Ok, so far no votes.  Until someone gives another preference, here's what I'm looking at doing:<br/><br/>According to the book, you start with either 3 or 4 Conviction, but the actual value can go anywhere from 0 to 10.  Once it hits 10, you can trade in all the Conviction points for a Virtue point.  Virtue points can then be effectively spent (marked as used) in order to buy Edges.<br/><br/>According to the book, the level 1 Edge costs 1 Virtue point, the level 2 costs 2, 3 costs 3 and 4 costs 4.  This adds up to 10.  The level 5 would cost 5 but can't ever be bought because you don't have 15.<br/><br/>I'm giving everyone a Conviction rating of 5, rather than the usual 3 or 4.  This is an effective pool, and will refresh 1/day, just like Willpower.  Players who want higher ratings can buy it at a cost of 4 freebie points per dot.<br/><br/>Increasing the Conviction rating through XP will cost the current level *3, and each new Virtue dot will cost 10 XP, regardless of current rating or however many other Virtue points you have.<br/><br/>The first Edge will only cost 1 Virtue point, levels 2 through 4 will cost 2, and the level 5 will cost 3.  This puts level 1 at 1, level 2 at 3, level 3 at 5, level 4 at 7, and level 5 at 10 if you only buy Edges of one particular Creed.<br/><br/>If anyone doesn't like this, finds some sort of flaw or thinks it's dumb, please let me know and I can consider other options.