Know when to hold 'em and know when to fold 'em!

GAMBLER (#5/31, #33/365) [POT]

SKILL: 6

STAMINA : 7

ATTACKS: 1

WEAPON: See below

ARMOUR: None

DAMAGE MODIFIER: None

HABITAT: Towns, Dungeons, Ruins

NUMBER ENCOUNTERED: 1-2

TYPE: Humanoid

REACTION: Friendly

INTELLIGENCE: High

The GAMBLER is a professional game-player, a shrewd, calculating individual who plays games of chance in order to win as much as possible, using mental skill and acuity, mathematical intelligence, and, yes, at times, subtle acts of sleight of hand to gain an advantage in play. After all, winning trumps all! Gamblers generally wear good quality or expensive clothes, for no one likes a scruffy loser, and will always have one weapon upon their person with which to defend themselves in the event some uncouth participant in the game accuses the Gambler of cheating. Roll on the table below to determine what that is:

Roll Weapon Type

1-2 Dagger

3-4 Shortsword

5-6 Needleknife

In addition, a Gambler will have 1-3 items of special gear; roll on the table below to determine what these are:

Roll Special Gear 

1 Loaded Die

2 Deck of Marked Cards

3 Counterfeit Money (4-24GP worth)

4 Bottle of Special Brew

5 Pouch of Smoking Weed/Purple Lotus

6 Counterfeit scroll (Roll: 1 Treasure Map, 2 Merchant's Pass, 3 Letter of Credit, 4 Deed of Purchase, 5 Civic Pardon, 6 Magic Scroll)

A Gambler will specialize in playing 1-3 types of game, and, if possible, will have all the pieces necessary for each game upon their person, except if they are in a gambling hall or similar, in which case they will be using the house set. To determine what games a Gambler will be skilled in playing, roll two dice separately and consult the table below as to the results:

First Roll Second Roll Type of Game

1 1 Archer's Arrows

1 2 Arrow of Providence

1 3 Beads and Stones

1 4 Bet Your Life 

1 5 Cabinet of Fortune

1 6 Calabrius' Calculator 

2 1 Chase the Ace

2 2 Chess

2 3 Coconut Shy

2 4 Count Your Gold

2 5 Crown and Skulls

2 6 Dice and Toenails

3 1 Dingles and Dongles

3 2 Dragon Chess

3 3 Dragon's Hoard

3 4 Draughts

3 5 Eclipse

3 6 Find the Lady

4 1 Going to Blacksand

4 2 Grab a Goose 

4 3 Heads or Tails

4 4 High-Low

4 5 Knucklebones

4 6 Lemonpips Spit

5 1 Orc Eye

5 2 Pearl and Three Shells

5 3 Pinfinger

5 4 Rat in Hand

5 5 Runestones

5 6 Six Pick

6 1 Snake Eyes

6 2 Sword Toss

6 3 Ten-Up

6 4 Tenet

6 5 Wheel of Fortune

6 6 Wrist Dagger

Most Gamblers are wanderers, rarely staying in one place long before being driven out of town by sore losers and impatient creditors, but some may stay around long enough to accrue a degree of social capital. Roll on the table below to see the size of the Gambler's operation:

Roll Size Grade

1-3 Wanderer 1 

4 Stall 2

5 Wagon 2 

6 Hut 3

A Gambler may also be encountered at any public spectacle where money changes hand as punters trying and predict the correct odds for a winning result. On Titan this could be anything from Arena Fighting to Bataar Racing to Ogreball to Wrestling to many, many more.

Famous Gamblers include Bartolph of Royal Lendle, known to frequent the First Step tavern in that city, and Ydriel Janthuvien, a mysterious Elf who recently won 50,000 gold pieces playing Bet Your Life on Nowhere Street in Port Blacksand. Port Blacksand also has famous gaming tables at the Riddling Reaver Tavern in the Noose district, and while a full list of Titan's other gambling establishments is impossible here for reasons of space and time, the following represent a broad selection; the Games Room at Balthus Dire's Black Tower, the Gambling Halls of Vlada in Khare the Cityport of Traps, the notorious Gambling Pits of the Port of Crabs in Ruddlestone, the Elfbane Bar of far Arion, the Gambling Pits of Calah, and the houses of chance in Ashkyos' Old Quarter.