Finally I have obtained Legend Of Zagor. The 90s toy game you probably never played.

After Heroquest's succes other companies wanted in. That meant swords-n-sorcery themes with a focus on set dressing and props. This was Parker's take. The USP? A wizard that TALKS!

In classic prop game fashion the inside of the cover is also an assembly manual. Zagor has you building a stone rock and a bridge. Lots of plastic.

And if you follow the lead of Heroquest you must do minis...

Classically illustrated cards. Fantastic imagery.

Stat cards have a nice texture to them. Including a nice biker shirt skeleton. The Wizard is what kids today would call ‘a hot boy’.

These boards look very neat together.

Special mention goes out to the wicked big Zagor figure and the shopkeeper! I may even paint that one.

But Legend Of Zagor was not always a board game. It started as a fighting fantasy book series ghost-written by Carl Sargent. The boardgame uses much art from the book, Illustrated by Martin McKenna.

Artist mcKenna drew the shopkeeper after the writer on the bookcover, Ian Livingstone of Games Workshop fame, who also designed the boardgame. Making it perhaps the only boardgame where its designer is also featured as a mini?