18: HeroQuest
HeroQuest was originally released as Hero Wars because the long planned name HeroQuest was taken by the Milton Bradley and Games Workshop beginner dungeon fantasy RPG / boardgame, then as HeroQuest during the gap between editions of the boardgame, and then the system as QuestWorlds with an SRD and without the original setting, having started as a more narrative game in the same world as Runequest. Let me know if I missed anything.
Anyway, it nudges at and tweaks the Hero’s Journey as (overly) systematised by Joseph Campbell, go on a quest and return changed by all you’ve experienced with some common specific steps.
It also leans heavily on the storytelling game side of RPGs, Robin D. Laws having previously created Pantheon among other things, so maybe that can be our idea?
The Best Place By The Fire Was Kept For The Storyteller
Years, possibly decades or centuries after the time of the player characters, a storyteller spins a not entirely accurate version of one of their adventures. It could be played out in a different system like a storytelling game, with the players affecting it to help or hinder the PCs as it cuts back to what really happened. Is the story changing the world?
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