Red Dragon Inn... umm, guys, i think i stole your gold...

Red Dragon Inn is quite a fun little game of gambling and drinking after a long days work. It meshes a nice group of simple game mechanics in a way that makes for a lot of laughs and fun.

Overview:
In Red Dragon Inn, each player represents a member of a Dungeons & Dragons type party. There is a wizard, a thief, a barbarian, and a priestess. You have all returned from the days adventures to the Red Dragon Inn where you are now drinking the night away while gambling with the spoils of the day's adventures. The last player who is still conscious and who still has some gold is the winner.

The flow of the game is very simple and the individual mechanics of the drinking and the gambling are easy to learn and yet still offer a large variety of options. On their turn a player draws cards (if necessary) and then has an opportunity to play an action. Actions can include playing effects on other players, starting a round of gambling or a variety of other similar options. After the results of the actions are determined, the player buys a drink for another player and then drinks a drink themselves.

The actions drinks and other cards effect three different stats: fortitude, intoxication, and gold. If at any time a player's fortitude is less than his intoxication, he passes out and is out of the game. If the player's gold is every reduced to zero he is out of the game.

Each if the four characters available in the game all have differing strengths and weaknesses that provide a lot of diversity in play styles and tactics.

Pros:
- plays in about an hour
- fun and funny theme
- very easy to pick up and learn
- deep enough strategy to keep things interesting
- just plain fun!

Cons:
- only four players (however, soon there is going to be an expansion which is supposed to add four new characters)
- some of the humor will be lost on non-gamer players

Conclusion:
Red Dragon Inn is a great little game that would work well as a nice filler game between plays of larger, more in-depth games. The theme and humor of the game are great and given the simplicity of the mechanics it can be a lot of fun for new comers as well as veteran players.

Rating:
Production Values: 9
Gameplay: 8
Difficulty: 7
Fun Factor: 8
Cost: 8
Overall: 8