Murphy’s Law

  • Korgmeister
    Participant

    I am at present toying with the idea of a school of magic based around Murphy’s Law and it’s many corralarys.

    It occured to me because I do something similar as a joke.

    For instance, I do movie reviews for the student magazine, but I’m at present temporarily unemployed over Christmas (my casual job doesn’t get me any work at this time of year)

    Now I generally work under the principle that the perversity of the universe stabilises at a maximum. Or as I generally put it “God has a wicked sense of humour and enjoys watching me squirm”

    So I figure that by going for the movie review, my chances of getting some work over the holidays (specifically, on that day) suddenly dramatically improve.

    My question is: Is this a unique concept, or have I just developed an exceedingly cynical way of applying Entropomancy?

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  • Sir Cabhán
    Participant

    Nah, it’s just sod’s law… 😉

    One way to keep players on their toes is to make 80% of the weirdness you throw out at them red herrngs. Sod’s Law is a red herring and you create your own luck as well as your own desiny.

    You could run a Murphy’s/Sod’s Law as a concept whereby the character using it can create their own luck bypassing off bad luck to others aroud him.

    Dunno what the taboo would be though.

    Sir Cabhán.

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  • Nicodemus C Power
    Participant

    Murphy’s Law is “If there are two ways to do something, and one will result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.” (First quoted by test pilot Edward A Murphy, after a particularly scary experiment in which it later turned out a technician had plugged every single sensor in upside down)

    Many people quote “The perversity of the universe tends to a maximum” or “Anything that can go wrong will”. This is actually Finagle’s Law, named after a fictional character called Finagle in a book by SF author Larry Niven. (Finagle was an entropomancer, although never referred to by that name)

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