Dragon's Hoard Game

Written by Skully_MacDuff

History

Dragon Hoard is a gambling game of chance . That has 6 suits and each suite had 20 cards in them but the type of suite depends value of the card. You are given 1 card form each suite. You have three rounds in which points are giving to the winner of the round based on which suite they played. The winner is of the round is the person with the lowest played card. They are awarded dragon hoard points based on the suite that is played. The player with the most dragon hoard points wins the Hoard.

Suites

Each suite has 20 cards but the value of those cards change based on the suite. A Dragon God suite has the smallest values 1-4 so the odds of winning a round increase but has a low round score of 2 points ( called low cards due to the 1 and 5 chances of winning). The material plans has 20 cards of value of 1-20 and they have the lowest odd of winning the round but has the highest round score of 10 (called the high cards do to the 1 and 20 chances of winning). On a round that is tied the highest played value card wins the round. example : Dwarf played the 1 Dragon card, but the Elf played the material plane card 1. The Elf would win because he played higher suit.
Since Dragon Hoard suites over the years have been collected and trade, It not uncommons to see a miss matched back of the cards.

• Dragon Gods. (represented by a D4) This suite is 4 cards with an DG in the corner and number 1-4. The 1 Card is Ion the world creator. 2 is Behaumat, 3 is Kereska the new and 4 is Tiamat. These cards are often very elaborate and are the most artful of the suites

• *Heroes. (represented by the D6) This suit is 5 cards. Heroes changed on location and race who made the decks. The cards are marked with H in the corner with a number 1-6 on it. These are even collected and traded as collector cards and the art work is often as good as the Dragon god cards.

• *Royalty (represented by a D8). This suite is 8 cards. A basic suite will often been Royalty of the 8 main kingdoms, however local version of the deck will have king and queens, and the high lords of the lands. The card has R in the corner with the number 1-8 on it. The cards end to simple in art work but really expensive version with top tear art do exist. They are also collected and traded as collector cards Current imperial version of this deck will have the Queen as the 1 card, the Viszar as the 2 card and the rest are the ruling lords.

• Dragons (represented by a D10). This suite is 10 cards with a D in the corner with a number 1-10 on it. The first 5 cards are of the Common Metallic Dragons and the last 5 are the Common Chromatic Dragons. These are the most commons but they may also have any other dragons, like Astral, Gem, and Psydo-Dragons. These can vary and are often collected.

• *Adventures (represented by the D12) This suite is 12 cards with each card having a A and a number 1-12 in the corner. Each card represent the 12 major classes of Adventures. Barbarian, Bard, Cleric, Druid, Fighter, Monk, Paladin, Ranger, Rogue, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard. These are often unique and often collected and traded.

• Planer (represented by the D20) This suite is 20 cards with P and the number 1-20 on it. The Material plane is show twice as the 1 card and the 2 card. The 1 card depicts the Legendary Tarrasque who home is on the material plane. It is also the Trump cards as this card always wins. The cards are often have a color border that match the Astral color pools collors (DMG PG47) and often display a creature of that planer realm.

*The Heroes, Royalty and Adventures cards have a number set value that does not divided by 20. Since these suites can be "customised" they must have complete sequence of numbers. Before the numbers can repeat.

Betting

Betting is started by the Mark who is the player to the right of the dealer. The Dealer holds a marker on multi deck game or casino, in a single deck game the person who deals the cards is of course the dealer. The Dealer does not have to anti up the first round. The next round start by the mark adding double of what the first round was. If the mark as folded, The player to the right continues. Other players can check, or raise the bet in round 2 and 3. The start of round 3 the Mark put double of what the bet of round 2
example beting in four player match

• Round 1 The mark set the bet at 5 gold. Everyone but the dealer anti in for 15gp total.

• Round 2 The mark set the bet at 10 gold double of round 1. Everyone anti up for 40 gold total.

• Round 3 The mark set the bet at 20 gold double of round 2, but player 3 raise it another 10 gold for a total of 30. Everyone but meet the raise for a total 120 Gold.

By the end of round 3 the Dragon Hoard or pot would be at 175 gold

Execution

You need only one each of the following: a d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, and d20.
Each player selects a die and rolls it, and the player that rolled the lower number wins the points. In the event of a tie, the player that rolled the larger dice wins.
Points are awarded as follows:
d4 = 2 points
d6 = 3 points
d8 = 4 points
d10 = 5 points
d12 = 6 points
d20 = 10 points
The points are equal to half the number of sides on the dice, to make it easy to remember
After three rounds, the player with the most points wins!
Since there is only one of each of the dice, players may not till the same dice, nor may they reuse a dice for the round (for instance, if you rolled the d20 on the first roll, you may not use it again for that set of three rolls). You may, however, use a die that an opponent has used in a previous roll.

Components and tools

Typically the game is played with each player have their own deck made of up the 6 suites. The opposing players verfies each suite to make sure they are not stacked unfairly and are returned to the owner. Each of the suits are shuffled and each player draws 1 card from each suite creating the hand of 6 cards, and it these 6 cards that are used during the 3 rounds to win the Hoard.
The game can be played with 1 deck to. 1 player is the dealer and they pass out 1 card for each suit to each player. One the three rounds are over the game shifts to the next player and the game begins anew