Message no. 1

From:	shadowrn@*********.com (Mister Incognito)
Subject:	Gambling (Was Re:GMing Advices)
Date:	Sat Jan 13 07:12:06 2001

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Pepe Barbe wrote:

>Are there any house roules on playing any kind of gambling game? I > mean
>for playing straight, cheating, and noticing cheating players.

No canon rules no. Gambling in SR has come up a few times on two or three
different threads/topics over on the dumpshock forums. You could try
searching the older topics for them.

On the cheating side. Best guess is that it's probably a specialisation of
Stealth. Don't have any books with me at the moment so I can't remember
really well. IIRC a couple of Stealth specialisations are Awareness- being
able to spot other people trying to do stealthy stuff ans Sleight of Hand-
stuff like pickpocketing, palming things etc. These aren't the proper names
for them, I just can't remember them off the top of my head.

Use the Stealth\Awareness (or whatever it's actualy called in the book) to
notice if anyone's cheating and the Stealth\Sleight of Hand for cheating
like dealing off the bottom of the deck. Basically just read the part of SR3
main book that explains how stealth works and change it for what you need.

Or you could do like or group did and make each different game- craps,
poker, pool- a single active skill. Then you can have things like
Poker\Cheating as a skill. We ran stealth as a complimentary skill and set
the TN's really high- as you might know how to do it, but you have to be
able to do it really well to escape detection.

Well, that's my ¥0.02

[Lurk]
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