Invaders! – Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard

This is a guide for Invaders!, Chapter 1 of the Lizardfolk campaign in Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard. It includes a detailed walkthrough, a handy map, and a table listing all the points you can earn throughout the mission.

Invaders! Map

Legend

1. Starting Point
2. Closed Gate
3. Lizardfolk Fighters
4. Poison Archer
5. Expansion Well
6. Drawbridge
7. Night Skinks
8. Ancient Text
9. Necromancer’s Room
10. Darroc’s Shrine
11. Crypt
12. Treasure Room
13. Rogue
14. Minotaur Monument
15. Caged Minotaurs
16. Undead Skinks
17. Main Gate

Exits:

• A: Tunnel.
• B: Tunnel.

Description

After decades of peace and prosperity in solitude, the Lizardfolk must rally together and once again defeat the forces that seek to invade their lands.

New Units

• Lizardfolk Fighter
• Night Skink
• Poison Archer
• Tribal Shaman

Walkthrough

You’ll start out with just your champion unit, but as you make your way to the expansion well to the north (#5), you’ll pick up some lizardfolk fighters (#3) and a poison archer (#2). Then later, in the underworld, you’ll find some night skinks (#7) and tribal shamans (#10). In fact, you’ll find enough units in your travels that you won’t really need to do anything at the expansion well, other than place a couple of training buildings so you can upgrade your units.

Eventually you’ll come to the Order of the Flame units that you saw in the introduction to the chapter (#17). When you approach the gate that they’re attacking, a night skink will call up some undead skinks to help you out (#16). Then once you’ve defeated the Order of the Flame units, the chapter will end.

1 – Starting Point

2 – Closed Gate

So far as we can tell, there isn’t any way to open this gate and explore the southwestern corner of the map.

3 – Lizardfolk Fighters

When you approach this spot, two Lizardfolk fighters will accuse each other of killing their master, and then they’ll start attacking each other. The only way you can break up the fight is to uncover the real killer, a rogue hiding in one of the nearby containers. Once you’ve defeated the rogue, the Lizardfolk fighters will come under your control.

4 – Poison Archer

The poison archer will warn you about the rangers who are guarding the bridge to the north, and then he’ll join your cause. You’ll have to defeat the rangers to reach the expansion well (#5).

5 – Expansion Well

6 – Drawbridge

The Order of the Flame will raise the drawbridge when they see you coming. You’ll have to circle around through the underworld to lower it back down.

7 – Night Skinks

You’ll find some night skinks battling some rogues here. Any night skinks that you can save will join your side, and, after the battle, another night skink will appear next to the expansion well (#5).

8 – Ancient Text

You’ll find an ancient text here, and only the champion Blackclaw or a night skink unit (#7) will be able to read it. If you read the text, then several zombies will appear and attack you.

9 – Necromancer’s Room

In this room you’ll face a grave keeper plus a bunch of undead units. When the grave keeper dies, it will drop a necromancer journal, which contains its plans for world dominance (but which doesn’t seem to relate to anything in the chapter).

Note: If you destroy the necromancer font in the room, then you’ll find a potion of clarity III and a potion of cure severe wounds.

10 – Darroc’s Shrine

When you approach the shrine, a pair of tribal shamans will tell you that rogues have stolen the eyes out of the shrine, and that one rogue escaped to the north while the other fled south. Then the shamans will join your side.

You can find the rogues at #11 and #13. When you kill the rogues and return Darroc’s eyes to the shrine, the shrine will turn into a place of power, and your units will gain the ability to stun their opponents.

11 – Crypt

When you step on the pressure plate in front of the crypt, a zombie will appear and attack you. The first time you do it, the zombie will kill a rogue who will drop one of Darroc’s eyes.

You can summon a zombie as many times as you’d like (or at least so it appears), and each time the zombie will drop a random artifact when it dies. So you can use the crypt to level up your units if you’d like.

12 – Treasure Room

This room is trapped, so unless you selected Silverblade as your champion, you’ll take some damage if you want to loot the artifacts inside. However, the only really useful item in the treasure room is the bracers of armor, and you shouldn’t have any trouble running your champion in and out to get it.

There’s also a locked chest in the room. Gold shouldn’t be a problem at this point, but if you decide to loot the chest, you’ll have to use the scroll of knock, also found in the room.

13 – Rogue

The rogue will drop Darroc’s eye when he dies.

14 – Minotaur Monument

You’ll find the monument guarded by some minotaurs, including a minotaur lord. The minotaur lord will drop a minotaur horn when it dies. The monument itself will cause your units to fight more fiercely the closer they get to death.

15 – Caged Minotaurs

When you approach this area, a rogue will release three minotaurs from their cages, and you’ll have to fight them.

16 – Undead Skinks

When you reach this spot, a night skink will call up 10 undead skinks to help you out.

17 – Main Gate

This is where you’ll have your final battle with the Order of the Flame units.

Points Chart