Dice Poker

[Abimael]

I know that JC is planning on adding cards to the game, BUT...

I was thinking about the idea of a possible minor change, which may or may not mesh well with the salem code.
When dice are dropped, they have the option to be hidden or visible (same menu tree as planting a potted tree or dropping it)
When hidden, the dice shows a blank face to the world (but it is already rolled, and the server knows what it is). When visible, it displays as normal.
A player may right click on a dice to give options to peek at,show the dice, or pick. Peeking will queue a system message (similar to madness etc) that will reveal the number to that player only. Showing the dice will reveal it to the world. Picking the dice will, of course, return it to their inventory.


HOWEVER:

We do currently have the ability to play dice poker in witcher style. DISCLAIMER- this is just an example of what can currently be done. Not a suggestion to incorporate witcher elements into salem. If you don't know the rules, look them up.

As a side note, and FWIW, my stance is that gambling should be completely left to chance. IE. skills / proficiencies / witchcraft should have no effect on it or atleast have the ability to create a tournament set of dice that would be purely left to chance. This way tournaments / player run events would take off. vs. just here and there because people are too afraid that the odds are weighted against them. Take for example the cursed teddy bear fear mongering. (which I'm sure JC gets a kick out of everytime he sees everyone rushing to craft new teddybears, because of the cursed teddy bear plague. Oh crap, I didn't just give him an idea did I?)

[Dallane]

so like the witcher?

[grapefruitv]

so like the witcher?

I'd rather take gwent.
Well, probably my obsession with beating every single side quest is to blame, but after first two games the sole idea of dice poker still makes me a bit nauseous.

[Abimael]

so like the witcher?

Actually, with the first part of my idea I envisioned player run tournaments texas hold-em style. It could create a lot of player interest / interaction around providence, and TONS of drama.

I'd rather take gwent.
Well, probably my obsession with beating every single side quest is to blame, but after first two games the sole idea of dice poker still makes me a bit nauseous.

My idea was hopefully a simply change to the dice item that would allow more games with them vs. the complexity of adding cards to salem. It really shouldn't be taken as, "hey, combine witcher elements with salem." As such I have edited my original post.

And I'm just guessing here, but adding a gwent style game would be too resource intensive for too little pay off.