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Originally Posted by GB Steve
What next? A game that can only be played by releasing a roach onto a numbered peg board?
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Hell I'd play that! Preferably with the madagascan hissing cockroach (Gromphadorhina Portentosa) than the boring, smelly, and pestulent Blatta Orientalis or Blatta Americana.
You're so right though, you could not feasibly play a game that purports to be a fast-paced all-action game with a roulette wheel that can take as long as twenty or thirty seconds to stop spinning. Sure it lets the tension build up nicely but... well, how often are you going to need to spin that wheel to resolve for example a combat situation? Once? Twice? Twenty times?
As for the betting thing, there are arguments for and against it. Samachadrael's own statement that you 'have to know how to cover your bets' points out one such argument against it: to play well and effectively, you have to learn how to play roulette. People who did learn this skill could easily be drawn into gambling as a way of making money from their skills. But to be honest, I don't give a monkeys about gambling myself, I don't think it's evil (although it can be foolish) I'm just pointing out what the overimaginative panic-mongering pressure groups would say. My own view is simply that it is an interesting idea, but would take too long to be efficient for what is apparently supposed to be a fast-paced game.
Ash