Tracking Currency

Karma in Character:

In setting, characters are granted the karma when they engage with the world around them.  Actions aligned to their factions ideals will earn them more karma.  These often include helping their faction, saving other characters, defeating warped creatures, inventing new technologies, research, and so on.  Each faction's magical energies have different preferences for what to reward, and this both shapes the culture of the faction and can be shaped by faction culture.

Karma is stored within the soul of a character, and a character can feel the amount of karma whirring within them.  Characters can trade karma with each other in exchange for goods and services or as gifts.  

Karma out of Character:

Out of character, karma is earned through any in character group participation. You can either take the simplified reward "Base Karma" or use a karma calculator to calculate earnings (good for complex/difficult pieces). If you use the calculator, make sure you list which bonuses you applied to the piece in the description somewhere.

• If you depict your character in the submission, that character earns the karma.

• If you depict multiple of your characters in the submission, you can split the karma.

• Gift art/poetry/etc of other peoples characters can earn karma for a character of your choice.

• Roleplays can either divide karma earnings evenly or calculate them per player.

• Other collaborative creations will have karma divided evenly between contributors.

Karma earnings are tracked in the Character Tracker spreadsheet, which a DM will set up for you when your character is accepted into the group.

Submitting Creations for Karma:

General Information

• Players have the choice between “Base Karma” and “Calculated Karma” when posting submissions:

  • Base Karma: 3d4 Karma + Admin bonuses if applicable

  • Calculated Karma: Follows the calculations below

• Karma for a submission (drawing/writing) is calculated for the entire piece not individual characters

• For roleplays the Karma is calculated for the individual character’s posts

• For Solo work: Karma can be split across any characters that you own that are depicted in the piece, if you own multiple you can split it or award all to one character, otherwise, if you don’t own any of the characters you can freely choose one of your own to receive the Karma

• For collabs: Collabs by default are assumed an equal 50/50 split between collaborators unless otherwise specified by the players. You are free to split karma however you’d like between yourselves

• Giving another user the earned Karma is an option too, for example as payments or similar

• The Karma system is designed to be as simple as possible on both players and admins, however, there will be a lot of hidden bonuses for extra effort, creativity, lore-accuracy and much more!
  
  

• Item loot goes to the depicted character’s at player discretion

Drawings

BASE

Character Base: 3 Karma

Any amount of a character visible counts, as long as they are identifiable. Doesn’t require full ‘clean’ lineart but sketches should be cleaned up; messy sketches may receive the sketch adjustment (see bonuses below). Counted per unique depiction of a character

Full Color: +2 Karma

Colors don’t have to completely match the character’s reference and may be adjusted for style or scenic cohesion. Color palettes and grayscale qualify as color. Counted per unique depiction of a character

Shading: +2 Karma

Shading must have deliberate artistic intent and identifiably impact the piece. Counted per unique depiction of a character

Background: +2 Karma

Backgrounds don’t require too many details, but it should be identifiable where the character is and what they are doing. More detailed backgrounds (foreground, midground, background), high level of detail are very likely to receive bonuses. Counted once per unique background

BONUSES

The adjustments below are optional and may be applied where relevant

Sketch: x 0.5 (rounded up)

Simple sketches that haven’t been cleaned up; visible anatomy guidelines, rulers, stray lines, etc

Character Interaction: +1 Karma per Character

Interaction with another Player Character or NPC, once per character after the first one

Comics: +3 Karma

Comic panels are still calculated individually but receive a bonus for the extra effort

Animation: Varies, awarded by admin

Ley Alignment: Varies

Engage in actions that align with your faction to encourage more karma to accumulate on you

Admin Bonus: Varies

Case by case basis, optional reward based on admin discretion, may be awared for exceptional pieces Bonus for complex scenes, may include: large group of characters, interactions with backgrounds/scenery, intriguing perspective, etc

Literature/Roleplays