User Guide

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levels you will have the ability to choose from a

list of Perks. Characters that have the Skilled

trait must advance four levels before they can choose

a new Perk. Each Perk will appear as a separate

entry. If you selected the Perk multiple times to

increase the ability of the Perk, that rank will

appear as a number next to the Perk name. Click on

a Perk to view the information card about it.

Use the arrow buttons to scroll the list up or

down if you have too many Perks to view on one

screen at the same time.

At the bottom of this display, you will see your

chosen traits.

Karma - As the player, you will make choices for

your character and those choices will have

ramifications. The results of your choices will be

found on this display. For good or bad, your

actions will change your character. This display

basically shows three types of information: Karma

score, town reputations and special reputations.

Your charcter’s Karma score is kind of a one-

shot indicator of the results of all the actions

you have taken up to now. A positive number means

that you have basically acted as a good guy. A

negative number means that you have been the bad

guy. Imagine it as a scale. Every good deed and

bad deed that you do, regardless if it is noticed

by the outside world, is recorded. Bad deeds will

lower your Karma, while good deeds will raise your

Karma. A Karma that hovers around zero means that

you are basically neutral, or you are like a

newborn child -- you haven’t had a chance to prove

yourself one way or the other.

Reputation is also a measure of your deeds, but

only if other people witness your actions. Each

location will think of you differently, but some

locations can hear about your deeds from one town

or the other, and will thusly be modified by your

reputation in other towns. A positive reputation

is good, a negative one is bad and one that is