Let’s not beat around the bush – sometimes you just want to sit at home with your –
Choose one:
Boyfriend/Girlfriend
Roommate
Mom/Dad
Siblings
And that’s cool, right? (Maybe we should steer clear of hanging out with parents, but you get the idea.) But watching a movie or TV show every weekend gets old quick…especially when you’ve already binged anything worth watching on Netflix.
Look at that, I made a rhyme!
Red Dragon Inn is a game where adventurers (the playable characters in the game) stop at …go on guess… yupp, an Inn, have a few drinks together, and maybe gamble a bit. You want to keep up your strength, and keep down your drunkenness, all while weakening others and making them drink, a lot.
This is not only one of my favorite games, but also a game I tend to dominant at. No really, I’ve only lost this game twice, and I’ve played over forty times. Some would probably argue that it’s dumb luck and there’s no real strategy to winning this simple game, but I care to disagree. So here are a few tips I tend to follow which may help you win a few rounds of Red Dragon Inn too.
1. Pick a Character you Like and Understand – I have to admit, I’m often guilty of picking my character based on who looks the coolest, but I learned in this game, that’s not the best choice. All of the playable characters have their own individual deck of cards, which means they all have abilities and powers specific to them. Some are better at cheating during gambling, some are so strong they make their opponents lose fortitude (what your strength is called in the game), and others have magic that allows them to avoid drinking.
So sure, choose someone you like to look at, (you’ll have to stare at their mug the whole game between your cards and your player mat) but also try out different characters until you find one or two whose powers you like and can use expertly (like by combining cards and chaining their effects to wreck your opponent).
If you like Monopoly but would prefer it without all the thinking, friendship ruining, and endless play, then Advance to Boardwalk might be the game for you. There isn’t a lot to it, hence why you don’t need to be the sharpest crayon in the box to play, but you still get that rousing experience of buying some property that Monopoly gives you.
There’s a lot of hobbies out there, and some are undeniably better than others (like having a stamp collection is better than a cocaine habit, you can’t deny it). But one of the best things to get into is board games, and I should know! After all the games I’ve played, I’ve come up with 5 solid reasons to tell you why getting into board games is a good life choice that you should make.
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