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.
Drama deck
FLOW
Fortune deck
Fortune cookies
Mikado
Physical challenges
Poker hands
Conflicts are resolved through playing one or more hands of a particular poker game. Frequently the rules are modified based on the stats of the characters involved in the challenge. For example, traits or abilities might cause hand-size to be increased.
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. A player's stakes (initial pool of chips to play with) can be altered based on the character's features.
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.