Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes of the Lance
1988 · U.S. Gold and Strategic Simulations
Source book
- Dragons of Autumn Twilight — Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
A 1988 brawler wearing the first Dragonlance novel.
Platforms
MS-DOS, Amiga, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, NES, Master System, MSX2, FM Towns, PC-88, PC-98
Fidelity
Released in 1988 across home computers, and on the NES in 1991. Wikipedia bases it on the module Dragons of Despair and the novel Dragons of Autumn Twilight. U.S. Gold and Strategic Simulations split the ports.
Read first?
01
When to read first
Read the novel if you want the companions' story. The game is a combat tour of that quest, not a telling of it.
02
When playing first is fine
Play first only as a difficult old action game. You will meet the shape of the quest without the book that makes the party matter.
03
Why
The license is the novel. The play is not. Reading first is how the names on the character select mean anything.
Source
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Dungeons_%26_Dragons:_Heroes_of_the_Lance
The call above is an editorial reading of that public page. If the page and this note disagree, believe the page.
