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Line Art by: Uhhhhh



Heroes of the Lance FAQ Walkthrough 
By: Dyson Turner
E-Mail: Dycemurder@aol.com
Ver: 1.5
Date: 9/10/00


Table Of Contents
1. Updates
2. Introduction and Review
3. General Game Controls
4. Status Screen
5A.  Clerical Magic Spells
5B.  Magic User Spells
6. Walkthrough 
7. FAQ
8. Copy Rights

1. Updates

9/10/00 Thanks to Dr. Strange he gave me some info on the that I found useful 
and interesting.

9/1/00 Changed my name and e-mail

7/18/00- Walkthrough Complete.

7/13/00- Created FAQ

2. Introduction & Review


Well many would wonder why any body would want to play this game or write a FAQ 
on it. Well I actually liked and found it to be a fun game. I answer all the 
questions that plague mankind for centuries. How do I kill the damn midgets, 
Dragons? Well all these questions and more will be answered.

Well, I actually enjoyed Heroes of the Lance. Yes, I know this may sound 
impossible to many people out there. I kind of like the graphics that played 
during the opening scenes, the game graphics were nice too. The music that 
played was catchy even though it did tend to get annoying after a while. The 
controls I have to admit are a bit clunky and sluggish, but when you got use to 
them they weren't too bad. My first impression was why do people think this is 
bad? I liked the opening theme, and how the characters looked, even though I 
didn't know what to do at first. I learned after a while and got my bearings and 
went on my way. When you start playing this game, you and actually figure out 
where to go, how to kill Dwarves, and slay dragons it isn't half-bad. I feel 
many people out there, who hate this game, didn't give it a chance or even tried 
it pass the first few screens. Well many people including me do not know the 
story of this game, you are supposed to find some disks and that's one of the 
keys in this game. 

Visual 6.0/10

The graphics were pretty reasonable they wouldn't win any awards for greatness 
but I have seen worst. Each Hero was a different size from the next. They all 
wore different clothes, which helped you distinguish them from one another since 
you really couldn't see their faces at all. The backgrounds in the dungeons 
could have been better, they usually were flat and gray bricked every where. 
Some times items were on the walls and they were hard to see because everything 
kind of blended in, with the background. The opening scene where they showed 
each of the Heroes looked great and it showed a lot of detail. During the 
waterfall scene it looked good too, and it had some detail in it as well the 
water looked like it was flowing down the mountain, or valley. The weapons 
usually looked the same except for Raistlin and the small guy who carried a 
stick. Almost everyone carried a sword or a Lance. The weapon really didn't look 
like much either, it was only about a inch or so long, but you could tell when 
you hit your opponents though. When you think about it the graphics could have 
been better but they weren't that bad.

Audio 7.0/10

The music that played in the beginning of the game when it started up was quite 
catchy and good to listen to. There was about 2 or 3 songs that played 
throughout the game, and I liked all of them. They all had a good value to them, 
and were the type of Rpg music that was good for the ears. They never got openly 
annoying, and reminded me quite a bit of Zelda. The sound effects reminded me of 
Crystalis, because they both had similar sounds when you killed an enemy. The 
enemies and your Hero let out a distinctively different cry when you get 
attacked you will notice this after playing a while. Other than those sounds 
they was not much else in the sound department, accept for usual sounds of 
spells being cast. This still left much to be desired but it was ultimately 
drowned out by the music. The music played well with the atmosphere of the game. 

Game Play 8.0/10

This game is for one player only. You start off with Goldmoon, but you can 
change your hero, I advise you to because she has the best Clerical Magic Power. 
You have a status screen filled with useful option, which many didn't know 
about, or how to use. You can take things, give things, drop things, and much 
more. You have really two people who are good with magic and the other 6 heroes 
isn't that good, although a couple of the other ones can use magic too. Raistlin 
is more of your Black Mage type, and Goldmoon is your White Mage. There are many 
spells these two characters can use and they are all useful if you plan to se 
the end of the game. You have a compass at the bottom of the screen to tell you 
which way you are going because this is a side scrolling RPG/Action game and not 
an overhead view one. You also have a battle, which are real time battles and 
not turn based ones. When you battle you will have to know your opponent, 
meaning you should be able to judge which is the best attack to use on them, for 
some you have to take a different approach. You have weapons literally scattered 
on every screen, some times you can't see them like potions or things on the 
shelves, but I advise to pick up everything you will never know when something 
is useful. Your main objective is to try and get through the dungeon wit hone 
Hero intact, if you do consider you self lucky, its not an easy task. The 
difficulty is hard, and there is a save feature. 

Overall 7.0/10

Well I gave it a 7 I liked it. Many people did not give it a chance or read the 
10 other reader reviews and decided that this thing isn't worth it. Despite all 
that it is worth it in my opinion. I have some faults with this game; the game 
main problem is that it is too slow. The controls are stiff, and sometimes you 
press the button to attack and nothing happens at all. This is a can really mess 
things up when you're fighting a particularly tough enemy like a dragon. The 
graphics could have been clearer that some times you couldn't see an enemy 
coming, like the skeletons. I think the menu was too slow and it took a while to 
figure out, it wasn't user friendly enough in my opinion. The replay value 
depends on the person, some people may not like this but that's a very few. The 
fun factor is on the low side, too, after a while you will stop playing this 
game. I think this game relies on the person maybe, I'm just different, look at 
this yourself and see what you think. That's a Dy$e Guarantee.


3. Basic Game Controls

Left:                 makes you walk left
Right                 makes you walk right
Up:                   N/A
Down:                 N/A

Up + A                Makes you jump in place
Down + A              Makes you duck
Holding R/L           Run
Holding R/L while U/A Long Jump

COMBAT:
B                      Slash with weapon
B + Down              
And way you are facing Lower Slash
B + Up
And way you are facing Upper Slash

Under Combat you will notice a compass which should look like this :

         N
       W   E 
         S  

Although some times it is reversed. I will use this in the Walk through a lot 
like for ex. Go through the South Door means do down or North means up.
          
To go through a door hold up, or down.

4. Status Screen

The Status screen looks like this



---------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|                        Hero Select                         Give   |
|       
|                     Magic User Spell                       Drop   |
|
|                  Clerical Staff Spells                     Take   |
|
|                          Use                               Save   |
|                                           	
|                         Score                              Load   |	
| 								  
|											  |
---------------------------------------------------------------------



1. Hero Select- You can pick any living Hero of the Lance
2. Magic User Spells these spells are best used with Raistlin in your main 4
3. Clerical Staff Spells
4. Use to use a item
5. Score-To see how many points you earned
6. Give- give an item to another Hero of the Lance
7. Drop- discard an unwanted item
8. Take- to take an item
9. Save- Save your game for later play
10. Load- To play a game that has been previously saved 


5A. Magic User Spells

For the best spells use Raistlin

Charm confuses Enemy
Sleep- Causes Enemy to Sleep
Magic Missile- Weak Projectile Atack
Web- Puts a Web around enemy similar to sleep but last longer
Detect Magic- Detects a magic near by
Detect Invisible- Detects something invisible nearby
Final Strike- An attack only Raistlin can use which kills him and everything 
else on the screen
Burning Hands- Stronger magic Attack

5B. Clerical Staff User Spells

Cure Light Wound- Recovers some HP
Protect From Evil- Limited Protection from attacks
Finds Traps- Finds Hidden traps
Hold Person- Freezes Enemy
Spiritual Hammer- Magic Projectile
Prayer-????????
Cure Critical Wound- Recovers lots of HP
Deflect Dragon's Breath- Dragon's Breath Won't Hurt you. 

6. Walkthrough 

===================
ENTER Zak Tsaeroth
===================

Suggested Set up:
Front Four:
Caramon    River Wind     Goldmoon     Raistlin
Skid Row:
Sturm      Flint          Tanis        Tasslehoff

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To First Distant Alarm Bells
============================

Go NORTH through the door, head right and EAST through the next door. Take the 
pouch and give it to Tasslehoff, he's the only one who can use it. Destroy the 
Bozak and go SOUTH through the door. Go left and whip the Bozak or just push him 
back far enough to get to do the opening go WEST through it. A midget should be 
waiting for you, Kill him (refer to the FAQ if you don't know how) Take the gem 
afterwards and go right. You should see a Bozak and a midget, concentrate your 
attacks on the midget, and the Bozak should help you destroy him by shooting 
fireballs downwards. Destroy the Bozak for all of his hard work. Go to the far 
right door. Hit a right and go through the next door.

==============================
To Second Distant Alarm Bells 
==============================

Once the drop an Aghar1 should be waiting for you. Web his big ass and hack 
away, at him. Go SOUTH through the door head left ignore the first door, and the 
curative waterfall will be there to sooth your injuries. Go back to the door you 
previously ignored go EAST through it, a Midget should greet you. Kill him and 
collect the goodies on the walls and floors. Go back through the door and head 
left, Run and jump over the pit and destroy Baaz. Keep Left snags the Gold 
Chalice, Go WEST through the door and you will be transported to a new land. 
Destroy Aghar2 (the floating ones) and go WEST through the next door. Go right 
and take a WEST through the next door. Go Left and take a WEST through that 
door. Ignore the dragon, you can fight it if you want and go through the door. 
Go right destroy the Bazak and go WEST through the door. SAVE YOUR GAME HERE. 
Change the front Hero to Raistlin, and use WEB on the man. And jump over the 
whole, change back to a stronger hero. Destroy him while his back is turned and 
destroy the two mideons that will greet you. Go right and SOUTH through the 
door.

Tehre should be some flames here and some arrows. Use *Protection Against Evil* 
and run through with your strongest HP wise Hero go SOUTH through the door. A 
Baaz will be waiting, kill him and head left a Dragon will be there (refer to 
the FAQ if you don't know how to kill it) Go WEST through the door. A series of 
pits will be there switch to Raistlin to get over these with ease, switch to a 
stronger hero and go EAST through the door.  Distant Alarm Bells here.

================
To The Dragon
================

After the drop it would be wise TO SAVE YOUR GAME HERE. Go SOUTH through the 
door and immediately destroy the dragon. After that destroys a weak Spider and 
another Dragon will greet you, if you didn't destroy the first one you are in 
for some trouble because now you got a dragon breathing down your throat and one 
up your ass. Destroy the one in front of you, and go EAST through the door. 
There should be a door right next to the one you went through go through that 
one. Go right and SOUTH through the first door. Kill the punk spider, There will 
be 4 doors. The firs two have dragons in there protecting some Gym's the, third 
has a spider protecting a gem. And the last one is the ticket out, go EAST 
through that. Go right and through the first door, this will land you in a room 
with a dragon in it. Ice him off and go NORTH through the door. Go Left and 
through the next door, Go right now and destroy the monsters. Go North through 
the next door, Go left and through that door. Head right and go to the far right 
door, head left and destroy the two Aghar1's Go through the door the huge Dragon 
awaits. SAVE before going in.

=========================
Dragon & Disk of Miskhail
=========================

Can a game ending boss be this easy? He looks like a challenge but he's not. Put 
Goldmoon, in the front of the Heroes, use *Deflect Dragon Breath* if you have 
any blue Crystal left in the staff. Then heal her up, as much as possible. Use 
PRAYER, I'm not confirmed if this helps but it seems to get close to the dragon, 
basically as close as possible she will take a beating but it won't kill her. 
Press B, enough times and she will throw the staff at the dragon, which will 
kill his big ass. Now go right the disk will be waiting for you, grab those 
stand around for a minute, and enjoy the ending.



7. FAQ

Q. Hey, I just bought Heroes of the Lance yesterday, it sucks badly so what is 
it all about?

A. According to Dr. Strange Heroes of the Lance is an adaptation of Advanced 
Dungeons and Dragons, in a manner of speaking. The AD&D setting is called
'Dragonlance' and is one of the more popular modules for the game. More
specifically, Heroes of the Lance is a (pretty much) direct adaptation
of several chapters from the novel "Dragons of Autumn Twilight", the
first in a long and fantastically-written series of Dragonlance-set
novels written by the literary team of Hickman and Weis. In fact,
'Heroes of the Lance' was a title of honor given to the adventurers
(yes, they're identical in the game and the book). Also, if you watch
the intro (where it shows images of each character), you can see that
the images are identical to those used on the cover art of the
first-edition publishing of the series.

Q. Ok Dyse, what does Enter Zak Tsaeroth mean?

A. -According to Dr. Strange Xak Tsaroth (as it was spelled in the novel) was a 
ruined city in which the Disks of Mishakal (also spelled differently in the 
book) were guarded by an evil black dragon. 'Enter Xak Tsaroth' means just that:
enter the city of Xak Tsaroth.

Q. Hey Dyse How come I keep falling in this pit? This door doesn't do nothing!!!

A. Don't go to the pit, hold up or down by the door.  
 
Q. I'm really stuck Dyse how do I beat those Midgets!!!! I tried everything and 
nothing works help me!!!!!!!

A. You have to press B and Down and the way your facing 5 hits will kill them.

Q. Dyse how do I use magic spells????

A.  You have to have Raistlin, and Gold Moon, as two of the main Heroes of the 
Lance, Raistlin, for Magic Staff, and Gold Moon, for Clerical. 

Q. Thanks Dyse I killed thousands of those midgets, but there is this dragon and 
he totally demolished me now what?

Get GoldMoon in your front four. Go To the status screen under Clerical Magic 
scroll up you will see ^Deflect Dragons Breath ^Hack away at him in 5-8 he is 
dead

Q. Now there's these floating guys they keep going pass me they killed my whole  
crew, and I don't know what to do!!!

A. Ok, these guys are the opposite of The Midgets. This is what you do in stead 
of attacking down like you did with the midget's attack up. I would suggest 
using one of the stronger characters.

Steve M. Asked "Why does this game suck so much?"

A. Well that's a matter of personal opinion some don't think it sucks like me

Steve M. asked "What's wrong with this game, how come I don't gain 
experience??????"

A. At the end of the game they will show you each person's individual experience 
points, during the game check Score and you can see how many everyone 
accumulated including how many and what monsters were killed. 

Q. Why can't some characters hold the blue staff, and other weapons?

A. According to Dr. Strange In Raistlin's case, his staff, the Staff of Magius, 
possesses (in the novel) a mind of it's own. It chooses who can weild it. In 
Goldmoon's case, the Blue Crystal Staff can only be touched by one who is of 
pure heart because it was created by a goddess of pure good (ditto, from the
novel).

Q. How come I can't use either type of Magic Spells?

You have to have Raistlin or Goldmoon as one of the front 4 heroes

Q. What's the best characters to use?

A. Well almost all are good. Some are exceptional like Caramon. I would 
definitely not use Raistlin as my main Hero, since he has a very low HP, and he 
is the main black Mage. You should check their stats and the guys with the best 
overall stats are ideal for the front 2. Goldmoon, and Rasitlin should be in the 
back of the front four, but never on the bottom row.

Q. What Characters, don't you use?

A. Basically, Tasslehoff, Flint and some of those other guys stay on Skid Row.

Q. What do I do if I run out of magic?

A. Your out of luck bub.

Q. Some items are totally useless, like coins & Gold Chalice's what do I do with 
them?

A I have found no use for these, they are basically useless, if YOU know what 
the hell I do with Gold Chalice's and coins and that other crap do me a favor 
and E-mail me at dycemurder@aol.com. Thanks

Q. When a character has a grave instead of their face is their any possibility 
of me reviving them.

A. At this point in time I have no clue whatsoever. Although if they have a gray 
face Gold Moon can revive them. 

Q. This maze is crazy is there any short cuts or a secret way out of it?

A. If you are in that first maze there is no way out of it, none that I could 
see, so basically give up and cry.

Q. You talked about those pits why can't I jump over them, I keep falling off?

A. Use Raistlin, he has the best jump, don't run just jump in place he will 
glide over.

Q. After I use Final Strike with Raistlin is there anyway to revive him?

A. Nope he's pretty much toast.

Q. Where is the disk I'm supposed to be looking for?

A. Once you defeat the huge dragon the Disk of Miskal will be waiting for you.

Q. Do I have to use Goldmoon to kill the Huge Dragon?

A. Yes, you do.

Q. Ummm I accidentally killed her, now what?

A. You are out of luck start over. 

Q. Why does it say 'To Be Continued'?

A. According to Dr. Strange: The game was based on a series of novels (well, 
'almost directly translated' would be more accurate). Since the game itself only
represents a few chapters in one book, "To Be Continued" is a reference
to the other books and the fact that the story continues after the end
of the game.

Q. Can I ask you a personal question? Why do you like this game when everyone 
hates it?

A. Well, my friend, some people are different. Everyone said how bad this game 
sucked and I had to see for myself. It isn't that bad, I mean there are worst 
games for NES and even Playstation that are worst than this, like Dr. Jekyll Mr. 
Hyde and Kung Fu Heroes and the Tomb Raider Series. Those games suck badly, and 
in my opinion this wasn't as bad as many people said it was.

Q. Will there be a sequel to Heroes of the Lance, would you have liked to have 
seen one?

A. N, I highly doubt it. But, Sure I would of loved to see Heroes of the Lance 
II, or a great sequel for Playstation or Dreamcast that would have been great in 
my opinion. 

*More Q& A and first part of the game on my next update*

==============================================================
Ok these were these basic questions if anyone has any more E-mail me and they 
will be included in future updates. My Current FAQs and Reviews are:

NES:::

Crystalis Boss Guide
Heroes of the Lance Faq/Walkthrough

Genesis:

Earthworm Jim 2 FAQ/Walkthrough

SNES:

Earthworm Jim FAQ/Walkthrough

Playstation:

WWF Smackdown character guides- for 5 characters
Legend of Dragoon walkthrough

I'm most proud of my 276 reviews, all my work can be seen at:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/ 



8. Copyright

No Midgets were hurt in the production of this game.
AD&D Dragon Lance & Heroes of the Lance are all copyrighted. All Rights 
Reserved.
This FAQ is for personal use only, it can however be printed out, and used for 
your own personal uses, not to be sold to others. You can not retransmit this 
FAQ using any means electronically or mechanically. If you would like to request 
to use this FAQ on your website then you must e-mail the author your's truly at 
dycemurder@aol.com. 

First I would like to give thanks to God, and my parents and all other family 
members and friends.

I would like to give thanks to CJayC for hosting my FAQ.

I would like to thank Uhhhhh (Uhhhhh@hotmail.com) for the grand Line Art that's 
mega cool Uhhhhh!

I would like to think Dr. Strange for some background info on the game!

I would also like to give thanks to my old NES after 15 years still running 
strong!

I would like to give thanks to the person who sold me this game, if you read 
this thinks for such a great game.

Finally I would like to give thanks to everyone at GameFAQs whom I'm cool with. 
In particular BrandonJ33, Steve M., J-dog, Great1, Andy007, Bruplex, Andrew, Mr. 
Posterior, and a bunch of others for making me feel welcome!

I would like to dedicate this FAQ to the 10 other reviewers, Bruplex, Ed the 
Moogle, Epoetker, Falsiloqous, J-Dog, Jharring, K0LDSTeeL, Sephirstein, 
SMcFadden & Viper who gave this a 1 =(

Copyright 2000 by Dyson Turner

