Re: GM-controlled Bad Luck points

Peter Knutsen wrote:
> But I do want bad luck-type incidents to happen. The roll mechanic can't

> provide them often enough, and changing the roll mechanic is out of the 
> question (and will likely cause Fumbles to occur too often anyway), and 
> also I want bad luck-type incidents to be able to happen in situations 
> where there is no dice roll, such as movement. As I've said before, 
> there's a lot of stress and mess and sweat and other bodily fluids in 
> combat.

I'm trying to think of a way to remove the GM discretion bit without 
eliminating your other requirements.  Certainly *limiting* bad luck can 
be mechanical -- accounting the bad luck points in your description 
sounded fine.

I suppose a GM could roll dice to decide that a character's Nth 
'significant' action got a bad luck incident, as long as there were a 
mechanical description of what 'significant' meant.  So this might be 
able to catch both dice-roll and non-roll situations -- but my mind 
boggles at the moment at defining 'significant' without some form of 
subjectivity.

Perhaps a player might declare a situation significant, in return for 
some benefit if that wasn't the point at which bad luck was due?  Likely 
prone to gaming -- declare lots of "significant" events that really 
aren't, few or none that reall are.  (This seems to be a case where 
*player* discretion is a problem).