Guide your favorite high-spirited tavern heroes out of the bar and into a cooperative tactical dungeon-crawling campaign that utilizes a spiral-bound map book and token-driven cooldown matrices for the ultimate narrative showdown.
Tales from the Red Dragon Inn (designed by Sam Waller, Cliff Bohm, and Jennifer Kitzman, and published by Slugfest Games) brilliantly translates the chaotic, beloved fantasy heroes of the long-running Red Dragon Inn card game franchise into a fully cooperative tactical combat adventure. Moving completely away from the standard competitive tavern drinking brawls, this title features an expansive, multi-chapter campaign. The core objective is a high-energy fantasy sprint: players must team up, pick their highly asymmetrical heroes, and tackle a series of story-driven combat scenarios to defeat scheming villains and unravel an epic plot, all before the tavern calls them back for a celebratory pint.
The primary strategic hurdle lies in managing your hero's unique action deck and dynamic cooldown mechanics during tactical grid-based combat. Instead of relying on random dice rolls for everything, characters utilize specialized Action cards that dictate their movement, melee strikes, and powerful spells. Each time you play an action, it is placed on a tracker track or given tokens, entering a cooldown cycle that dictates when that ability can be woven back into your rotation. True tactical mastery requires total team coordination—balancing the frontline defense of characters like Fiona the Volatile with the ranged support of Zot the Wizard and Pooky. You must efficiently move across the multi-scenario layout map books, solve interactive tactical puzzles, and trigger environmental objects to neutralize the automated AI monster schemes in a smooth 30-to-90 minute session.
Game Specs at a Glance:
Age Range: 14+ Years
Publisher: Slugfest Games
Play Time: 30-90 Minutes
Player Count: 1-4 Players
Complexity: Medium (Cooperative Play, Tactical Grid Movement, Cooldown Hand Management, Campaign-Driven Scenario Progression)
What's in the Box?
- 1 Spiral-Bound Combat Map Book
- 6 Fully Asymmetric Hero Dashboards and Action Card Decks
- 1 Interactive Narrative Campaign Story Logbook
- 14 Plastic Hero and Boss Miniatures
- 200+ Monster, Encounter, Scheme, and Item Cards
- 100+ Cardboard Standees, Status Markers, and Damage Tokens
- 1 Custom Dice Set
- 1 Rulebook Booklet