The Bard's Tale

The Bard's Tale may refer to:

• The Bard's Tale fantasy role-playing video game franchise created by Michael Cranford and developed by Brian Fargo's Interplay Productions:
  • Tales of the Unknown, Volume I: The Bard's Tale (1985)
  • The Bard's Tale II: The Destiny Knight (1986)
  • The Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate (1988)
  • The Bard's Tale Construction Set (1991)

• Dragon Wars (1991) was originally slated to be The Bard's Tale IV, but became a separate title (with a new name and changes to the storyline) at a very late point in its development process, due to rights issues after developer Interplay parted ways with publisher Electronic Arts.

• The Bard's Tale (2004 video game), an action role-playing video game created by Brian Fargo, and published by Fargo's InXile Entertainment in 2004, was named for the famous Bard's Tale series but is not a proper part thereof; Brian Fargo only had the rights to the name but not to the content/stories of the earlier games in the series at that point.

• The Bard's Tale IV, a proper fourth part of the original series, albeit with a somewhat different, more modern gameplay, was successfully funded as a Kickstarter project in 2016 by InXile Entertainment.