Karma and multi-Discipline characters

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Karma and multi-Discipline characters

Postby ChrisDDickey » Wed Nov 18, 2015 11:25 pm

A characters maximum karma is his racial karma multiplier times his circle.
How about multi-discipline characters? Do they get karma for each circle in each discipline? Or only for the discipline they have the highest circle in?
I know that for durability and bonuses, they only get the highest value, not the sum of all values. Is karma that way?

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Re: Karma and multi-Discipline characters

Postby Panda » Thu Nov 19, 2015 3:25 am

Only the highest circle.
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Re: Karma and multi-Discipline characters

Postby Mataxes » Thu Nov 19, 2015 10:46 am

As Panda said, "only the highest" is the official rule.

There is an optional/house rule adaptation from earlier editions, if you want to get into potentially headache-induced record keeping. You can keep separate pools for each Discipline, but only allow Karma from a pool to be spent on talents/abilities for that Discipline.

So a human Swordmaster 5/Weaponsmith 2 would have 25 Karma that can be used on Swordmaster talents, plus another 10 that can only be used on Weaponsmith talents.

I don't like this, personally, and really don't recommend it for ED4. In addition to the annoying record-keeping required, it makes combinations with a lot of talent overlap more powerful because it greatly increases the available Karma pool for those shared talents (a Wizard/Elementalist, for example, would have more Karma available for Spellcasting).
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