Re: GM-controlled Bad Luck points

Thinking about this a bit more, it occurs to me that my biggest problem 
with fumbles is when they ****tray my character as incompetent in 
something he's supposed to be good at.

So "you drop your weapon" is acceptable for my computer hacker who just 
grabbed an unfamiliar weapon to defend himself - but not for my former 
Marine. "You can't find the 'Any' key" - vice versa.

My objections to bad luck points would therefore mostly go away if there 
was added a clause that the results may only be ****trayed as 
incompetence if the subject matter is something the character is 
supposed to be bad at; where the character is supposed to be skilled, it 
must be ****trayed as bad luck that nobody could have been expected to 
foresee.

(The better GMs tend to do this already, when they use any sort of 
fumble rules; Theatrix is one system I recall that makes it explicit.)

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