Category:Games: Difference between revisions

This category is composed of games of skill or chance played for entertainment specifically referred to in World of Greyhawk™ sources.

Articles in this category include games of any sort (many of which include gambling) known to exist in the World of Greyhawk™ like poker and its variants^[1]. Some common entertainment games may include games like backgammon, checkers, chess or chatranj (Shatranj) and their variants, games played with cards or dice, or other games such as darts, billiards, boxing, sports, or more unusual games from other cultures, like gnomish "dizzy-boff".^[2]

This category also includes fictional games which have been mentioned by name, but about which little or nothing is known.

These are games about which there is a considerable amount known or have been mentioned in sources the most, and have been named as being played at specific locations.

Dragonchess

Gemsnatcher

Spellbones

Three-Dragon Ante

• Dragoncards—a card game, simulates a battle between knights (player) and a red dragon (dealer).^[1]
• Dragonfire—ante-based tile-matching game with continually raising wagers.^{[3][4][5][note 1]}
• Poker (and it's variants)^[1]
• Three-Dragon Ante
• Wayward Wing—an elven game played with tiles "with images of trees, people, and monsters"^[6]

Note: Fortune-telling cards are also known in the Flanaess, especially amongst Rhennee, though they are not "playing cards".^[7] They include the Major Arcana (as real-world "tarot" do), though these include The Raptor (bird of prey), so they are not a standard tarot deck.^[7] Decks of Wonderous Things are also not unknown.^[8]

• Spellbones
• Gemsnatcher^[9][10]
• Knucklebones—uses literal animal bones; played one of two ways: similar to modern "jacks" or a scored game with tallies counted by individual throws;

The word "knucklebones" is also used as a figurative synonym for "dice"^[11][12][13]

• Dice Racing—a dice game. Players roll 1d6 repeatedly, adding to the sum, and try to reach a total of 25 first.^[1]
• In Between— a dice game in which the bettor tries to roll a result on 2d10 which is in between two previous results.^[1]
• Two and Three—a dice game in which the dealer (rolling 1d20) and player (rolling 5d4) compete to roll higher results.^[1]
• Knives—a dice game, best throw on 3d6.^[14]
• Pitchforks—a dice game, best throw on 4d6.^[14]
• Fireball—a dice game, best throw on 5d6.^[14]
• Norebonne—a dice game.^[15][16]
• Turoos—Rhennee dice game^[17]

• "Long-field sports"—played in the Free City Arena by two teams (sponsored by local schools) on grass turf.^[18]

Jumps—played in the Free City Arena by two teams (sponsored by local schools). It "involves a great deal of physical combat. with the ring carrier having to leap his way past a gauntlet of opposing players bearing iron-shod wooden staves. Each team includes one cleric, who tends to wounded players and who cannot be attacked."^[19]

• Gladiatorial fights—in the Free City Arena^[20]
• Boxing—known, at the very least amongst Rhennee^[17]
• Falthi—Rhennee "deck tumbling"^[17]
• Legs (also known as "Twistbuck's Game")—^[21]
• Pelota—"a game with a ball and stone goals"^[22][23] played by Olman native tribes.

The goals are a "circular nook" on the wall ("a 1ft.diameter niche, 5ft. above the floor and hemispherical in shape") in a 140ft. long court.^[22][23]

The players have "padding on their arms and hips, bouncing a ball between them"^[22][23]

"The ball is cool to the touch and made of some resilient black material wrapped around and around." The "black ball, about a foot in diameter" "... is made of rubber wound around a balsa core."^[22][23]

"The purpose of this game for the players is to hit or kick the ball into the goal... while preventing the ball from reaching its goal at the [opposite] end."^[22][23]

Pelota results in "the death of some of the players by priestly knife," when they lose.^[22][23]

See the index near the end of this page for other games known in the World of Greyhawk™.

• Archchess
• Chatraj

• Dizzy-boff^[24]
• Fortune's Fool^[24]
• The Glittering Path^[24]

• Driftwood Surfing—^[25]
• Quipper Wrestling—^[25]
• Water Sparring—^[25]

The Encyclopedia Greyhawkania Index (EGI) is based on previous work of Jason Zavoda through '08, continued by numerous other fans. The EGI article has a list of sources, product names, abbreviations, and a link to the full, downloadable index.