History VideoGame / DragonridersOfPern

''Dragonriders of Pern'' is a 1983 TurnBasedStrategy game for the UsefulNotes/Atari8BitComputers and UsefulNotes/{{Commodore 64}}, based on the ''Literature/DragonridersOfPern'' series by Anne [=McCaffrey=].

* AllianceMeter: Played with; the player never knows exactly how strong their relationships are, beyond identifying their top three supporters. However, winning the game requires taking actions to acquire more Victory Points with Pern's various factions over the other Weyrs.

In the lore of the novels, the feudal world of Pern is threatened every few hundred years by The Thread, a deadly alien microorganism that falls onto Pern in the form of long strings. The player takes the role of the ruler of a Weyr, a mountaintop clan that raises dragons to destroy the Thread before it can destroy the land. The player must form strategic alliances with the various factions of Pern, and occasionally controls a dragon to destroy falling Thread.

* RelationshipValues: A key aspect of the game is building alliances between your Weyr and the other Weyrs, Guilds, and Holds with offers of alliances, diplomatic gestures, and offering to help Holds threatened with Threadfall.

* RelationshipValues: A key aspect of the game is building alliances between your Weyr and the other Weyrs, Guilds, and Holds with offers of alliances and diplomatic gestures.

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''Dragon Riders: Chronicles of Pern'' is a 2001 game for [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] and UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast, based on the ''Literature/DragonridersOfPern'' series.

Taking place in the Seventh Pass, the story follows D'kor, a dragonrider at Fort Weyr, as he searches for a suitable Weyrwoman to replace their last one, who mysteriously died recently of a sudden illness. As time goes on, it becomes clear that people across Pern are contracting this illness, and that someone may be responsible for it...

A plot summary can be found [[http://pern.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Riders:_Chronicles_of_Pern here.]]

!!Dragon Riders: Chronicles of Pern provides examples of:
* AllThereInTheManual: A number of texts about characters can be found in the Harper Hall archives, giving insights into their characters.
* BestServedCold: [[spoiler: Roth's plan was to kill all the dragonriders at Fort Weyr to spite his weyrbred father who abandoned him when he failed to impress.]]
* TheCameo: A drudge called "Anne" appears in the Fort Hold kitchens, dreaming about writing stories about dragons.
* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler: Roth]], at least until the good guys aren't watching.
* EasyExp
* FridgeLogic: D'kor is barred from entering an archery contest at Fort Hold, as his skills as a dragonrider mean he will likely outshine the other contestants. After obtaining a disguise, he is able to enter, although the people who barred him in the first place still recognise him; addressing him with his dragonrider honorific.
** Later, on Ista Island, D'kor has to disguise himself to enter a bar that isn't friendly to dragonriders. His friend N'eth has no problem just walking in, however.
* HealingHerb: Several of these are needed to cure the sickness.
* InformedAttribute: According to one of the texts in the Harper Hall, V'hul isn't coping with having a green dragon. This only really comes out when [[spoiler: it turns out V'hul is working with the bad guys.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: K'tan, S'bor, and N'eth if you don't manage to rescue him.]]
* MooksButNoBosses: Combat in the game amounts to picking one of three weapons (knife, sword, crossbow) and hitting the enemy with it until they fall over dead.
* MoralDissonance: Towards the end of the game, when D'kor is busy killing the villains of the story, [[spoiler: he inexplicably takes pity on V'hul and lets him escape, despite him being one of the major co-conspirators]]. However, he does later [[spoiler: imprison F'ben when he discovers his connection to the crime]], so it could just be that he and [[spoiler: V'hul]] had some form of friendship that wasn't really explored in the game.
* RaceAgainstTheClock: N'eth gets kidnapped at one point and is left to drown in rising water. However...
** TakeYourTime: N'eth only is in danger of dying once you get to the end of the level he's imprisoned in. If you go into the wrong room, he'll drown, but it doesn't affect the plot in any way.
* RedHerring: D'kor is tricked into thinking that the villain is [[spoiler: S'lon]]
* SeriesContinuityError: One of the in-game texts talks about a settlement on the Southern Continent built by a "Lord Torric", although the game takes place more than seven hundred years before any new settlements on the Southern Continent were built. [[spoiler: Not counting Roth's Hold on Ierne Island, of course...]]
* ThePlague: Revealed to be a newer strain of the sickness that spread across Pern in the Sixth Pass.
** [[spoiler: SyntheticPlague: Roth manufactured the disease himself, basing it off the aforementioned sickness. Exactly HOW he did this in a largely agrarian society is never revealed, however...]]
* TravellingAtTheSpeedOfPlot: Fin the Runner is somehow able to get from Fort Hold to Ista Island before D'kor.
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A number of video games based on the Dragonriders of Pern series have been made over the years.

[[header: Dragon Riders: Chronicles of Pern]]

A plot summary can be found here; [http://pern.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Riders:_Chronicles_of_Pern]

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* AuthorCameo: A drudge called "Anne" appears in the Fort Hold kitchens, dreaming about writing stories about dragons.

* TravellingAtTheSpeedOfPlot: Fin the Runner is somehow able to get from Fort Hold to Ista Island before D'kor.

* TheObiWan: K'tan to D'kor, according to the in-game texts.