The d100 luck system, a revolution in gaming!

[tleilaxu]

but it's vertical.

how is such a thing possible?



.............and i'm spent

goodnight ENworld!

 

[Lalato]

For those that are uncomfortable with the sexual connotations of 69... don't forget that 69 also represents the Zodiac symbol Gemini. It might also be described as representing Yin Yan... or balance.

Perhaps a roll of 69 means that you have to give something up to get what you want... or perhaps that you have to make a difficult choice to get what you want. In the end... you still get what you want.

--sam

 

[Piratecat]

By the way, Piratecat, since you're a sleep specialist, maybe you can tell me if I'm keeping a bad sleep schedule.

Friday.
Stay up til 4am after seeing The Matrix
Wake up at 8am to go turn in applications for a summer job.
Go to friend's house to watch DVDs, and end up sleeping from 5pm to 9pm.

So you're sleep deprived when you get up at 8am. This fatigue is lessened due to daylight - you probably got sleepy about 1-2pm - but caught up to you in early evening. While there's nothing wrong with sleeping in 4 hour blocks of time, you managed to phase shift yourself by sleeping Friday evening and staying up all Friday night.

Saturday.
Stay up til 8am to watch Saturday morning cartoons
Wake up at 3pm

By phase shift, I mean that you've effectively moved the timing of your biological clock backwards by eight hours. By Saturday, you're effectively living on a schedule that would work pretty well in Hawaii.

Note that by only getting 5 hours sleep here, you're setting yourself up for fatigue that you'll have to burn off with more sleep.

Sunday
Stay up til 4am
Wake up at 3pm

And here's where you're burning off that accumulated sleepiness by sleeping for 11 hours. Nevertheless, you've now locked your 5am-3 pm sleep schedule into place pretty solidly. That will make it very hard for you to even feel sleepy until early morning.

Monday
Stay up til 5am
Wake up at 9am
Nap from 7pm to 9pm

As you see, you can't feel sleepy until early morning. Getting up at 9am is a pretty good step towards dragging yourself back onto a normal schedule, but your two hour nap is refreshing enough to banish sleepiness for the rest of the night.

Tuesday
I haven't gone to bed yet.

Presumably, you'll be sleeping until 3pm or later today. The best way for you to get back on a normal schedule is to stay up all night and all day tomorrow. Don't drive - you'll be at terrible risk for suffering microsleeps behind the wheel - and do something active during the day. Gets lots of sunlight early Wednesday morning, exercising if possible, and avoid bright light Wednesday evening. Don't take any long naps; if you can't keep your eyes open, take a 20 minute catnap, but no more.

Then try to go to bed at 10pm Wednesday night. You'll have some insomnia, but get up by 9am Thursday morning. Again, catnaps to keep yourself going, and bedtime at 10 pm Thursday night. You'll have some grogginess and irritability, but you should be back to a normal sleep schedule by Friday.

The key is consistency. You're effectively creating jet lag for yourself, and that'll play havoc with your sleep patterns.

 

[RangerWickett]

Lots of cool and good advice

Wow. Thanks, seriously. And I got that advice for free. I wonder how much it would cost me if I actually wanted to make an appointment.

I will try to keep awake today and go to bed at a reasonable hour tonight. Half the problem is that all the cool websites get updated around midnight. I waste time in the afternoon doing random fun stuff, like reading old books I read in middle school, or making up Magic cards based on my D&D game.

Then dinner steamrolls into watching TV with my mom and brother, and then I get on my computer to try to get some work done for actual d20 products, but the boards are too interesting, so I chill here for a few hours until the WotC site gets updated and Pete loads up a new Sluggy strip,

but by that point I feel that I need to get some work done, so to keep myself awake I take a shower, then head back into my room, deciding instead to go to bed and wake up early, but I can't fall asleep, so I try to read a book, but that doesn't work, and instead I just end up reading until the sun comes up,

and since I'm still awake, I figure I might as well get some work done, so I start checking my email and replying to submissions for the ENWorld Player's Journal, hoping that my grasp of English is still good enough that I don't sound like a moron.

Anyway, Kevin, thanks bunches. I'll do your profession a favor and get myself some sleep tonight. Eh, I probably needed to take a week or so off as vacation after I finished my semester, but now it's time to stop dallying and get back into a reasonable schedule. I'll post tomorrow to tell y'all how things go.

Oh, and to momentarily come back on topic, let's roll to see if anything will disturb my sleep tonight and keep me from getting rest:

. . . dang, it wasn't the number I was hoping for.

 

[RangerWickett]

Still awake! I took a mile-and-a-half walk to the mall and watched the matrix again. I'm a little worried about the effects of sleep deprivation mixing with the Freddie vs. Jason (or is it Jason vs. Freddie) trailer. I'm just trying to hold out until Smallville's over, then I'll sleep.

I really liked the Matrix the second time through. After the discussion on these boards, I saw a lot more fun bits that were nice to watch, rather than focusing on the one or two bad bits (like, c'mon, the Oracle talks about vampires, werewolves, ghosts, angels, and aliens, and we only got two of those! when will Neo fight a Dragon? and will the Dragon use kung-fu?).

Anyway, what the hell is this thread about again?

 

[ced1106]

Call of Cthulhu has used a luck system for many years.

Dunno if the LUCK attribute made it to CoC d20, but it's an easy conversion. Because d20 uses WIS instead of POW, and LUCK = 5 x POW, all you have to do to obtain the percentile-based LUCK score is to replace POW with WIS. Or simply roll a d20 against WIS. Likewise, you can make a DC result by having players roll a d20 and adding their WIS modifier.

This, of course, makes WIS a more "valuable" attribute, but considering some attributes are already more valuable than others (eg. STR), I don't see making WIS more valuable any problem.

Finally, Myriador publication uses a LUCK attribute, which is independent of WIS. See my review of Warlock of Firetop Mountain or Caverns of the Snow Witch on RPGnet.


Cedric.
aka. Washu! ^O^