Create new adventures for the Barbarian, the Mage, the Elf and the Dwarf united against the Gargoyles, the Orcs, the Goblins and the forces of chaos!
HeroScribe is a quest/map editor. Every HeroQuest icon is included in HeroScribe.
HeroScribe's maps achieve typographic quality thanks to a vector representation of the maps objects.
HeroScribe is written in Java and PostScript.
HeroScribe's main output format is EPS, the de-facto standard in the printing industry.
EPS files can be opened by almost any CG application (GNU Ghostscript is recommended).
Maps can also be exported in PNG and PDF formats.
As an example, you can look at the european and the american PDF versions of Valerio's Aelle And Cullwych quest (please note that each PDF file is about 300 KB long). The PDFs were obtained by converting the EPS files produced by HeroScribe.
There are some JPEG files too: european God's Blade, american God's Blade, european Improved and american Improved. Please note that - to keep the size small - their quality is much lower than the quality of the actual HeroScribe output.
HeroScribe has native looking widgets on mac os x and windows; please have a look at some screenshots: macos x, windows classic and windows xp.
HeroScribe requires the Java Runtime Environment 8. Download it and install it before HeroScribe.
HeroScribe 1.0pre1 was released on December 25th 2004. This release adds some minor features (like multi-board maps).
There are two different download packages:
- HeroScribe_1.0pre1_Installer.exe (5.2 MB) is the windows installer (it's probably what you need if you don't understand what that means);
- HeroScribe_1.0pre1.zip (5.2 MB) should work on almost any operating system (it has been tested on GNU/Linux, MacOSX and windows).
HeroScribe is © 2003-2005 Flavio Chierichetti and Valerio Chierichetti.
HeroScribe is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL 2.
HeroQuest and the icons used by HeroScribe are © of Milton Bradley Co.
This program is not intended as a challenge to the rights of the Milton Bradley Co. in regard to HeroQuest©.
Sorry but someone's behaviour is forcing us to say what follows: these files are permitted to be hosted only here, on Ye Olde Inn and HeroQuest.Es; any copies of our work seen on any other site than those listed are placed there without our permission; this conduct reduces that web master Mind Points to zero.
We have recreated the actual letters drawn in various HeroQuest packs, and have also created some of them by following the original style; we have now collected them into a font.We're glad to present this worldwide exclusive: here's the long-awaited HeroQuest title font (version 0.5).
We'd like to thank fre3men, drathe, Biff and Dock for providing scans and hints.
For a list of other HeroQuest fonts, check the Fonts page.
Here's a PDF with the HeroQuest dice, ready to be printed; we have designed them in vector graphics.
Character Sheet (European version)
Character Sheet (American version)
