Category:The Bard's Tale

The Bard's Tale is a series of dungeon crawls heavily based on .

Original series
The games share an almost identical character creation and interface, and an absolutely identical combat mode with. Notable differences are: (1) the introduction of the bard class, with a "bard song" ability; (2) the surface is an actual city to be explored, instead of a simple menu screen (it becomes an extensive world in later titles); (3) there is more than one dungeon.

In the original series, characters could be transfered from one title to the next, including Dragon Wars.

Later titles

 * Dragon Wars was supposed to be "The Bard's Tale IV", but the title was changed very late during the production.
 * Swords and Serpents was developed by the same authors of The Bard's Tale III and Dragon Wars; it is a clone of, even more than The Bard's Tale 1; it has the peculiarity of being a computer-style role-playing game that was released for consolle only.
 * The Bard's Tale Construction Set is a program to create dungeons; it also includes a playable scenario titled Star Light Festival.
 * The Bard's Tale (2004) features a completely different gameplay from the rest of the series.
 * The Mage's Tale is a game developed for virtual reality headset.
 * The Bard's Tale IV started development after a 25-years-long pause in the series.