10-18-2013, 05:25 PM | #1 |
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Luck with limitation
Does it make sense to give the Luck advantage limitations such as [gambling only]? Would that be any different than a high gambling skill?
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10-18-2013, 06:21 PM | #2 |
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Re: Luck with limitation
In theory, you can always Limit Luck with -20% Aspected, for any Aspect that the GM accepts, which obviously mustn't be too broad nor too narrow.
Any subject Limitation that's more or less than -20% is outside of the RAW. As for Luck Limited to Gambling only, I would personally not accept it, because of the abuse potential. It's simply not a flavour of Luck that anybody can have in my Ärth setting, for instance. It depends a lot on how Gambling is handled, though. My concern is primarily high-stakes single rolls. Apart from potential abuse, it can become metagaming real fast. |
10-18-2013, 06:34 PM | #3 | |
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Re: Luck with limitation
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One fellow gets good cards in poker (though not very often) and the other makes his living by reading people's faces and knowing what their cards are by the way they hold their hands. Mostly though, for -20% it's about the worst way to save 3pts ever.
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10-18-2013, 07:06 PM | #4 |
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Re: Luck with limitation
Are you talking about the Gambling skill or Gambling the act? I'd say Aspected, Gambling, -20% covers the act of betting on things - reduce it by a further -20% for the skill itself.
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10-18-2013, 07:49 PM | #5 | |
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Re: Luck with limitation
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You are likely to be disappointed at how useless this is for Gambling though. GURPS Luck is primarily useful for negating critical failures, it doesn't actually increase the odds of success on tough rolls very much, so it's a poor way to increase your odds of winning a game of chance. Also note that if the odds are worse than 1 in 216, the GM ought not be resolving a game of chance with a single 3d6 roll in the first place, so luck is even less useful for anything with a really big payout.
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10-22-2013, 08:01 PM | #6 |
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Re: Luck with limitation
I'd certainly say -20% is too little, but its worth remembering that Aspected is a smaller limit than many others because Luck comes in such small doses. Limiting something that you can use all the time means you intend to pursue the narrower circumstance as much as you can. DR that's only against fire suggests that you will seek out situations where that will help. That's less true of something where you're using up a temporary resource, as you're making a decision as to when to use it.
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