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So, I had a test yesterday and i needed luck, so i decided to bring my lucky d20.
People thought i was weird, but i know another guy had his lucky Hat and pen.
So, what superstitions or objects do you have that give you luck?

This is totally unhygienic, but whenever a die falls of the table and to the floor, I pick it up and give it a quick little kiss to show the die it was not abandoned.

I developed a minor little ritual this past Sunday. I had my Browns hat on backwards, and my lucky jersey on. Whenever I needed a big play from the Browns I would take the hat off, move my hand through my hair, replace it and straighten it, and then I would brush off the front of my shirt, right hand first followed by left hand, and then the right hand would brush off the left sleeve and the left would do the same with the right sleeve...

Sometimes I think if I stop breathing, I'll die. It really gets to me, so I just breathe all the time.

My fantasy football team has to have a Texan on it and my fantasy baseball team has to have an Astro on it. Beyond that, nothing.

Remember awhile back when I posted a pic of my TC side window of my close call....I pulled a ball bearing out from the plys that if it went through would have riped my throat out. Driled a hole in it and now keep it on my keychain

Nope. Only rational thinking for me!

If I want something to happen, I'll hope for the opposite-Chaos Theory seems to run my life.

Don't breath in while passing a graveyard.
Eat black eyed peas on important dates.
Don't wear rubber bands on my wrist.
Bribe TBone to go out every hour I'm there during the day.
Avoid vegetables whenever possible.

I actually try to be a rational human being, so superstition has no place in my lifestyle.

I forgot one.

For good luck, one of my New Years Resolutions each year is not to crap my pants.

60% success rate, baby!

I don't have any, I simply don't feel the need.

 kronk wrote:
I forgot one.

For good luck, one of my New Years Resolutions each year is not to crap my pants.

60% success rate, baby!

I do touch wood if I say something that might tempt fate. I mean, I don't believe in fate, or luck, or any of that. And yet...

Don't know if this counts but, whenever a die lands on 1 and it wasn't for a Ld check it gets put back in the box to "think about what it did". Also, my skin crawls if my opponent touches my dice.

Churches, as an atheist I feel like I'm treading on toes if I enter one.

My building at work is pretty old, built in 1888 and it can be a very freaky place to work, especially at night... As a result I never look right when coming out of the lift. If a resident needs my help and they live in a room down the right hand side they have to wait for a few more seconds whilst I perform a kinda 270 degree turn through the left before I proceed down the corridor.

I try to avoid cracks in the pavement and always throw salt over my right shoulder after spilling it.... I avoid old gypsy women and their dogs and always touch wood after tempting fate and I NEVER walk over some one else's grave directly. That's just rude!

 InquisitorVaron wrote:
Churches, as an atheist I feel like I'm treading on toes if I enter one.

Were you raised atheist? I was a Catholic until 15/16 and I feel the same. I don't think I would if I was raised atheist, my atheist friends certainly don't.

 Testify wrote:

 InquisitorVaron wrote:
Churches, as an atheist I feel like I'm treading on toes if I enter one.

Were you raised atheist? I was a Catholic until 15/16 and I feel the same. I don't think I would if I was raised atheist, my atheist friends certainly don't.

Yeah, as an atheist from a family that hardly ever talks about religion I've never really felt like I was stepping on anyone toes when entering a church I imagine most of the followers probably assume I'm a christian though, I mean it's not like I go around telling strangers about my religious

beliefs so they have no reason to think I'm an atheist (although if anyone asks I just say "I don't believe in god, etc"). Plus some of my friends are religious so when eating for dinner at their place I join in their prayer just to be polite and all.

Everytime I walk past a group of people. I immedately get the suspicion that they think I am a son of a long lost Normandy Lord. Because they stare too much O.o


Another supersition is when I walk down stairs in my basement I have a tendency to stay near the walls especially when its dark....

During camping trips I always keep a hunting knife right underneath my pillow.

 Testify wrote:

 InquisitorVaron wrote:
Churches, as an atheist I feel like I'm treading on toes if I enter one.

Were you raised atheist? I was a Catholic until 15/16 and I feel the same. I don't think I would if I was raised atheist, my atheist friends certainly don't.

Raised with whatever religion I wanted, losely christian was agnostic for a while.
I just don't feel right in a church, that and I've watched to much horror to know where it ends up

I try to lead a life based on rational thought, so no primitive superstitions for me.

My wife's family are catholic. I'm an atheist. When they say grace - I don't join in - I just remain silent. I let them have their primitive superstitions.

 chromedog wrote:
I try to lead a life based on rational thought, so no primitive superstitions for me.

My wife's family are catholic. I'm an atheist. When they say grace - I don't join in - I just remain silent. I let them have their primitive superstitions.

As long as you're not obnoxious about it to them they probably won't mind.

My girlfriend's dad is a priest, so I know how you feel, kinda.

I sometimes wonder if some people think something bad would happen if they didn't act like dicks at every opportunity when the subject of religion came up, even tangentially.

On topic, I knock on wood.

 Monster Rain wrote:
I sometimes wonder if some people think something bad would happen if they didn't act like dicks at every opportunity when the subject of religion came up, even tangentially.

On topic, I knock on wood.

I'm not saying people who believe in superstition can't be rational it's just the whole idea of superstition itself is irrational because it requires you to believe in something that can't be explained and rationalism depends on reasoning in order to explain something.

I always check rooms for escape routes and defensive points as well as assess possible attack avenues... it's as automatic as checking people who walk by me visually for weapons. I get really twitchy without my back to some kind of wall, preferably with a decent view of the rest of the room...

Lesse... whenever I need luck I wear my dog tags and my "bullet with my name on it" (an actual live 7.62x39mm round)

I feel uncomfortable sleeping in a room with an unsecured door and without a weapon to hand.

Oh and I have a dream catcher. I used to have terribad nightmares as a kid... I don't really have them these days. My dreams are either good or insanely surreal.

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
I always check rooms for escape routes and defensive points as well as assess possible attack avenues... it's as automatic as checking people who walk by me visually for weapons. I get really twitchy without my back to some kind of wall, preferably with a decent view of the rest of the room...

Lesse... whenever I need luck I wear my dog tags and my "bullet with my name on it" (an actual live 7.62x39mm round)

I feel uncomfortable sleeping in a room with an unsecured door and without a weapon to hand.

Oh and I have a dream catcher. I used to have terribad nightmares as a kid... I don't really have them these days. My dreams are either good or insanely surreal.

I don't think a lot of those are superstitions because a lot of those examples can be explained due to your army background.

I don't let my one friend touch my dice. He is a curse. In fact, no one lets him touch their dice because their is way too much evidence that if you are rolling well or even great and touches your dice, you are SCREWED!

I have a lucky angry bird that I clip to my belt and wear. He brings mixed fortunes.

I also touch wood whenever I tempt fate.

I also avoic walking under ladders and walking over three drains in a row.

though the last is just cos i got booted by my mate every time i did.

I touch wood whenever i believe i may have tempted fate

I also call for the blessings of either Hecate Diana Herne Lilith or occasionly if the situation merits it Tzench when ever i am attempting crucial dice rolls

Once and only once i salted the doors and windows to the room i was sleeping in. I see and hear things that other people cant.

I always wear my pentogram necklace nomatter what against my chest. Even during sex.

I have lucky figures. I also have lucky dice.

I name some of my figures.

I also have atleast one weapon i am proficient with within easy reach of me when i sleep.

Having grown up both in New Orleans ( a city famous for it's voodoo traditions, where a chicken foot with a black feather tied to it can fend off most unwanted people as quickly as a hand gun) and with my Grandmother, who's belife in a myriad of superstitions was absolutely jaw dropping, I have to admit some of it has rubbed of on me.
Now of course I don't really " belive" in any of these things...but I still get uncomfortable when I see someone open an umbrella indoors...or sweep over someones feet with a broom...or...hell...do any of the millions of things that my Grandma swore was "Bad Luck".