07-29-2014, 08:35 PM | #231 | |
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Re: Luck: Mundane or not?
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If the luck advantage seems unrealistic to you, you should consider calling it off limits in a realistic game you might run. Some claim luck as a matter of attitude.. Some people accentuate the positive in their life and call themselves lucky. Others focus on the negative and call it bad luck. Maybe that translates to fearless or overconfidence instead. Or a delusion one way or the other on probability for the character. |
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07-30-2014, 07:35 AM | #232 | |
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Re: Luck: Mundane or not?
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Consider the following two cases:
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07-30-2014, 09:13 AM | #233 | |
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Re: Luck: Mundane or not?
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No icon means "not officially supernatural".
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07-30-2014, 09:37 AM | #234 | |
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Re: Luck: Mundane or not?
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Now at the end of that character's career, it's quite possible that biographers and historians and those singing praises – or even the adventurer herself – might analyze her life and realize that it had more than its fair share of improbable (but still possible and plausible) events. Those people might call her "lucky," and start making claims that this was due to divine favor or a magic charm or whatever. But that's a retroactive perspective and, more important, pure conjecture . . . a hard-nosed secular rationalist and naturalist would just shrug and claim that since the odds weren't 0, what happened happened, and perhaps try to turn it into a lesson in probability for the less-enlightened.
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07-30-2014, 06:43 PM | #235 | |
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07-30-2014, 11:50 PM | #236 |
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Re: Luck: Mundane or not?
What do the words 'in-setting PoV' mean to you that allows the difference to fall within their scope?
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