Entertainment
Many adventurers like to sit down and play a game now and then to pass the time—or make some easy gold.
Entertainment
| Item | Price | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Ball, 2 in. | 8 cp | — |
| Ball, 5 in. | 2 sp | — |
| Ball, 10 in. | 6 gp | 1 lb. |
| Billiards gear | 5 sp | 8 lbs. |
| Board game | 1 sp–10 gp | 2 lbs. |
| Bowling set | 5 sp–10 gp | 15 lbs. |
| Cards | 1 sp–100 gp | 1 lb. |
| Croquet set | 5 sp | 10 lbs. |
| Crossword | 1 cp–1 sp | — |
| Dartboard set | 5 sp | 10 lbs. |
| Dice | 1 sp | — |
| Dominos | 1 sp–25 gp | 1 lb. |
| Horseshoes game | 5 sp | 3 lbs. |
| Kite | 1 sp–2,000 gp | 1 lb.–5 lbs. |
| Loaded dice, average | 10 gp | — |
| Loaded dice, superior | 50 gp | — |
| Marked cards | 1 gp | 1 lb. |
| Polo gear | 5 sp | 5 lbs. |
| Puzzle box | 1 gp–1,000 gp | 1 lb.–5 lbs. |
| Rounders gear | 1 sp | 1/2 lb. |
| Tennis gear | 3 sp | 3 lbs. |
Ball
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Weight: varies
This ball may be an inflated animal bladder, carved from light wood, fabric stuffed with cloth or plant fiber and sewn shut.
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Price: 5 sp
Weight: 8 lbs.
This set includes a wooden cue, a block of cue chalk, 15 wooden balls, and a triangular wooden ball rack.
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Price: 1 sp-10 gp
Weight: 2 lbs.
Board games have innumerable types and variations. Siege, a strategy game where players try to surround the other's pieces, is popular with older adults, while more chaotic games like Wyvern's Race and Doppel are tavern favorites.
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Price: 5 sp-10 gp
Weight: 15 lbs.
This simple 10-pins game is often complicated by irregularities in the ball, the pins, and the playing field.
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Price: 1 sp-100 gp
Weight: 1 lb.
Playing cards range from block-printed symbols on thick paper to elaborate, hand-painted works of art on waxed vellum, ivory, wood, or even metal.
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Price: 5 sp
Weight: 10 lbs.
This set includes four wooden mallets, nine wooden wickets (goals), and four wooden balls.
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Price: 1 cP-1 sp
Weight: —
These word puzzles can be found in many languages. A typical one is drawn on leather or wood in a 15-by-15 square grid. Larger grids allow longer words and tend to be more difficult.
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Price: 5 sp
Weight: 10 lbs.
This set includes a multicolored board and six brass-tipped darts. The board usually consists of a layer of soft wood or cork on a hardwood backing.
Dice
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Price: 1 sp
Weight: —
Dice can come in many shapes, but the most common are cubes.
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Price: 1 sp-25 gp
Weight: 1 lb.
This wooden box contains 28 tiles with numbers or pips on each end. A common set is made of wood or bone, but more expensive ones may be made of ivory, stone, or metal.
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Price: 5 sp
Weight: 3 lbs.
This game includes two iron stakes and four iron horseshoes.
Kite
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Price: 1 sp-2,000 gp
Weight: 1 lb.–5 lbs.
Kites range from canvas toys to ornate, silken works of art.
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Price: 10 GP-50 GP
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Most loaded dice are weighted, with a heavier substance included opposite the desired number. You can spot this tampering with a DC 15 Appraise or Perception check. Superior dice (such as wooden dice carved around a naturally heavy point) have DCs ranging from 20 to 30.
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Price: 1 GP
Weight: 1 lb.
Whether bent, colored, or scratched, marked cards allow an informed user to know what's on the front of the card by viewing the mark on the back. Realizing that the cards are marked requires a DC 25 Perception check or DC 20 Profession (gambler) check. The listed price is for a common paper deck.
Polo Gear
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Price: 5 sp
Weight: 5 lbs.
This includes a leather helmet, a long-handled mallet, and a wooden ball.
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Price: 1 gp-1,000 gp
Weight: 1 lb.–5 lbs.
This box features moving parts, secret panels, or unusual codes and locking mechanisms. Depending on the box, a Disable Device, Knowledge (engineering), Linguistics, or simple Intelligence check might open it. The DC of the check varies with the complexity of the box, but is typically 15 or 20 (retry once per day). Multiple skill checks might be necessary for different stages of the puzzle. If the puzzle box was constructed with the intention that one specific person should be able to open it, that person gets a +5 circumstance bonus on the check.
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Price: 1 sp
Weight: 1/2 lb.
Players of this game divide into teams and alternate hitting a small, leather-encased ball with a wooden bat. They run around a field to various safe bases, scoring points when a player completes a circuit through all four bases. The set includes two balls, two bats, and four cloth-stuffed canvas bases.
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Price: 3 sp
Weight: 3 lbs.
This includes a wool-stuffed leather ball and a wooden racket strung with animal gut.