#003 - Why Chance It?

An open invitation has lured a team of heroes with a gambling streak to a high-stakes blackjack table on the open sea. Are you ready to ante up and bet it all in an effort to bust the nefarious High Roller? Don't mind Enigma, she just really likes the table felt. 

Villain: High Roller

Environment: HMCS Moondancer (Case Files) (alt. options Timeless City, Butcher Boroughs 1929, Duskveil Falls, Catchwater Harbor 1929)

Heroes: Backlash, Enigma, Setback, Baccarat

You can also optionally add and/or swap heroes to include other poker / gambling-aesthetic or mechanic heroes, with suggestions including:

  • Moondancer Charlie (Case Files)
  • Moondancer Tucker (Case Files)
  • Chance (Guardians of Tomorrow)
  • Tsukiko (Spooky Ghostwriter Comics)
You can click this to be directed to where you can launch SotM for steam with everything set up for the one-shot: https://play.sentinelsdigital.com/screen/SetupGame?villain=ArtifactComics.HighRoller&environment=CaseFiles.HmcsMoondancer&heroes=ArtifactComics.Backlash,ArtifactComics.Enigma,Setback,Cauldron.Baccarat

Challenges

Want an extra challenge, objective, bragging rights? You can choose which if any / all of the conditions you'd like to fulfill for personal challenge levels.

  • Advanced, Challenge or Ultimate Mode High Roller - for those playing on TTS, the challenge mode for High roller is Mammon's House Rules: At the start of each hero turn, each player with more than 4 cards in their hand discards 1 card, then each player with more than 3 non-character cards in play destroys 1 of their non-character cards.
  • Backlash delivers the finishing blow by damage dealt as a result of gambling a top deck play with 'Hit Me'
  • Alt: Backlash causes the finishing blow by playing a card while incapacitated.
  • Setback finishes the game with 20 or more Unlucky tokens
  • Enigma finishes the game with 20 or more Dream tokens
  • Baccarat uses Bring Down the House to destroy House Rules and/or Jericho Moondancer (bonus points if both at the same time.)