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[Tanegar]

One of my players (the new guy, playing an ork street doc), wants to exchange karma for cash. I allowed it, at the Karmagen rate of 1 karma per 2,500 nuyen. Now another player, the free spirit, wants to know if he can exchange cash for karma. I see his point: as a free spirit, he has almost no use for money, but is perpetually karma-starved. Should I allow it?

[Makki]

we used
1:5000, if you wanted karma and
2500:1, if you wanted money.
max 5 karma per run can be changed.

[Udoshi]

we used
1:5000, if you wanted karma and
2500:1, if you wanted money.
max 5 karma per run can be changed.

I second this.

1 karma to 2500 nuyen to represent a windfall seems appropriate.
The other way around, my last gm let it happen, but at 100,000:1


As far as how it should be for BALANCE, one previous dumpshocker who's name I forget had a system that had variable exchange rates: It went up/down a bit depending on the cash/karma payouts for the given job, and had some sort of cap on it.

[SpellBinder]

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As far as how it should be for BALANCE, one previous dumpshocker who's name I forget had a system that had variable exchange rates: It went up/down a bit depending on the cash/karma payouts for the given job, and had some sort of cap on it.

Sounds a little like what one guy I know does for the cash:karma deal. For 1 karma was 2,500¥, but for 2 karma it was 7,500¥, and 3 karma was 15,000¥. Same was true in reverse, 1 karma could net you 2,500¥, but for 5,000¥ it was 3 karma, and 7,500¥ was 6 karma.