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The Top 5 Rides at Glenwood Caverns: #4 Haunted Mine Drop (Soaring Eagle Drop Tower)- The world’s only underground drop tower is a highly themed drops riders 120 feet into a mine shaft. Throughout the queue line riders are told the story of a corrupt corporation that is sneakily sending workers to their doom in the haunted mine. Video disks are short videos that can be found and downloaded to the Player's PDA throughout the course of both Doom 3 and Resurrection of Evil. Most of these videos contain trivial background information (or propaganda) about the UAC and the Mars Base, but some contain important clues or information relevant to the plot.

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Aldroud	20 Mar 2020 7:13 p.m. PST
This was one of my gateway products into miniatures and role playing. As a father, I want to share that experience with my kids. To that end, does anyone know where I can find either a box set or copy of the rules/maps? Still have most of the miniatures, have kept them in display case all these years but would love getting more so kids can practice painting.
DisasterWargamer	20 Mar 2020 7:49 p.m. PST
The scan of the map is about mid-page here along with its companion map at the top
dilettante	20 Mar 2020 8:06 p.m. PST
ninthdoc	21 Mar 2020 10:32 a.m. PST
The fact that I had no idea that this ever existed is not surprising. I looked at the logo and immediately recognized it from something else. Reaper Miniatures used the exact same logo a year or two ago for their monthly promo miniatures. I'm guessing because it's now open domain?
Aldroud	23 Mar 2020 6:29 p.m. PST
Found some minis on Ebay and the map helps, thank you. Anyone know where I can find the rules?

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The late 1970’s really hold some great memories for me in regards to toys and hobbies and just generally having a hell of a good time as a child. That was a time of “Star Wars”, dirt bikes, Dungeons and Dragons, the Terran Trade Authority handbooks, skateboards that were half the size of the boards today and … Heritage USA’s “Paint ‘n’ Play” sets.

I remember going to my local hobby shop one cool Saturday morning (probably the fall of 1980) and I found a whole lot of D&D type games that weren’t D&D nor did TSR produce them. These were different … they were boxed and shrink wrapped, they had what looked like dioramas on the front of the boxes and small painted miniature figures in a variety of poses. Picking up one of the boxes and looking at it closer, I discovered my first tabletop war game … it was Heritage USA’s war gaming set for “The Lord of the Rings” and the miniatures came in an attractively packaged tan box with some fantastic artwork on the front, a picture of a game in progress, and on the back there were the included characters / miniatures and their in-game stats and abilities.

I looked at the shelf in front of me and suddenly I realized that there were a whole lot more of these games … Heritage USA had really been cooking these games out and not only fantasy but there were World War II miniatures games as well with tanks, MG teams, and infantry. I had just discovered a new hobby and another source of endless fun.

Before this, the only “miniatures” that I had played with were my green army men and Kenner’s “Star Wars” action figures. These miniatures were much smaller and detailed than anything that I’d played with before and my imagination was hooked. That’s when I bought my first tabletop war gaming set, if you want to call it that … it was Heritage USA’s “Crypt of the Sorcerer” and it was part of their D&D inspired “Dungeon Dwellers” series.

The set was simple enough, it came with eight figures, four “good” and four “bad” characters. Included in the game was an evil sorcerer (casting a fireball), a skeleton warrior, a big troll with an ax, an orc in armor with a bow and arrow, a good sorcerer (with staff and hat and looking a lot like Gandalf), a warrior (in chain and plate armor, with ax and shield), a dwarf (with ax) and a Halfling (which was really just a Hobbit with a bow).

From top left, going clockwise we have the Orc, Troll, Wizard, Evil Sorcerer, Fighter, Skeleton Warrior, Dwarf and Halfling. The game was played on a simple, gray scale map, 8.5” x 11”, and divided into squares for game play and movement determination.

Each piece had certain stats … movement, attack, defense, etc, not more than a handful of information to keep up with and something that today could have been put on a sticky note and kept track of. The back of the Crypt of the Sorcerer box held not only the statistics on what each figure could do but the painting guide as well …

The Fighter, painting guide and game statistics / abilities

In a game play that was somewhat similar to Monopoly, players picked one of the “good” characters, wrote down their stats and abilities, and moved the character a certain number of squares on the map each turn. If the square held a trap or a treasure, a die was rolled to determine the outcome of the encounter. Sometimes wandering monsters would appear and have to be dealt with and eventually, if the player’s character survived, they would arrive at the long dead sorcerer’s crypt, fight a final battle against the evil sorcerer and revel in their reward of treasure if they were successful.

The Evil Sorcerer, painting guide and game statistics / abilities

Of course, characters could “advance” by acquiring gold and treasure and magical weapons but there was really no deeper role playing than that involved in these “Paint ‘N’ Play” type games where a few rules served as the starting point for your imagination to take over.

The Heritage USA Dungeon Dwellers series came in two versions, the starter / entry level “Crypt of the Sorcerer” (with 8 figures) and the larger, deluxe “Caverns of Doom” (which had over twice that many figures including a dragon … a freaking dragon!). Each of these games could serve as a standalone game in and of itself but they could also link together to form a much larger game … in fact, if you look at the map for “Crypt of the Sorcerer” you’ll see that in the middle is a r