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Offline lankyogre

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Gambling Drunk Warden
« on: September 14, 2010, 03:10:09 AM »
My players and I started City/Character creation last week for St. Louis. We settled on a Warden that has been in StL for awhile and has started to make compromises. Essentially he started out decent, slowly decided that it wasn't worth it to rock the boat, and now he only does anything if its blatant Laws of Magic violations or the Council tells him he has to. We figure many times he decides that devil he knows is better than a new one. Or 2-4 competing factions/evil guys is better than one with free reign. So now he spends his time at the casino boats playing cards and drinking.

I need some help with a few Aspects, but more I need phrases, spells, and maneuvers. This guy already seems to have a lot of flavor, but I want to be able to make that happen at the table. I think it would be fun if he is a little humorous, but not comedic relief, if that makes any sense.

And I've been following the other gambling wizards that also popped up this weekend for skills and some spells. But this guy has to have some stuff that.... .... puts a different twist on it.
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Offline Arcteryx

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Re: Gambling Drunk Warden
« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2010, 06:03:39 AM »
Deadlands (Savage Worlds) has those hucksters who're magicians and they cast spells via cards and other gambling type focii... may be some source material there. Not sure if that's the flavour you want though.

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Re: Gambling Drunk Warden
« Reply #2 on: September 14, 2010, 08:09:58 AM »
Just some phrase suggestions, that could be used for aspects or rotes:

"Aces and Eights" or "Dead Man's Hand"
"You gotta know when to hold 'em, and know when to fold 'em"
"If irritating me is the jackpot, you got the job done!"
"Let the cards fall where they will"
"Stacked Deck"