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Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes of the Lance

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Genres
Role-playing (RPG)Adventure
Themes
ActionFantasy
Modes
Single player
Perspective
Side view
Developers
U.S. Gold, U.S. Gold
Publishers
U.S. Gold, Pony Canyon, FCI, Strategic Simulations
Release dates
Platform Date
Amiga December 31, 1988
Amstrad CPC December 31, 1988
Atari ST/STE December 31, 1988
ZX Spectrum December 31, 1988
Commodore C64/128/MAX December 31, 1989
DOS December 31, 1989
FM Towns June 01, 1990
Nintendo Entertainment System January 01, 1991
Family Computer March 08, 1991
MSX December 31, 1991
Sega Master System/Mark III December 31, 1991

About

Heroes of the Lance is a side-scrolling action game. The game used actual Dungeons & Dragons statistics, with statistics for the characters exactly as they were in the rule books. Eight heroes from the Dragonlance novels series must be assembled for the quest, and only one is visible on the screen at a time; when one on-screen hero dies, the next in line appears.

Story

The game is based on the first Dragonlance campaign module for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, Dragons of Despair, and the first Dragonlance novel Dragons of Autumn Twilight. Heroes of the Lance focuses on the journey of eight heroes through the ruined city of Xak Tsaroth, where they must face the ancient dragon Khisanth and retrieve the relic, the Disks of Mishakal.

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