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(Dragontales edition)

Combined Summary

Series: Dragon Roads — no. 9
Dragontales — no. 6
Alternate Title: Draco's Revenge (reissue)
Translated Into: La Malédiction du dragon noir (French)
Author: Vilott-Salsitz, Rhondi
Illustrators: Miller, Kirk (Dragon Roads edition)
Hallman, Tom (Dragontales edition - cover)
Tanz, Freya (Dragontales edition - interior)
Dates: 1984 (Dragontales edition)
January, 2012 (Dragon Roads edition)
User Summary: While gathering firewood, you accidentally unearth a cursed staff, and must find a way to break its influence before you home faces ruin.
Fireguard's Thoughts:

Black Dragon's Curse isn't bad but it lacks flavor, and the messages about the power of friendship are a tad trite.

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Kveto's Thoughts:

This the first series I learnt about from Demian's page and purchased. I've been looking for a series similar to the Endless Quest books and it really feels that this is it.

You play a young woodsman who comes into possession of a cursed staff, which curses your village. You must quest to find a solution to the curse and are offered a number of separate paths. It has a young protagonist and a noble selfless quest and the world might as well be a D&D world so there's so much to like.

It even has a Rose Estes type companion character, the dragon staff itself, which you can't put down, but with a fun twist. It wants you to return it to its master and actively works to make things difficult for you, for example in one instance while you are hiding from a band of robbers, the staff says "Hey, those are my kind of people" and calls out to them.

You can have a love interest on some paths and there is a lot of replayability. I very much enjoy Rhondi Vilott's writing style.

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Special Thanks:Thanks to Fireguard for the plot summary.
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Known Editions

Dragontales edition
Dragon Roads edition

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