Hey I want to run a gambling encounter with my players with them facing off against their nemesis in a more civilized manner. any Ideas on how this could be run? What stats should they use and I would like ideas for games.

Something with a 40k or scifi bent would be sweet, I'm thinking like damage from the culture novels if anyones ever read those.

I'm picturing my players in a loud space port club, music blaring and dancing voids men bellow while they play their hands losing and gaining profit factor depending on how well their doing, probably ending in a shoot out with the ******* across the table.

Any gambling that would involve the amounts of money to actually affect Profit Factor would likely be very high stakes and not out in public, which would likely be better for building suspense. Skillwise, Gambling, Scrutiny and even Sleight Of Hand could come into play.

I once played a Shadowrun game set in a gambling den where the players actually played poker in character, with skill rolls allowing things like free wildcards, changing bets, etc. That could be fun. Or a nice game of Regicide...

An elaborate game of strategy, chance and bluffing, played with electro-crystal cards that change as the game changes, on a transparent platform hovering above an amphitheatre within which acrobats and circus freaks perform.

Every so often when a piece is taken, an acrobat's swing cuts loose, or an advance across the board is reflected by a parade of xeno-beasts. The stakes may be Profit Factor, or something actually worthwhile - your dynasty's flagship must pledge to serve the victor for a month, perhaps. Maybe the stakes are ten thousand left-handed slaves, or something more exotic.

This thread: javascript:void(0);/*1327534610132*/ is to How I Became Incredibly Wealthy, which should be required reading. Some interesting bids were made on an auction including:

Lord Admiral Bastille bid the co-ordinates of the lost 13th Station of Passage.

Lady Charlabelle Armelan bid a Daemonette’s toenail.

Sun Lee bid a vial of 500-year-old Brain Leaf essence, which, I have no doubt, is quite deadly.

Captain F'wad bid 10,000 blind slaves.

The Witches aren’t interested in money, slaves, or poison. They want value. Whatever is bid has to be extremely valuable to the bidder. This auction was a test of what the bidders were willing to lose. My position worsened. All I had to bid that I would consider truly valuable was my cruiser, and I would lose my life before I lost my ship. I bid a bottle of fine Quaddis wine anyway, and it was rejected. I rely on the Tech-Priest’s recording from here.

Abel Gerrit bid next, winning his place with the Palace of Moonlight.

Baron Scourge [...] bid The Brotherhood of Shadows, possibly some sort of assassins guild. I have little information on him other hthan his propensity for world-burning.

Jerimiah Blitz bid a mummified Priest-King.

The Duke of Blood had been trying to gain admittance to the auction, but his power armour and dozens of concealed weapons, not to mention his fiery temper, kept him out until the auction house was virtually deserted. He entered stark naked, and bid... his dignity. He pointed out that he knew the Magos was recording the proceedings, and, if he was granted a place, would perform a thong-dance to be publically distributed. The bid was accepted, and we are producing the vid-cast even now.

So go nuts, and emphasise the spectacle!

Zarkov N said:

Zarkov N said:

Hopefully I'll get a chance to steal.. I mean, borrow, some of these ideas