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Dungeon Quest Knight - Painted almost 20 years ago. One of my first painted miniatures

Using skull beads to mark where characters have died

New Combat Cards to replace worn originals. I put them in color matching card sleeves. PDF in Files section.

Some of my proxy figures and their modified cards

DungeonQuest (1985)

Players

1–4

Best: 4

Playing time

20–60 min

Age

10+

6.79

Average rating

2,950

Ratings

1.92/5

Weight

#2440

BGG rank

Top 5,000

Alternate names:Drachenhort +3 more

Designer:Dan Glimne, Jakob Bonds

Artist:Anders Jeppsson, Gary Chalk, Peter Jones (I), Dave Andrews, Bill Sedgwick, Colin Dixon, Pete Knifton, Jes Goodwin, Alastair Morrison, Peter Andrew Jones, Ugurcan Yüce

Publisher:Games Workshop Ltd. +2 more

Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).

Game DNA

Strategy7.0

Luck9.0

Interaction5.0

Complexity3.8

Theme9.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

FantasyExplorationAdventureTile PlacementRock-Paper-ScissorsVariable Player PowersRole PlayingDice RollingPush Your Luck

Overview

Players explore the ruins of Castle Dragonfire trying to reach the treasure chamber in the center of the dungeon and escape alive with as much treasure as possible. A limited number of turns before the game ends puts pressure on players to take risks and score rewards because anyone left in the dungeon when time runs out dies! A tile-laying system creates the maze-like dungeon and ensures that no two games are ever exactly the same.

Originally published in Sweden as Drakborgen (Dragon Keep) in 1985 by Alga, a subsidiary of BRIO AB. Sold in Norway (Skatten i borgen) and Denmark (Drageborgen). Licenced to Germany (Schmidt Spiele) as Drachenhort, to Great Britain (Games Workshop) as DungeonQuest. A 2nd edition named Drakborgen Legenden was released in 2002 (never released outside Sweden). The game was re-licensed to FFG in 2010, who released the 3rd edition the same year. See the family entry for more information.

Expanded by:

Drakborgen II (the Swedish expansion that upon Games Workshop's British release was split into the two below:) Heroes for Dungeonquest Dungeonquest: Catacombs

Re-implemented by:

Drakborgen Legenden DungeonQuest (Third Edition) DungeonQuest: Revised Edition