Pathfinder 1E Casino games for Pathfinder

[SkredlitheOgre]

Okay, so at my next session, I'm having the group go to a casino/tavern-type place and so far, I have two games for them to play, if they want, but I now have 7 players, so I'd like to have some more games.

I don't have a Three Dragon Ante deck or I'd play that. I was thinking of having something like poker, which I know how to play, but I'd like a couple more, just to be safe.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

As far as casino games go, I'd almost always include a variation on craps and the roulette wheel, and then a simple "Wheel of Fortune" (which is basically roulette without the fancy options).

Oh - and unless cheating is going on, the odds always favor the house.

 

[SkredlitheOgre]

Yeah, the two games I have are Boneyard and Golddiger out of the 3.5 book Book of Challenges, but in the section I took them from, the third game is arm wrestling an Ogre Mage, and since the group's Fighter is a Level 3, I think not. I didn't think of the Wheel of Fortune. That would probably work. Thanks!

 

[Shisumo]

The first book of the Second Darkness AP, "Shadow in the Sky," opens in a casino, and includes several unique casino games, including a poker variant called golem and a dice game called bounder. I don't know if I can repost the rules without breaking copyright, however. If you're looking for a couple of fun games - and they are, I've played both in real life - you could do worse than tracking the issue down, if only in PDF form.

 

[Psychotic Jim]

There was another Golarion specific card game that "blasphemously" used a harrow card deck. The rules on it were included with the Harrow Deck play aid.

Expeditous Retreat Press' One-on-One adventure compendium had a dice game called "Skulls" in the first adventure ("Gambler's Quest", a low-level solo rogue adventure, quite fun). The Skulls game was quite detailed, and involved a bit of complex gambling strategy for the gambling tournament that takes place in the adventure.

 

[RedXian]

The Fable II mini-game Fortune's Tower looks like an interesting enough card game to use in a gambling session.

The rules for Fortune's Tower can be found here: Fortune's Tower - The Fable Wiki - Fable, Fable 2, Fable 3, and more

You'll need at least 2 decks of cards, discarding all the 8s, 9s, 10s & the face cards. Keeping just 4 of the Jokers (or the Kings if you prefer) to use as Hero Cards.

 

[NMC]

I did some research to find an appropriate game for my historical pirates campaign and found Bone-Ace; you can find rules for it on my blog.

d20 Pirates

Edit: Scroll to the bottom of the article for the rules.

-Nate

 

[Stormonu]

While its certainly fun to pull out an actual minigame to play, with 7 players, you might want to turn this into some sort of skill or ability check(s), unless these games are to be the focus of the session. Maybe you could do a round or two (perhaps with those whose characters aren't participating acting as other patrons in the game), and then switch to skill checks to resolve the night's gaming (or have one round represent a longer streak of games).

As for other games to include, perhaps rat races, liar's dice (the betting dice game shown in Pirates of the Carribbean, the dice game Ship, Captain, Crew or a fantasy version of slot machines.