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Zum Blauen Drachen

Celebrate deeds well done!

Another four heroes are celebrating their deeds in a tavern, this time in the Blue Dragon, and again those celebrations are not free of danger - if you spend all your money and drink more than you can hold, you are thrown out of the pub and the game - the last one in play wins.

You embody Eve the Illusionist, Fleck the Bard, Dimli the Dwarf or Gog the Halfoger and have your own character card stack, gold and a drinks deck, and there are gold and drinks for the tavern, too.

A turn comprises discarding and drawing from your deck, playing of an action card, buying drinks and drinking. For discarding and drawing you can discard as many cards from your hand as you want and draw new ones from the character deck. You can play an action card, if you want. If you play “Betting” you initiate a round of betting. To buy drinks you put your own top drinks card on any other player’s stack. At the end you must drink yourself by picking up the top card of your drinks deck and resolving it. If you do not have a card in your own drinking cards stack you reduce your alcohol level by 1.

When your alcohol level is higher than your alcohol tolerance you are out of the game; your gold is split between the tavern and all other players, half goes to the tavern, and half to all other players, evenly distributed. If you do not have any gold, you are simply out!

Zum Blauen Drachen is a new edition of Zum Roten Drachen, and can be combined with Zum Roten Drachen for a game of eight players; it is funny, nicely made, the cards are self-explaining and with the rather naughty anytime-cards you can create some havoc!

Players: 2-4/8

Age: 12+

Time: 60+

Designer: Geoff Bottone, Colleen Skadl, Cliff Bohm

Art: Kennon James, ColdFuZion Studios, Beth Trott

Price: ca. 13 Euro

Publisher: Pegasus Spiele 2011

Web: www.pegasus.de

Genre: Fantasy card game

Users: With friends

Special: Many players

Version: de

Rules: de en

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Stand-alone game

Can be combined with Zum Roten Drachen

Topic nicely implemented with cute mechanisms

Compares to:

Zum Roten Drachen und other adventure games with cards

Other editions:

Zum Roten Drachen, Pegasus; The Red Dragon Inn, Slugfest Games

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 1

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0