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Summary

Dragons of Flame, the arcade‑style sequel to Heroes of the Lance, sticks to the side‑scrolling beat‑em‑up formula that made its predecessor a cult hit. You control one character at a time as you hack through hordes of monsters, and despite the game’s roots in a printed AD&D module, the RPG elements stay minimal. The title managed to sell just over 55,000 copies, and reviewers noted that even with a roster expanded to ten playable heroes, the core hack‑and‑slash feel never really changed.

The Atari ST version earned a respectable 73% from ST Action, which praised its friendly menu layout, varied monster designs and solid graphics that felt more challenging than Heroes of the Lance. A later Famicom release in 1992, developed by Atelier Double and published by Pony Canyon, kept the same gameplay while remaining a Japan‑only offering, and its storyline would eventually be continued in the very different Shadow Sorcerer.

Storyline

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons – Dragons of Flame (often just called Dragons of Flame) follows the second half of the Dragonlance saga, pulling directly from the second AD&D campaign module of the same name and the latter portion of the novel *Dragons of Autumn Twilight*. The game’s plot stays true to those sources, delivering a faithful recreation of the book’s events.

In the game the dragon‑men have seized the outpost of Solace, leaving its once‑bright tree‑house village blackened and shattered among the stumps of great Vallenwood trunks. Kapak draconians, wielding poisoned weapons, impose a brutal martial law on the surviving townsfolk.

Solace is only one foothold; the dragonarmies dominate the surrounding plains. The elven kingdom of Qualinesti remains the sole unconquered realm, while the rest of the plainspeople are forced into a slave caravan that drags hundreds to the grim fortress prison of Pax Tharkas.