Regis wrote:
And what about voodoo, black magic, etc
Could it be that the Luck characteristic of our RPG heroes applies to real human beings?
Well, being a long-time wargamer and roleplayer, I can state that I rolled a HUGE amount of dice. So I made some ideas based on my long and wide, although not systematic, study on the matter.
In our gaming group, we used to say: in alea veritas (truth lies in dice), meaning that dice rolls were always, in some strange ways, bound to the overall situation. I can tell a gamut of stories about RPG parties dice streaks that follwed very closely the morale curve of the players.
It may seems a bit odd, but I can't help considering a POW like the one Carl Gustav Jung expresses in his prefaction of "I Ching". If you see thing from a purely cause-effect POW, dice rolls are necessarily free from any possible influences except the purely phisycal ones (that are, in fact, so complex to be beyond our actual computational capabilities), but if you take a more "olistic" POW, in wich you consider every single bit of the Universe as being bound to every single other bit, and accept the fact that where it seems there is no relations between phenomena is only due to our inability to see them, then it's self-evident that every dice roll must be bound, and perfectly fit, to all other factors around.
So, next time you got a streak of 1's, you'd better consider if is not your unconscious, or your karma, or some kind of balance, instead of blaming the random generator code. |
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