Three Dragon Ante and other games

[Trellian]

I was wondering if anybody had used this in the game, and what skill or ability or method you used to decide the outcome? I'm interested in having the players playing this game and rolling a dice or something to see if they win, not playing a round of the game itself.

Int check? Wis check? Maybe a sleight of hand if you want to cheat?

 

[nittanytbone]

I imagine several skills could be useful:

Bluff vs. Sense Motive (to try to bluff the others)
Sleight of Hand vs. Spot (to cheat)
Profession (Gambler) -- I might allow such a check untrained at a -2 penalty

The Complex Skill checks section in UA might be worthwhile to represent a game with multiple hands and to build more tension.

 

[Rafilar]

We sat down and dealt out hands and played it that way. There are suggestions in the rulebook for little tricks you can do if you have 5 ranks in Bluff and other skills (like synergy bonuses), so we used those. But actually playing out some rounds was fun.