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Games And Gambling Quest Pack

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Quest Pack that allows your PC to play and bet against NPCs in four Games of Chance and four Physical Challenges.

WHAT THIS MOD DOES:

It's a collection of twelve quests that bring four games of chance, four physical challenge games and fout mental challenges for your PC to participate in and bet on. Of the games of chance, three are decided by pure chance and one is affected by chance and your PC's Luck level. The four physical challenges are decided by chance and your PC's Strength, Agility, Endurance or Speed levels respectively. The four mental challenges are decided by chance and your PC's Willpower, Inteligence (two of them) or Personality. Most involve commoners challenging you to a game and a couple involve being challenged by nobles. Breakdown...

1. Coin Toss has a pure 1 in 2 chance of winning or losing 50ish gold. Available from commoners.
2. High Roll Dice gives a roughly 15 in 36 chance of winning or losing 100 gold and a 1 in 6 (6 in 36) chance of a draw... resulting in an offer to play again. Available from commoners.
3. Guess Which Hand has a pure 1 in 2 chance of winning a gem stone or losing 100-150 gold. Available from nobles.
4. Three Cups and One Ball tests Luck for a chance of winning 150ish gold... average Luck (40-59) gives you a 1 in 3 chance of winning. Available from commoners.
5. Arm-wrestling Challenge tests Strength for a chance of winning or losing 100ish gold coins... average Strength (40-59) gives you a 1 in 2 chance of winning. Available from commoners.
6. Knife Throwing Challenge tests Agility for a chance of winning or losing 100ish gold coins... average Agility (40-59) gives you a 1 in 2 chance of winning. Available from commoners.
7. Push-up Challenge tests Endurance for a chance of winning or losing 100ish gold coins... average Endurance (40-59) gives you a 1 in 2 chance of winning. Available from commoners.
8. Fast Slap Challenge tests Speed for a chance of winning or losing 100ish gold coins... average Speed (40-59) gives you a 1 in 2 chance of winning. Available from commoners.
9. Burning Candle Challenge tests Willpower for a chance of winning or losing 200ish gold coins... average Willpower (40-59) gives you a 1 in 2 chance of winning. Available from commoners.
10/11. Strategy Board Game tests Intelligence for a chance of winning or losing 200/300ish gold coins... average Intelligence (40-59) gives you a 1 in 2 chance of winning. Available from commoners (10) and nobles (11).
12. Joke Telling Challenge tests Personality for a chance of winning or losing 200ish gold coins... average Personality (40-59) gives you a 1 in 2 chance of winning. Available from commoners.

If you loose any of these wagers and cannot pay, you have half a day to raise what's owed before collection is demanded with the threat of violent retribution - if you still cannot pay, your reputation will nose dive with the quest giver and their associates, and you run the risk of debt collectors coming after you for the debt (plus interest, fees and expenses) sometime down the line. There's a slight chance of an accusation of cheating being made during the High Roll Dice quest ... things will get dicey indeed because the quest giver starts a fight over it.

Like my Prostitutes and Lovers quest pack, these are all fairly simple dialog based quests. That is, simple to play, they were anything but simple to write. The dice game was especially complicated, having to allow for the 36 possible results when throwing two dice. The quest giver throws a possible 1 to 6 first, then the player throws 1 to 6 in response to each of the quest givers possible throws. Proved to be a major headache, especially when you throw in the chance of an accusation of cheating.

VERSION HISTORY:

Version 1.2: Adds four (higher stakes) mental challenges to the four games of chance and four physical challenges. Rep will no longer be affected if you win or lose, but you will get a slight rep boost if you honor a debt and a large rep penalty plus a chance of debt collectors coming after you if you don't.

Version 1.1: Ironed out a persistent wrinkle that caused a "you lost" message to appear after you win a bet and get the reward (there was no logical reason for this happening, but I changed the task instruction order around somewhat and it seems to sort it). Made some very minor spelling and wording corrections to the dialog.

Version 1.0: Initial release.

DOWNLOAD: https://www.nexusmods.com/daggerfallunity/mods/422!

HOW TO INSTALL & PLAY:

Unzip file directly into the StreamingAssets folder (Vortex should do this automatically) or cut and paste manually into the StreamingAssets folder. The file path should end up as "StreamingAssets/QuestPacks/Harbinger451/GamesAndGambling Quests". There is NO dfmod to be enabled and NO console command required. If you are updating an older version, overwrite everything with the new as prompted. These quests are added to the pool of quests that come up naturally when talking to NPCs... the taverns and inns are probably a good place to start. Talk to everyone.

PROBLEMS AND CONFLICTS:

If you come across any problems or mistakes please leave a comment on the appropriate Nexus or Daggerfall Workshop Forums page. Ask yourself whether it can be considered a feature before reporting it as a bug.

It shouldn't conflict with other mods.
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Re: Games And Gambling Quest Pack

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Initial release of this quest pack is now available for download at NEXUS here... https://www.nexusmods.com/daggerfallunity/mods/422
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Version 1.1 released... Ironed out a persistent wrinkle that caused a "you lost" message to appear after you win a bet and get the reward (there was no logical reason for this happening, but I changed the task instruction order around somewhat and it seems to sort it). Made some very minor spelling and wording corrections to the dialog.

Updated OP to reflect this.
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I have moved this topic into Released Mods.

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Updated to v1.2: Adds four (higher stakes) mental challenges to the four games of chance and four physical challenges. Rep will no longer be affected if you win or lose, but you will get a slight rep boost if you honor a debt and a large rep penalty plus a chance of debt collectors coming after you if you don't.

OP has been changed to reflect this.
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