HeroQuest First Light: The Might of the Synchroform

For the final First Light campaign quest, Qwindrak is going to throw everything he has at us, one last time.

https://chasingdings.com/2026/05/03/heroquest-first-light-the-might-of-the-synchroform/

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This week I had my eye on some wonderful bits of fun, in games and comics, and found some bits of hope to boost.

I saw Neon Odyssey pop up on my feed a couple weeks ago. It looked like a neat retro-futuristic TTRPG, just my sort of thing. So I looked into it.

It’s 5.5E D&D reskinned for space opera, science fantasy play with a neon-drenched aesthetic. I was in.

The species are new but some riff on classics and classes reskin all the classes from the player’s handbook with one original class.

There are seriously high production values and a no AI commitment.

What I didn’t expect from Neon Odyssey was a killer theme song.

The folks behind the project commissioned songs by Max Cruise and “Among the Stars” is an astounding earworm. I can’t stop listening to it.

Celestine even got into it and plays it now and then without my prompting.

https://youtu.be/d3aq0uLNB6Y?si=zTnOcDhkwZgYsVds

I wasn’t familiar with Legends of Avantris before learning about their Neon Odyssey project, but now I’m at least a dozen hours into their actual play videos and will be diving into their backlog podcasts. It’s really fun D&D.

https://youtu.be/7FbTEHv_Ng4?si=1V4kzlYV7jmfOcSW

https://youtu.be/7vcNwWDA-BE?si=6ipc4JZFsyEeVzpF

After a long year of adversity, Zombies, Run! will be launching new, beginner-friendly missions again in a 8-part story next week.

I’ve loved running with the app for more than a decade and I’m thrilled to see it starting up again under the leadership and ownership of its writer, Naomi Alderman.

If you haven’t experienced it yet, I can’t recommend Zombies, Run! highly enough. It has kept me running consistently for years.

How fitting that my paper cutter matches the HeroQuest character sheets I used it to cut out of card stock.

Here in Canada (and the U.S.) it’s Free Comic Book Day/Comics Giveaway Day. Your local comic shops are probably giving away free comics and having sales.

If your shops are like those here in Halifax, they’re run by people who love comics and games and provide important access to both in our communities. Stopping in today is a great way to discover comics and support the people who bring them to our communities.

Celestine and I stopped in for Free Comic Book Day at Monster Comic Lounge and Strange Adventures. She was happy with the comics she brought home and is excited to go again next year.

Mia Johnson is kickstarting Tallest Tower, a solo, D&D 5e-compatible adventure that can be played as a standalone experience without D&D knowledge. Her work on Lost in the Dark with Limitless Adventures made backing this project an easy choice.

She also released free stat blocks for two NPCs from the book to get a sense of her design approach.

How fitting that my paper cutter matches the HeroQuest character sheets I used it to cut out of card stock.

#HeroQuest

EDIT: Any nuggets of wisdom from 1980s RPG players are welcome. 😖

We just played #HeroQuest for the first time. Yours truly was Zargon and @CottonCandyandRazorblades was all 4 heroes. We played The Trial.

The Wizard, then the Elf, then the Dwarf and finally the Barbarian bought the farm. For the first quest, it seems really hard! What a bloodbath!

I'm really not sure what we did wrong. I think next time I'll make it a little easier because whoa.

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The fediverse was a welcome comfort this week in a world that continues to be full of disaster and disappointment.

Celestine received a bracelet kit for Easter and she wanted me to make one alongside her. The results weren’t as bad as I expected.

During a run through Point Pleasant Park this morning, I came across these yarn bombed trees.

Sunday afternoon Celestine asked to play a game and we settled on HeroQuest. We started off on the back foot with just a dwarf and an elf tackling The Trial, but Tonet eventually joined as a barbarian. It was Celestine’s second time playing my childhood favorite game, and I’m not sure she has been won over yet.

After watching his Fighting Fantasy history video, I looked through Jordan Sorcery’s other videos and found that he also did one on HeroQuest. It’s a snappy look at the phenomenon of the game and how it was created.

https://youtu.be/fwkLg750dgE?si=-QwNm8wUMzTrsB0k

I didn’t get a lot of exposure to Games Workshop growing up and never could bring myself to get sucked into the terrible commitments of Warhammer, but I’ve been surprised by how many formative gaming experiences I had were tied to that company. Fighting Fantasy was created by two of Games Workshop’s founders, Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone, and HeroQuest was co-developed by creators there and set in an altered version of the Warhammer world.

The past three days I’ve done some longer runs as I push myself to finish all of the alternative missions in Marvel Move and unlock everything before I lose access to it forever at the end of this month. It has felt good to extend my daily distance and I’d like to keep it up for as long as I can.

Poe released a short, experimental video a couple days ago. Her music and the community around it were such important parts of my life and it would be wonderful to have a third album after the 26 year drought since Haunted.

https://youtu.be/awphAurO2tA?si=6lcwz-6XhxMofMa6

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—No, está muy amuertada, que solo nos encontramos con zombies y esqueletos"

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After watching his Fighting Fantasy history video, I looked through Jordan Sorcery's other videos and found that he also did one on HeroQuest. It's a snappy look at the phenomenon of the game and how it was created.

https://youtu.be/fwkLg750dgE?si=-QwNm8wUMzTrsB0k

#HeroQuest

Sunday afternoon Celestine asked to play a game and we settled on HeroQuest. We started off on the back foot with just a dwarf and an elf tackling The Trial, but Tonet eventually joined as a barbarian. It was Celestine's second time playing my childhood favorite game, and I'm not sure she has been won over yet.

#HeroQuest