There have only been three games in this series. The first Bard's Tale game, officially titled Tales of the Unknown Volume I: The Bard's Tale, was written by Michael Cranford for Interplay Productions. It was published by Electronic Arts in 1985 for Apple ][ and Commodore 64, more platforms, and two more games, soon followed:

Title										N
Tales of the Unknown	85	85	87	86	87	87	87	88	89	91	87
The Destiny Knight	86	87	88	88			88			92	91
The Thief of Fate	88	88	90	91							92
Construction Set			91	91

The second column with the Apple icon is the Apple IIGS. The PC versions of all three games used EGA graphics.

1991 the Bard's Tale Construction Set was released by Interplay for Amiga and IBM PC. It allowed users to create games in the style of the Bard's Tale series, ironically (on the PC) even with better graphics than the originals, since it ran in VGA, not in EGA. It seems that only one game was ever created with it, The Bard's Lore by John H. Wigforss.

In May 2003, Brian Fargo bought back the rights for his new company, InXile Entertainment (he later bought back Wasteland, too). In fall 2004 he brought out a new game for Playstation 2 and Xbox, simply titled The Bard's Tale. Since InXile owns the rights only to the title, not to the content of the original series, that is exactly where the connection ends. Fans of the series will probably be happier with Devil Whiskey.

Links

• Bard's Tale Online
• The Bard's Tale Compendium has one fan-created game on their Construction Set page. It has more information about the upcoming new game than the other sites.
• Decklin's Domain
• Cheek.Org's Bard's Tale pages
• Bt Builder is an open source implemention of the Bard's Tale Construction Set. After nearly seven years' pause, a new version (0.2.8) was released on 2007-10-13.
• A short but interesting BTCS review by Matthew Murray.