The Bard's Lore: The Warrior & The Dragon

published by unknown in 1998, running on MS-DOS

type: role-play, turn-based
genre: Fantasy, Dungeon Crawler
perspective: 1st person
player options: single player

game engine: The Bard's Tale engine
other: Shareware
languages: eng

Technical specs

software: The Bard's Tale engine,

hardware: Color Graphics Adapter, Enhanced Graphics Adapter, Tandy Graphics Adapter, Video Graphics Array, Keyboard, Mouse, AdLib SPU, Roland LAPC-I, Roland MT-32 SPU, PC speaker SPU, Sound Blaster SPU, Sound Blaster Pro SPU,

display: raster

Editor note

The free full game can be downloaded, played and shared. The author sold real manuals, cluebooks, spellbook, and maps. Eventually the extra materials became free in digital downloads. The author declared "THE BARD'S LORE is now completely freeware, as of this date (Mars 2002)". However, he means pay-what-you-want a with $0 minimum and a $1 minimum if you choose to pay. "If you really like the game, you can of course deposit the former amount at $10 to my bank account. 1 dollar would be great but thanks to banking fees I cant go any lower.. =/
So if you feel up to it (i.e you liked the game enough to contribute to the maker)"
And his Swiss bank account information is in the documentation.

This used a patched version of The Bard's Tale Construction Set to provide variations and improvements on the original and allowed the author to create a unique adventure.