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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ycore Rixle" data-source="post: 4602026" data-attributes="member: 675">Sounds like the PC is having a blast with the luck angle. Casinos are always fun. You could have an Ocean's Eleven, only in reverse (or maybe targeting a rival casino). Also, you may have seen it already, but Scott Lynch's "Red Seas under Red Skies" has a great depiction of a fantasy casino.Yeah, I'd say those are good choices for the executive powers in this case. Other typical religion choices like Excommunicate, Holiday, Beatify, and Crusade could work, but I think the ones you mentioned are probably a better fit for a casino-temple.In general, I'd look to involve the casino and the lottery in all kinds of plot hooks. Maybe a lottery loser disputes who the winner is, and wants justice from the lottery owner (the PC). Maybe the local noble gets jealous of the revenue from the lottery and casino and imposes a huge tax, unless the PC can get a MacGuffin for the noble, provide a high-profile job for the noble's incompetent wastrel brother (which leads to plot complications of its own), or always let the noble win. Maybe a beautiful singer wants a job at the casino but her ex-boyfriend wants her back and brings a band of thugs with two ogres to smash the place up one night. Maybe all the money that was collected for the lottery one night is stolen (turns out, it was the God of Order's priest who stole the lottery funds to teach those chaotic luck-lovers a lesson).On the world politics front, I'd have all the different noble houses vie for alliances with the new casino-temple. These negotation scenes - and the spy vs. spy game of intelligence gathering between any nascent organization and its new peers - can make for good cut scenes while the PC is out adventuring. Purchasing land, contracting for the building, facing down the God of Order's priests' protests, obtaining any necessary royal or ducal charters, hiring staff - all these things can be fun. Offer a lot of choices and different penalties and bonuses for different choices. Hire the half-drow wizardess as your security chief? You get +1 Violence and -1 Negotiations (everyone is suspicious of a drow!). Buy the land on the bluff? It's expensive, but you get +1 Negotiations because it's so impressive. Buy the abandoned graveyard and build on it? It's real cheap, and there are no penalties. But then undead start pushing up through the cellar floor...</blockquote>

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