It doesn't say it doesn't. Not a lot of races give any bonus, but like the Orc's luck bonus. I had to just ban it in my home game because I had a bunch of race/birthsign combos that gave luck bonuses, and it was just too powerful.
Even in regular play its a pretty powerful trait, especially if your a half orc with divine favor or an archaeologist bard.
It also stack with luckstone and jingasa of the fortunate soldier.
Strong, but not overpowered.
Lets just be happy with it, and leave it alone.
Unless you give out a bunch of luck bonuses in Character creation:)
But ya, standard PF probably isn't OP, but on the strong side.
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Honestly I was only thinking about bonuses from magical item. I didn't even think about racial luck bonuses (Halfling, Half-orc luck).
+2 to all save at first level to a Halfling or Half-orc, for a trait? Sounds overpowered. (equivalent of a 8000gp magical item)
Actually, the Halfing Luck is a racial bonus. The trait only improves luck bonuses by 1.
So, it is not quite as powerful as you make it out to be.
Honestly I was only thinking about bonuses from magical item. I didn't even think about racial luck bonuses (Halfling, Half-orc luck).
+2 to all save at first level to a Halfling or Half-orc, for a trait? Sounds overpowered. (equivalent of a 8000gp magical item)
Actually, the Halfing Luck is a racial bonus. The trait only improves luck bonuses by 1.
So, it is not quite as powerful as you make it out to be.
Half-orcs IS a luck bonus though.
Half-orcs IS a luck bonus though.Honestly I was only thinking about bonuses from magical item. I didn't even think about racial luck bonuses (Halfling, Half-orc luck).
+2 to all save at first level to a Halfling or Half-orc, for a trait? Sounds overpowered. (equivalent of a 8000gp magical item)
Actually, the Halfing Luck is a racial bonus. The trait only improves luck bonuses by 1.
So, it is not quite as powerful as you make it out to be.
You're giving up your trait for an extra +1 bonus on saving throws. A trait is worth half a feat, and the orc's ferocity ability (which you trade for Mystic Tattoo) costs 4 RP. Considering that the luck bonus doesn't stack with other luck bonuses, I personally think that its not a ridiculously powerful benefit. It's a very good benefit, but you are paying your fair share for the +2 bonus in question.
Now, where this ability REALLY shines, however, is with the Archaeologist bard's archaeologist's luck ability. Not only does Favored by Fortune effectively boost your bard level by 4 for the purpose of this ability, but it also allows the luck bonus to exceed its normal limitation of +4. That archetype has its own downsides, mind you, but the combination is very good with few downsides.
This works out perfect for my upcoming half-Orc inquisitor/monk...and even squeezes nicely with the story
Been looking for some good spells to choose for him as well so thanks Nefreet :)
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Divine Favor spell, Jingasa helm, and Luckstone are the 3 biggies; you essentially get +1 Attack/Damage/CMB Rolls, +1 AC/CMD, +1 Saves, +1 Skills, and +1 Ability Checks from those three items thanks to that trait. (I'm not sure if there is something that gives +1 to Caster Level or Spell DCs as a Luck Bonus; mayhaps Blessing of Fervor, but don't quote me on that.)
Way too good for a Trait, even if you don't really specialize for it. (Though for my Fighter who has both a Jingasa and a 3/day Divine Favor SLA at CL 10, it's absolutely perfect.)
To be honest, a more fitting way to keep it in line with other Traits in terms of strength is to reduce what it affects. As far as I'm concerned, one effect at at time is more than enough, which is chosen at the start of your turn as a Free Action once per round. Simple as that.
No. It's fine.
Don't ruin this for everybody as well.
Pick on Wayang Spellhunter.
The only way I could ruin this is if I played enough PFS characters with exploiting the trait as much as possible to make the GMs complain to the Devs enough to nerf it.
In other words, if it's overpowered, you should not use it for PFS. That is, if you want to keep it the way it is...
Are speaking of Crane Wing, or something else?
I was actually speaking about Monks in general, but yeah, Crane Wing falls under "throwing Monks under the bus."
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My Half-orc Inquisitor makes good use of this Trait in PFS, actually. He even introduces himself as "Gozreh's Favored". He just made level 10, and although a Luckstone isn't in his future I have a Jingasa, a Sacred Tattoo, and either cast Prayer or Divine Favor regularly.
My Rogue just reached level 15, and has 45k to spend and a feat to pick out. I'm really considering Additional Traits to pick up Fate's Favored and giving him the Luckstone.
Playing through eyes right now with my trickster and considering the same thing for him. He has ranks in pretty much every skill (and like 11 skills are maxed) so he'd get a lot of value out of it.