Dragonstrike is a board game that was created to be a sort of introduction to the popular Dungeons & Dragons game, as it was made by the same company in order to compete with HeroQuest, a D&D-like game created by Milton Bradley which was praised for being easy to learn and play. For Dragonstrike, the company decided to release a VHS tape to explain how the game works.
The 33-minute video is basically a mini-movie, as it has the Dragon Master (who almost looks like a dismembered head as his shirt seems to blend in with the pitch black background) as he leads four unseen players in a scenario, where four heroes band together to storm the castle of an evil wizard who has plunged the realm into eternal night. As an instruction video, it does give some info, but it's safe the say the movie is done to the point where it is considered very cheesy. The acting is silly and the film uses green screen a lot to display the medieval setting of the game. Also, the video does have scenes of gore and dismemberment, and the monsters can be cheesy (from the suit actors playing orcs and death knights to the animated monstrocity known as the Man-Scorpion). At the end, the Dragonmaster does give tips for those who take his role. including playing fair and making the scenario exciting. For a cheesy film, it is pretty entertaining and shows how the game is played
The 33-minute video is basically a mini-movie, as it has the Dragon Master (who almost looks like a dismembered head as his shirt seems to blend in with the pitch black background) as he leads four unseen players in a scenario, where four heroes band together to storm the castle of an evil wizard who has plunged the realm into eternal night. As an instruction video, it does give some info, but it's safe the say the movie is done to the point where it is considered very cheesy. The acting is silly and the film uses green screen a lot to display the medieval setting of the game. Also, the video does have scenes of gore and dismemberment, and the monsters can be cheesy (from the suit actors playing orcs and death knights to the animated monstrocity known as the Man-Scorpion). At the end, the Dragonmaster does give tips for those who take his role. including playing fair and making the scenario exciting. For a cheesy film, it is pretty entertaining and shows how the game is played