make the best stuff I possibly can. The artist that made the character art didn't meet my expectations and admitted to using AI which almost made me refund it and find a different artist. She scrapped the ones she claimed they used AI on and started over. I requested she send me the original sketches and I posted those on the discord server. She says that she didn't use AI which Ash and I have our doubts about. Sadly at this point I invested a pretty good amount of money into the art. I will not be using that artist for future projects and if you wish to know who the artist was I posted a link to the artist page and their username in the directions. I'm in the middle of a second project for Megaquest so it will be a good while before I revisit this project. (Need a mental break from the Hero Pack lol) I'm reviewing a new artist right now that I'm really enjoying. Might have him rework the art for the Hero pack in the future. We will see. Depends on how well the set I just released sells.
I have a project kinda like this and tbh I'm really happy with the art from Microsoft image creator, there's a few I can't quite convince it to do but a lot of them look amazing. It's easy to say just get an artist but art takes a lot of damn time and not very many people are gunna spend that much time for little or no compensation. I get what you are saying, the pack is £30 and that's a lot of money for some cards, so the art should at least be sweet, but you gotta remember art gets expensive fast and he could quickly find himself in the red on something he probably just did for fun. That said, I do agree about the character art being poor (I do think the cards look nice aside from that though), you can do better than that yourself in about an hour with image creator...I'd be having words with that artist about a refund as well...