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Lolth Sava game

valas625valas625 Member Posts: 195 Bounty Hunter
edited April 2013 in General Discussion (PC)
So after reading a post about something else altogether, I hope that if they have mini-games in NW that they have Sava. If anyone has read the War of the Spider Queen books, sava is akin to chess in drow society, albeit more complicated and difficult, but it has a "gamble" element to it. In reverence to the Spider Queen, once a game you can roll a pair of die and if you roll two spiders you get to kill one of the opposing players pieces. It's a complete chance thing. I don't remember it in all, but this would be a great game to play in a tavern (especially in a drow tavern). Anyhow, if they add in mini gambling games, this should be one of the first. It's such a good game that Lolth and Eilistraee play it for centuries, I mean COME ON.
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  • ambisinisterrambisinisterr Member, Neverwinter Moderator Posts: 10,462 Community Moderator
    edited October 2012
    I'd love to see this implemented Master Hune ;-)

    I never looked into the rules but the sava theme is used throughout those books and, as you said, as a generalized term in any strategic competition within the drow society/pantheon even in other lore.

    I'd think it would be extremely interesting to get an opportunity to play the actual game, especially within a D&D setting such as Neverwinter.
  • aavariusaavarius Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Silverstars Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    I'd like to see some Three Dragon Ante as well.
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  • gillrmngillrmn Member Posts: 7,800 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    A topic hotly discussed before.

    Here

    Also included in ideas thread.
    Minigames
    a- Sava
    b- Short fun games Example
    c- Game in game
    d- Table-top RP game
  • rekluze057rekluze057 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 17 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    I'd like to see them work with WoTC and build their new Dungeon Command line of products into the game. http://www.wizards.com/DnD/Product.aspx?x=dnd/products/dndmin/dungeoncommand

    It would work well with a cash shop system as well. They could have the mini's and order cards drop during play as random drops and then supplement that with sales of order card packs in the store.
  • stormdrag0nstormdrag0n Member Posts: 3,222 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    I think various mini-games could give the Taverns and Inns even more functionality, I currently know two indy developers who are working on a MMO using the Torque engine and their Taverns serve as hubs for mini games...I think it's a pretty interesting way to go about it as it would theoretically cut back or eliminate the empty Tavern syndrome that games like EQ have.
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  • valas625valas625 Member Posts: 195 Bounty Hunter
    edited October 2012
    For anyone interested, I found a site that actually has a ruleset for Sava. I believe they took what they could from the books and worked with the rest, so they're not "official" but I'd still play it this way, maybe slightly tweeked.
  • aavariusaavarius Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Silverstars Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    Haha! I never considered in-world RPGs. What do their characters look like? A 3rd level Dweeb, a 4th level Nerd, and a 3rd level Geek/Nerd played an elf, a dwarf, and a hafling, right? Do they have rules lawyers and grognards, too?
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  • kamaliiciouskamaliicious Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    You can play a sava type game right now in a dnd computer game.
  • valas625valas625 Member Posts: 195 Bounty Hunter
    edited October 2012
    kamaliicious wrote: »
    You can play a sava type game right now in a dnd computer game.

    Sava, or sava-ish game? Chess is Savaish even.
  • kamaliiciouskamaliicious Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    valas625 wrote: »
    Sava, or sava-ish game? Chess is Savaish even.
    I don't know the rules, but you can see the dice roll being used to upgrade the piece. It doesn't have the board as worked out by the website someone else listed.
    http://vnmedia.ign.com/nwvault.ign.com/fms/images/nwn2scripts/402/1340474271_fullres.jpg

    There's witcher style "dice poker" in the game as well.
  • valas625valas625 Member Posts: 195 Bounty Hunter
    edited October 2012
    kamaliicious wrote: »
    I don't know the rules, but you can see the dice roll being used to upgrade the piece. It doesn't have the board as worked out by the website someone else listed.
    http://vnmedia.ign.com/nwvault.ign.com/fms/images/nwn2scripts/402/1340474271_fullres.jpg

    There's witcher style "dice poker" in the game as well.

    I like the idea, but it's not sava from what I understood of the game in the books. That still looks interesting though, might be another one to add in.
  • raist31raist31 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 116 Bounty Hunter
    edited April 2013
    I remember back in our NWN1 PW server there was a couple of our players that came up with the rules in game and would sit and play it while RPing, it ended up getting pretty popular and people would login just to play sava in the taverns etc. I even incorporated it into the lounge for the students in Melee-Magthere when I constructed it for our module. Im sure people from our guild will RP playing it in some way or another. And I know people do it on our chat based games. Kind of crazy how popular it became.
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