Category:Games
This category is composed of games of chance and skill played for entertainment specifically referred to in World of Greyhawk™ sources.
Pages in this category include games (many of which include gambling) known to exist in the World of Greyhawk™ like poker and its variants[1], common entertainment games such as 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 common gnomish games like "dizzy-boff".
Well-documented games
Games about which there is a considerable amount known, and some information is available:
Games with known rules
There are several fictional games which have been mentioned by name about which little or nothing is known. These include:
Card or tile games
- 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.[2][3][4][note 1]
- Three-Dragon Ante
- Poker (and it's variants)[1]
Though they are not "playing cards", fortune-telling cards are also known in the Flanaess, especially amongst Rhennee.[5] They include the Major Arcana, though these include The Raptor (bird of prey), so they are not a standard "tarot" deck.[5] Decks of Wonderous Things are also not unknown.[6]
Dice games
- Spellbones
- Knucklebones—uses literal animal bones; played one of two ways: similar to modern "jacks" or a scored game with tallies counted by individual throws; also, a figurative synonym for "dice"[7][8][9]
- Knives—a dice game, best throw on 3d6.[10]
- Pitchforks—a dice game, best throw on 4d6.[10]
- Fireball—a dice game, best throw on 5d6.[10]
- 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]
- Norebonne—a dice game.[11][12]
- Two and Three—a dice game in which the dealer (rolling 1d20) and player (rolling 5d4) compete to roll higher results.[1]
Other games
See the index near the end of this page for other games known in the World of Greyhawk™.
- Archchess
- Chatraj
- Driftwood Surfing
- Knuclebones
- Legs (also known as "Twistbuck's Game")
- Pelota
- Quipper Wrestling
- Turoos
- Water Sparring
- Wayward Wing
References
Notes
- ↑ In Dungeon magazine #124, "Backdrop: Diamond Lake" (p.53), Dragonfire is referred to as a card game rather than a tile game. The original source, The Rod of Seven Parts says, "Dragonfire is played with 25 tiles or cards. There are six sets of four tiles, plus one unique tile. The unique tile is the Dragonfire tile." All rules for the game consistently refer to "tiles" throughout, but then gives simple rules for playing the game with a physical, real-world, "regular deck of playing cards" with the Joker as the Dragonfire tile (p.32).
Citations
- ↑ a b c d e f Greyhawk Adventures (1988), p.114, Gambling at the Tables.
- ↑ The Rod of Seven Parts (1996), p.26, 29, 33, 34, Initiation to Power.
- ↑ The Rod of Seven PArts, p.31, 32, Might and Menace.
- ↑ "Backdrop:Diamond Lake". Dungeon #124 (Jul 2005), p.53
- ↑ a b Night Watch (1990), p.25, 27.
- ↑ Supplement I: Greyhawk (1975), p.39.
- ↑ T1-4 The Temple of Elemental Evil (1985), p.37.
- ↑ Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil (2001), p.109, 139.
- ↑ Against the Giants: The Liberation of Geoff (1999), p.11, 33.
- ↑ a b c Dragon #336 (Oct 2005), p.69.
- ↑ Age of Worms Overload (2005), p.21.
- ↑ "Backdrop:Diamond Lake". Dragon #124 (Aug 1987), p.53.
Bibliography
Encyclopedia Greyhawkania Index
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.
| Topic | Type | Description | Product | Page/Card/Image
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Archchess | Item | Game/Sport, | City of Hawks | 228 |
| Chatraj | Item | Game/Sport, | Dragon magazine #100 | 26 |
| Dragonchess | Item | Game/Sport, | LT2 Crypt of Lyzandred the Mad | 43 |
| Dragonchess | Item | Game/Sport, | Dance of Demons | 295, 296 |
| Dragonchess | Item | Game/Sport, | Dragon magazine #100 | 27, 31, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40 |
| Dragonchess | Item | Game/Sport, | Dragon magazine #265 | 59 |
| Dragonchess | Item | Game/Sport, | Dragon magazine #344 | 54 |
| Dragonchess | Item | Game/Sport, | Oerth Journal #27 | 40 |
| Dragonchess | Item | Game/Sport, | Oerth Journal #30 | 19 |
| Dragonchess | Item | Game/Sport, | Oerth Journal #32 | 7 |
| Dragonchess | Item | Game/Sport, | Return of the Eight | 28, 29, 44 |
| Dragonfire | Item | Game/Sport, | The Rod of Seven Parts: Initiation to Power | 26, 29, 33, 34 |
| Dragonfire | Item | Game/Sport, | The Rod of Seven Parts: Might and Menace | 31, 32 |
| Driftwood Surfing | Item | Game/Sport, | Ghosts of Saltmarsh, D&D 5e | 227 |
| Knuclebones | Item | Game/Sport, | Vortext #08, Spring 1993 #08 | 26 |
| Legs | Item | Game/Sport, | Reference | SEE Twistbucks Game |
| Pelota | Item | Game/Sport, | C1 The Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan | 14 |
| Pelota | Item | Game/Sport, | Lost Tomaochan: The Hidden Shrine of Lubaatum | 18, 19 |
| Quipper Wrestling | Item | Game/Sport, | Ghosts of Saltmarsh, D&D 5e | 227 |
| Turoos | Item | Game/Sport, | Living Greyhawk Journal #2 | 15 |
| Twistbuck's Game (Legs) | Item | Game/Sport, | Night Arrant | 212, 213, 218 |
| Water Sparring | Item | Game/Sport, | Ghosts of Saltmarsh, D&D 5e | 227 |
| Wayward Wing | Item | Game/Sport, | Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil, D&D 3.0e | 98 |
Pages in category "Games"
The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.