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]

As stated, luck affects at least a character's to hit rolls. The penalties can be overwhelming when severely fatigued or intoxicated.

You should be able to test its effects on any of the other skills by getting a creature that can almost always successfully perform some action (say, picking a certain lock), and then applying a luck stat modifier effect with a large penalty (or just waiting until it's really tired or really drunk) and seeing if there's any difference in the same action. (I think the luck stat is a signed byte, so don't go less than -128 when choosing a penalty value.)

The non-cumulative luck effect (not the same as the luck stat modifier) probably behaves in the way you'd expect (it doesn't stack with itself, but stacks with any effects from the luck modifier). I'm not sure if there are any differences in the actual effects (it may exist only as a way to make the luck bonus non-cumulative).