System grab-bags:Diceless

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Audience judgment

As used in Shreyas Sampat's Mist-Robed Gate: the participants describe their actions, after which the other players vote on whose description deserves to win. Can be a straight vote, or as in MRG, in which every player places stone representing their vote in a bag. One of the stones is then drawn at random to determine the winner.

Poker hands

Play to Stakes

Each participant sets out a victory condition. The participants then play a full, possibly multi-hand, game of poker until one participant or group with compatible victory conditions hold all the chips.

Example system; Texas

Play to Pot

Each conflict is resolved with a single hand of a given poker game. At each stage of betting the players offer a single event they are willing to risk- subject to opponent's approval. At the conclusion of the hand the winner chooses which risked events take place.