Re: [Perks] No critical failure?
 

Ummmm....oops?
(I'll edit the original)

Re: [Perks] No critical failure?
 

Critical Failures only could be -20% perhaps... it's significantly less useful than full Luck.

You're definitely right!

Even 30pts Luck (granting 1 reroll per half-hour) will save you from most critical failures.

Re: [Perks] No critical failure?
 

Although note that if you don't roll, you can't get a critical *success* either, and with a combat skill at 18+ those are likely to be common enough to be pretty valuable. Paying a point for the ability to give them up to avoid any risk of critical failure isn't going to be very abusive.

Re: [Perks] No critical failure?
 

I'd be pretty comfortable with a Perk that means if you roll a Critical Failure you roll again and it's only a Critical Failure if you roll a failure on the second roll; if you succeed, it's a regular failure. (much like the old method of checking for malfunctions with things that had very high reliability).
This Perk should be per-Skill, I think.
The difference between a failure and a Critical Failure is significant, but not so great that I'm that worried. For someone with an Effective Skill of 16 or more, it's only going to come up 0.5% of the time, so whatever.

Re: [Perks] No critical failure?
 

High-skill fighters won't see so many crit fails on their own rolls, but their high-skill opponents' crit successes on defense rolls can be annoying.

I had a skill 28-something swordsman falling about like Buster Keaton because the GM kept rolling crits on enemy Dodges and Parries. A Perk to avoid that nonsense would be nice.