How Do You Play Blackjack in D&D?

Blackjack, also called twenty-one, is a card game played with a normal deck of 52 cards. The aim of the game is to get as close to 21 without going over, and to beat the dealer’s hand.

Blackjack can be played with one or more decks of cards.

The basic rules of blackjack are simple. The player and the dealer are both dealt two cards, face up. The player can then choose to either hit (take another card) or stand (keep their current hand). If the player goes over 21, they ‘bust’ and lose the hand.

The dealer must then hit until they have at least 17, at which point they can choose to stand. If the dealer goes over 21, they also bust and the player wins the hand.

There are a few other things to note in blackjack. If both the player and dealer have blackjack (a 21 made up of an ace and a 10-valued card), it is a ‘push’ – neither player wins or loses.

Aces can be counted as either 1 or 11, depending on what is advantageous for the player’s hand. And finally, all 10-valued cards (10, Jack, Queen, King) are counted as 10.

Now that you know the basics, how do you play blackjack in D&D?

In D&D, blackjack is usually played with a deck of Tarot cards. The tarot deck has 22 Major Arcana cards and 56 Minor Arcana cards.

The suits in a tarot deck are Wands, CUPS, Swords, and Pentacles. There are no jokers or wild cards in tarot decks.

To play blackjack in D&D using a tarot deck, shuffle the deck and deal out two face-up cards to each player and the dealer. The player with the highest total value of their two cards starts first and play then proceeds clockwise around the table.

On their turn, each player has two options: Hit or Stand.

If you Hit, you take another card from the deck and add its value to your total hand value. You can keep hitting until you either go over 21 (bust) or decide to Stand.

If you Stand, you keep your current hand value and pass play to the next person clockwise around the table who then has their turn following the same rules as above.

Once all players have had their turn, it is then the dealer’s turn who must follow specific blackjack dealer rules:
The dealer must Hit if their current hand value is 16 or less but must Stand if their hand value is 17 or more.
If the dealer goes over 21 (busts), all remaining players still in the game win regardless of their own hand values.

In conclusion, playing blackjack in D&D is done by first shuffling a tarot deck and then dealing out two face-up cards to each player and the dealer around a table clockwise. On their turn, each player then has two options before play moves on to the next person: Hit or Stand where hitting means taking another card from the deck and adding its value to your total while standing means keeping your current hand value without taking any more cards fromthe deck. Once all players have had their turn it’s thenthe dealers who must follow specific blackjack dealer rules which are: The dealer must Hit if their current hand value is 16 or less but must Stand if their hand value is 17 or more. Ifthe dealer goes over 21 (busts), all remaining players still in game win regardless of their own hand values.