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Message no. 1
From: Ubiquitous <weberm@*******.net>
Subject: Re: [SR2] Shedding bad karma
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 22:28:28 -0400 (EDT)
At 07:34 PM 8/6/96 -0600, Ahz wrote:

>Bad Karma can be shed in the following ways:
>
>1) They can do a "initiate" ordeal or quest to help with "cleaning
up" their
>aura.

How can an astral quest possibly do this? What rating and what quest is chosen?

>2) Performing a service to the source of the bad karma, ie. replanting a
>forrest that was burnt down during the run, or making an anonymous gift to
>the victims family (if the victim was a bystander in a shootout).

This could have just as easily been done via role-playing, without this
"bad karma" rating.

>Bad karma does NOT effect or affect good karma or stats. It does not change
>ANY statistic. It is simply an aura mark or a "feeling" that other
>characters can sense if they don't have a lot of bad karma.

What? You still have not defined it other than a "bad feeling" or
"background count" and "something that has no other affect on a
character".
When you can't even properly describe your own idea, it's a pretty good sign
to ditch it and use something already in the system.

--
"I dyde shyte thre grete toordes." Fables of Aesop,
Caxton translation,
V15 1484

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