Rogue Heir of Elethorn Unboxing & Review | Checking Out the Latest HeroQuest Character Pack

Always Board Never Boring recently received a copy of the Rogue Heir of Elethorn from viewer Vincent O'Neill. Thanks to this amazing donation, you can now watch this video where ABNB opens the expansion, runs through the components, gives his impression of the miniatures, and talks about where the Rogue Heir of Elethorn may fit in a standard party of four heroes.

Here are your time stamps:
00:00 Intro
01:01 Presentation
02:13 Contents
03:00 Official communique
04:42 New rules
05:00 Miniatures
06:16 Abilities and items
09:49 Who do you replace?
11:19 Turn order
11:35 Weaknesses
12:40 Outro

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[stevea]

I’m really surprised people are having trouble getting this, I received my rouge at start of October from Thirstymaple. I’ve also received my copy of Mage of the Mirror before Christmas & loving it. Hope u get yours soon as a fellow Brit we never had it back in 90’s or knew it existed (No internet, we are old😂) so look forward to your take on it… keep up the good work..

[hunterjs]

Very nice gift! I really like all the new HeroQuest sets. Hope they keep it up. Thanks for the review!

[danroberts]

Nice review! I’m a little behind with my Heroquest expansions, it’s good to know what I’ve been missing out on. I’ll have to see about getting this character before they’re completely gone! What you say about the Rogue being powerful but squishy sounds promising. Forcing difficult choices on the players is usually a sign of good game design, imho.

[M-E_]

Interesting that the introductory letter from this could be given to any Elf, not just the Rogue if you wanted to set up / introduce the Mage of the Mirror quest pack to your group but they all used classic characters.

There's nothing in the Elf background to suggest they are royalty, but if you plan ahead as Morcar that's easily rectified when players choose their characters (just don't lock yourself in to the Rogue being the "Rogue Heir" incase no one wants to pick him).

It's a really nice component I wasn't expecting.

[nickisaacs]

Great review, looking forward to seeing the Rouge in action

[chaosincarna]

I painted them as Drow, female in white and pink, male in black and red. They are easily identifiable and hard to notice their similar stances.

[Darkreaper]

Good walk through explaining what you get and how the characters play. You can't always pick up the information from looking at the box on-line.

I've had real problems getting this expansion as well. The on-line stores i look at either don't stock it or it's out of stock.

It's shame they haven't bundled the hero's from the crowdfunding campaign into a box for others to buy. Hopefully they'll do this in the future?

[HeroQuestFans]

I know what you mean about changing the schedule last second. thanks for sharing your thoughts

[coryledgerwood]

Great video. Thanks for the advise on the other video as well.

[yumanoid]

Having played about 13 quest (mostly karak varn and return), i can say that this fellow is a brutal murder machine if supported well.
You might want to get artefacts like orcterror, magical throwing dagger and the phantom dagger alternate artefact. Potions and spells that buff attack dice and/or allow rerolls are key, especially one of the fire spells is great..
I depends a bit on a supporting wizard or luck in getting the right scrolls, but if your friendly local wizard happens to have a magic ring allowing a spell to be cast twice..
So, yes, the rogue is very, very powerfull if played well in a group that excells at teamwork. Even without artefacts.
He ist kinda squishy with an unbuffed max of 4ish defend dice.
But he can oneshot stuff like Bellthor.

[TheFatalT]

I really like how Avalon Hill makes the extra effort for these character sets. Definitely sets them apart from most other mini expansion sets you find.

Hope you’ll get Mage of the Mirror soon, it’s really quite good. The new furniture is a nice change from the set in the core box

[KennethWhiteakaruckusbringa]

Cool man thx for the impromptu unboxing. I have this and the wondering monk. I dont have the gaurdian knight however

[whiterabbit]

I'm receiving the rogue and frozen horror on Sunday! Kinda hyped about it.

[allenstark]

That was awesome of him, I had similer issues and ended up buying mine on ebay after the last delay with zavvi, really liked it

[idristhomas]

Well, it sat on my shelf for a few weeks, but I have just done the first few quests of the core game solo as the Rogue... he's trying to catch up with the rest of the heroes in my gaming group who are deeper down in the dungeon. It was a lot of fun, but I'm definitely looking forward to getting some bracers. It mainly involved me opening a door and running away down corridors throwing knives over my shoulder, and swearing at the red dice ha ha. I'm looking forward to playing with the others to make full use of the skill set.

[hogg]

This guy is really strong in the early/mid game but I think he's going to have trouble with the harder quests because of his low defense. I think the only item he can use are the bracers, so his max Def is 3.

I have him with the standard Short Sword/Dagger combo, but using Orc's Bane so its possible for him to get three attacks in specific circumstances. I also have him carrying a Battle Axe, and occasionally getting to roll 5 Attack dice using Opportunistic Striker, but he forgoes an Ambidextrous attack on those turns. He also has a Crossbow for stronger single ranged attacks.

[godofzombi]

I got mine from my LGS a month and a half ago. The production value for the packaging is trough the roof. It's a bit overkill for 2 figures and a handfull of cards but I can appreciate it;

[mackbolan]

Thanks for the video and break down. I'm happy with my set, although I still haven't actually used them in a game yet.

[Learnjapanesefromsomeguy]

I really love your videos and learning about new(ish) HeroQuest content, but something that I am surprised by is how often people in the board game community use the plural "dice" when they should say "die."

[misomiso]

10:56 how does the dwarf power up? Are there any additional rules since the original?

Ty