Part A
Todd said: "... , the Storm rune is balanced by having personality traits
..."
Interesting point here . What personality traits go with an Affinity to the Luck Rune?
Arrogant. Spoilt. Trusting(Gullible). Confident. The luckier you are, the more you are this way.
Could the Luck Affinity give you magical abilities to:
give yourself luck (in a specific way), give someone else bad luck (again specific), deal with bad luck when it happens to you, help someone else deal with their bad luck ?
What other magical abilities in the Affinity?
What about Luck-based Feats? This could be a highly amusing string of lucky coincidences experienced by the deity (because they were so lucky!)
Clarification from my earlier email:
Btw, Herve, I was suggesting either:
I was saying that Lucky (mundane) and taking the Luck Rune was a bit overkill - so the Insolent Lucky Young Punk as a replacement mundane keyword would be a good compliment (rather than more-of-the-same).
Cheers
Matthew
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From: WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com
[mailto:WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Todd Gardiner
Sent: 05 August 2011 17:04
To: WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Creating and playing a Lucky character
I wouldn't go overboard on balancing out the luck. After all, the Storm rune is balanced by having personality traits that can function as flaws or obstacles for the character. But those "handicaps" don't come into play in every story and do not generally "equal" the benefit gained from having a strong affinity with the Storm rune.
What you are going to have to figure out is when it is plausible to have luck be the resistance or active trait, and when it fails the credibility test. Most traits have a common sense limit to the situations in which it applies. Luck, on the other hand, could apply to nearly everything (as a Stretch at least).
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:00 AM, <hcarteau_at_ujCmyru9t2q497OZvWndnGiW3TL-HHafwPCOvGuD1j5MLoHUR9Kna-M8a4XyULVlUWDB5HiMlWdBiE4.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
> **
>
>
> OK, thanks to your remarks, I think we will have the character come
> from Casino Town, venerating the Lady of Credit.
> His use of the Luck Rune will be decided by the PLAYER, who will
> explain what would happen if he made the roll. If it works, all the
> others can only say "wow, such luck".
> BUT there is a price. "She giveth and taketh", so every time Luck
> activates, the character... the character, hem... suffers some penalty
> that is both interesting to play and would prevent the use of Luck to
> become a game-killer. Any specific ideas ?
> - Off the top of my head : he will lose the name game of chance he
> joins, whatever the stakes
> - In the next fight, the toughest ennemy singles him out, by chance
> - etc. etc.
>
> Hervé
>
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> De: Jeff <richaje_at_MVi5D572y3Zh-giB50D1_mIbiZ9JKGtKzaK4bsjDvmuGpuN7y_VUhrmuEJpxzoJmQEQPI6gnbDXPB9c.yahoo.invalid>
> À: WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com
> Envoyé: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 07:30:49 +0200 (CEST)
> Objet: Re: Creating and playing a Lucky character
>
>
> > One of my players wants to create an "insolently lucky young punk"
> > as a
> character. Why not.
> >
> > That would make him the holder of the Luck rune. But I know nothing
> > about
> any Luck cult, or possible uses of the Luck Rune.
>
> Our Lady of Credit ("she giveth and she taketh away") is a
> philosophical entity in God Forgot and venerated by the patrons of
> Casino Town. There is rumoured to be a secret collection of spells
> that adjust the probabilities in various card games, dice games, and
> other odds-based games in the spell-caster's favor.
>
> There's a cult in Esrolia that worships a goose the cultists claim is
> an incarnation of the goddess of Luck. When they seek to know the path
> or decision favored by Luck, they scatter grain marked with symbols
> before the goose. The first one it eats is the lucky path.
>
> And so on.
>
> Jeff
>
>
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