From:	Naughty Jonny naughty@********.com.au
Subject:	Who burns the Karma...
Date:	Sun, 14 Feb 1999 00:23:42 +1100

Marc Renouf wrote:

> However, in order to avoid rampant abuse of the Karma Pool for
> frivolous purposes ("I re-roll my failures to try to spill the drink in
> his lap" - don't laugh, it actually happened), I adopted the following
> house rule: There are two kinds of situations; life-threatening
> situations and matters of style. If you burn karma in a life-threatening
> situation (i.e. re-rolling the failures on your Body test in order to
> survive that hit from an AK-97), karma use is handled as normal (in this
> case, the karma burned would refresh as per the standard rules).

There's another way to do it. Don't refresh their karma pool as often
and after they've spent it all on frivolous lifestyle rolls, then they don't
have it when they're about to be minced by the Enormous Mincing
Machine (tm) :-)

However, it'd be kinda obvious if you changed the rules mid-campaign
that you were being Bastard GM.

Cheers,
Jon.