Luck

Luck is the property of a player character that affects many events involving chance. There are many ways to change your luck, to become either more or less lucky. http://www.steelypips.org/nethack/343/gems-343.html#luck

Luck has a part in:

• finding hidden doors and traps
• receiving a favorable response from prayer (and range of possible favors: http://www.steelypips.org/nethack/pray.html#p4)
• getting certain outcomes from sitting on thrones
• getting certain outcomes from quaffing from sinks and fountains
• success of blessed identify scrolls
• More: http://www.nethack.de/spoiler/luck.shtml

Luckstones are items whose sole purpose is to modify the behavior of the player character's luck.

Common ways to lose luck (and thereby your ability to pray safely)

• -2 for breaking a mirror. Be circumspect when zapping those who carry them.
• -1 for each instance of cheating in Sokoban. One typo may quickly mushroom into an all-out luck-screwing.

Decreasing luck is actually helpful to characters who may not wish to be crowned or receive spellbooks.

This page is a stub. You could probably expand this page should you wish to do so.