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Your brain has enough cybernetic sense wired in at that point that it's extra defensed against sense lost. Doesn't matter what type. Maybe it's silly, but Shadowrun is pretty silly so whatever. See, this does imply that you can transmit sense data through inputs not designed for that purpose (if yo...

1 is single, 2 or more is multiple. That's just English. So with just a taste link and a touch link you are having an optimised defense? That people can't affect your visual nerves because you are transmitting touch and taste data? You need to have replaced your eyes with cybereyes, or your ears wi...

Sensory Deprivation: The description says that an optimized defense is given if you have an internal SimRig or multiple cybernetic senses How many? Is it Boolean? (X senses and you get opt. def. Any less and you don't) Step function? (if you have X cybernetic senses they get a -1 hit penalty, if X+n...

Okay, so this is a question that has bothered me for a while and I want to know What is the average skill level in EotM for normal people? The CRB says that a skill of 0 is what average people have. Gymnastics 0 is the sport you did in school. Pistols 0 is what an average person has who has watched ...

Made Up Suggestion: With a critical glitch you count as having one extra sustained program until you succeed on a Logic+Computer(Issue Commands) (2) test (Simple Action per test). Good. What about a glitch reducing the rating by 1. So if you roll a glitch on your Cloak 5 Program it is effectively a...

Okay, are there any penalties to failing Program Activation, aside from wasting a turn/SA/CA? Nope. Okay, what about Glitches and Critical Glitches while activating? Will a Crit. Glitch on my Armor Program crash my commlink or just make it count as two sustained programs? (These are just examples f...

Yep. Every program has a Hits counter, and you need to have at least 1 hit for the program to keep going. If you don't get any hits (always possible) then your program doesn't go off. Okay, are there any penalties to failing Program Activation, aside from wasting a turn/SA/CA? This is like, almost ...

Trying to think of it, but I woke up 10 minutes ago and it's not coming to me. I think answering rules while the brain is metaphorically just booting up is a bad idea. Defense Okay, so if you use an Attack Program it's LOG+Cybercombat vs. FIRE, and if you hit they defend with the pool described in ...

Did I read it correctly that you "Dodge" Attack Programs with WIL and "Soak" with WIL+Biofeedback filter? Because I understand the analogy (REA for dodging and BOD+Armor for defense) but the problem I see is that neither a "Matrix Dodge" skill nor good WIL augmentations...

Okay, so we know that Toxin rules don't work since their Values were copied instead of adapted and the fact that the dice systems of 3e and 4e were quite different

How could you fix them? Because while the current rules may be bad it would also be bad not to have any rules at all.

IIRC in SR5 it's your current attribute +4

Okay, so Living ECM is out leaves us with Emulating, Defragmenting, Retrieving, Supercooling and Accelerating. Still, better than nothing Also, I totally forgot to ask this. Are technocritters "connected" to every device in their Signal Range? Because it makes a HUGE difference whether the...

Makes sense What about limiting it? Instead of being affected with the full rating the TM is only affected by Rating/2? Because if he is affected as normal then this Echo sucks A LOT. You could spend karma for the submersions and get this Jammer Or you could just pay 500 nY/Rating for a normal Area ...

now the Echos. Some of them are already supported (Overclocking, Amplitude), Some are just shit (Firewall upgrade? Seriously? I'd rather spend some karma on a better WIL and get better resistance in many other things) and some sound okay if you change them: Amplification Increases Signal by 1 We hav...

So I went through the Powers at least Anthropomorphism Critters with this power can emulate Physical skills as Complex Forms given access to someone doing the skill and a Threading(3) test Maybe keep it? It may be powerful, but I don't believe they should be able to do it consistently, and getting o...

You might have to do a bunch of conversions That's putting it lightly There is so much to change that it might be better to just make them from scratch There are three Big Areas: Powers These are big and bad. Some of them have equivalents (Gremlins - Gremlins), some only work in the original system...

Am I reading it correctly, that unless you reduce the dice pool to 0 through mana barriers and the conceal power a spirit will find you eventually?
Even if the dice pool is only 1 that means that they may get hits, ergo find you eventually (even if it takes a LONG time), right?

So just to make sure:
Emerged Critters (Matrix capable critters): Salvageable or not?

Seize: When reducing the net hits, do you roll WIL+Biofeedback or just WIL?

I'd say that you use the normal Perception rules here. Which escape me off the top of my head but I'm pretty sure they're something like, "if you're told what to look for you can roll again with +4", or maybe that's DnD. Anyway, however you'd handle it with normal perception, do the same ...

Assuming two Spiders and a hacker Hacker H has gone stealthy and rolled two hits on the test Spider A and Spider B are looking for unusual things. Spider A rolls 3 hits while Spider B rolls just one. This means that Spider A can see H stealthing around, while Spider B can't Can Spider A give informa...

Lokathor wrote:Arbitrary Decision: The holes are somewhat tiny, and the normal style will obscure vision, but you can also buy the transparent version.

Okay, first question answered.
What about the second? How much damage would you say is enough? One point?

Lokathor wrote:PS: Don't ask how it's made.

Didn't intend to

The fact that a faraday cage can work with holes the size of a chain link fence or a fine mesh implies that the physical qualities are less important no, they aren't. The density of the mesh determines what wavelengths can pass through and which can not Faraday cages block every wavelength larger t...

Certain metal bridges do behave that way. And I'm telling you, those are not Faraday cages, just antennae. Best demonstrated by the fact that changing the position of the sender would improve the signal (which a faraday cage does not allow). These are just like the Earth: The Earth The Earth itself...

First of all, the bridge example doesn't work. That's not a Faraday cage. That's just the signal being sent with backward (or close) phase due to the materials warping and re-emitting, thus not being strong enough to be read correctly I know what a Faraday Cage is. But the filtered frequencies depen...