Red Dragon Inn

If I had to pick a single game to play for the rest of my life, it would, of course, be Dungeons & Dragons. But if I had to pick a single board game, it would be Red Dragon Inn. Which bears a lot of similarities to D&D. There's opportunities for roleplay and showing a lot of personality, as well as encouraging interacting with other players in-character. So it works great for me. 

I also have some very nice memories of playing RDI. 

I met one of my dear friends playing RDI. He was playing Gog the Ogre, and I was playing Fleck the Bard. I just had so many easy chances to push his buttons, and by the end of the game, I wasn't sure if he was going to kiss me or beat me up (turns out we ended up doing some of both). 

Then there's the chainmail bikini. 

Fiona, from RDI1, has the card "Hey! No more chain mail bikini jokes!" I had friends who were making chain mail items, so I commissioned a pink-and-black chain mail bikini. And for a time, anyone who played Fiona was peer-pressured into wearing that chain mail bikini. The real test was whether they put it on over their clothes or stripped down for it. The guys generally agreed it pulled chest hair pretty badly...

Now, Fiona doesn't get played very often at my house anymore, because I've collected so many of the RDI expansions that I now have around 50 characters available. Which means that I haven't even played all of them. Yet. But I will, sooner or later. I made a Google document to track which ones I have.

And I'm still collecting.  RDI 10 will be coming out before long - I've supported the Kickstarter for it already. I got RDI9 through Kickstarter, as well.

So far, everything I have (except the chainmail bikini) fits in the larger box from RDI5.