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Background: Gambler
Source: GenLegend custom (adapted mechanics from Astarion’s Book of Hungers: Carouser)
Gambling has nothing to do with luck.
Luck is what the mark calls it later, when they are explaining themselves to their friends. You were counting. You were watching hands, collar, and the exact second they stopped enjoying the game. You can tell three beats early when a mark is about to double down.
The cards still turn. They always turn. That is when the second trade starts, and the second trade is people. You get staked. You get forgiven. You get dealt back in by people who swore last time was the last time, because you were charming about it, and because they want to see how this one ends.
You have been rich. Twice in one night you have been nothing. You stood up smiling both times. Standing up smiling is the job. The cards are the easy part.
Credit finds you. Walk into any town with a back room and somebody will stake you on your face alone, because your face is good and everybody has heard something. You owe them big. Somewhere in a drawer there is paper with your name on it and a number that has never once got smaller. And markers get called. Never in coin. Coin is what people ask for when they have no imagination. There is a thing wants fetching out of somewhere unpleasant. A name wants carrying where it should not go. An evening’s work nobody will admit to paying for. There is a job with your name on it, and you will take it, because of what happens to the ones who do not, and because you have never in your life left a table before it was finished.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Ability scores | DEX, INT, CHA |
| Skills | Deception, Persuasion |
| Tool | Gaming Set |
| Origin feat | On a Roll |