From:	Damion Milliken <u9467882@***.EDU.AU>
Subject:	Re: Karma
Date:	Sat, 12 Nov 1994 19:21:55 +1100

Shadowdancer writes:

> Jan-bart again:
>
> > Another thing, what is it with karma. The rules state that you may use a
> > single karma pool dice to reroll all of your failures. If that's right then
> > what's the use of using a KPD as an extra dice in any test. Why would you
> > want A single extra dice if you can throw all of your failures all over for
> > the same price.

So that you can acheive _more_ successes than you would be able to get
normally with the number of dice you have to roll. Also, what if you get all
successes, and still wanna make it worse? Then you buy a few extra dice. But
generally, the failure re-roll is a much more efficient useage of Karma Pool
dice.

> Are you playing first ed.? In SRII, one Karma pool point could be used
> to reroll one failure, not one point for many failures.

A single Karma Pool point will allow you to re-roll all the failed dice from
a single dice roll.

> You could either by six dice, have eight to roll, or you could by six
> success. The first way guarantees that you will still have karma pool after
> the encounter, whether or not you live, the second way leaves you
> karma-less, yet you will live.(This scenerio assumes the use of the
> over-kill rules in FoF, and that the recieving character has not been
> injured.)

It also assumes that the victim generates at least one success
with his two body dice, else he cannot buy successes with karma.

The Cornflake Killer writes:

> What exactly are those overkill-rules, does this mean you can have a
> wound of a level above deadly. So like you said, deadly plus 4 successes.

It goes along the lines that if a weapon has a Power more than (two)x(Bod)
of the person it is hitting, then for every two successes over the amount
needed to raise the wound to deadly (after combat pool dice and body dice)
the victim receives an extra box, to be markled off on the damage overflow.

> And are you sure it says any failures instead of all.

It says "A character can use 1 point from the Karma Pool to re-roll any test
dice that failed." and goes on to give an example of someone rolling 4 dice,
getting 2 succeses and spending 1 karma point to re-roll the 2 failed dice.

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Damion Milliken University of Wollongong e-mail: u9467882@***.edu.au

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