Hey guys
My EotE campaign starts on wednesday, and it'll kick off with a high stakes Sabacc game on Socorro.
Attached is a pdf outlining my homebrew rules for the tournament (using the gambling rules as written as a starting point).
Enjoy: The pdf
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How I plan to use it:
The PCs have just invested their last remaining credits to buy each of themselves a seat at Sabbo's infamous Sabacc game. Sabbo is a Toydarian who owns the "Last Chance Cube", an open planned three-story underground gambling parlour in Vakeyya. It is truly the PCs last chance to make some big credits quick. The entrance fee is 1000 creds, and with 6 tables of 4 each... that's 24,000 creds up for grabs.
Hopefully, one or more of the PCs makes it to the final table, where they'll meet their first nemesis in the campaign, the Devaronian Golu Kaho. I intend to play up his confrontational smack talk. If the PC(s) can beat him and they go on to win, he's not going to take it well.
He's going to be really upset that he is beaten and offer the winning PC one last All-or-Nothing bet. One last hand for the 24,000.
Basso, the owner will object, but Golu has enough of his men to quell the cowardly Toydarian. What Golu is putting up is his ship, a Firespray. He throws down a datapad that projects a hologram of the ship, along with the ownership certificates.
If the PCs refuse, he'll belittle them and if they still refuse, he'll threaten them. Later... he'll come after them (with help) to recover the 24,000 creds.
If the PCs agree to his demand of one last hand, he'll try to cheat at Sabacc, but as nearly everyone in the place is watching, his difficulty will be upgraded once to 2 challenge die. This competitive check will be best of three. GM note: I'm hoping he throws a despair, gets caught and loses the ship to the PCs. The despair will mean he gets a hand cut off, and he'll have a long lasting hatred to the PC that "beat" him.
The thing is... his Firespray is crash landed in the Doaba badlands and its going to be an adventure just getting out there. Golu doesn't put much hope to recover his ship, and so risking it doesn't concern him. GM note: This is the adventure for rest of the next two sessions.
If the PCs lose the entire tournament before reaching the final table, then someone out of the crowd will offer to buy them dinner and commiserate with their loss. He'll inform them he knows that Golu Kaho has cheated his way to a win in this tournament, and wants the PCs help to set the record straight.
If they lose at the final table, as above... but this time the PCs know that there is a ship. The friendly stranger will let them know that the ship is crash landed out in the desert, and suggests they steal it.
Ultimately, if all goes to plan... the PCs win at Sabacc... win the firespray... trek out to it in the desert... survive all the challenges I'll throw at them.... and then make it back to the space port with the ship. Golu will not believe his eyes; the PCs he lost to not only survived the desert but also came back with his ship, and now it's not his. He's going to have a lifelong enmity for the PCs after this. Perfect for a first nemesis.
Edited by torquemadaza