Gambling

This skill covers not only rules knowledge for various board, card, and dice games, but also playing techniques, strategies, winning combinations, and probabilities. For games other than solitaire, you must make a competitive check against the Gambling skill of the other characters to determine a winner. Complex games must be learned as a trade secret (see page 219).

Use: Cheating (see page 214)
Check: SGC/SGC/INT
Applications: Betting Games, Board Games, Card Games, Dice Games
Encumbrance: no
Tools: game
Quality: make a smart gambit.
Failed Check: lose the game.
Critical Success: win spectacularly. If playing for money, double your winnings.
Botch: others suspect the character of cheating, especially if they have suffered losing streaks. If playing for money, lose at least your whole stake (if not more).
Improvement Cost: A

• The hero isn’t distracted and can focus +1
• The hero is slightly distracted -1
• Win a game — Competitive check Gambling (Application) against Gambling (Application).