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"Push Your Luck" - Fantasy AGE Luck (Fortune) and Spell Push

I have been researching the math behind fortune and have found that the new luck and spell push are basically the same mechanic. As a result we can craft a unified mechanic that allows any player to spend a resource to ensure their action succeeds. This address the problem of a "miss" feeling bad in TTRPG play and creating decent trade off of short term success versus long term penalty. TLDR; Summary Combine fortune based "luck" and spell push into the same mechanic for all characters call it "Push Your Luck" player is allowed to replace one die with a new face for the cost of the new die face for example, if you roll a 1 and want at least a 3 to succeed, then you pay a cost of 3 for the new die face value stunts are not allowed since this was initially a failed roll. choose an appropriate resource pool to spend from Modern AGE Master book on page 47 has fortune as an independent resource. This is probably the easiest way to implement fortune even for Fant...