Originally Posted by Caidh
Yeah - I played these (I & III at least) back in the day, not long after they came out. VERY tedious & a lot of grinding.

More detail than I can give on it (since its been 25 years or so for me) is from the CRPG Addict blog:

Bard's Tale

Bard's Tale III

Baxters Crpg Resource blog is covering the amiga version now:
http://www.crpgresource.blogspot.com