Luck, Are you feeling Lucky? Options

[Rabain]

Does Luck show up in the dice rolls on screen if you enable that in your Options?

Anyway there is very little information on Luck floating around. In the Manual under Fatigue it states a -1 Luck penalty gives a -1 to all rolls the character makes.

Under the Luck spell it lists Saving Throws, Thac0 and thieving skills (succesful Pickpocket, Find Traps etc) and under Bard Song it lists damage as benefitting from Luck.

What other rolls are there? In DnD pretty much everything is a die roll but how much is covered in the IE engine?

As it stands a Luck bonus seems to be a pretty powerful bonus that's not made much use of (except as BardSong!).

[devSin]

It influences to hit rolls (I don't think it improves THAC0 per se); you shouldn't see it in the character record but probably will show up as a to hit modifier when enabling the combat feedback. It may influence other stuff, but I wouldn't count on any huge differences.

Note that luck is the primary penalty for fatigue and intoxication, so it is actually used as a basic engine mechanic. BioWare also gave some creatures default luck bonuses (a cheap and dirty way to make them slightly tougher).

Despite the manual, I don't think that Bard Song actually has any effect on characters' luck stat.

Luck spell may work the same as the luck stat, but it's implemented as a separate (non-cumulative) effect that doesn't actually modify the stat (or does so at a lower level).

This post has been edited by devSin: Feb 22 2007, 01:58 AM