Description
STORY
You play one of the 3 (three) "evil" wizards all competing to find the magical talisman. To do so, you must hatch, raise and breed dragons! And use them to spread terror and power across the land! Use your dragons and spells to conquer or help numerous villages and cities across the land while devastating the other wizards while your at it.
GAMEPLAY
Dragon Lord introduces different levels of gameplay, which may be categorized as the following:
Alchemy
Dragon Lord introduces an extremely complex process of Alchemy. Different ingredients have positive and negative results in combination of different types of Magick equipment used for it. Use Alchemy to strengthen (or even weaken) your beloved dragons or use them to cast spells at surrounding villages and cities (as well as some alchemical spells for your own benefit). Creating a too powerful spell in the Magick Laboratory may introduce an unpleasant explosion in your lab. Ingredients may be obtained through villager tribute or purchase from travelling merchants.
Note: The game is almost impossible to play without the Alchemical Table of Ingredients.
Dragon Breeding
You can breed several individual dragons in your castle. Each require nurturing and patience before they can hatch. Even more so after they hatch! Use alchemy spells to help strengthen the dragon eggs (or they may not hatch at all!).
Dragon Missions and Political Map
This feature gives you a top-down perspective of the political map around the land. Send your dragons to wreck havoc and terror to the surrounding villages and cities, or use them to explore the region and even protect villages and cities from enemy dragons! This is also where you can control the taxation of villages and cities (under your control) as well as any other information regarding them.
Dragon Combat!
Though optional, you may enter manual combat (as to automatic combat) and enter a top-down, side-scrolling (vertical) arcade combat when attacking villages or cities. Here you basically use your dragon to burn anything that remotely looks like a structure.
Note: If there is an enemy dragon near the area, the enemy dragon will come to the defense of that village or city!
Alternate Titles
- "Dragon's Breath" -- Original European release title
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Trivia
This game featured an amazingly detailed chemistry chart that allowed to players to actually design spells and potions based on the predicted interactions of mixed reagents. (Editor's note: Mastery of the chemistry system was essentiall for creating more powerful dragons, but worked in predictable ways and was fun to learn. This excused the somewhat high learning curve necessary to play the game.)
