Thinking about luck

Well, what is all this 'luck' business about?

I think luck more has to do with "being at the right place at the right time". It's just a way of abstracting the results of encounters with the unknown. It's just like any other encounter with other person, but the result will not be known, simply because, the encounter is with the unknown. The overall "angle" of your results simply tells whether you have good or bad luck. The distribution of luck, ofcourse, depends on the distribution of good and bad stuff relative to the distribution of unknown stuff people are exposed. What may be a factor of luck for some people, may not be for others. Example: Game shows. Wooo.

The Elder Scrolls RPG has a factor called Luck. So if you have a greater "luck", the more gold and rare items you find on bodies, crates, etc.

It's fascinating that luck can play such a major role in our lives. Often the effect seems exaggerated because luck, by it's very nature, catches us by surprise. I guess that's why it seems to play such a large role, although statistically, it may not!