Cursed Weapons and Luck

[Paul Stevens]

As you may know, I am creating a Windows version of CSB.
I have discovered that there is a skill called Luck in addition
to the Strength, Dexterity, etc. (I think it is Luck...the
Rabbit's foot adds 10). When you wear a Cursed item, the
Luck is decremented by three. Unfortunately, the minimum starts
at 10 and so when you wear four Cursed items the minimum goes
negative and appears to be a very large positive number (about
250).

I think I have taken advantage of this when I wear all the armor
and use the swords from the Knights.

So what is the consensus as to the proper course to take? Make
it work exactly as the original? Put a lower limit on the
minimum Luck? I have opted to limit the minimum but if
everyone thinks I should do something else, I will.

[Lusiphur]

I think that this is the occasion to make it work as it should... Fix a limit (view it as a forgotten bug correction).
And, by the way, THANK YOU for all your hard work.

[Lord Miles of Eslake]

Your working on getting up a version of Chaos for windows eh?That's great news:) As far as your question goes I completely agree with you and Lusiphur, raise the mimimul luck factor....

[Paul Stevens]

It is hardly news anymore! Version 2.0 has been working well
for a month now.

PAul

[beowuuf]

You should mention it on the DM web boards...adder just posted on DMJ board saying it was released for a couple of days! And i only found out about it because of the last major overhaul of the encyclopoedia (i didn't really look at these forums)

[Zyx]

Yes, leave a note. I wasn't aware of these forums

[DjArcas]

I've hacked a few extra things into CSB, so I can get a better idea of how he experience, levels, etc, work.. and I've noticd that some the luck statistic varies wildly from character... Webber (the spider) has a low low, of about 29-odd... where as Buzz has 65ish luck... quite a difference :)

[DMaster]

Note that your luck changes every time you use it. If you get lucky, your luck dimenishes. If you get unlucky your luck increases. (You get lucky when a bad result is reversed by a check against your luck; you are unlucky when the check fails.)