General
- You can never skip ratings.
- Time to improve a skill is reduced by 25 percent (round down) if you can find an instructor
- You cannot improve an attribute or skill that is on downtime from an associated implant/augmentation.
- If you are only improving skills, you can learn/improve a number of skills up to Logic/2 (round up) during your downtime.
- Otherwise, you can only improve one of the following during a single downtime period:
- One Mental and one Physical attribute
- One attribute and one skill
Learning/Improving an Attribute
- costs (New Rating) x 5 Karma
- You can improve a single attribute's rating by at most 2 during a downtime.
- takes (New Rating) x 1 week to complete
- Attributes cannot be improved past your metatype maximum using Karma.
Improving Edge
- costs (New Rating) x 5 Karma
- training time is instant
Learning/Improving a skill
- Karma cost:
- Active skill = (New Rating) x 2 Karma.
- Knowlege/Langage skill = (New Rating) x 1
- Max rating improvement per downtime:
- Active = 2
- Knowledge/Language = 3
- At new ratings 1-4, it takes (New Rating) x 1 day to learn.
- At new ratings 5-8, it takes (New Rating) x 1 week to learn.
- At new ratings 9-13, it takes (New Rating) x 2 week to learn. (note that you cannot reach rating 13 without the Aptitude Quality)
Learning/Improving an Active Skill Group
- It costs (New Rating) x 5 to raise and can only be raised by 1 per downtime.
- It takes (New Rating) x 2 weeks to learn.
- No other skills or attributes can be improved while you are improving a skill group.
Learning a new specialization
- costs 7 Karma
- takes 1 month
- No other skills or attributes can be improved while you are learning a specialization.
Misc
- New complex form costs 4 Karma
- New spells/rituals/preparations costs 5 Karma
- New initiate level costs 10 + (Grade x 3) karma
- You can purchase Positive Qualities (with GM approval) for listed Karma cost x 2.
- You can remove Negative Qualities (with GM approval) for listed Karma x 2.