Fanatical Dragon Warriors gamers continued to play this well loved game down the decades. Inevitably the gaming paperbacks bubble burst, roleplaying could draw no further mileage from accusations of being a bad influence on children, and the books disappeared from print. In those countries where it was on sale it formed the gateway rpg experience for a whole generation of gamers. Originally only available in the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, Dragon Warriors is largely unknown in the United States. However, it came with a distinctly British flavour, especially when it came to the included setting – the Lands of Legend.
This being the 1980s, the game bore some distinct resemblance to Dungeons and Dragons. They used a paperback format, which gave the game the appearance of the incredibly popular Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, and indeed many bought into the game thinking that’s exactly the kind of thing it was.ĭragon Warriors was in fact a full roleplaying game, with a Games Master and a group of players taking roles within the fantasy world of Legend. Penned by Dave Morris and Oliver Johnson, it was originally published by Corgi Books.
Dragon Warriors is a game from the heyday of pen and paper roleplaying games, the 1980s.
