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2016/04/21 04:50:22
Subject: Re:40k players! Do you believe in luck?
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Ultramarine Librarian with Freaky Familiar
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No. Luck is just superstition.
That is until I start rolling dice. Then I may as well be sticking pins in voodoo dolls shaped like space marines for how irrationally superstitious I get.
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2016/04/21 05:42:36
Subject: 40k players! Do you believe in luck?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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I feel like luck is what a bad player uses to justify them failing when they've backed themselves into a corner with only one shot at a 66% chance of getting the result that could win them the game.
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2016/04/21 15:08:21
Subject: Re:40k players! Do you believe in luck?
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Norn Queen
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Luck is a manifestation of probability. Over the course of a game, you will roll an equal amount of 1,2,3,4,5, and 6. However, not all individual rolls are equally important. It's far better to roll better on invuln saves or LD than for bolter hits and wounds.
This.
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Dman137 wrote:
goobs is all you guys will ever be
By 1-irt: Still as long as Hissy keeps showing up this is one of the most entertaining threads ever.
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2016/04/21 15:56:38
Subject: 40k players! Do you believe in luck?
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Oozing Plague Marine Terminator
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Luck is supposed to be a big part of the game. Which is why all the Re-roll cheese is ruining it.
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2016/04/21 17:06:24
Subject: 40k players! Do you believe in luck?
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Did Fulgrim Just Behead Ferrus?
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Martel732 wrote:Luck is a manifestation of probability. Over the course of a game, you will roll an equal amount of 1,2,3,4,5, and 6. However, not all individual rolls are equally important. It's far better to roll better on invuln saves or LD than for bolter hits and wounds.
This. Assuming I have to make a total of six dice rolls, and the results will be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, good luck is when I get each of those results on the specific roll that needs it. Probability says I will roll double ones 1 in 36 times: Good luck is when I roll the double 1s on a leadership test, bad luck is when I roll them for my charge range.
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"Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see.
One chants out between two worlds: Fire, walk with me." - Twin Peaks
"You listen to me. While I will admit to a certain cynicism, the fact is that I am a naysayer and hatchetman in the fight against violence. I pride myself in taking a punch and I'll gladly take another because I choose to live my life in the company of Gandhi and King. My concerns are global. I reject absolutely revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method... is love. I love you Sheriff Truman." - Twin Peaks |
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2016/04/21 17:17:07
Subject: 40k players! Do you believe in luck?
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Consigned to the Grim Darkness
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Luck, yes, as in chance happenstance. Luck as a manipulable thing? No. You can change your chances by making different decisions, but luck isn't an entity.
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The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
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2016/04/21 18:42:29
Subject: 40k players! Do you believe in luck?
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Towering Hierophant Bio-Titan
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RollING double 1s on a leadership roll isn't good luck, it's called Showboating. 
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