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Old 12-27-2014, 01:35 PM   #1
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Default Can you have something similar to poker in a TL 1 setting

Sketching on a TL 1 setting and I want to make it a little Old West as well. Could you have something like poker in the Bronze Age? There's no paper, but could you have painted wood plaques, maybe?

Or could you have something similar but not using cards?
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Old 12-27-2014, 01:45 PM   #2
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I don't know how well cards would do, but, you could easily do dice at TL1. You'd probably have more games of skill, though. It's much easier to just throw an axe for distance and/or accuracy than to make up complicated rules, which end up with an axe to the face when somebody's accused of cheating.
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Old 12-27-2014, 01:49 PM   #3
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Ceramic tiles, like dominoes or mahjong, could be used for a poker-like game instead of a placement game.
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Old 12-27-2014, 01:51 PM   #4
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What is a placement game?
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Old 12-27-2014, 01:52 PM   #5
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Thin ivory plaques with engraved designs might be suitable. And I think you could play a poker-like game with Mah-jong tiles: Mah-jong is a lot like Rummy, after all, but with the wall instead of the deck, and with players' holdings on the table instead of in their hands.

Trying to rebuild the Wild West in the Bronze Age you will likely find reproducing the effects of the telegraph and railways much harder to do than poker.
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Old 12-27-2014, 01:53 PM   #6
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Dominoes are TL1, cards are TL3. Why can't you use dominoes for variant poker? After all, Yacht is a thing, and you can adapt it to play with dominoes of 1-6 range. Or make up something of your own.
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Old 12-27-2014, 02:06 PM   #7
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What is a placement game?
I was just referring to any game where tile position on the table is part of game play.
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Read the rules that come with a box of dominoes for an example. Mancala is a TL0 game, actually. Not the most exciting thing ever, but, use coin instead of pebbles, and you have gambling!
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Old 12-27-2014, 07:20 PM   #9
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Read the rules that come with a box of dominoes for an example. Mancala is a TL0 game, actually. Not the most exciting thing ever, but, use coin instead of pebbles, and you have gambling!
In a setting where food is extremely valuable, it's gambling enough to use seeds for pebbles (I may be wrong in saying it was originally played like I just said though).
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Ceramic tiles, like dominoes or mahjong, could be used for a poker-like game instead of a placement game.
Those are more often made of bone, ivory, or wood than ceramic. Mah-jong tiles for instance are usually ivory, bamboo, or ivory back with bamboo.
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