Heritage Model's Paint and Play sets

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Caverns of Doom

Caverns - Area 1: Excavation Transfer is the twenty-fifth level of Doom 3. The player advances towards the primary excavation site, where the Hell portal is located. Level 1 contains the oldest, original Mars base. It is also the last level to have a fictional character PDA. 1 Walkthrough 2 PDAs 3 Characters 4 Enemies 5 Weapons/Items 6 Cabinet Codes 7 Trivia Step out of the lift, then retreat.

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1. Swords and Sorcery House Rules PDF available again 1 week ago Mythopoeic Rambling. Crypt of the Sorcerer/Caverns of Doom project. Wolf riders 2 weeks ago.
2. “Caverns of Doom is an adventure game played with miniature figures which simulate heroic fantasy combats between wizards, warriors, and monsters in a forgotten age. Here is a realistic game in which you lead a band of adventurers into the dungeons and caverns of a fearsome dragon, and you make the decisions which can mean life of death for.
3. Aug 14, 2009 A friend bought the Caverns of Doom. We collected the heritage figures, made additional rules and other maps. Then we played Stormbringer (based on the Elric series by M Moorcock) and some d&d. And the Hero system.

and Crypt of the Sorcerer were formative games in my introduction to the hobby. A friend of mine got Caverns of Doom the same Christmas I received the Moldvay Basic Set. A few years ago, I got interested in trying to track down copies of the games and while I did manage to locate the rules--alas, I don't own the actual miniatures that came with them. In the process of all this, I remembered seeing ads for other miniature sets Heritage produced like Merlin (which written written by Greg Stafford) and Knights of King Arthur. However, I also learned that Heritage had produced a more extensive miniatures rule set called Knights and Magick. Now I've always been interested in minis, but I didn't really own any until I started buying D&D Plastic minis a few years ago.
Despite this lack of real metal minis I became really intrigued by this little rule set. I realized that I really wanted to check it out, but sets of this game were pretty pricey on the secondary market. One of the issues surrounding the game was figuring out who actually owned the Knights and Magick IP. Heritage Models went into bankruptcy in the mid 1980s, and their miniature lines were sold off to a number of companies (including Reaper). Apparently, what happened is that Heritage didn't bother to sell the rights to the rules of Knights and Magick to anybody! That means that the only people who could claim rights to the game was Heritage Models, and they no longer existed as an entity.
Enter the guys over at the Gaming Gang podcast who spent some time talking to Heritage's former IP holders and asking them if they minded if they went ahead and made the Knights and Magick rules available again. Nobody seemed to care, so they've taken the plunge.
So Knight and Magick is now available as a PDF for $12.95. They also have physical copies available from Lulu. Moreover, they're planning on producing a new edition of the game later this year!
Check out their pages:
http://thegaminggang.com/2013/01/knights-and-magick-classic-miniatures-rule-set-back-in-print-here-at-tgg/
and here:
http://thegaminggang.com/2013/02/knights-and-magick-now-available-as-sofcover-hardcover-or-coil-bound-books/

I was already a fairly experienced D&D gamer by the time I encountered the Heritage Dungeon Dwellers series of miniatures and game sets in the early 1980s. Aside from playing creative games and campaigns dripping with swords, sorcery and all things creepy and crawly in the underworld of our imaginations, my brother and I were quickly filling up our free time with miniature painting. If it was tiny, cast in lead and even mildly gruesome, chances were it was on our radar.

We were already pretty familiar with Ral Partha’s growing line of D&D lead miniatures picked up at our local five-and-dime, bookstore and hobby shops in Rochester, NY when we encountered Dungeon Dwellers. At the time, we had no idea Heritage was producing boxed sets and blister packs of figures similar to Ral Partha. What we did know was that holding these two green Dungeon Dwellers boxed sets in our hands was clearly something different.

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Unlike the sets of miniatures from Ral Partha and other suppliers of the time, Heritage Dungeon Dwellers offered two all-in-one model and gaming sets. Each box contained a number of monster and adventurer figures, paints and a simplified self-contained game with rules and a map. This off-the-shelf game was an easy and rare counterpoint to the expansive D&D universe of the era. Each set — “Caverns of Doom” and “Crypt of the Sorcerer” — read like a D&D module with a defined scenario in which to play. The models were animated, unique and somewhat more appealing than some of the widely-available Ral Partha lines. I particularly recall the multi-piece winged dragon from “Caverns of Doom” and the fire-casting wizard from “Crypt of the Sorcerer” as being favorites.

Despite the limited replay value on the surface, these two sets got a lot of outsized-use when I was a kid. Thinking back, they combined the best aspects of board, miniatures and role-playing games, plus they allowed us to cut our chops on our painting skills. Serious gamers of the time probably dismissed these sets as pandering to the growing fantasy gaming fad of the day, but for a growing gamer in the early 1980s, Heritage Dungeon Dwellers really made an impression.

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Collector’s Note: The Dungeon Dwellers boxed sets are exceedingly hard to come by, but miniatures sets and individual figures are readily available on eBay for just a few dollars for an individual figure up to well over $100 for sets.