賭博師と遊び人の違いはなんですか？


Playing a game and there are these two classes/jobs 賭博師 and 遊び人. I do not
quite understand the difference between them. They seem to both mean gambler,
but is there some difference? Thank you.




賭博師 simply refers to a serious, professional gambler.

Dictionaries seem to say one of the meanings of 遊び人 is gambler, but this word
is almost never used in this sense today. As the kanji suggests, in real life,
this word usually refers to an unemployed person, a debauchee, a playboy, etc.

In addition, in gaming contexts, 遊び人 is best-known as a job in _Dragon Quest_
franchise. This job name is translated as [Gadabout or Jester](https://dragon-
quest.org/wiki/Gadabout). Dragon Quest has been so popular in Japan that
virtually all Japanese game developers know this character stereotype. If your
game was made by Japanese people, an 遊び人 may look like this. For example, the
[article about 遊び人 on
ピクシブ百科事典](https://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E9%81%8A%E3%81%B3%E4%BA%BA) is almost
entirely about Dragon Quest's 遊び人.




賭博師 simply refers to a serious, professional gambler.

Dictionaries seem to say one of the meanings of 遊び人 is gambler, but this word
is almost never used in this sense today. As the kanji suggests, in real life,
this word usually refers to an unemployed person, a debauchee, a playboy, etc.

In addition, in gaming contexts, 遊び人 is best-known as a job in _Dragon Quest_
franchise. This job name is translated as [Gadabout or Jester](https://dragon-
quest.org/wiki/Gadabout). Dragon Quest has been so popular in Japan that
virtually all Japanese game developers know this character stereotype. If your
game was made by Japanese people, an 遊び人 may look like this. For example, the
[article about 遊び人 on
ピクシブ百科事典](https://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E9%81%8A%E3%81%B3%E4%BA%BA) is almost
entirely about Dragon Quest's 遊び人.

