Hello everyone,
In an Edge of the empire online game, I am a Gambler.
For a few important encounters the GM made a tournament with a NPC I needed to delay, and 3 other NPC.
I'm rolling 'Deception' to play, I have 4 Cunning and 2 ranks in Deception.
While I was in the tournament, the other players were boarding the important NPC's ship, placing a tracer device inside.
Now, we are low on cash, and we needed funds.
My character wants to gamble to make money, obviously.
GM says: At the casino play 4 games. Roll 4 'Gambling' checks, against a fixed difficulty based on the wager.
So I spend most of that day in the casino, represented by rolling 4 rolls, and we have the results.
How do other game manage Gambling?
1) The only other player is a character with Presence 4, Cool 1 Rank. He could participate in my gambling. Is there a way to make multiples players participate and make gambling entertaining for multiple players at the same time?
2) How do you play gambling as a "sideline" just to make money (We were wasting time for 2 days, and we already have enough main quest and side quest going on)
3) How would you represent the difficulty to gamble on 1 roll only? Our Gm put (after reading on forums I think):
25 Credits = 1red dice difficulty
50= 1Red 1 Purple
100= 2 Red
250 = 2 Red 1 Purple
500 3 Red
1000 = 3 Red 1 purple
And it goes up from there, upgraded difficulty again at 2000 4000 8000 etc
Thank you for your advice, opinions and references.
My player wanted to "count cards," so I had him roll a Perception check, and rolled the Force die before the check as a randomizer: black pip = setback die, white pip = boost die. That was completely on the fly, and it worked fine! Of course the Force die kept coming up with black pips, to my player's chagrin, but he still ended up winning quite a bit before he rolled 5 Threat on his check, and the NPCs decided they didn't want to play with him any more
