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Dragon Strike (Tabletop Game)
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Dragon Strike was an Adventure Board Game published in 1993 by TSR, Inc. to serve as an introduction for players new to Role Playing Games. The game featured a large number of pre-made adventures, simplified rules, pre-made characters and other features to help new players get accustomed to the genre. One of the most notable mechanics of the game was that it used cards to randomize traps and loot meaning that even when replaying old adventures the traps and treasure would always change. Despite how simplified the game was, it was actually rather fun to play.That being said, that is not what this game is known for.The game also included a VHS containing a thirty-minute So Bad, It's Good short film made to be a visual representation on how to play the game. The plot of the video is about a group of unseen players sitting down to play DragonStrike with an overly-enthusiastic (and Hammy) DM who is represented by a floating head in the darkness. In the game, the players are a group of adventurers who are sent on a quest to stop an evil wizard who has put a curse of eternal night onto the land. Ironically, the VHS is actually better known than the game that it came with. You can watch the movie on YouTube here. A sequel to the storyline, the book Forest of Darkness, was released as part of a revival of the Endless Quest series, and the characters from the tutorial vid showed up in a few other books in the new series besides.A sequel based on Spelljammer was partially developed and the video for it shot, but was never released, though it was at least used as the basis for the Gamebook A Wild Ride. You can see the trailer for the sequel here. | |
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Dirty Coward | |
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Dirty Coward: King Halvor II makes a big show of standing up to Lord Fear when he crashes his banquet, but once it becomes clear that Lord Fear isn't backing down he reveals his throne slides back through a secret door and takes him (and, presumably, his queen) out of harm's way. | |
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A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing | |
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A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: The jester is the Big Bad in disguise. | |
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Never Split the Party | |
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In the previous scene The Thief's player suggests it to the Dragon Master, who heavily implies you should Never Split the Party. | |
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Our Orcs Are Different | |
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Our Orcs Are Different: And apparently "mentally retarded, harmless Manchild" is their race's Hat, if the VHS is to be believed. | |
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No Entrance | |
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No Entrance: The heroes come across a dwarf imprisoned in Terraptus's fortress. Agreeing to release the fellow, the Wizard asks where the door to the cell is, prompting this delicious response: | |
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Evil Sorcerer | |
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Evil Sorcerer: Teraptus, the Big Bad of the game determined to plunge the kingdom (if not the world) into The Night That Never Ends. | |
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Eternally Pearly-White Teeth | |
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Eternally Pearly-White Teeth: Everyone in the kingdom that shows them seems to have good teeth, even the undead (though The Wizard seems to have the uncanny ability to hide most of his in close-ups). The Warrior and The Manscorpion tie for the pearliest of whites. | |
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Troll Bridge | |
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Troll Bridge: In one adventure there is a Giant who refuses to let the Player Characters pass over his bridge unless they give him an item. | |
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Meaningful Background Event | |
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Meaningful Background Event: As the Wizard is fleeing Teraptus' castle, a bolt of lightning reveals the Elf watching from cover behind a nearby tree. | |
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The Smurfette Principle | |
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The Smurfette Principle: Out of all of the playable characters, only one of them is female. It's incidentally also the only class with two characters, just in case somebody wants to play a male thief. | |
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Nintendo Hard | |
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Nintendo Hard: Ironically, for a game meant to be played by novice players it can be rather easy to die due to some adventures having outright malicious trap and enemy placement. | |
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Revive Kills Zombie | |
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Revive Kills Zombie: The Cleric (not a playable character in the actual game) uses his magical healing abilities on a death knight and Big Bad Teraptus to defeat both. | |
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Let's Split Up, Gang! | |
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Let's Split Up, Gang!: Shortly after the party infiltrates Teraptus' castle. In the previous scene The Thief's player suggests it to the Dragon Master, who heavily implies you should Never Split the Party. | |
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The Night That Never Ends | |
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The Night That Never Ends: The Sunstone absorbs all daylight, plunging the kingdom into eternal darkness. | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: The Dragon Master and the evil wizard Teraptus. In the Dragon Masters Only afterward, the DM explains how it's integral to the role. | |
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Our Liches Are Different | |
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Our Liches Are Different: Teraptus; the Cleric's healing magic kills him, revealing that he was undead. | |
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Dynamic Entry | |
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Dynamic Entry: The Elf isn't invited to the human banquet, showing up only after Lord Fear crashes the party. He gets his first kill before even appearing on camera, spearing several arrows into the back of a Death Knight making a lunge for the King after he emerges from his refuge. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: The Thief. | |
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Hint Dropping | |
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Hint Dropping: The Dragon Master gives a major clue to the wolf in sheep's clothing when the jester returns the wand the Wizard left behind in Teraptus' castle. Afterwards, when he needs to use it to cast magic missile, it boomerangs back in his direction. The player still doesn't catch on that the jester probably tampered with it, complaining he has a "defective wand." | |
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Dungeon Crawling | |
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Dungeon Crawling: What the Player Characters spend most of their time doing in the VHS, and by extenuation this applies to the actual game too. | |
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Healing Potion | |
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Healing Potion: One of the possible (and very useful) treasures that a player can get. | |
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Forced Transformation | |
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Forced Transformation: In one of the adventures, there is an Orc NPC that is actually a human who was turned into an Orc. | |
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Cutting the Knot | |
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Cutting the Knot: The Thief climbs the outer castle wall, stopping below the parapet to ask The Elf what the guard at the top (arguing with an owl) is. He identifies the guard as an Owl Bear, suggesting she should flatter him. The Thief shouts "Hey, handsome!" before throwing up her whip to wrap it around the guard's neck and pull him over the edge. The guard plummets to his death, and she climbs the rest of the way unmolested. She later smashes a locked door open with The Warrior's head after he insults her lock picking skills. | |
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Redshirt Army | |
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Red Shirt Army: King Halvor II's guards are absolutely useless when it comes to fighting Death Knights; every single one is slaughtered in a matter of minutes. | |
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" | |
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" / Race-Name Basis: Teraptus, Lord Fear, Green Thorn, and King Halvor II are the only named characters. Everyone else is addressed by their occupation or race (Wizard, Thief, Warrior, Cleric, Jester, Guard, Death Knight, and Dwarf). We don't learn Green Thorn the Elf's name until near the end, so until then his companions simply call him "Elf." For what it's worth the heroes were given names when they were featured prominently in books in the 90's version of the Endless Quest series; Forest of Darkness is a direct sequel to the story on the tape. | |
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Friend to All Living Things | |
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Friend to All Living Things: Green Thorn. | |
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The Power of Friendship | |
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The Power of Friendship: How the Player Characters ultimately defeat the Wizard. | |
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