Game Daze Park Place Mall Manager Recommendation, July 2011

Drew -

The evil Wizard has been vanquished and your adventuring party has returned to the inn to celebrate. And what better way to do that than through gambling and drinking contests!!!

The Red Dragon series of games are built around that very concept. You each have a character and a respective deck of cards to go with that character. The goal is to keep your Gold and stay conscious. If you run out of Gold or your Alcohol Content exceeds your Fortitude, you are out of the game.

Each turn, a player can play an action card, including “Gambling? I’m in!” cards. If one is played, a Gambling round is initiated, with players anteing up and playing various cards, trying to win the round of gambling. A separate expansion for the game, entitled “Gambling? I’m In!”, of course, gives you a set of cards with rules for 9 different gambling games t play instead of the simple game that comes with the main set.

After the action card, you “Buy Drinks”, taking the top card of the drink deck and placing it on someone’s drink pile. Then you flip over the top card of your drink pile and take whatever consequences it entails, which usually involves raising your alcohol level.

If you run out of gold through gambling or action cards, you are tossed out of the inn. If your alcohol content reaches your fortitude level, you pass out under the table and get dragged to your room to sleep it off. The last man standing wins.

Each of the characters has their own deck of cards, with it’s own strengths and weaknesses. And with two other sets to add in, you can easily play up to 12 players. It’s great fun for everyone, no actual drinking required.

Game Daze Superstition Springs Employee Review, August/September 2009

Zach-

The Red Dragon Inn, a great game for drunks, gamblers, and geeks this game has it all. Drink your friends under the table or gamble away all their money in this fantasy based card game. My family and I play this game at least once a week and every time we play there’s always something new; no two games are the same. Will you take the role of the powerful wizard or perhaps the tricky illusionist, maybe the half-ogre or the dwarf; each character has a set of unique talents for getting their friends drunk or taking all their money in a “friendly” game of gambling. In any case you and your family will have hours of fun at the Red Dragon Inn.

(NOTE: Also makes a great drinking game.)

Game Daze Foothills Mall Employee Review, June/July 2009

Schretz-

Red Dragon Inn is a Brilliant, noncollectable card game for 2-4 players. The theme of the game is a fun interpretation of what a party of Role playing characters do in their down time after slaying the dragon and grabbing the loot. They gamble and drink in the local inn of course! Every player starts with 10 gold coins that go fast if your not careful and if you lose them, you sleep in the barn tonight. If you manage to keep your coins, you still need to keep your wits about you, becuase your companions will try to drink you under the table.

A game turn consists of Discarding cards you dont like from your hand, and refreshing it to 7 cards then, playing 1 action card and a combination of Anytime and Sometimes Cards. After playing thru your actions, you buy a drink for one of your comrades and drink one of your own. Drinks can raise your Alcohol content (which starts at 0) and/or lower your fortitude (which starts at 20). If your Alcohol is ever equal to or greater than your fortitude, youve succumbed to the effects of drink and pitch forward backwards or maybe straight up with a wizard at the table and holy water in your gut! your remaining gold goes to your friends and the Inn for your night's stay and the game rolls on until there is only 1 adventurer left!

The game is also expandable with Red Dragon Inn 2 which is actually a game in and of itself if you prefer a flamboyant bard, a sly illusionist, a good natured half-ogre, and a greedy dwarf to a volatile fighter, an absent-minded wizard with his Rabbit Companion, Pooky, a devout priestess, and a cunning rogue. Both games can be combined to support up to 8 players for a night of tremendous, fantasy fun!