Wicked Grace minigame?

I like the idea of being able to play wicked grace as a mini game well enough but I'd prefer it not be of the trading card collecting type like Gwent (if I'm recalling correctly how that worked in w3)

Don't much like getting better at a game by buying better cards. Rather they create a card game that got a complete deck from the beginning and you get better by learning how to play. Plenty of card games and games of chance that always have the same deck.

It's not a main priority of mine in terms of gameplay features but it could be fun.

If it depends on cheating then I don't know how that would work.

I used to enjoy pazaak back in Kotor days as a break from the action. Never really got into gwent. I could take it or leave it.

I love minigames as well, though the market feels... kinda saturated with card games these days. It's not a dealbreaker by any stretch, but it'd feel like a "me too" strategy.

That said, if we could go up against Uncle Emmet's Rat Terrier card sharks or Hawke's Mabari - I'm 100% down for that content.

I have to admit that at first i hated gwent, didn't know how to play had a terrible deck and got squashed and had little interest in it.

Then by about mid game I liked it and enjoyed going to new locals to take on the players there.

I remember video game cards mini-games I like: Fo:Nv Caravan and W3 gwent because they're pretty easy to learn, come back in between lulls in the main campaign, and they're not too luck-based.

There should an option to play wicked grace similar to how Cullen and Varric did; the loser has to strip.

Dragon Age also has Diamondback. I’ve always thought that was more similar to blackjack while Wicked Grace seemed like it was a cross between poker and hearts.

Read Dead Redemption allowed you to cheat at poker by slipping a card into your sleeve. And Wicked Grace is quite similar to Poker, if I understand the rules on the DAWiki correctly (although they're a bit vague, so I don't know if there is actually a *working* version of Wicked Grace).

There are only so many ways TO cheat in any given card game, anyway, and the DAWiki actually outlines a few of the ways that people cheat at Wicked Grace, like drawing an extra card on your turn. To use that particular example, while playing the game, you'd simply receive a prompt to either draw one card or attempt to cheat and draw two, with probability of success likely depending on factors like say, Dexterity or Cunning stats, or who you're playing with (they could make some opponents more difficult than others).

There could also be prompts to accuse other players of cheating, if trying to catch them out is part of the game.

I enjoy mini-games, but apparently, it's a game of bluffing. That's hard to do in a single player game.