Dragon Strike (1993)

After Milton Bradley and Games Workshop had good success with Hero Quest, Which can arguably be described as "Advance" Dungeon (by TSR) or a very simple version of Dungeons & Dragons (or "D&D the Boardgame"). It also is not too surprising that one of the companies that published a Hero Quest clone was TSR.

Dragon Strike has almost identical game play as Hero Quest: One player acts as the "Dragon Master" (i.e., the DM) and controls the placement, movement, and action of the villains. The rest of the players control one of five different hero types (Warrior, Wizard, Thief, Elf, or Dwarf) and attempt to complete various adventure goals. Dragon Strike takes the Hero Quest game play and goes a step further in a few directions: 1) The Wizard and Elf have more spells at their disposal and a greater variety to choose from, 2) Dragon Strike comes with 4 different game boards (vs. Hero Quest's single board), one of which is outdoors, 3) a slightly more advanced combat system which uses different polyhedral dice (instead of all six-siders) and has concepts like flying creatures which can only be hit with spells and missile weapons, and 4) a (cheezy) 30 minute VHS video tape which introduces players to the game and sets the "mood" for playing.

Unlike Hero Quest which was successful enough to spawn four expansions (six in Europe) and two sequels (Advanced Hero Quest and Warhammer Quest), Dragon Strike did not go any further than the base game.

Contents:

• VHS video cassette (not necessary for game play)
• 2 double-sided game boards
• Instruction book
• Adventure book
• Map book
• 6 Hero cards
  • warrior
  • wizard
  • male thief
  • female thief
  • elf
  • dwarf
• 110 playing cards
  • 30 Hero spell cards
    • 2 charm
    • 2 cure light wounds
    • 2 darkness
    • 2 detect invisibility
    • 1 dimension door
    • 1 dispel magic
    • 1 fireball
    • 1 fly
    • 1 haste
    • 2 knock
    • 2 invisibility
    • 2 levitate
    • 1 lightning bolt
    • 2 magic missile
    • 2 shield
    • 2 shocking grasp
    • 2 sleep
    • 2 web
  • 10 Teraptus spell cards
    • cancellation
    • dimension door
    • dispel magic
    • fly
    • ice storm
    • lightning bolt
    • stoneskin
    • teleport
    • true seeing
    • vampiric touch
  • 38 magical treasure cards
    • 1 boots of speed
    • 1 crystal ball
    • 1 elven boots
    • 1 elven cloak
    • 1 gauntlets of ogre power
    • 1 magic battle-axe
    • 1 magic bow
    • 1 magic chain mail
    • 1 magic dagger
    • 1 magic shield
    • 1 magic sword
    • 1 throwing hammer
    • 1 plate mail
    • 1 potion of fire resistance
    • 1 potion of flying
    • 1 potion of giant strength
    • 4 potion of healing
    • 1 potion of invisibility
    • 1 potion of invulnerability
    • 1 potion of levitation
    • 1 ring of fire resistance
    • 1 ring of free action
    • 1 ring of protection
    • 1 ring of seeing
    • 1 ring of spell storing
    • 1 ring of spell turning
    • 1 rope of climbing
    • 1 scroll of spells
    • 1 wand of cold
    • 1 wand of fear
    • 1 wand of fire
    • 1 wand of lightning
    • 1 wand of magic missiles
    • 1 wand of paralyzation
    • 1 wondrous plate mail
  • 12 trap cards
    • blade trap
    • broken trap
    • disarmed trap
    • electrical trap
    • falling rock trap
    • jaws-of-death trap
    • pit trap
    • poison gas trap
    • rope trap
    • rusty trap
    • sleeping gas trap
    • spear trap
  • 10 monster cards
    • dragon
    • evil wizard
    • manscorpion
    • fire elemental
    • troll
    • orc
    • bugbear
    • giant
    • gargoyle
    • death knight
  • 5 sneak attack cards (all the same)
  • 5 reference cards
    • warrior
    • wizard
    • thief
    • elf
    • dwarf
• 24 plastic figures
  • 6 Heroes
  • 1 dragon (Darkfyre)
  • 1 evil wizard (Teraptus)
  • 1 manscorpion
  • 1 fire elemental
  • 1 troll
  • 3 orcs
  • 4 bugbears
  • 1 giant
  • 2 gargoyles
  • 3 death knights
• DRAGON MASTER™ screen
• 24 plastic clips
• 22 plastic bases
  • 12 small
  • 10 large
• 43 cardboard markers (doors, treasure, etc)
  • 10 doors
  • 1 carriage
  • 4 wings
  • 2 darkness
  • 3 scepter pieces
  • 2 charmed (bullseyes)
  • 1 puddle
  • 1 campfire
  • 2 webbed
  • 1 hourglass
  • 4 chests
  • 2 invisible
  • 1 pit/ rockslide
  • 3 tunnels
  • 1 seal/ flute
  • 5 fires (2 have water on the back, 1 grass, 2 whitish air wisp?)
• 3 dice
  • 1 blue d8
  • 1 white d10
  • 1 black d12