Retro RPG: Heroquest
HeroQuest, sometimes written as Hero Quest, is an adventure board game created by Milton Bradley in conjunction with the British company Games Workshop. The game was loosely based around archetypes of fantasy role-playing games: the game itself was actually a game system, allowing the gamemaster (called "Zargon" in the United States and Canada, and "Morcar" in other territories) to create dungeons of their own design using the provided game board, tiles, furnishings and figures. The game manual describes Zargon/Morcar as a former apprentice of Mentor, and the parchment text is read aloud from Mentor's perspective.
Several expansions were released, each adding new tiles, traps, artifacts, and monsters to the core system.