Craps barring the payout of a game being directly related to the roll of dice, Indian reservations have adapted the game to substitute cards for dice. In one variation, there are no dice at all. Two shoes are used, each containing some number of regular card decks that have been stripped down to just the Aces and deuces through sixes. The boxman simply deals one card from each shoe and that is the roll on which bets are settled. Since a card-counting scheme is easily devised to make use of the information of cards that have already been dealt, a relatively
Dice pool the system goes into. They also provide players with a physical representation for the modifiers, as real, concrete dice are added to the pool (or taken away from it). Some people also find rolling a large handful of dice fun in its own right. The other thing dice pools allow is opening up a lot of design space for game designers; if something other than the number on the dice is important, the number itself can be used to add richness to the system. West End Games's "Ghostbusters" role-playing game by Greg Stafford, Lynn Willis, and Sandy Petersen featured a