Games of chance and luck are what you live for. You understand the true game you are playing, where most others who play are clueless about what is really going on. This may make it look like you are luckier than others, but it’s really a developed skill. You may have a natural understanding of one game or type of games. Perhaps your understanding is the result of time and study and applies to many games. You may get just as excited at the thought of winning as other players, or there may be no excitement or fun to the process at all.
Skill Proficiencies: Deception, Insight
Tool Proficiencies: One gaming set
Languages: Any one of your choice
Equipment: One gaming set, a lucky charm, a set of fine clothes, and a belt pouch containing 15 gp
Feature: Never Tell Me the Odds
It’s better to be lucky than good, and you make your own luck. When engaging in the gambling downtime activity (as described on page 130 of Xanathar's Guide to Everything), you can choose to live the next most expensive lifestyle from the one you have selected at no additional cost. If you choose to do so, you double your chances of a complication occurring from gambling.
Additionally, you know how to secure an invite even to the most hush-hush of private games. You can leverage your contacts and savvy to get yourself invited to back-room and even upper-crust gambling events. Depending on how secret or exclusive the game, it might take you some time to find the right “in.”
Suggested Characteristics
Some gamble out of necessity. Others do so out of boredom. Still others become addicted to the thrill of winning or losing everything on a turn of fortune. For some, gambling is less a matter of chance and more a matter of seeking every advantage to ensure the outcome. The best gamblers can lose everything, and the worst gamblers sometimes win. Regardless, you can always tell gamblers by the look in their eyes. Lady Luck haunts them.
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