[UA] Superstitions among dukes

[Allen Smith]

On Nov 30,  9:35am, John McMullen wrote:
> Something that seems to be coming up (for me, and possibly as a
> reaction to my players who have read the rules) is that the
> street-level dukes are superstitious in the same sense that baseball
> players are superstitious (or gamers, for that matter).  The
> epidomancer has a "lucky" knife, the Naked Goddess adept has a
> "lucky" brand of condoms when necessary, usually something they
> were using when they rolled a OACOWA (to put it in game terms).
> They don't want to mess up a streak. (I don't give shifts on the
> rolls for these; it's just something the characters do.)

If they've got Unnatural Failed 1, that's good roleplaying, actually.

> (Entropomancers might get *less* effective when they're trying to
> use lucky things 'cause they're not properly giving themselves up
> to chance; I haven't decided.)

Hmm... possible. OTOH, given that entropomantic items (the Lucky
Rabbit's Foot) are based off of such superstitions... If an
entropomancer tries to use lucky things when getting a charge, I can
see penalizing them. Otherwise, I'd only do so if they're failing to
be entropomantic - failing to risk themselves on a regular basis.

	-Allen


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Allen Smith				easmith at beatrice.rutgers.edu
	

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