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Originally Posted by whswhs
Sure. There's a passage in Atlas Shrugged about the richest banker in North America being called an "audacious gambler" in a newspaper story. He tells the reporter, "The reason you'll never be rich is that you think what I'm doing is gambling."
But I'm not talking about that behind-the-curtain stuff. I'm talking about the narrative concept "Alice is lucky." The fact that you can use the rules for Luck to build abilities that represent other things isn't relevant; the ordinary use of Luck is to represent a person being "lucky" as a persistent attribute, and it's that ordinary use that jars me.
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The narrative concept "Alice is lucky" is infinitely better represented by Serendipity. That's why it was added. Luck's mechanics don't produce fortuitous coincidences. They don't let you succeed at things that you have no skill at. They don't let you play the lottery and win.