When to add karma
Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2019 1:09 am
Quick rules interpretation question:
I was reading the examples of "actual play" for 1879 the other day and noticed that it at least implies and may explicitly use examples in which the players choose whether to use karma after seeing the results of the base, karma-less, die roll. With Earthdawn, my group has always played that you have to commit to using karma before rolling for the test and I was wondering if this is not what the RAW intend. I have skimmed my ED3 and ED4 books on the subject and I didn't see anything that clarifies this one way or the other. I do not own the 1879 rules yet so I haven't been able to look at them to see how the rules are presented there but seeing as it uses the Step System I guess I would kind of expect something like this to work the same way.
So, have we been doing karma wrong for years? Is this specific to 1879 and has no relevance for Earthdawn? Did I misinterpret what I read in the "actual play" example(s) on the 1879 page on the FASA site? Something else?
Thanks!
I was reading the examples of "actual play" for 1879 the other day and noticed that it at least implies and may explicitly use examples in which the players choose whether to use karma after seeing the results of the base, karma-less, die roll. With Earthdawn, my group has always played that you have to commit to using karma before rolling for the test and I was wondering if this is not what the RAW intend. I have skimmed my ED3 and ED4 books on the subject and I didn't see anything that clarifies this one way or the other. I do not own the 1879 rules yet so I haven't been able to look at them to see how the rules are presented there but seeing as it uses the Step System I guess I would kind of expect something like this to work the same way.
So, have we been doing karma wrong for years? Is this specific to 1879 and has no relevance for Earthdawn? Did I misinterpret what I read in the "actual play" example(s) on the 1879 page on the FASA site? Something else?
Thanks!