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Welcome to How the Tables Top (Or "How the Table Stop?" if you read it from the address bar/fast enough). This is a blog where I will be documenting my modifications to board games/made ones for popular IPs.

What's on the plan:

1. HeroQuest 1989 (And all 5 official team expansions)
2. Advanced HeroQuest/Terror in the Dark (And 2 new expansions)
3. Space Crusade (Plus it's expansions and 3 new ones)
4. Space Hulk 1st Edition (Plus 3 new expansions)
5. Tyranid Attack/ASC (Plus 3 new expansions)
6. Dungeon! (Modded for 6mm scale models)
7. Dungeons and Dragons: The Fantasy Adventure Board Game (And it's 2 expansions)
8. Toad's Rescue Party (Mario Party/RPG title)

Some of the above already have so much work put into them that they are almost finished (HeroQuest) and others haven't really been started at all (D&D TFABG). I will get around to finishing them all as quickly as possible!

HeroQuest:
A quest of epic proportions set during Karl Franz' time on the throne where the Heroes set out to help and ultimately save the land from an undead, all powerful sorcerer!

Space Crusade:
A series of missions taken on by rising stars of a Space Marine chapter (Imperial Fists, Blood Angels or Ultramarines). Will you earn the ultimate honors?

Advanced HeroQuest:
A more complicated RPG game set during Magnus the Pious' reign, where the time of relative peace allows a group of adventurers to earn Gold by damaging enemy ranks (Keeping the Empire's enemies numbers down), all the while salvaging equipment to earn even more.

Advanced Space Crusade:
A more complicated RPG game where you take on the role of a small team of high ranking Dark Angels embarking on a mission to clear out a world under threat of Genestealer cult corruption.
Note that this will be using Space Hulk assets and even borrowing some rules.

Tyranid Attack:
A mission to destroy the enemy Tyranid's hive ship or wipe them from the current planet. Much more of a skirmish than before, featuring a vehicle unit for each faction, as well as Hero and heavy units. Uncertain if this one will contain a solo option!

Dungeon!:
A 6mm adventure set in a long abandoned hall, where many creatures seem to have made their home. Play enemies against your opponents to stifle their progress and stop them earning more points than you!

Dungeons & Dragons: The Fantasy Adventure Board Game:
I will likely change very little about this, perhaps just make enemies match a bit more.

Toad's Rescue Party:
An RPG where players can work to earn the most coins and also rescue the missing Toads! Play mini-games and face monsters of the Mushroom Kingdom before the showdown with the boss of that particular level. Solo mode has you attempt to beat the mini-games within a certain time or earn a certain number of points. Featuring module tiles and a poster like background map.

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