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Hi,
what is take lucky rabbits foot. For what can I it.
piti

It increases an internal character skill called "luck", which is useful in combat. If a character misses, there is a check of luck, which maybe enables the character to succeed, but using luck this way decreases it at the same time.

Actually, unlike FF books, from what i gather if you are lucky, you get luckier, and only if you are unlucky does it decrease.
And haven't personally noticed this
As far as i know, luck affects everything, not just combat...anyone confirm/deny?

I don't know how it is actually in the ftl programs, but I think, it would make more sense, if luck is decreasing when you're saved by luck: luck is like a piece of soap, it uses up.

The last post in the following thread is from one of the original programmers, so he should know what he's talking about:

http://www.dungeon-master.com/forum/vie ... hp?t=22701

All thanks you.
piti

Beowuuf, what are FF books?
Are they the "Choose your own adventure" collection done by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingston?

Yup, those were the ones (Fighting Fantasy). You could roll against a luck score, and if you got a lower roll you were lucky, but you lost 1 point of luck..so the more you tested your luck, the more likely you were to be unlucky

Looking at the way DM does it, its' common sense, and what i was think abotu was madness!

Thanks. As I remember them, in the French Edition, each time you choosed to try your luck, you lost 1 luck point anyway. Luck was always wanning quickly.
Excellent books BTW.

oops, sorry, i just meant to highlight that evn being lucky lost you luck...yup. the act of testing you luck lost you the point, not the outcome