 The Karma System, Alternate Character Creation |
 Jan 31 2009, 03:05 PM
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I was wondering what people generally felt about using the Karma System for Character Creation. Do you find it makes more varied builds? Do you think it makes for overpowered characters?
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Tomothy The Karma System Jan 31 2009, 03:05 PM
Fyndhal There has been a number of threads on this, hashin... Jan 31 2009, 04:33 PM Ancient History The Karma character generation system given in Run... Jan 31 2009, 04:46 PM HappyDaze I love the Karma System, but it needs some tweaks ... Jan 31 2009, 04:48 PM Tomothy Yeah I was mainly wondering because I made the sam... Jan 31 2009, 04:50 PM Ancient History Its endemic to the system: BP is arithmetic, Karma... Jan 31 2009, 05:17 PM
Muspellsheimr QUOTE (Ancient History @ Jan 31 2009, 11... Jan 31 2009, 05:43 PM Fuchs By that logic, the 20BP quality "Exceptional ... Jan 31 2009, 05:25 PM Ancient History 2 + 2 != 5 Jan 31 2009, 05:31 PM ElFenrir Well, IMO, this is what I've found with the di... Jan 31 2009, 05:49 PM Demosthanes We've been using the Karma system at 650 karma... Jan 31 2009, 07:18 PM Glyph Karmagen works well for building well-rounded char... Jan 31 2009, 09:24 PM Ancient History QUOTE (Glyph @ Jan 31 2009, 10:24 PM) IEs... Jan 31 2009, 09:33 PM Glyph QUOTE (Ancient History @ Jan 31 2009, 03... Jan 31 2009, 10:02 PM The Pat The problem we have had with BP chargen and karma-... Jan 31 2009, 09:40 PM Rad Funny, I made an immortal elf character once--befo... Jan 31 2009, 10:10 PM Ancient History Ah, very good, yes. Karmagen isn't really suit... Jan 31 2009, 10:11 PM Mordinvan So, what is the proposed Karagen solution for A.I.... Jan 31 2009, 10:26 PM Ancient History Well, first you take the freelancers that were wor... Jan 31 2009, 10:36 PM Muspellsheimr I advise BP cost x 2 for every racial option. Of ... Jan 31 2009, 11:01 PM Glyph QUOTE (Muspellsheimr @ Jan 31 2009, 05:01... Feb 1 2009, 03:47 AM Matsci QUOTE (Glyph @ Jan 31 2009, 07:47 PM) No ... Feb 1 2009, 04:50 AM Cain Let's be blunt, here: Karmagen also wasn't... Feb 1 2009, 02:39 AM TheOOB I have all racial options port their BP cost direc... Feb 1 2009, 04:51 AM Muspellsheimr I guess I should have remembered to say I also sug... Feb 1 2009, 05:14 AM Glyph QUOTE (Muspellsheimr @ Jan 31 2009, 11:14... Feb 1 2009, 06:13 AM Jaid it shouldn't encourage maxing out their attrib... Feb 1 2009, 07:37 AM ElFenrir To the OP: As you can see, there really isn't ... Feb 1 2009, 10:07 AM Fuchs Karma Gen by RAW means: "If you play a human ... Feb 1 2009, 02:21 PM Dunsany QUOTE (Fuchs @ Feb 1 2009, 09:21 AM) Karm... Feb 1 2009, 03:37 PM kzt QUOTE (Fuchs @ Feb 1 2009, 07:21 AM) Karm... Feb 1 2009, 09:20 PM Fuchs That's not a mechanical reason. And as a GM, I... Feb 1 2009, 03:44 PM Dunsany QUOTE (Fuchs @ Feb 1 2009, 10:44 AM) That... Feb 1 2009, 05:24 PM HappyDaze I'd add that using Karma Gen but applying raci... Feb 1 2009, 05:14 PM Tyro QUOTE (HappyDaze @ Feb 1 2009, 09:14 AM) ... Feb 1 2009, 11:01 PM HappyDaze QUOTE (Tyro @ Feb 1 2009, 06:01 PM) What ... Feb 2 2009, 01:28 AM Tyro QUOTE (HappyDaze @ Feb 1 2009, 05:28 PM) ... Feb 2 2009, 01:32 AM darthmord QUOTE (HappyDaze @ Feb 1 2009, 12:14 PM) ... Feb 2 2009, 01:35 PM Fuchs Why is it one way in BP, and another in karma gen?... Feb 1 2009, 08:44 PM Dunsany QUOTE (Fuchs @ Feb 1 2009, 03:44 PM) Why ... Feb 2 2009, 04:32 AM Ryu QUOTE (Fuchs @ Feb 1 2009, 09:44 PM) Why ... Feb 2 2009, 01:06 PM Glyph Humans get shafted by BP, though, too. Trolls com... Feb 1 2009, 09:12 PM Ancient History I didn't. Which is another reason why modifier... Feb 2 2009, 02:29 AM HappyDaze QUOTE (Ancient History @ Feb 1 2009, 09:2... Feb 2 2009, 02:43 AM Ancient History QUOTE (HappyDaze @ Feb 2 2009, 02:43 AM) ... Feb 2 2009, 03:59 AM Abschalten I really do like the karmagen much better than the... Feb 2 2009, 03:54 AM ElFenrir QUOTE (Abschalten @ Feb 1 2009, 10:54 PM)... Feb 2 2009, 12:42 PM Abschalten QUOTE (ElFenrir @ Feb 2 2009, 07:42 AM) (... Feb 2 2009, 01:01 PM Fuchs "It has to suit your gaming group" is no... Feb 2 2009, 08:52 AM Fuchs Under karma gen, humans are - strictly mechanicall... Feb 2 2009, 01:18 PM Ryu QUOTE (Fuchs @ Feb 2 2009, 02:18 PM) Unde... Feb 2 2009, 03:10 PM ElFenrir I remember around here-actually, a couple of times... Feb 2 2009, 01:43 PM Fuchs Under the BP system metaraces at least do cost som... Feb 2 2009, 03:49 PM Ryu QUOTE (Fuchs @ Feb 2 2009, 04:49 PM) Unde... Feb 2 2009, 05:58 PM Fuchs QUOTE (Ryu @ Feb 2 2009, 06:58 PM) What a... Feb 2 2009, 06:05 PM ElFenrir They do cost something, true.
But it's STILL ... Feb 2 2009, 04:30 PM HappyDaze QUOTE The ''blandness'' thing of b... Feb 2 2009, 05:10 PM ornot All my players used the BP system, and all of them... Feb 2 2009, 05:29 PM darthmord Make Humans more desirable? How about giving them ... Feb 2 2009, 06:00 PM ornot Any costs in mind Fuchs?
I've not played with... Feb 2 2009, 07:30 PM Ryu I can understand frustration with the relative pos... Feb 2 2009, 09:02 PM Tyro QUOTE (Ryu @ Feb 2 2009, 01:02 PM) I can ... Feb 2 2009, 09:07 PM Fyndhal Under Karmagen:
A Human with all stats at Natural ... Feb 2 2009, 10:11 PM  |
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