[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by SurvivalistMerc:
But with this and my death dominion, I gave up on the game. Perhaps I shouldn't have, but that much bad luck where I had a fortune teller in only the base misfortune level was just "too much" for me.

You had extremely bad luck there. With the same scales, and only building a single fortune teller, I have had:
A handful of magic astral pearls.
Good harvest increasing gol by 50 and 20 less unrest.
A festival held in my honour.
Province defense increased by 10.

That's after turn 15.

By turn 30.
A handful of magic death gems.
An earthquake killed many people (Province pop now at 27K) and destroyed the temple.(Turn 26)
A fire destroyed the lab.(Turn 27)
A barbarian horde.(Pop now 24K)

Between turns 30 and 60.
Heavy snowfalls costing 100 gold.
Handful of magic earth gems.
Great tax collection (+100 gold)
Barbarian horde.
Earthquake.(20K population left)
A handful of magic death gems.
Barbarian horde (17K population left.)
A handful of magic nature gems.
Heavy snowfalls.
Heavy snowfalls.

Note that this is with only one province, so all the bad events are concentrated. The overall efect would be much smaller with more provinces.

All in all, it looks like misfortune might be annoying with order 0, but not that bad.