Play The Bards Tale Construction Set 1991 Online

The Bard's Tale Construction Set came out in 1991 for MS-DOS, published by Electronic Arts. It was a toolset that let you build your own adventures in the style of the original Bard's Tale trilogy, fitting right into that era of user-generated content and deep, complex computer RPGs.

You control a party of adventurers, moving them screen by screen through towns and multi-level dungeons you designed yourself. The main objective is to explore these custom worlds, fighting monsters in tactical, turn-based combat, finding keys for locked doors, and gathering better equipment for your group. The pacing is deliberate, often slow, with a difficulty that expects careful resource management and mapping on graph paper. It feels like being both an architect and an explorer in a world built from your own imagination.

Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".