Kentou, Gambler
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- Gun Schtick: Hair-Trigger Neck Hairs
Unique Schtick: Know The Odds
Weapons: Sling, kiseru
Wealth level: Rich
Background
Kentou's father had a gambling problem, and while Kentou was still a child his father was killed over a bet gone bad, and a treasured family heirloom taken. Though he got a brief glimpse of the killer, all he really knows is that they were part of the gambling underworld. He knows a couple of traits like wears an eyepatch, scar on forearm that let him get led around by "leads." To find the killer, he went "undercover," joining a gang as first an errandboy/lookout and later becoming a skilled gambler.His search eventually got him entangled in a murder case, where he was declared guilty by a samurai. Luckily, the case caught the attention of a Dragon magistrate who investigated and not only found the real killer, but figured out Kentou's past. The magistrate agreed to look into the problem of finding Kentou's father's killer, and Kentou agreed to work for the magistrate as a contact in the underworld. The two have had a reasonable relationship so far.
"Kentou": written with the characters for an idiomatic form of "good
luck", but sounds like two words for sword. Not his original name,
which was Kenichi, written with the characters for First Sword.
Gambling in Rokugan
Games of skill and fortune on which one can gamble in Rokugan include:- go, a strategy game;
- shogi, a chess-like game;
- Fortunes and Winds, a dice game (described in AEG's L5R supplement "Way of the Scorpion");
- Four Seasons, a poker-like tile game we know as Mah Jongg;
- sugoroku, similar to backgammon;
- a variety of other dice and tile games;
- horse and dog races;
- staged animal fights (e.g., dogs, cocks, bears, carps);
- "toy" contests such as kite fights, top fights, fights on stilts, dart throwing, etc.
- athletic competitions such as foot races, sumo matches, archery, duels;
- the outcome of hunts;
- anything anyone will be foolish enough to bet money on.
Kentou Links
- Go definitions
- Go Proverbs
- The Internet Go Dictionary
- British Go Journal. E-Archives.
- Shogi - Japanese Chess
- Shogi.Net home page
- Shogi Home Page
Note:
Kentou's picture is actually a gambling tycoon from Akira Kurosawa's classic 1961 movie Yojimbo. Obtained by Kentou's player, Doug Dawson, from an unidentified source.
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