Great game - Just for flavor points in my campaign, I gave each of the results names and drew simple symbols on a blank die instead of using numbers. These are, in number order, the Rogue, the Serf, the Fool, the Knight, the Noble, and the King. This makes the four "scoring" rolls (2, 4, 5, and 6) mirror the simplified four-segment heirarchy of feudalism (King, Nobles, Knights, and Serfs), a common government in medieval fantasy. The Rogue is the mischeivous swindler who eliminates you, and the Fool is a fool because the 3 roll forces you to bet more and can never be a King score. Also, it makes sense with the game's name (6 is the King), and 2 being the Serf goes alongside the "peasants can overthrow the king" concept.

the thought of the party intervening when the paladin develops a gambling addiction makes me cry.

I'm sure it's already a game, but I call the game I play Doker. Poker but dice. You roll 2d12, and that's your hand. Make your bets. Then dealer rolles 3d12, next rounds of bets, 1d12, bet, 1d12 final round of betting. Then normal poker rules, there are no flushes, but you can get straights, pairs, and of course high roll of everyone bluffed thier ass off, or you need a tie breaker.

A nice, simple game that can be very easily added. Sounds nice, and the mention of "house rules" makes me think that there also can be variants. Like, imagine the players discover this in a human town. They find out about it in a tavern, and its played as mentioned here. Lets say they win and make some coin, but the game ends and they continue. They find a dwarven town, see a gambling place, and see some familiar activity. They ask to join, bringing out their D6, and the dwarf laughs and say "oh you poor child, we play by dwarven rules here" and shows a D8. Would be fun to see/come up with new results for the additional side and have the dwarf explain it to the party.

I love that a player could make a skill check to cheat, and describe exactly how (choosing a number).

So I took this idea, added some chip buy-in rules and ran it by my players. They love it. I called it Sultan (more in-game accurate for my world)

The 2 besting a 6 is really neat and could lead to cycles of players becoming king and stealing it back. Im definitely going to try this with my players.

Imagining a player heist where they are gathering intel on the casino they plan to rob, so the better at this they are, the more intel they can eavesdrop on.

This is fantastic. I'm setting up a pub crawl campaign and will definitely be including a Kings table. Thanks for the great game!

Loving this. Implementing a world game that everyone knows is a great game tool! Like others I love the idea of some RPG cheating in the midst of real world strategy. “Goblin as King goes for the winning roll, chuckling over the 60 coin pot!” (Half orc player rolls for intimidation) “However, looking across the barroom table at the olive skinned monstrosity cracking their knuckles and boring a hole through them with a death stare, Goblin suddenly decides that passing may be the best option for their own health and safety”

This is absolutely wonderful. I was struggling to think of ideas for non-combat encounters during a long journey, and somehow never thought of gambling in one of the many taverns we’ll end up in!

This seems like it would be a huge hit at my table. Can't wait to get to a place to run it, I love having minigames like this.

I ran a reverse heist style adventure today and used this game as one of the games being played in the casino. The party had to win enough money to bribe a retired lounge singer into revealing some secret information about the casino boss. We played with 5 gold stakes and the pot got into the hundreds. The final round was super tense! The party was able to successfully bribe the singer and was able to switch out the casino boss's lucky charm with a cursed version. After the switch my players wanted to go back into the casino and keep playing King until the place closed. Thanks so much for this great game!

Great game. Interesting and that pot can rise quickly

I made a whole poker-derived card game entitled Lords and Fools for a short campaign at one point that had a rule stating that if you manage to collect all 4 of the worst cards in the game, you win in an uprising, so the 2 beating 6 rule tickled me. Love the concept of King and will absolutely keep it in my notes!

I love the idea of adding a mini game, especially since I'm running my first game as a DM and I chose Stormwreck Isle. There's no real way to spend money on that island, and this is a great way to utilize all the gold they'll acquire. Thanks for sharing!

I’m fond of these games: Pig: on your turn, you can choose to roll or hold. If you roll, roll the die and add it to your previous rolls. If you hold, add all the rolls from this turn to your total. But if you roll a 1, you don’t get any points this round. Win at a predetermined number. A basic push-your-luck game. Hazard: it’s basically a faster version of craps Dice Poker: poker with dice it’s not that hard. Drop Dead: everyone starts with the same number of dice. Each round everyone rolls. Add all your dice to your sum, but then remove any die that landed on 5 or 2. Once all dice are eliminated (or the last person standing gets the highest total), the game ends. Highest total wins. Ce-lo: a game of basically pure chance, but is great because it can handle a lot of players. Not enough room to explain. House has the advantage, too. Snakes: basically just farkle but faster.

Ran this for my players last game and they really seemed to click with it. Thanks for the great and simple game suggestion!

Great game! Just started a campaign and will definitely be using this!! Also love the shirt! Who Dey! 🐅

Yeah I'm pretty excited to put this in my game! Also subscribed, you have such a captivating way of presenting information. Keep it up, fella!

I ran this with my some of my players during a break, and it was a huge hit! Easy to explain, easy to play, and generated a lot of laughs and stories. Thanks!

Awesome idea, thanks for sharing!! I might play a few rounds of this completely unconnected to a d&d session c:

Thanks Bard. Timely introduction as my players' characters are at the casino tables aboard the Grand Dame in Yartar. Recently came across your channel. Subscribed.

You’re a great speaker, super engaging!

-and then the orc came back later and mugged the dwarf for that 26 gold coins.

This sounds great! New sub! I'd LOVE to see more games like this please! 🙏

I'm about to start running a Weird-West style campaign and I was going to look for simple but fun gambling games I could add to the taverns and lo and behold, here's a video before I even started looking! How fortuitous! The rules for this are fast and easy, but the example showing just how fast that pot could grow is wild. This is definitely going to be fun to watch happen in real time.

I love your energy, awesome idea!

This is a novel little game. Thank you so much for sharing! Looking forward to trying it out my own table soon.

I like this, it's simple and fast enough to incorporate into a session without taking up too much time or energy from the table. Plus it's setting agnostic. I'm definitely gonna play around with this in my campaigns

This is really cool will definitely be adding this into my game sometime. Also subscribed!

This is awesome - I am going to give this a shot this weekend!

Really glad this video fell in my recommended! Love the concept will try this out the next session I have! Will sub and stick around for more

Great explanation! Definitely will give it a try with my group.

Great Game! I just used this in a campaign last week! The party came into room with dragon cultists playing games and drinking. Cultists drew their swords but the party wanted to persuade them to join the game! The Ranger rolled a Nat 20, so I’m like “I guess we are playing a game”. I hadn’t prepared for this but I remembered seeing this video! I pulled it up on my iPad and added closed captions to quickly refresh myself on the mechanics, then voila! We dove in and played. Game was fun! When the first Cultist rolled a 1 and was out, a newbie player said “so do we kill them now?”… we were like “no, they were just eliminated!” After a good game with lots of duels the dragon cultist ended up winning! Overall, loved the game. I’ll definitely incorporate it into my games in the future. Thanks!

Love this idea! Love the content! now we're playing this in game!

I don't think I've ever seen such an original game before, good shit!

1:24 I love the dice on top of the books being closer to the camera. Sweet idea! 👌

amazing storyteller and I'll certainly be adding King into my game this weekend!

I’m running Kingmaker right now and this is perfect for setting a theme during downtime.

Looks really cool ! Im def gonna try it for my next session

This is so fun! 🎉 My players are heading to a Pirate City soon so this will be perfect 😍

Dang, awesome video man!

Was frantically searching for D&D gambling games for my next session because of course one of my players asked the shady tavern's barkeep about such a thing 😄 I'm usually the type who can't grasp dice or card games for the life of me (ESPECIALLY card games 😅), but this sounds doable. Thanks in advance man, you might've saved my butt!

This is a great game! I'll definitely add this to my arsenal of drinking games! Thanks!❤

Ooh, I like this! I DM for a table of particularly ADHD players, and this would help keep them engaged and interested. In fact, there are a lot of possibilities for this sort of thing... Glad your channel popped up through the algorithm! I'm looking forward to watching your other videos!

Gonna try this tonight!

Seems like a great game, thanks. I'll be sure to set it up in my game when i get to that point.

This is amazing! I, no lie, tried to design a card game with design philosophy incredibly similar to this called "Dragons roost", starting about a week ago. It is played with just picture cards, which each did something different, and focused on paying into the pot or "dragon's hoard" each round. Ill definitely be using this at my table, incredibly well-presented.

Love the characterization in the example game!

Cool game, I’m looking forward to introducing it to some of my players and what’s more, it’s inspired me to work on making a few small tavern games of my own! Thanks man!

This looks like a lot of fun! Our go to for gambling at the table is Cee-lo, but we’ll have to try this one out 😄

Ooooooo I like this idea! I developed a dice game named Knucklebones which is similar to Yahtzee for my campaigns but I am definitely going to incorporate this into my games. Great idea thanks!!!

Will be running this in my campaign soon at the local Inn! Thanks!

I'm going to use this at some stage; I also have some names in mind to assign to the numbers rolled, based on their effects. 1: The Criminal; because they get executed 2: The Mayor; not much power, but could lead a popular uprising. 3: The Knight; A bit of power at risk from campaigning and tournaments. 4: The Count; reasonable safe in their power base, but could rise further. 5: The Prince; While they may rule some areas of the kingdom more-or-less autonomously, they could seek more power through succession. 6: The King. Top of the chain, but could be overthrown by a popular uprising. Excellent work. I just hope my players enjoy it as much as I do.

Love this. Thank you for the example game, too

Definitely using this later. Was rooting for goblin, my heart is shattered

Awesome video. Thanks for the great game idea!

Awesome idea!

Very cool game! I'll def save this video

running this tonight in my darksun setting campaign where the world is ruled by sorceror kings so very appropriate and hoping players will like it as much as I do!

This reminds me of multiple kinds of card games, mainly President and a little bit Kaiserspiel, but scaled down to dice. Pretty perfect for a simple game within a game, might keep this one even for a quick travel game!

This is fantastic!

This would be fun with custom d6's. You would just need two and they would be: 1: Death 2: Serf/Peasant 3: Tax Collector 4: Soldier 5: Bishop (or other religious leader) 6: King Use simplified colored shapes (skull, man, coin, sword, holy symbol, crown). The current king keeps their side face up for keeping track. Everyone else rolls the second die. Duels will always resolve with either one die as king or no king if they both roll a 1.

Who Dey! Pretty interesting game. I'm running a Spelljammer campaign and it seems like a game meant for spacefarers only, not land people to know. "The secret space game" only real space pirates know about!

Nice game - one I'll be sure to use! I noticed in your play example that after a duel, the number to beat changes to the number rolled by whoever won the duel. This wasn't mentioned when you explained the rules earlier (or in your Reddit post). I recommend adding a line about that in the rules proper for clarity.

This is sick, def stealing for my next session🤙🏻🤙🏻

This is super cool cant wait to bust this out in a taverna

I did slots with my players using d8s. I said you can either roll 3d8 and win by matching 2 or more numbers. Or, I had a flow chart where one roll based on the 1st number you got would determine the other 2 numbers. My players went to the chart at first, but then they realized it was rigged and would never land on all 7s for the jackpot. It took 5 minutes after that for someone to win big with the 3d8 method.

Gonna try using this in my game this Thurs. cheers!

Awesome game idea! I'm always looking for more game ideas for pirate gambling aboard the ship in my Skull & Shackles campaign 😀.

Oh this is gonna be fun, can't wait for our sorcerer to become addicted.

Banger game! Glad this popped up on my feed, I love adding gambling to my tables

My players are headed to a dwarven city in our next session, which includes a tavern district because...well, dwarves. I gave the party a map and brief description of all the landmarks in the city, including 13 different taverns. One tavern is a known gambling hall, so this will be a perfect game to throw in should they head that direction. Thanks for the inspiration!

Thank you man ❤❤❤

im saving this one for the future

I’ve been looking for something just like this! Fairly simple but creative and lots of wiggle room Love it Subscribed Quick question, apologies if I missed it in the video, if you run out of money do you get to stay in for your share or are you just out?

so cool!

Very cool game love how random it is

My gambling gunslinger charecter just found their new favorite game.

I really like this game, I will definitely be adding it to my tavern games collection. I usually default to playing what I named "dice blackjack". It is like regular blackjack, but instead of cards, you are rolling d6s, and the target number is 11 instead of 21. You go around the table, everyone deciding to stop, or to roll. If you stop, you are "sitting on" your current total, and can't roll again later. If you bust, (go over 11), you are out, and your bet is forfeit. Once everyone still in the game is "sitting", there are two variants: in the fast version, the highest total wins the pot, or if it's a tie, whoever has tied for the highest plays again. In the slow version, whoever has the lowest total, (or if multiple people tie for the lowest, all of them) is out, and the new round starts. Another good one is skulls and roses, I recommend looking up the Shut up and Sit down video for the rules, as it's a bit hard to explain over text.

You said that there's no folding, but what if you run out of money to bet? Or what if the player just doesn't want to sink in more money? The presentation of the video was still great, by the way. I like your style a lot

@TheBardsCollegeYT I have a question regarding rolling 3: so if I rolled a 3, I have to roll and bet again, that is pretty clear to me. However, at playtesting it happened that 3 players got a 3. Does they start dueling? Or 3 is designed to be a way to get PC 'deeper' into the game, without moving them closer to the win? Hope my question makes sense. At playtesting session we just decided that such situation is sort of 'filler-turn' to grow bank and moved with it.

Only for a quick reference, do you have the rules written anywhere, or a compilation of tavern games available as a print off? When I’m in game it’s hard for me to remember the rules to games on top of everything else for a campaign.

wow this rules! totally going to use this

In world of warcraft classic, a popular way to gamble is to "death roll", rules are simple: players agree on a starting value, ie. 100, then the first player rolls, and then the next player has to roll on the value the first player rolls, this goes back and forth until someone rolls a 1. So as an example, Player A rolls a D100 and rolls a 57 (note, you can roll on any dice in wow with the /roll command), player then rolls a D57 and rolls 21, player A rolls a D21 and rolls 5, then player B rolls a D5 and rolls a 1 and loses, player A wins the pot. You could do something similar with a set of RPG dice, set aside a D20, D10, D8, D6 and a D4, if you roll below any of the dice, you start rolling with the lowest value dice rounded up. So player A rolls a 7 on their D20, which means play continues with a D8, skipping the D10, until someone rolls a 1.

Sounds fun! Who dey!

what happens if someone runs out of funds during a game? Do you have a general rule, or is it more dealers choice?

interesting idea

Idea: If there are 2 people standing and they have a duel, in case they both roll a 1, the house takes it all. This obviously only works in a more formal setting, like in a casino, at a table operated by the inn's owner or maybe in a thieves' camp. If they think about refusing to roll, I am sure the half-orc bouncers will convince them of doing otherwise c: I think this could give that extra spice to the game that will make your players bite their nails.

Question: When you roll for final success while you're king (trying to roll your current number), can you just keep repeating until you succeed (or run out of money, or roll a 1 ofc)? Or do you get one roll, then the dueling goes on? (I assume it's once every time it's the King's turn, not sure tho)

Gambling has come up so much recently in my campaign and it’s been boring to just roll deception or slight of hand. Thanks!

I'm running a desert-themed campaign so I'm calling it Sultan but either way this works great!

does goblins new number become whatever he rolled in the duel or would it still be a 2? for example: goblin wants to win as king and has to meet the number he rolled (it's meet the number not meet or beat right?)

Wait, did you invent this?? Nice!

Random idea that may or may not be fun: having a character with a loaded die could mean they get to roll sleight of hand, and if they pass they get advantage on every subsequent roll until they replace them with the original die before a character whos perceptive enough can pick it up and realize, effectively making you op in this game and any orher dice based gambling unless you get cocky with it

I see a Bengals fan, I like and subscribe.

I love it

What do you think of a character that has proficiency in dice? Do they get a single reroll per game or something else?

I ran this for some of my pathfinder players, 2 players and 2 npcs. one player and one npc both rolled a 1 instantly. Then the last party member and npc kept rolling over and over and my players won the pot of 11 gold. My players had fun. But I think compared to craps, it's just a bit too complicated for casual play. Still it was much more narritively interesting to have a new game to play, instead of the same old same old at other gambling environments.