Karma is a measure of the character's lawfulness. Various actions may increase or decrease karma.
At negative karma, the player is treated as a criminal, attacked on sight by guards, and many shopkeepers will not do business with you. This can be temporarily alleviated by casting incognito, either as a spell or from a scroll. Vendors in the thieves' guild reliably have scrolls of incognito in stock.
The only safe haven for a criminal is the town of Derphy.
Actions That Increase Karma
| Action
|
Value
|
| Complete a quest
|
1
|
| Freeing believers being held by fanatics
|
2
|
| Complete a nefia
|
5
|
| Return a lost property
|
5
|
| Read a letter of indulgence
|
20
|
Actions That Decrease Karma
| Action
|
Value
|
| Theft (pickpocket, consuming owned items)
|
-1
|
| Vandalism (destroying items, walls and floors, harvesting owned crops)
|
-1
|
| Kick a sleeping friendly NPC to wake him up.
|
-1
|
| Killing a cat
|
-1
|
| Eat a cat meat/egg
|
-5
|
| Murder (named NPCs, citizens, guards, etc)
|
-5
|
| Fail a generic quest by letting it time out or abandoning it
|
-3
|
| Fail an escort quest
|
-4
|
| Fail a delivery quest
|
-15
|
| Open a lost wallet
|
-8
|
| Tax evasion
|
-40/month
|
