Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes of the Lance is a side-scrolling action game for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Based on the Dragonlance novels, players control eight heroes from the series, utilizing their authentic Dungeons & Dragons statistics. Only one hero appears on screen at a time, with players switching to the next hero upon the previous one's defeat.
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.