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Enigma
post Jan 26 2004, 11:24 AM
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For an upcoming character, I was wondering what methods people could think of to cheat at poker in shadowrun, mostly with only one person being involved.

Obviously there are things like astral perception or the adept power Empathic Sense (to detect reactions to seeing the cards), along with more subtle things like cultured pheremones (for all the social bits involved with the game of cards).

The methods I have so far include a 'shiner' (as they are known in the business), which is a small object (purse, mobile phone, lighter, money clip) which has been polished so as to allow a dealer of cards to view the cards in the reflection as they pass over the 'shiner'. The variations on this I see are a tiny camera in one of the fingers (for example, the pinkie) and sitting that at the bottom of the deck (which means dealing from the bottom, which implies some skill at card trickery), or a tiny camera in the 'shiner' so it's easier to see. This could be linked by some data transfer method (radio or cellular link, or laser-beam from the eye) to a headware display system, where the user could use the footage from the camera in the 'shiner', play it back and pause it and see the card much more easily, all whilst seemingly staring into space.

Another method is the tried-and-true marking of cards - a high tech version usable in SR might be the use of a ultraviolet vision (cyber implant or adept power) along with a tiny pen or marking device, which marks cards with a dye or ink that dries very quickly and is invisible in all but the ultraviolet spectrum.

Other useful things I was considering and would appreciate any input on are the usefulness of Photographic Memories (counting cards), SPU Math implants (counting cards and calculating odds), the impact of a high perception (through implants such as Cerebral Booster, adept powers such as Enhanced PErception and the Perceptive edge) and the impact of a Tactical Computer, if any.

Any and all input welcomed.
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- Enigma   Cheating at Cards   Jan 26 2004, 11:24 AM
- - Bölverk   Card Games (Poker) 5 (7). Aptitude (Card Games). I...   Jan 26 2004, 12:35 PM
- - Zimbabwean Aardvark   The clairvoyance spell should work well, or just a...   Jan 26 2004, 12:46 PM
- - snowRaven   An ally spirit manifesting as a deck of cards...   Jan 26 2004, 01:07 PM
- - snowRaven   Okay, more seriously... Astral perception won...   Jan 26 2004, 01:42 PM
- - Spookymonster   The Stealth skill will cover the Seven Principles ...   Jan 26 2004, 02:17 PM
- - Shanshu Freeman   QUOTE (Enigma) (which means dealing from the botto...   Jan 26 2004, 07:47 PM
- - Fahr   and I wouldn't reccomend Mirrored eyes... unle...   Jan 26 2004, 08:31 PM
- - Moonstone Spider   Perceptive + Improved Smell, or Olfactory Gland sh...   Jan 26 2004, 08:33 PM
- - Spookymonster   QUOTE (Moonstone Spider) Perceptive + Improved Sme...   Jan 26 2004, 09:00 PM
- - Austere Emancipator   Because you fart more often when excited. Or somet...   Jan 26 2004, 09:02 PM
- - snowRaven   Your natural pheromones will emit different scents...   Jan 26 2004, 09:26 PM
- - Moonstone Spider   QUOTE (Spookymonster) QUOTE (Moonstone Spider ...   Jan 26 2004, 09:28 PM
- - Panzergeist   Any casino is likely to have an astral-capable gua...   Jan 26 2004, 11:48 PM
- - FlakJacket   QUOTE (Spookymonster)Any joint that takes its poke...   Jan 26 2004, 11:50 PM
- - Spookymonster   I was thinking more along the lines of, say, the m...   Jan 27 2004, 01:29 AM
- - OurTeam   What appears to be mirrored eyes, but instead is a...   Jan 27 2004, 01:39 AM
- - Zazen   QUOTE (OurTeam) What appears to be mirrored eyes, ...   Jan 27 2004, 03:09 AM
- - Kanada Ten   Optical Scanning Datajacks and Transducers for two...   Jan 27 2004, 04:22 AM
- - mfb   you mean the laser-eye communication thingy? that...   Jan 27 2004, 06:05 AM
- - DV8   Mind Probe   Jan 27 2004, 08:40 AM
- - Enigma   The character I was intending to play is already b...   Jan 27 2004, 09:07 AM
- - Spookymonster   Fake IDs are covered in the SSG. You might want to...   Jan 27 2004, 12:39 PM
- - Enigma   I know about the new rules in SSG, but you still n...   Jan 27 2004, 01:27 PM


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