I decided this deserved its own thread since I've gotten a lot of questions about it.
You can improve your character's template during any sufficient downtime (check with me about what that means). Typically, as long as you aren't actively in combat or in an otherwise dangerous situation requiring your full, sustained attention, you will be allowed to spend your karma for the following upgrades:
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Primary Stat Boost: 1,000 Karma for 5 points (or next rank, if it's within 5 points)
Power Stat Boost: 2,000 Karma for 5 points (or next rank, if it's within 5 points)
Resource Boost: 500 Karma for 5 points (or next rank, if it's within 5 points)
Popularity Boost: 0 Karma. You can't buy popularity, you have to earn it through deeds
Gain a New Talent: 1,000 Karma if learned from an NPC expert. 2,000 Karma if learned from a fellow PC.
Gain a New Contact: Free via RP. 500 karma otherwise.
Gain a New Power: 4,000 Karma + 1,000 for every 5 points of power rank desired
Gain a New Power FEAT: TBD. Usually between 1,000 and 4,000, depending on the complexity of the FEAT you're trying to develop.
Note: It is possible to use an unlearned FEAT by spending 100 karma per attempt. If you roll Red, you can buy it on the spot at 25% off. Attempts are made at -1CS parent power.
This discount only applies if you didn't spend karma to modify the roll.
As a reminder, your upgrades do need to make sense. If you don't have a good reason for spontaneously growing bulging biceps or sprouting wings, you won't be able to use karma to grow them. I'll still work with you, of course. Maybe you can engineer a wing backpack if that's what you really want. What I'm saying is, we'll chat about it.
Also worth noting, nothing can be advanced beyond UN (100) through the expenditure of karma.
This message was last edited by the GM at 13:58, Wed 04 Apr 2018.