Heroes & Monsters

YOUR HEROES. YOUR CHOICES. A WORLD THAT REMEMBERS.

Heroes & Monsters is a cooperative fantasy board game for 1–4 players, combining physical exploration, tactical combat, and an evolving narrative campaign with an integrated digital app.

Gather your company, step into a world of danger and discovery, and face challenges that demand more than brute force.

Your heroes fight together, grow stronger, and make decisions whose consequences can reach far beyond a single adventure.

A REAL ADVENTURE ON YOUR TABLE

Explore illustrated physical maps, position your heroes and enemies, and roll real dice to determine the outcome of your attacks.

Every movement matters. Your positioning, your abilities, and the way you coordinate with your companions can make the difference between victory and defeat.

The battlefield is not just a backdrop. It is where your adventure happens.

Images show the handmade prototype and development app. Photographs have been adjusted and their backgrounds replaced in post-production; components and artwork remain in development.

Physical figures and real dice on the prototype board.

ENEMIES THAT CHALLENGE YOUR STRATEGY

Not every monster fights the same way.

Different creatures are designed to pursue, reposition, control the battlefield, or disrupt your company's plans.

Surviving an encounter means understanding the threat, adapting your tactics, and making the most of your heroes' strengths.

The challenges evolve as your company grows.

THE APP BRINGS THE WORLD TO LIFE

The integrated app guides the unfolding narrative, coordinates enemy behavior, manages numerous game procedures, and remembers the state of your campaign.

When events change the battlefield, the app guides you in updating the physical board.

The app is your guide to the campaign, while the adventure remains firmly on the table.

Your decisions, your positioning, your teamwork, and your dice remain at the heart of the experience.

A CAMPAIGN THAT REMEMBERS

Choose your heroes from six distinct families, each bringing its own identity and abilities to the company.

Grow together through shared narrative milestones, develop new capabilities, and prepare for increasingly demanding challenges.

Your choices can influence characters, events, and opportunities as the story unfolds.

Between adventures, return to the Crossroads to regroup, prepare, and discover what awaits your company next.

FROM PROTOTYPE TO A PROFESSIONAL BOARD GAME

Heroes & Monsters is currently being developed through a handmade physical prototype and an evolving digital application.

Our goal is to bring this experience to life as a professionally produced board game, combining the tangible appeal of tabletop gaming with the possibilities of an integrated digital system.

HOW YOUR ADVENTURE UNFOLDS

Choose a company of 2–4 heroes from different families and share control among 1–4 players, or lead them all yourself. Set out the scenario map and discover what brings your company to this place.

Will you investigate another corner of the map or press on toward your objective? Instability rises as tactical rounds pass, making time part of the decision. Another discovery may be worth the risk, but your company must decide how far to push.

An overhead view of the prototype map.

TACTICS YOU CAN SEE. DICE YOU CAN ROLL.

A trapped companion demands a different response from a creature that scatters your formation. Adapt to the threat: consider connected sections, range and line of sight before committing your hero.

When the app calls for a physical roll, take the dice it indicates, roll them on the table and report the requested outcome using the on-screen controls.

WHAT THE APP DOES AT THE TABLE

Keep your attention on the adventure while the app guides the narrative, resolves events and game procedures, directs monster behavior and remembers your campaign. Consult your hero’s abilities, health and inventory when you need them.

If a creature appears or an obstacle is revealed, the app tells you how to update the physical board.

The Labyrinth interface in the companion app, shown in Italian.

The Labyrinth board with figures, dice and hero sheets.

Physical board and app interface shown independently; matching tactical positions have not been verified.

App and connectivity

The app is your guide to the adventure.

The current app requires an Internet connection. Offline play is not currently supported.

Supported devices, commercial access arrangements and service conditions are still being defined.

ONE COMPANY. A SHARED JOURNEY.

A character’s fate can change later conversations, available services or opportunities. Your choices become part of the adventure you share.

Three hero reference sheets, shown in Italian.

Your heroes advance together through narrative milestones. Each level brings a characteristic point to assign and a new ability, giving you fresh ways to shape your hero’s role.

The Crossroads board, a character figure and gems.

A COMPLETE ADVENTURE TO DISCOVER TOGETHER

Our ambition is a complete four-Act fantasy campaign, where your company faces changing threats, makes meaningful choices and lives with the consequences. The first edition is being developed to include the whole main story, with no expansion needed to reach its conclusion.

Development status

The first Act has been developed. Work continues on the remaining campaign, software validation, full playtesting, localization and production preparation.

THE PLANNED CORE GAME

The first edition of Heroes & Monsters is being developed around the complete four-Act main campaign, with the physical components needed to follow the story to its conclusion. No expansion is intended to be required to finish that main story.

Ten rigid, flat, non-folding main boards, each illustrated on both sides with day and night versions of the same setting, and a separate, smaller Crossroads board are planned for the complete edition. They give your company places to explore and fight, and somewhere to return between adventures. The number of maps does not determine the number of scenarios.

YOUR ADVENTURE ON THE TABLE

Heroes and monsters are planned to take their place on the battlefield as professionally produced illustrated standees, with original artwork created specifically for Heroes & Monsters. Double-sided figures on stable, reusable bases are the planned production format, with recognizable characters and creatures that keep the tactical map easy to read.

Reference sheets introduce the six hero families. Physical D6, D8, D10, D12 and D20 dice are part of the planned set; the number of each is still being determined. Scenario and status markers, gems and environmental components represent the changing battlefield. Physical representations are also planned for traps, scenario characters and mission objects that your company must avoid, reach, carry or protect.

WHAT EXISTS TODAY

The author’s handmade prototype already includes ten main reference maps, the separate Crossroads board, temporary hero and monster standees, dice, six hero reference sheets, scenario and negative-status markers, and gems. These development components are distinct from the final commercial edition. The prototype character depictions are not being adopted as the final commercial artwork.

WHAT IS PLANNED FOR PRODUCTION

Original standee illustrations, die-cut shapes and suitable supports and bases still need to be developed and validated for manufacturing. Dedicated Supply and Resource tokens are also planned. Supply pieces for the prototype are still being prepared; the new physical Resource tokens have not yet been made.

The app holds hero abilities and inventories, guides the campaign and manages many procedures. Hero abilities are consulted in the app; a physical ability-card deck is not part of the current design. Commercial access conditions remain to be defined.

The full campaign is still in development. The physical specification has been defined for supplier quotations; final artwork, manufacturing details and any remaining component quantities still need to be validated before production.

MEET THE CREATOR

I’m Lorenzo Bolognini, the creator of Heroes & Monsters.

My aim is to give players a fantasy adventure they can explore together on the table, with different heroes, tactical encounters and choices whose consequences stay with the company.

I’m developing that vision through a handmade physical prototype and a working companion app. The maps, figures and dice put the adventure in front of you; the app carries the narrative and helps manage the campaign.

I want the first edition to offer a complete main story to discover from beginning to end. Completing and testing that campaign, preparing its Italian and English localization and developing the professional components are the next steps.