From:	David Buehrer <dbuehrer@******.CARL.ORG>
Subject:	Re: Karma Earned
Date:	Tue, 23 Dec 1997 08:49:57 -0700

Digger wrote:
/
/ Ralph and Ivy Ryan wrote:
/
/ > Digger, I would suggest that you re-read the rule book. Specificaly page
/ > 190, para 5 under KARMA and page 191, para 5 under KARMA POOL. I do read
/ > english and I have talked to both Paul Hume and Tom Dowd about the way they
/ > meant the Karma/Karma Pool thing to work. They both confirmed that those
/ > paragraphs really did mean what they said. The Karma Pool is a measure of
/ > experience, showing a PC's ability to adapt under stress so as to succeed
/ > at a task. The Karma Pool is not a measure of luck, luck is measured by
/ > the dice roll (s).
/
/ Hmm.. you mean the paragraph in which the first sentence clearly states
/ "One tenth (round up) of all Karma earned goes into the character's
/ Karma pool ". Sounds pretty cut and dried to me. In fact, it sounds
/ exactly like what I told you earlier. That the character only gets 1
/ karma pool point out of every 10 good karma points.

I agree with Digger. Despite what Paul and Tom intended they wrote
"all karma earned". If they had written "One tenth (round up) of
karma received for an adventure goes into the character's Karma Pool"
then Ivy would be correct. However "all karma earned" says just
that, *all karma earned* to date.

-David
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