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- | ====== Appraisal Rules ====== | + | ====== |
- | For regular non-magical treasure or goods, we may want to use this Appraisal | + | For regular non-magical treasure or goods where we just want to create a random set of values for non-magical treasure |
- | A series of five community cards are drawn and laid face up. Those that make the INT check are each dealt a card of their own. Those with Appraisal are dealt an additional two cards of their own. Any other modifiers also give an appraiser the ability | + | A series of three community cards are drawn and laid face up. Each and every random treasures |
- | Based on the cards in their hand and the community | + | All the players who are perhaps choosing which treasures they want to pick are dealt a hand of their own. That hand could be a single card, two cards if they make an INT check, and a third if they make an Appraisal check. Any other modifiers also give an appraiser the ability to gain a hand of one or two cards depending on the GM's whim. |
- | | + | The party must then create poker hands that MUST include at least one of the two cards for the treasure. Player characters with Appraisal may look at the face down cards, but others cannot. |
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+ | Based on the cards in their hand, the community cards, and the cards for each treasure the party can cash the treasure in for an amount of cash using the formula below. | ||
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* One Pair = base * pair card * 2; | * One Pair = base * pair card * 2; | ||
* Two pair = base * higher pair card * 5; | * Two pair = base * higher pair card * 5; | ||
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A joker is wild for the purposes of determining the hand, but retains its multiplier of 25. | A joker is wild for the purposes of determining the hand, but retains its multiplier of 25. | ||
- | For example, the heroes encounter a strange bejeweled snuff box, perhaps once belonging to an Atlantean noble in poor shape. Its base value is in silver. The community cards are dealt, but the highest hand is only a queen. Anyone who doesn' | + | For example, the heroes encounter a strange bejeweled snuff box, perhaps once belonging to an Atlantean noble in poor shape. Its base value is in silver. The community cards are dealt, but the highest hand is only a queen of diamonds which rests on the snuff box. Anyone who doesn' |
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+ | Hopefully, this game should add a new wrinkle to cashing out at the end of the adventure. If it proves tiresome or idiotic, there is no reason why we need to keep using it. We should probably start with the base of copper, since the maximum that treasure might work up to is 250 gold. | ||
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+ | ====== Design Notes ====== | ||
- | Hopefully, this game should add a new wrinkle | + | **I'm really trying |
- | {{ :poker_hand.gif?direct& | + | //Yeah, honestly the more I think about it the more I agree with you. What I'm **trying** to do is create a situation where those who have Appraisal have more information about how much they can get for an item (less OR more, BTW) than someone who doesn' |
appraisal.txt · Last modified: 2020/01/31 00:03 by andrew