Dragon Wars is a fantasy role-playing video game developed by Rebecca Heineman[1] and published by Interplay Entertainment in 1989, and distributed by Activision. The player starts the game with a party of four characters, who can be either the default characters or ones created by the player. Alternatively, the player may import characters from The Bard's Tale trilogy into Dragon Wars. During the game, the seven character slots can be filled with any combination of the starting characters, recruited characters, and summoned creatures.