Thirteen Telvanni - a Dunmeri Card Game

Thirteen Telvanni - a Dunmeri Card Game

This mod was inspired by Tamriel Rebuilt's new Hortator game, which is a single player solitaire variant you can play at a few taverns on the mainland. It was also inspired by the real card game Love Letter and, to a lesser extent, Coup.

Thirteen Telvanni is a 2-to-4-player card game you can play at various taverns and other gathering places on Vvardenfell. Yes, the NPCs actually play against you! The game uses the Telvanni suit and Morag Tong card from Tamriel_Data's Dunmer card set. While your own decisions are the driving force behind your success or failure, your character's luck plays a small part in determining how often the other players guess your card correctly.

For most locations, there is a main host NPC, who offers to start a round of the game through the topic "game of Thirteen Telvanni". At the present time, there are also two short quests to unlock games in Molag Mar and Suran. Each location has unique ways of choosing the starting player and a specific betting and winning amount.

You can download an optional Tamriel Rebuilt addon to get several more locations on the mainland, with even more variety in how the games are set up. Load the addon after the main Thirteen Telvanni ESP.

Be sure to check out my other minigame mods, Nine-holes, Playable Game of Ur, and Imperial Billiards, which nicely complement the locations of this game.

Neither MWSE nor OpenMW are required. This mod uses only native Morrowind scripting.

Tamriel_Data is required. The latest releases use loose files, so you don't need to register BSAs.

How to Play

A rule and strategy book is added to most locations, which NPCs suggest you read. Here is an excerpt from the Rules section:

The card ranks, in order from least to greatest value showing how many are in the deck:

• []2 DUST ADEPTs, least value[/]

  []2 ALCHEMISTs[/]

  []5 GUARDs[/]

  []2 ENCHANTERs[/]

  []1 WIZARD[/]

  []1 MAGISTER[/]

  []2 ASSASSINs, greatest value[/]

  (15 total. 13 not counting the Assassins, hence the name "Thirteen Telvanni".)

  From the deck, each player is dealt a card face-down. Play proceeds clockwise. On a player's turn, they draw a second card. They can choose either card to put into play on the table, taking the actions described below. Actions will affect another player's card in some way and/or the current player's card that they didn't play. When the action is complete, the card is discarded at random within the remaining deck, with the exception of the Magister (stays out of deck) and Enchanter (discarded later). If a player is put out of the game, their card stays out of the deck.