Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes of the Lance is a side-scrolling action game for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Players control a party of eight heroes from the Dragonlance novels, utilizing their specific Dungeons & Dragons statistics. Only one hero is visible at a time, and upon a hero's defeat, the next character in the lineup takes their place, advancing the quest through various environments.
Heroes of the Lance is a side-scrolling action game. The game used actual Dungeons & Dragons statistics, with statistics for the characters exactly as they were in the rule books. Eight heroes from the Dragonlance novels series must be assembled for the quest, and only one is visible on the screen at a time; when one on-screen hero dies, the next in line appears.