Probably because it's a special attribute, and they wanted to make sure people understood that special attributes can't be Exceptional.

Otherwise, it'd be tempting to play Awakened/techno's with Exceptional Attribute: Magic/Resonance, just so that they can start with an even higher M/R rating.

No, that one they put explicitly state in Purchasing Attributes, Edge at the top of the right column on page 73.

I was referring to the fact that they left it out of character advancment section with karma pertaining to raising attrributes. Of course the maximum when you create a character is going to be 6 (barring other modifiers) Its when you go to raise the edge attribute with karma that I was wondering if there was an limit

Plus the Karma cost of actually improving the attribute? If that attribute is edge, then HELL YES.

Edge is limited, both at chargen and in-game, to a maximum of 6 for metahumans and 7 for humans, or 7 and 8 respectively with the Lucky Quality.

Considering each point of Edge is an exponential increase in effectiveness, I'd agree.

Right, so 61 Karma to raise it from 6 to 7. Considering you would already have a 6 Edge, I can think of quite a few places where I could spend 61 Karma in more effective ways.

Or 85 build points. What kind of power gamer are you if you question the logic of maxing out an attribute?
Although when you add your edge to a dice pool for a roll, each extra point of edge is another dice for that attempt, and an extra time you can do this. I can truly see the benefit.
Some players simply prefer to max out any ability they want their character to be good at, while others try to round out their character. To each their own. I guess as long as you don't get on your GM or fellow players nerves too much with your style of character development you are okay.

Oh man, you should know better than to say something like that!

Spending a point of edge gives you extra dice and gives you the rule of six - which makes every die contribute an average of .4 hits (including the base dice pool, if you use your edge ahead of time). But spending a point of edge to reroll failures brings each die up to a 5/9 hit contributor, and has the additional advantage that it works at full value even if used after the fact, and it has the added benefit of eliminating glitches most of the time.

That being said, from an averages standpoint, and assuming the failure rerolling option's benefits for being used after the fact are unquantifiable, the two options are equal if 7/45 of your original dice pool is equal to 2/5 of your edge. Which means that even if you have an Edge of 7, you're better off just rerolling failures if your original dice pool is 19 or more dice (the breakeven point is 18 dice).

With an edge of 6, you are better off rerolling failures with a 16 die pool.
With an edge of 5, you are better off rerolling failures with a 13 die pool.
With an edge of 4, you are better off rerolling failures with an 11 die pool.
With an edge of 3, you are better off rerolling failures with an 8 die pool.
With an edge of 2, you are better off rerolling failures with a 6 die pool.
With an edge of 1, you are better off rerolling failures with a 3 die pool.

So if you have any sort of min/maxxer's dice pool to start with, each edge point is actually worth less than the one before it. After all, at any given time you may or may not want to use edge between now and the next time your edge refreshes. And the less time there is before it refreshes, the less likely you are to need an edge expenditure before rollover. And the more edge you have, the more times you've used it (and thus the less time until rollover) before you get to your last one.

When you buy a new point of edge, you are purchasing your last point, not your first one, and since most of the time you're going to be using it to reroll failures to save your hoop - there's a substantial chunk of diminishing returns.

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Now, if they let you buy an Edge of 9, that would be something. Suddenly you'd be better off rerolling failures only with a dice pool of 24 dice - which means that for almost all tasks you'd be pulling ahead on buying extra dice, which in turn means that your edge would start to really matter for things other than uses per adventure. But unless you're a spirit, you can't have an edge of nine, so that's that.

-Frank

Heh.

What I was referring to wasn't a statistical increase, as the multifunctionality of Edge overly complicates the math per situation.

I was just referring to the fact that for every X Edge, you can have X opportunities to roll X more dice. So one (common) iteration of Edge's use would give you X^2 more dice to throw every full refresh interval.

Can't do that, according to canon. Edge can only be used once per test. So if you use it to boost the roll, you can't use it for any other purpose on that roll ... even to avoid a Glitch.

Maybe in a future sourcebook we'll get rules for 'Fortunates'

They can learn special 'Tricks' which they use rolling Edge+their special 'Fluking' skill to use, and they can spend karma to increase their Edge attribute above the natural maximum by acquiring grades of 'Fate' - each time they reach another level of Fate they can aso learn special abilities like 'Twist Fate' which allows them to spend Edge on the rolls of others...

I prefer 'Fortunites'! Nothing like a few dozen faithful worshippers to put a smile on my face.