Virus, a Tactical Game of Speed
Virus is a simple pub game situated in the D20 modern campaign setting. This is usually a pub game, and simple prizes are given for winning, although nothing too extravagant. This is a good game to test your players intelegence and speed. In virus, the entire game replicates the initial tests with a nanovirus known as grey goo. The Playing area is a small, glass table in a octagonal shape. There are five seats on one side of the table, and a single seat on the other reserved for the dealer. Each seat has three slots into which a card can be placed, except for the dealers seat, which has five. The game is played alot like twenty-one, only with percentages. There are six different cards in the game, with the totals 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 50. There is only one fifty card in the game.
At the start of the game, the characters are dealt five cards. Each card just has a color imprinted on it, without any other embrazoning. It is up to the player to figure out what each card does. These are the totals I use:
| Red |
5% |
| Green |
10% |
| Silver |
15% |
| Blue |
20% |
| Yellow |
30% |
| Black |
50% |
This skill is mostly timing. How the game works is that the slot to the right and left affects two other randomly chosen players, but the slot in the middle affects the dealer. As you can already guess, each of the dealers slots link to each one of the proper players, in proper order. The goal is to controll as much of the board as possible.
There is a total of 66 cards in the game. Each time a player uses a card, the game automatically deals another card to the player, although some taverns prefer to do this manually. While the game is running, there is no score displayed... the player must observe and make a educated guess. Get the player to make a intelegence check to determine wether they can actually judge the biggest threat... but during the game, give them no other information. The game ends when there is only five cards left in the machine.
If a card is played that would put the character to less then zero, thier total is instead zero.
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