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Are there any mentions in the Fading Suns canon about card games played in the Known Worlds? I can't recall any besides Blink. Any help here would be much appreciated.

No idea, sorry - I can't find any references to named games in the books I have to hand. Do they need to be canonical ones?

I cannot remember any. If there are any, they were likely described in fluff material, which I tend not to remember much details from. I can say that in an upcoming FSR product, there's a fluff bit on people playing a variant of poker called "Imperios" (I think it was) Also, I seem to remember official FS1/FS2 artwork showing people playing cards.

All the references I've found so far just refer to generic "card and dice games" rather than named games. There's a huge universe (even with the limit of the jump network) so there's room for plenty of games (and regional variations). Grab a copy of "Hoyles Games" and run one of the card game's names through Google translate

Thanks. While I agree with the argument that realistically, every region has its own games and feel free to makeup whatever, I think that it's important to have one that is used often - Stars Wars has sabacc, Serenity has faro, wheel of time has stones, Game of Thrones has the dragon chess game. Now FS has Imperios.

Angelman, any chance that you could share the blurb on the game from the fluff material?

If we accept that there is an interstellar culture in the Known World, then there would surely also be an interstellar popular culture which includes Known World-wide games and such. So yeah, we might want to address some fluff bits like this down the road.

As for the blurb, I am not in the position to share it (I didn't write it and I'm no bossman), and this project is yet in pre-edit form. However, I'll look into it when we're a little further into the project.

Okay, keep me posted.

And there was another game... can't remember where I read it, that mixed chess pieces and virtual stuff on a Think Machine kind of thing/visor.

Need to re-read some books. =P

yeah, me too. I think that I'm going to do a proper read through of all of the books again in the upcoming months.

Hear hear... There's sooo much stuff to remember! Do take note of any interesting stuff you find (you know, appart from EVERYTHING!!) :p Someone compiled a whole lot of useful lists some years ago, back on one of the RedBrick forums, and those whould be very nice to have here.