From:	Loki <loki@*******.com>
Subject:	Re: PC's Morality
Date:	Wed, 25 Sep 1996 23:40:28 -0700

Paul J. Adam wrote:
>
> In message <32497A5C.2FFB@*******.com>, Loki <loki@*******.com> writes
> >I've even awarded neagtive karma for killing innocents. It definitely
> >serves to make the Player's think as the erase their Good Karma off
> >their chracter sheet and write in a lower number without raising some
> >stat or putting the amount into team karma...
>
> Would it matter to the character? If it did, then fine. Some of my PCs
> would agonise about a noncombatant wounded or killed, and Karma
> penalties would be entirely appropriate.
>
> Another wouldn't give a damn, considering "innocents" to be either
> "unpeople" that don't really exist, or just accepting "collateral
> casualties" as a part of the run.
>
> I don't like Karma being used to enforce any particular code, though.
> It's a measure of how well the character is played. If the character's a
> totally evil scumbag and well-roleplayed as such, reward him with Karma.
>
> He'll probably need it when the team turns on him for getting them in
> too much trouble... Real-world consequence is a better mechanic than
> "bad person, bad Karma".

I can see your point, the negative Karma I've awarded has mainly been
for a character that is primarily played as a "good guy" champion of the
underdog and then out-of -the blue kills someone defenseless and just
standing-by.

If the character were a cold-hearted pit of darkness and did the same
thing in character they probably would deserve a bonus of karma for
role-playing well.

Just never had the son-of-sam type character survive in my group long
when you tend to have a Dog Shaman or Sun Druid representing the side of
light as well...

Your point is well made though, and I'm having to look at these kind of
reprcussions as my team was hired by Kyle Morgan to deliver a
bio-warfare strain of Polio back to Renraku who supposedly had been
designing it in mutual contract with the UCAS military (mind you no one
is really vaccinated for this any longer in 2054).

They released it in the Renraku Mall fire sprinklers, figuring exposure
to 1,200 or so shoppers which would prompt a vaccine and render the
virus useless in warfare (good intentions on their part). Three weeks
later media is counting an outbreak of 3,800+ individuals. All exposure
has been tracked to an area 4 kilometers in radius within and about the
arcology (strange for a self-sufficient architecture like Renraku).
Hospitals and clinics are overflowing, field clinics and the like are
having to be setup in available structures.

Four major terrorist organizations are claiming responsibilityt. Renraku
stock has dropped 14 points in three weeks, and one of their contacts
with a hobby in stocks has mentioned the frightening fact of a mega-corp
take over. Now Kyle did hire the team to make the delviery...

Muhahahahaha!

@>-,--'--- Loki

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