Good gambling games for d d 5e12/23/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe a simple skill challenge with five rounds, each impacting the overall modifier. The SW system sounds solid and so I'd try and build off of it. Anyone have a good system, skill challenge setup, or method for simulating an evening of gambling as a centerpiece rather than just a die roll and some math? Something with some flash to it, some dramatic tension. ![]() This Friday, the session will feature a big game with two of the PCs playing and the others attending an illegal high stakes poker game in the back room of an illegal casino in the heart of a criminal gangs territory that the PCs are trying to bring down. It's a good basic system and it's seen a lot of use in my game, but the gambling has been a minor aside, a filler for a gambler PC to be a gambler, a lead up to other action. Cheating comes into play as a modifier to the roll, but a 1 on the skill die means you were caught cheating and suffer the consequences. The next lowest pays the next highest, and so on, with an odd man in the middle breaking even. The lowest roll pays the highest roll the difference x the stake. Those involved in the game agree on the stakes and make a gambling roll. Savage Worlds has a decent method to simulate a half-hour of gambling, using the gambling skill. ![]()
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