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[[File:DragonTavernsmall_631.jpg|frame| Explore the wilds, beat up monsters, steal their lunch money...]]
[http://www.dragontavern.com/ DragonTavern] is a browser-based, free-to-play Western RPG from Australian company Rowdy Baron Games and it launched on May 16th 2008. The game is set in a [[High Fantasy]] world, divided up into various locations such as The Ashpeak Mountains and The Bravaki Wastelands. Player characters can come from one of three separate factions; The Mountain Kingdoms, The Steel Empire and the Deadlands, and adventure through the locales of the game world via a browser menu. All player characters are based out of the titular Dragon Tavern, located central between each of the three factions' territories. Player activity is curtailed by a set amount of Action Points, which are spent to travel to a location from either the tavern or the location the player is currently in, to adventure within a location and to travel back to the tavern. Each character receives 25 Action Points per day, and these may stockpiled up to 250.
Character creation is based on the selection of one of the three factions and then one of eight classes for each faction. Classes are either ranged or melee specialists or hybrids of the two. All [[Player Characters|PCs]] and Monsters have abilities within the game's TOAD system; (Tactics, Organisation, Attack, Defence) and Skills which modify their tactics. Combat functions by comparing a character's TOAD abilities and with their opponent and modifying based on the character's skills, level compared to the opponent and the quality of a character's equipment. Each of the TOAD types; ranged, melee, magic, stealth, solo, armour, etc. has an opposing TOAD style that it's particularly weak against in defence and one for which it's strong in attack; e.g the Group Organisation style receives a bonus versus opponents using Solo, but suffers versus the Monstrosity Organisation style.
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Dragon Tavern uses a [[Microtransactions]] system through which players may purchase varying amounts of in-world credits which can be exchanged via the Shady Dealer in the Tavern for various items, some providing permanent advantages such as trap avoidance and increased loot drops or for single use infusions of extra Action Points.
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* [[Booze-Based Buff]]: The titular tavern sells a variety of drinks which can have positive effects such as increased loot value and additional resistances to various types of attack. The more you drink the greater your chance of ending up vomiting it all back up and losing positive effects.
* [[Booby Trap]]: Many and varied. From drifts of volcanic ash that penalize your action points to classic deadfalls and pits lined with spikes.
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* [[Fun with Acronyms]]: The combat system; '''T'''actics, '''O'''rganisation, '''A'''ttack, '''D'''efence.
* [[Giant Spider]]: Plenty. Mostly in the Krakesh Rainforest.
* [[Holiday Mode]]: At Easter you may encounter an assortment of Eastern Bunnies including the Crucified Zombie Rabbit, a Fur-suited Freak and a [[Monty Python and
* [[Hungry Jungle]]: Krakesh Rainforest; full of angry trolls, carnivorous plants and some things called "agony beetles."
* [[I Don't Like the Sound of That Place]]: The Blight, The Shattered City, The Dreadmarsh, The Infernal Spire.
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* [[Money Spider]]: All monster drop gold and assorted loot items.
* [[Mordor]]: The Ashpeak Mountains
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: The Pus Factory.
* [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same]]: The Sky Kingdoms dwarves love to drink and fight; get better at the latter when they've done a lot of the former, have a reputation for bad tempers and a mystical connection with stone.
* [[Perpetual Motion Machine]]: The Buttered Toast Cat of Eternal Levitation. As [[Everybody Knows That|cats always land on their feet and toast always lands buttered side up.]]
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* [[Random Encounters]]: [[Dragon Tavern]]'s entire adventuring system is random encounters. You choose your desired location and click on 'Adventure' to encounter monsters. Or maybe nothing. Or find abandoned treasure chests. Or blunder into traps.
* [[Shout-Out]]: An item of Rare loot is named the Sorely Missed Whedon [[Firefly]], and players can purchase an advantage called the Banner of Exploration, which increases the chance of discovering a sub-location while exploring. The item description:
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** See [[Holiday Mode]] above.
** A Boss Monster named [[Ghostbusters|Zuule]], Banished Necromancer of the Unfoldo.
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** [[Dungeons and Dragons|Illithids and Displacer Beasts]] both appear as monster encounters.
** The monster; [[The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind|Gorram Cliffracers]]. Bonus point for making it a double reference with the [[Firefly|gorram]].
** Recently added Fortune Cookies gave us yet another [[Monty Python and
* [[Trauma Inn]]: Yup, travelling back to the Dragon Tavern will heal all of your wounds.
* [[Vendor Trash]]: In essence, every item that the monsters drop. You don't maintain an inventory and whenever you return to the Tavern, you immediately sell all of your treasure.
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