Death Knights of Krynn

Death Knights of Krynn is the second in a three-part series of Dragonlance Advanced Dungeons & Dragons "Gold Box" role-playing video games, published by Strategic Simulations.

The party's old colleague, Sir Karl, is revealed to be brought back from the grave as an undead death knight under the command of the evil Lord Soth.

The available character races are humans, dwarves, elves, half-elves and kender, while the selectable classes are fighter, ranger, knight, mage, cleric and thief.

[4] There are some differences in play from the prior goldbox games: There are only two known versions for MS-DOS: SSI sold 61,958 copies of Death Knights of Krynn.

She stated that "even the side quests begin to look depressingly similar after awhile", and warned that the Gold Box series "has fallen into a predictable rut".

[7] According to GameSpy, "the game's more substantial ties to the DragonLance universe made it relatively well-received in its day, though at this point, it doesn't particularly stand out".

Clockwise from upper left: overland map; cut scene panel from mid-story; the party in combat with Lord Soth; summary view of a character.