Luck: Mundane or not?

[Gudiomen]

Originally Posted by wellspring

Like Signature Gear or Sartorial Integrity

Where's Sartorial Integrity from, and in a nutshell, what's it about? Since my group disbanded I haven't bought any of the new books, and that got me curious...

Edit: it occurs to me that this might have been asked in a private message, sorry for the off-topic post, everyone. Wellspring, can you PM me? Cheers.

[Anaraxes]

Originally Posted by Gudiomen

Where's Sartorial Integrity from, and in a nutshell, what's it about?

I didn't find it in my PDFs, but I'm moderately certain it's a Perk from PU1 (which I don't own). It probably assures that your character is always neat and tidy. Good for those vain wizards that were always casting Prestidigitation in D&D, or supers whose nice white costumes seem never to get stained or dirty -- or whose curly forelock never moves from its position on their forehead.

[Grouchy Chris]

Originally Posted by Gudiomen

Where's Sartorial Integrity from, and in a nutshell, what's it about?

Power-Ups 2, p. 14. Your clothes don't get dirty or torn.

[Gudiomen]

Originally Posted by Grouchy Chris

Power-Ups 2, p. 14. Your clothes don't get dirty or torn.

Lol, yeah, I have that... it's just the sort of stuff we'd never use in most of our games, so I never memorized it. It rings a bell though, thanks.

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

Luck is magical cinematic as character ability.

Yes you've said this, but I think your definition of magical is so broad as to be useless.

Ishmael or even Audie Murphy aren't wizards of some kind.

[Crakkerjakk]

Riiiiiissseeeee! Riiisssseeeeeee! Go forth and cause terror among the peasants, my minion!

;-)

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by Crakkerjakk

Riiiiiissseeeee! Riiisssseeeeeee! Go forth and cause terror among the peasants, my minion!

;-)

Better than crapping that other thread with this inevitable drift. I made this thread in the first place for a purpose, even in undeath it shall continue to serve.

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

Yes you've said this, but I think your definition of magical is so broad as to be useless.

Ishmael or even Audie Murphy aren't wizards of some kind.

Luck is an after effect rationalization for believing that the way things happened was somehow the only way they could have happened.

If you were to run WWII 1000 times, chance would kill Murphy every other time. Luck would allow him to survive far more often than probability would dictate.
It may be used as a meta-game aspect to keep your character alive when chance would not. But that's making your game mildly cinematic.

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

Yes you've said this, but I think your definition of magical is so broad as to be useless.

Ishmael or even Audie Murphy aren't wizards of some kind.

Magical: that which works on rules not real.

[vicky_molokh]

For the record, in case this isn't posted already, one of the canonical THS characters has Luck. Complete with an explanation that it need not represent probability manipulation, but rather can represent a special careful/uncanny sort of competence.