"The city of Skara Brae suffers under the terror-reign of the evil archmage Mangar. To make things worse, Mangar laid a spell of eternal winter over the city, preventing anyone to come in or go out. It's up to you, a band of adventurers, to find and defeat Mangar in order to return Skara Brae back to peace."

Welcome to the Bard's Tale Shrine, your #1 place for information on this classic RPG. The shrine is based on the PC-Version of the game, but the infos should be correct for all the homecomputer versions (not the NES version).

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12/19/04

Two new cheats have been added to the cheats section, explaining how to clone items and how you can get an extra level for 11.700 Gold. Thanks goes to Orion Henry for telling me!

11/28/04

Screenshots and info for the Macintosh version added to the Other Versions-section. Thanks goes to Jason Denzel for providing me with some insights about the Macintosh version.

08/21/04

Screenshots for the Apple II/gs version added to the Other Versions-section. Thanks goes to Matthew Faust for providing me with the screenshots.

07/07/04

Info about special power of the Conjurstaff added to the weapons-section. Thanks to Andreas Holzhammer for telling me.

03/03/04

Info about Doppleganger added to the enemies-section. Thanks to Wilhelm Schuetzek to inform me.

03/28/03

I added a cheat to the cheats-section, explaining how to summon an unlimited number of free Stone Elementals. Thanks to Sageus for telling me!

03/13/03

This shrine opened today.

The Bard's Tale 1: Tales of the Unknown © 1985

Electronic Arts / Interplay Productions