Greyport, a bustling city nestled between the mountains and the ocean, is home to The Red Dragon Inn. You and your adventuring companions are on your way to that illustrious tavern for a pint when a loud commotion in the distance catches your attention. Suddenly, alarm bells are ringing all over the city, and the Captain of the Guard comes running up to you.

“Adventurers, we need your help! The city is under attack!”

The tavern will have to wait…

The Red Dragon Inn: Battle for Greyport is a cooperative deckbuilding game for 3 to 5 players based on the characters and world of The Red Dragon Inn. You and your friends will be rallying the people of Greyport against dozens of different monsters as you make your way through the city. Recruit powerful heroes to your deck and arm them with a variety of items, all while leading the charge with your own unique character cards. Will you methodically eliminate your opponents one by one, or throw caution to the wind and let fate decide the outcome with a roll of the dice and turn of a card? Defend the city from the monsters and defeat their nefarious boss, or the city (and the tavern!) will be overrun!

Players will defend Greyport across seven scenarios with their own collections of monsters to defeat and locations to save. With additional game variants and challenge modes that introduce new ways for players to win and lose, players will be able to play many times with no two games being the same!

At the beginning of the game, each player chooses a character and a scenario they wish to play. The game consists of multiple encounters where each player tries to save locations across the city from the attacking monsters. The last encounter of each scenario includes a difficult boss battle, so you’d better make sure you recruit lots of good heroes and items into your deck!

Each player begins the game with a deck of fresh-faced heroes as well as a couple of items and their first level character card. Each round, each player may play one hero and equip that hero with one item. The heroes that are played during the round may fight the active monsters. The pressure is on when the hero commits to a fight. After a hero starts a fight with another monster, that player picks up their damage dice and leaves everything to the luck of the roll. Deciding when to play it safe and take out a weaker monster you know you can slay versus shooting the moon and hoping to roll exceptionally will have tremendous consequences on the rest of the party. A hero can only fight one monster at a time, and in classic heroic fashion, the enemy is numerous and incredibly dangerous. That’s where your friends come in!

One of the most exciting features of Battle for Greyport is the lack of downtime between rounds. Each round, all of the players in the game get an opportunity to help out the defending player in dealing with their group of monsters. Working with the other players and the heroes and items they bring to the table will be crucial to eliminating the toughest of monsters and reducing the amount of damage you will suffer. The key to victory rests in how cooperative the players are with one another, because if anyone drops to 0 hit points, then the city is lost and everyone loses!

As an added bonus for fans of our Red Dragon Inn game, Battle for Greyport includes a complete playable Red Dragon Inn character— Chronos the Time Mage! Chronos is a powerful mage who can manipulate the fabric of space and time for fun and profit. Battle for Greyport includes playable character decks for Chronos in both Battle for Greyport and The Red Dragon Inn itself.

The Red Dragon Inn: Battle for Greyport is an exciting new addition to the world of The Red Dragon Inn. If you like cooperative games, deckbuilding games, and edge-of-your-seat action, this is the game for you!

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About the Authors: Jeff Morrow and Sam Waller are the President and Director of Marketing for SlugFest Games.