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title: Advanced Warhammer Quest – An Introduction
summary: Where we explore what's AWQ is about.
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  alt: A demon hovering over a tome in a ruined castle
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    Strakzul the Spiderdog guarding the Liber Macellarus in the ruins of Burg
        Bruchzahn; awaiting more meat for their grinder, as they care not from
        whence the gore flows as long as it's not their own.
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  publishDate: 2025-09-11T22:44:00.000Z
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  tags:
    - awq
    - what-and-how
  author: dave-damage
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In a nutshell »AWQ« (or »Advanced Warhammer Quest« is as my grandfather would say, a »bankert«. An ugly Frankensteinian monster, whose carcass is made up of games and ideas that came before, unsubtly stitched together by a crude hand prone to tremors.

It is a boardgame, a dungeon crawling one, where the gameplay loop is easy: Delve into a dungeon, kill some monsters, steal valuables, use that loot to become better and finance the next expedition. Or die trying…

## Influences

- Warhammer Fantasy Roleplaying Game
- Warhammer: The Old World Roleplaying Game
- Mordheim
- Advanced HeroQuest
- Advanced HeroQuest Reforged
- Warhammer Quest
- Torchbearer
- The Burning Wheel

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**Note:** This is a work in progress, an unedited stream of conciousness, unsorted, raw and full of possible contradictions.
