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Post Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 5:35 pm 
 

Character Chronicle Cards are detailed here:

http://www.acaeum.com/jg/Item0036.html

However, there is no indication as to the card count or distribution of card types.  Does anyone know how many cards a complete set should have?  Are there variations in the cards?
  

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Post Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 5:47 pm 
 

cover card 100 cards for $1.98 + Format:  one hundred 3 1/2" x 2 3/4" cards
  

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Post Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 3:44 pm 
 

Nothing like revisiting a topic after 5 years!

Anyhoo, I was looking at the sample scans for the cards.  In the same column as STR/INT/WIS etc. Is a seventh stat, GAM.

Can anyone tell me what the heck a GAM is?
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Post Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 5:51 pm 
 

jrients wrote:Nothing like revisiting a topic after 5 years!

Anyhoo, I was looking at the sample scans for the cards.  In the same column as STR/INT/WIS etc. Is a seventh stat, GAM.

Can anyone tell me what the heck a GAM is?


:scratch:

It's used in some products with the Judges Guild Universal System that I could find, but it has to be much earlier in D&D history.

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Post Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 2:19 am 
 

It is Gambling, but I can't remember whick JG product it was introduced in.
  

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Post Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 3:19 am 
 

Through some googlefu someone mentions it is in CSIO and Ready Ref Sheets.  Don't have mine handy to check.

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Post Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 7:53 am 
 

I'm not finding it in Ready Ref Sheets.  Gambling doesn't appear on the table of contents or the index.
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Post Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 11:45 pm 
 

I asked about this is a 2010 thread about the cards, without answer. Good to see it revisited.

viewtopic.php?f=13&t=9760&p=156473&hilit=gam+stat#p156473

I don't see it as part of the Universal System - did it become Luck (LCK)?

http://www.acaeum.com/jg/UniversalSystemRules.html

The Chronicle Cards were published in 1977 (Item Code 36), so that's pretty early in JG printing history. That's up through Booklet M, Journal M (issue 4), Installment M (Modron), City State, Ready Ref Sheets, Tegel Manor, not much else.


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