Karma and multi-Discipline characters
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2015 11:25 pm
by ChrisDDickey
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?
Re: Karma and multi-Discipline characters
Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2015 3:25 am
by Panda
Only the highest circle.
Re: Karma and multi-Discipline characters
Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2015 10:46 am
by Mataxes
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).