Dragon Farkle: My Favorite Mechanism

About Dragon Farkle, from BoardGameGeek:

Gather your courage! The long-enjoyed peace of Yon has been disrupted by a ferocious and mean-spirited dragon - he's terrorizing the locals and eating their livestock without their permission! Fortunately, a few wannabe heroes (that's you!) have risen to the challenge of slaying the beast. Get yourself a brave companion, gather a powerful army, and enter the Dragon's Keep for cheese and country in Dragon Farkle! To play, you gather an army of loyal soldiers or steal them from your opponents, hire suspicious-looking companions and gain allegedly useful items (most of which aren't even cursed), then fight that dragon you've heard so much about - or don't, if you hate winning...