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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Roman" data-source="post: 4208170" data-attributes="member: 1845">I use my own luck point system that takes ideas from other action point systems as well as incorporating some of my own additions. I suppose the term 'luck' can cause some confusion with the Complete Scoundrel system - I might have named it differently had Complete Scoundrel already been out at the time I was initially implementing it. Every character rolls a 7th 'ability score' called 'Luck' or 'Favor'. Should a character die and be raised/resurrected/... the Favor score decreases by 1 point permanently (this replaces level loss) if raised by the deity the character worships as a patron or 2 points if raised by a deity who is not the character's patron. A character gains a number of luck points equal to Level + Favor bonus. So a 3rd level character with a favor of 15 has 3+2=5 luck points. The number of luck points refreshes with every level gained and any unspent luck points are lost. Luck points can be used to improve any d20 rolls. If a character decides to spend a luck point before the roll is made, the bonus provided is +1d8 (+Favor Bonus). If a character decides to spend a luck point after the roll is made but before the outcome is known, the bonus provided is +1d6 (+Favor Bonus). If a character decides to spend a luck point after the roll is made and after the outcome is known, the bonus provided is +1d4 (+Favor Bonus). Multiple luck points can be spent per roll should the character so desire. Using luck points, however, can be hazardous. As long as characters spend fewer luck points per level than their Favor bonus, they are fine. Should they spend more luck points than their favor bonus over the course of a level, however, each excess luck point spent grants me a Plot Point for the character in question. I then use these plot points to bring about unlikely yet interesting and unpleasant circumstances for the given character. It's all in good fun! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Heh, sorry for straying so far off topic.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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