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> "In combat it says I can only make one attack action. What exactly does this mean? It means don’t get cute and try to play word games. Barring using the Multiple Attacks Free Action (in which you split your dice pool to attack multiple targets), you cannot take a second offensive action towards another character during your pass. This means throwing grenades, shooting guns, casting spells (recklessly or otherwise), spitting in their cheerios, spiking their tea with arsenic, or anything else that could be construed as a physical or mental attack in any way, shape or form. However, you may take a Free Action to cast disparaging remarks at their mothers if you so choose. If you’re not certain if an action would be an attack, well, it probably is. But ask yourself if they used it against you would it be an attack? And if you’re still not certain, ask your Gamemaster. However, be warned, if you try and argue with him he is authorized to smack you upside the head with the Shadowrun, Fifth Edition book."
This rule is in effect on ShadowHaven. +
Made Man and Black Market Pipeline will not stack with each other, however, both will stack individually with Dealer Connection. The stacking is calculated Additively - thus, when both apply, you recieve a 20% discount. +
The first portion of your post is under consideration by Council. Please hold.
The second portion of your post is not a question, however, I am forced to agree with you. It would be odd to find a man covered in whipped cream in a public place. It is almost exactly the sort of thing one would find odd. +
Nonmechanical impact of drugs such as anti-depressants and etc. do not need to be represented on the sheet. You can assume that they are a part of your lifestyle, though that might be a little tricky if you're a squatter. The real pro tip is don't be a squatter. +
Prehensile Tails work off of your unaugmented strength. This means any increase to your strength does not affect it. If you have spent karma to raise your strength to 6, then your tail is at strength 3. This is true regardless of what other things affect your current strength score positively. +
You cannot utilize Called Shot (Entanglement) with a monofilament whip. Therefore, your situation is not handled at all. Entanglement calls out a specific list of weapons, which a monofilament whip is not a part of. +
Assensing + Intuition [Astral] against Sneaking + Agility [Physical] (if the sneaker is dual-natured or only on the meat) or Sneaking + Logic [Astral] (if the sneaker is wholly astral) is the test for stealth on the astral. +
Emerged contacts do not have a reduction in their nuyen available. +
Assume "significant extra weight" for the purposes of Skimmers (CF 88) to mean anything more than roughly 2kg/point of body above and beyond FBA+reasonable weaponry. You can still have your combat axe or sniper rifle and FBA, but if you try carrying a ballistic shield things might get a bit hairy. Anything that needs a lift and carry test is, of course, right out. +
Making a perception test does not use the Control Device matrix action. +
While Direct spells ignore armor for the purposes of how they deal damage, the elemental effects still suffer the full resistance of armor. +
Unanswered +
While I am happy to answer specific questions, I am not going to rule broadly. While Resonance Veil is very open ended and this can be a point in it's favor, it also makes it basically impossible to rule on properly. For now it remains in GM fiat. +
Only basic wards may be permanent.
None of the GM-Permission required wards may be combined in any combination with each other or other wards. +
Spirits utilizing the Possession power may only move in the ways that their host entity could ordinarily move. While this is only explicitly stated under Dead/Inanimate Vessels, we will extrapolate this to apply to living ones as well. +
Unanswered +
Unanswered +
You cannot shoot the same person with two different guns on the same pass, even if you split your dice pools. +
A rating 6 medkit can be added to armor, though it can safely be assumed to only function for the wearer.
It's obviousness is up to the GM. It is likely neither super blatant nor super stealth. Savvy individuals are likely to be able to notice it. +
Unanswered +
The Islamic Alchemist, when required to take Quickening, instead gains no metamagic for that initiation. When required to take Anchoring, they instead gain no metamagic for that initiation.
This sounds awful, but is de facto RAW, since they, as you say, cannot use Spellcasting or Ritual Spellcasting. +
Modular connectors between flesh and limb work in one of two ways - either you purchase a connector and place it in your flesh, allowing you to change out any appropriately-sized limb, or you purchase a modular limb and can swap it out without the use of a connector, but only with other modular limbs. Essentially, you pay in capacity, or you pay in essence.
In either case, your essence will adjust, leaving essence holes as appropriate, to any changes in your limbs. A connector does not place a limb into its capacity, so it still costs essence to have an arm attached to a connector. +
Invited marks do not travel up the stream at this time. This may be changed later. +
For sanity's sake, assume that the free action in conjunction with the attack action for a Called Shot does not reset the Take Aim bonuses. It happens simultaneously, not prior to. So Take Aim and Called Shots can work together. +
Stick n Shock Flechette can only be loaded into shotguns per RAW.
Weapons with Flechette as part of their damage code default can *only* fire flechette rounds. This does not include Stick n Shock Flechette.
Parashield Dart Pistols will be treated as Heavy Pistols for the purposes of mounting them on drones and vehicles.
Parashield Dart Rifles will be treated as Sniper Rifles for the purposes of mounting them on drones and vehicles. +
YNT Softweave may only be added to base armor pieces. It may not be added to armor accessories. +
Chummer is not a rules source. +
Pouncing Dragon is it's own special Complex Action. Utilizing it as part of a subdual action is not possible as a result. +
It is **not** possible to substitute as stated in your original, unedited question. +
You cannot buy hits to handload your own ammunition. However, remember that you can buy it.
Further downtime rules are forthcoming.
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You are not a wall. You cannot carry around a *wall mounted* sensor housing. It must be mounted on a wall, with power hookups and a wall. +
Concealability from multiple pieces of armor does not stack with other pieces of armor. It will however stack with a concealed pocket or a concealed holster. Note the singular articles there. +
The quality "Hawk Eye" does not stack with electronic enhancements, cyberware, or bioware. The Adept Power "Improved Sense" mimics certain of the prior, and thus does not stack with the Hawk Eye quality.
In short, you can't get double vision magnification. Sorry. +
Narco will not affect situational or specific bonuses to attributes, such as bonuses to logic-linked skills, or bonuses to strength for lift and carry or grappling damage. +
When casting a ritual, including the ritual for an Ally Spirits, one uses Ritual Spellcasting. +
Implants of any kind cannot be both implanted in a living body and be a focus. Per SG, the conflicting auras do not permit it.
EDIT: Qi foci may explicitly be tattooed. As a result, one may have a cyberimplant that is also a Qi Focus. Other foci remain invalid targets. +
The automatic hits from Hardened Armor are extra, and thus do not detract from the dice pool of the subsequent damage resistance test. Unfortunately. +
A nartaki, or anyone else with Shiva Arms, requires an instance of Ambidextrous for each additional arm in order to avoid penalties with said arm.
The Bilateral Coordination Coprocessor will reduce penalties by 2 for any given action. If you are only using one non-primary hand, this will typically be sufficient. However, if you are using multiple, the GM may apply the penalty multiple times, at their discretion. I suggest they only do this in cases where multiple limbs are required to coordinate to a higher degree than firing a weapon - for example performing brain surgery. +
The noise generated by Smoke and Mirrors can be cancelled out by Noise Reduction. I think that's what noise reduction is for.
The noise generated by Smoke and Mirrors explicitly per RAW does not apply to any actions taken against you, except for the Trace Icon action.
At no point does Noise Reduction or Smoke and Mirrors indicate that noise reduction also reduces Sleaze rating. +
There are no plans at this time to alter the availability code of Voidblack. +
Confirming that called shots with spells are not possible. +
When one is in VR, one may utilize any of their choice of Intuition or Reaction for tests relating to vehicles and drones that call for either, and their choice of Logic or Agility for tests relating to vehicles and drones that call for either. +
I am unsure what you mean by "active or passive."
Damage resistance tests are not penalized by background counts, regardless of the scenario, so the Mystic Armor adept power is functionally not affected by background counts. +
A rigger making melee attacks while jumped into a drone uses the relevant melee skill. +
When fencing gear, players are encouraged to utilize the rules basing the return on a contact's loyalty. However, if the choose to utilize the method that involves finding a buyer, it must be rolled out, at a table, with a GM.
Needless to say, if a GM is found to be playing it fast and loose with this, the Thematics Department will probably be very grumpy with them. +
Flamethrowers will fit on a "Heavy" weapon mount for drones. +
The cost of customizing the attributes of a cyberlimb is part of the cost of the cyberlimb itself, and is accordingly affected by the grade of the cyberlimb. +
At this time Mechanics Division is not going to make any sweeping rulings related to drone size and cyberware compartments. However, the Lockheed Optic-X2, when folded up, will fit into a Large Smuggling Compartment cyberware unit.
The internal router cyberware may be used on devices held inside cyberware smuggling compartments. +
Unanswered +
For the purposes of drone mounts, Hunting Rifles will include all Sporting rifles.
Sporting rifles will include all such weapons listed explicitly in crunch as a sporting rifle or using the sporting rifle specialization, as well as the Ruger 950.
Sniper Rifles will include all other non-shotguns utilizing the longarms skills. +
BTLs do not stack with drugs, cause drug interactions like drugs, and overdose like drugs. Incidentally, drugs do not stack, they overlap - you cannot, for example, take Kamikaze twice and gain +4 strength. +
Biofiber pockets are a detectible aura, however, they generally do not extend outside of the clothing they are within unless someone sticks their head into your pants. This means they are pretty easy to not detect. It will, however, still mask foci within from being seen from outside them. Protection, unless someone is sticking their head into your pants. +
The Virtual Machine Program does **not** increase the number of autosofts that an RCC can run.
The RCC can run any common or hacking program, though many of them will not be useful. The sole exception is that they cannot run programs that alter an attribute they do not possess already. This means they cannot run, for example, Smoke and Mirrors to gain a sleaze score unless they somehow already have one. +
Any changes to the attribute altered by an Infusion complex form causes the complex form to drop immediately. +
Control Rigs do not provide bonus dice to vehicle defense tests. Hotsim bonuses, control rig boosters, and any other modifiers to "Vehicle Tests" but *not* "Vehicle Skill Tests" will apply. This includes penalties for, say, flat tires. +
There are no "decryption keys." In order to use the Edit File action on a file, you must first bypass any protection it has.
If you are the owner of a file, it does not have to roll any defense dice against your Crack File action, however, you still need to have an attack attribute. GMs, please note the impact this has on the matrix ecosystem. +
The Practice Practice Practice quality will only apply to inherent and gear limits, per recent Council ruling. +
All "Drugs" found in Bullets and Bandages should be treated as having a speed of "Immediate." +
While Laced Lipstick itself does not protect you, the acquisition of an appropriate protective method - a plastic or wax coating, for example - shall be assumed to be a part of lifestyle for anyone who is not literally a squatter. +
Unanswered +
[What?](https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat) +
The alteration to physical stats by Channeling and Possession are limited by the augmented max of +4. +
As a general rule, when one is producing foci and selling them for a profit, one is no longer a shadowrunner, and is instead a foci producer. Since this game is about shadowrunners, and not foci producers, generally one should shy away from regular, reliable income sources that are not shadowrunner, or one should retire to those. +
The Bullets+Bandages medkit rules are not in use on the ShadowHaven. +
You cannot benefit from multiple instances of the same program on a cyberdeck or other device, regardless of how you may attempt to do so. +
Per recent Council ruling, it is now permanent burnout to reach 0 current magic. +
Touch is a valid Unarmed skill specialization. +
Adepts, Magicians, Aspected Magicians, and Mysads following Oracle both may and must take the Divination art and the Augury and Sortilege ritual for the next initiation if they do not already possess it.
Adepts and Mystic Adepts without the Magician's Way, as well as any Aspected Conjurers or Aspected Enchanters may still use the Augury and Sortilege ritual, completing the ritual with a straight Magic check (rolling their Magic attribute only in d6) instead of Ritual Spellcasting + Magic, and interpreting the answer to the Question with an Arcana + Logic check.
Mystic Adepts who are not locked out of Sorcery and who are following the Magician's Way, and any Magician or Aspected Sorcerer, will use Ritual Spellcasting to complete the ritual as per the usual rules.
As usual, the Augury and Sortilege ritual is highly dependent on factors that are not actually within the GM's control, and I encourage you to be cautious even in the face of a seemingly definitive answer. The future is, after all, very tricky.
If a character who does not have Ritual Spellcasting is no longer following Oracle, they may not make use of these rules in order to utilize Augury and Sortilege. They are only available to those who stick with Oracle's Gifts. +
Please rephrase your question as a question. +
When an approved book makes reference to anything in an edition of Shadowrun other than 5th edition, please god ignore that reference. Thank you. +
There is no 25% surcharge on 'ware upgrades. +
Mana Bind and Mana Net are defended against by Willpower + Charisma for the initial defense. This is an assumption made from the text and thus is an extended interpretation of the rules, rather than strict RAW. +
Just because you have an RCC does not mean you are a Rigger in-universe. A rigger is someone who has a control rig.
Dual natured creatures have no special difficulties interacting with the matrix.
Utilizing a non-AR method of interacting with the matrix is permitted by default with all normal commlinks, RCCs, and cyberdecks, assuming they do not have a form factor that renders this impossible. However, utilizing non-AR methods of interacting with the matrix means that you functionally cannot "keep up" in matrix combat, and thus cannot realistically hack.
In effect, they are not capable of entering initiative, and all actions should be considered as taking a minimum of a combat turn to enact.
It is also worth noting that spirits (specifically, as opposed to dual natured creatures generally) are not capable of entering AR or VR. +
Trust Fund covers only the base cost of the lifestyle for your metatype, without any adjustments due to subscriptions or addons. However, these may be added onto the lifestyle "out of pocket", which can include your monthly stipend but is permitted to exceed it. +
Anthrodrones may wield metahuman weapons. They utilize the weapon targetting autosoft as normal when on autopilot, and the weapon skill itself when controlled remotely or by being jumped in, rather than gunnery.
Anthrodrones may wear metahuman armor, but may not benefit from it's armor score. +
You cannot handwave any skill training. The rules for training skills are pretty much always in effect.
One's initial downtime period begins immediately after being approved, however, one cannot backdate anything into this time period. They possess only the nuyen and karma that they had when they exited character creation. Given that you cannot place GMP into a character until after their first run, they will likely need to go on a run in order to see any serious growth.
Adrenaline Surge will function only on Meat initiative. +
The Hobo With A Shotgun actually states that you will not willingly stay in a better lifestyle than squatter. This means that you cannot pay for it and add it to your sheet. The penalty to mental attributes will apply if you are *forced* into that situation, such as if a fellow runner kidnaps you and locks you in their penthouse in order to try to cure your obvious mental illness.
The Hobo With A Shotgun quality actually does not care about your comforts and necessities value, nor any other value of an advanced lifestyle. Incidentally, a Bolt Hole is not intended for long term inhabitation. While the argument could be made that neither is a particularly sturdy cardboard box hidden under a pier, the difference is a little academic - Hobo With A Shotgun does not permit you to stay in a Bolt Hole willingly. It's something about the roofs, man. +
Essence lost on any character affects their essence score. This applies to Strain 1 infected equally. However, Strain 1 can store essence points in excess of their current, actual essence, typically twice as many points. So a Banshee who burns out one point of essence then has a "maximum" essence of 10. They also lose one point of current essence, as well as any essence in excess of their new maximum. +
A select sound filter set up to filter out a Paralyzing Howl provides bonus dice equal to the rating of the select sound filter on your defense test against the power. It does not provide immunity. +
Licenses for spells will be handled by spell category on the ShadowHaven.
There are no rules in 5th edition or on ShadowHaven for the use of material links in place of a spotter at this time, and there are no plans to add them at a future date.
There are no rules in 5th edition or on Shadowhaven for the creation of your own spell formulae at this time. They may, but probably will not, be included in my future theoretical downtime overhaul, or FTDTO for short. +
Alternate Spider, as listed on FA 100 will be given one rank of Hang Time (SG 171) and one rank of Spirit Claw (SG 174), instead of the listed benefits. +
For the purposes of the Movement Power, ignore the line about "domain" when used by a metahuman. +
1. The limitations on slots as relating to Easy Breakdown and Chameleon Coating will remain in place.
2. The Ares Briefcase Shield is non-ferrous and not itself affected by MAD scanners. It does not provide shielding to items within it, nor will Mechanics Team create wholesale rules for MAD shielding.
3. For simplicity's sake, Adapsin will provide immediate essence reduction of already implanted 'ware. This will leave an essence hole, without true essence recovery. This is solely to save the step of "Yo, street doc, rip out all my 'ware and put it back in."
4. You cannot put a sleaze dongle on an RCC. You can modify in a sleaze rating per device modifications, then run Smoke and Mirrors or other sleaze-boosting programs.
5. You cannot call a shot with spellcasting of any variety.
6. Bullseye burst does not provide any defense penalty, regardless of how many bullets are fired. +
Mechanics department at this time will not be unbanning medusa extensions. The concept of strapping guns to your hair that can fire autonomously is extremely problematic. It is not likely that this Mechanics Head will unban them at any point in the future. +
Machine Sprite do not inhabit electronics, mechanically speaking.
They cannot use devices to perform matrix actions as they cannot run their persona through a device. They are their own persona. +
Warforms will cost 10 times as much as a normal animal, plus 20,000 additional nuyen. Both values are multiplicative with chimeric modifiers.
Additionally, you are permitted to spend edge or burn edge on the behalf of your animals, including both warforms and non-warforms, and including the use of Not Dead Yet. +
Shredded Flesh does not require physical damage to trigger. Stun damage is sufficient. +
Increased Seating may not be taken multiple times, as hilarious as the 296 seat Omnibus is. Or the even scarier 2052 seat Omnibus is. +
Please see [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/ShadowHavenBBS/comments/7fhhvl/mechanics_thread_i/dsqzfdj/) ruling. +
The Gyrojet pistol has two types of ammo. The full statline will be provided below. One of these is fabricated but identical to what is listed in Hero Lab.
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Gyrojet Ammo - +0 DV, +0 AP. 12F availability. 80 nuyen/10 rounds.
Gyrojet Stick'n'shock - -2S(e), -5 AP. 14R availability. 160 nuyen/10 rounds. +
Unanswered +
In order to attempt Calling, you must make the papropriate Logic + Arcana extended test to identify Paraphenalia each time. +
Unanswered +
At this time, non-Core initiations are purely the domain of a GM's table through an appropriate run. Some of these are less appropriate than others for such a setting. When Downtime Rule™ come out, there will be a pass at initiations and the options for them. +
Since there is no currently listed alteration to the availability, Market Scan has no effect on the 'haven at this time. This is subject to change at a later date. +
1. The Looking Glass spell permits UV light through just the same as regular light, and thus sunlight passing through would trigger Sunlight allergies.
2. Laser weapons are capable of firing through Looking Glass-affected material. Incidentally, this is why Firewatch uses lasers. +
In order to make the first test to change attunement location, a character with Symbiosis must have lived in a single place for a season - that is to say, 3 months, for simplicity's sake. Thereafter, each test is after 1 month, as stated. +
A blind individual may or may not be able to see a spirit or mage who is Manifesting. It likely depends on the source of their blindness, and whether or not they have a visual cortex. However, they would still be capable in any case of detecting them through other means, such as sound.
Cybereyes can see them as usual. +
While you can replace the 'ware provided by Prototype Transhuman, you cannot upgrade it, and the essence is not refunded. In your example, you would have to buy Rating 4 Muscle augmentation. Prototype transhuman does not alter how 'ware stacks. +
The Object Resistance of Orichalcum, an alloy of multiple metals, is 9. +
Black Market Pipeline may be attached to public contacts. Only people possessing the quality may benefit from the quality. +
For the purposes of Mindlink and Mindnet, only metahumans and metasapients (including Shapeshifters) may both be considered willing and be considered subjects. +
A weapon focus does not add dice to ramming tests, nor any other benefits of being a weapon focus.
You cannot take the Adept Power Critical Strike for ram attacks, per RAW. +
Narco will reduce the *total* damage suffered during a dose of Buffout due to it's effects by two. It is **not** a reduction for each instance of damage, however. Instead of taking 3 damage, you would take 1, but instead of taking 9 damage, you would take 7. +
Due to negative gameplay interactions, biocompatibility is not going to be restricted to at-gen only. However, one must still go through the normal approval process for it. +
Delivery time will be based off of the cost of the final item. The item is, however, usable in that time, as much as I like the idea of someone shipping off their cyberarm for upgrades, and running the shadows with one arm. Or three, if they're certain green-skinned Hindus. +
While it is arguably not permitted by RAW, for sanity's sake, one is permitted to invoke the "Run For Your Life" interrupt action against missiles, rockets, and grenade launchers, in addition to indirect combat spells, explosive throwing weapon attacks, and any other area of effect attack that they are aware of.
It is worth noting that one is generally not going to be aware of direct combat spells, or non-combat spells, to the degree necessary to flee them. A GM may permit you to, but is not required to. +
Matrix Search is an not extended test. It has it's own rules in Core. Within a host, it may be run as an extended test with short duration, such as to find a file, but to glean information off the matrix in general, it follows it's normal rules. +
Cyberlimbs are considered active for the purposes of Possession. +
Chemical Seal may be applied to any armor that comes with it's own helmet automatically. In order to use this chemical seal, it must be...
* Placed via capacity into the body of the armor
* The helmet must be worn
* And there can be no other helmet or head-covering worn in addition to it.
In essence, the helmet must be closed-face, precluding one from wearing a ballistic mask or helmet on top of it.
The sole exception is for Full Body Armor, which can recieve a chemical seal without the use of capacity, by having it inbuilt at the increased availability and cost listed in the core rulebook. This is only for Full Body Armor, however, not any other armor.
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Chemical Seal does not have any particular effect on sunlight. A material's porousness to liquids and chemicals has no impact on the ability of ultraviolet (or infrared, for that matter) light to pass through. However, most armor that is capable of providing chemical seal will by it's nature reduce sunlight allergies by two steps when worn fully. Radiation protection has nothing to do with it, referring to alpha and beta radiation, not electromagnetic radiation. Ultimately, specific cases will come down to GM fiat, however, if no skin is exposed it likely qualifies for a reduction. Assume UV treatment is part of your lifestyle costs. +
I would certainly hope so. +
The spell list has been altered by Council vote. +
At this time I am loosely working on an update to downtime, which would include skill training. This may be a bit. It's a bit of a big task. Please bear with me. +
The full 30 karma is required in order to buy SURGE III, and accordingly any SURGE qualities.
Dermal Alteration is incompatible with any other natural or artificial skin modification. It will not stack with Striking Skin Pigmentation. It is compatible with Unusual Hair and Bioluminescence. +
Gaining spirit index due to disrupting a spirit will typically only trigger for the person who delivers the final blow, however, at a GM's discretion, they may award it to other integral combatants. +
A weapon is mounted when it is on a weapon mount.
A tripod is not a weapon mount. A smart firing platform is a weapon mount, but it is only usable remotely. The only other source of weapon mounts by RAW are on Vehicles and Drones, though a GM is free to use manual mounts on fixed locations if they deem fit. +
Astral Signatures may not be described to another mage. Alas, the intricacies of a sixth sense are even trickier than, say, describing the color red to someone.
This holds equally true to summoned spirits through the Spirit-Summoner link (a very low-bandwidth link, incidentally), making the Quicksilver Camera the only way to spread astral signatures around ... and that way not a particularly good one. +
Commlinks can recieve Program Carriers and other Cyberdeck Modules, but only through the device modding rules presented in Data Trails. +
For the ShadowHaven, the 2nd printing text for the Bonding Ritual will be in use, however, instead of rolling the dice, simply take the pool and divide it by 3 if done during downtime, in order to keep results consistent. +
A smuggling compartment can hold concealability -1 or lower. If broken down, it can hold concealability 0 or lower.
A skin pocket functions as above.
A large smuggling compartment can store concealability +1 or lower. If broken down, it can store concealability +2 or lower.
A cyberarm slide can store a taser, a hold-out pistol, or a light pistol. It can store nothing else.
A cyber holster can store items with a concealibility of 0 or lower.
An assault rifle with a sawn-off barrel or shotgun with a sawn-off barrel may be stored across two large smuggling compartments if it is broken down, again taking the vast majority of the space. No larger firearm may be stored in such compartments, even if you ask it really nicely to go to the gym with you.
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Concealability as a kludge for storage space is not additive in any sense, but if you're storing an item that caps out your concealability, you likely do not have much more space. Don't be a dumbshit. +
The Sensei quality shall, at this point in time, be treated as a free trainer for their skill or skill group. They do not cost money to utilize, and they are capped at their own skill, rather than their Instruction rating. +
One cannot channel a bound spirit.
When channeling, you use the spirit's mental attributes, except when defending against spells, in which case you use the lower of the two sets of attributes. Since this is a replacement effect, it is (unfortunately) not affected by augmented maximums. +
Riggers in VR - whether jumped in or using remote control - make use of their choice of their agility or logic in tests that call for either, and their choice of their intuition or reaction in tests that call for either. +
Knucks do **not** work with Killing Hands
Knucks do **not** work with Penetrating Strike.
Knucks do work with Critical Strike
Knucks do **not** work with smashing blow. +
Counterspelling will turn Indirect AOE spells into an Opposed Threshold 3 test against the number of counterspelling dice spent. In effect, you roll your counterspelling dice against the spellcasting test, with each of your hits reducing their hits by one. This will reduce their damage, introduce the potential to scatter where it may not have existed before, and if you cause them to get zero hits, the spell will not go off at all, though they will still suffer the drain. +
Geneware is not permitted as part of your free essence for Prototype Transhuman. +
Free spirits cannot learn or utilize the Calling Ritual. As a general rule, "Can a spirit make more spirits" will be answered with "No" unless there is an explicit "Yes" as an exception to the general rule.
As relates to the Calling Ritual, someone who is Mundane (and thus able to utilize Arcana instead of Ritual Spellcasting) shall be considered to be someone who has no Magic score whatsoever. This means that Emerged can, but that non ritual spellcasting Awakened cannot. Incidentally, it also means that Dual Natured beings cannot unless they have Ritual Spellcasting. +
In order to summon an Ally Spirit, you must have a formula (which can be made by rolling out Arcana or by a run to go on a metaplanar quest for it.) You must then perform the ritual, with a force equal to the force of the ally you are trying to summon. Lacking a timespan, assume it takes 1 hour per point of force. After you successfully complete the ritual, you must summon the spirit, rolling the normal rolls for such. Spirit Whisperer does not come into play, for sanity's sake. Then, finally, you must bind the spirit (or give up and try again another day.)
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In order to alter a spirit, you must acquire the new formula or alter the old one, as detailed in the book. Then, you must perform the Ritual Change at the force of the ally spirit (the desired force, if upgrading it.) You must then bind the spirit again, though you do not have to summon it. Upon successful completion, you may spend the karma to induce any changes you designed into the formula. If you fail, you suffer drain and lose the resources expended, but do not lost the karma you would have spent and may try again.
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Of extra note, applicable to the above and in other situations - If your spirit's loyalty minus your Astral Reputation is less than 2, it will try to break free as described under "Losing an Ally," whenever it is presented with a chance. +
You are free to buy any animals with the domesticated quality that have a price and availability as usual. However, if an animal does not possess the domesticated quality as part of it's normal statblock, you cannot just add that onto the statblock.
You cannot purchase animals with any modifiers based on previous treatment. Assume they were bred and raised by The Greys from Futurama. Everything was strictly neutral. +
The Aztechnology Striker is destroyed upon firing. It is not reusable in any sense of the word. +
Please rephrase your question as a question. +
A skinlink allows a direct connection between yourself and any of your cyberware, as well as anything else you touch. This qualifies for connecting a smartlink to a smartgun you are holding. All other notes related to the smartgun/smartlink questions may be found [here.](https://www.reddit.com/r/ShadowHavenBBS/comments/7fhhvl/mechanics_thread_i/dsqz7vs/) +
Please re-thread this question when a new Chargen head is selected. +
Druidic Traditionalists are the only people who can create Sacred Circles at this time. +
The smartgun must be wireless on in order to receive the wireless bonus.
The accuracy bump, and only the accuracy bump, may be recieved by plugging the smartgun into a datajack and interfacing with an implanted smartlink, or by plugging it into a vision device with a smartlink.
The internal router allows you to receive the wireless bonus even if you are only plugged in, and not wireless on.
No matter what the circumstances are, in order to receive any benefits, you must have a connection, wireless or wired, between the smartlink and the smartgun. If you wish a wireless connection, both must be wireless on. +
Given that people no longer recieve contact chips each month with rent, this question is no longer relevant to the Haven. +
Disregard the reference to "Grapple" in that passage. I am unsure what the writer meant, but it is not a thing in SR5e. +
You cannot apply a weapon focus to yourself.
While a focus has your signature, it does not have your aura. Therefore, artificing foci yourself does not get around the previous restrictions on valid foci. Bioware, similarly, cannot be foci. +
While channelling, being possessed, or being inhabited, you cannot utilize foci, as they have not been bonded to the you+spirit amalgram, and have only been bonded to you. This is universally true, not just in relation to critter powers, but in relation to all rolls that would utilize the foci. +
[See this answer.](https://www.reddit.com/r/ShadowHavenBBS/comments/7fhhvl/mechanics_thread_i/dtz25ko/) +
1. Monofilament whips may not be used with the Sweep technique unless explicitly permitted by the GM, at their sole perogative. Monofilament whips may not be used for the Entanglement called shot, per RAW. Monofilament whips may be used for the Nerve Strike adept power.
2. This question is on hold until the selection of a permanent Chargen head. Please wait until we have one, then thread it again.
3. In order to utilize a "free" quality, one must still meet all requirements of the quality. This does not apply if the source of the free quality explicitly states that you do not have to meet the requirements.
4. Digigrade legs cost both essence and capacity. The increased essence cost is affected by 'ware grade as usual. It adds to the essence cost of the leg for the purposes of reductions. This is weird, I know but the table is *pretty clear.*
5. The Ares Screech Sonic Rifle works against targets who are deaf or who have cyberears off just the same as those who are not deaf, or who have normal ears. The Ares Screech Sonic Rifle cannot be used for called shots. I mean, seriously. Come on man.
6. Prototype Transhuman Bioware is not special. It is still detected by Assensing, and it is still rejected by those things that push out other 'ware. If this affects an active character, please reach out to Council immediately.
7. In order to exit a subduing combat as the subduer, one must take a free action. If one has a free action available, they may do this at any time, the same as most other free actions - it need not be on their turn. However, the previously subdued party is free, since they are still in contact at that point, to take an interrupt action to attempt to subue their opponent. This is a -5 initiative interrupt action as described under "Suduing" on page 123 Run and Gun. They may also attempt a Reversal using the rules found in the same section, assuming they possess the appropriate training. There is no interrupt action needed to release a subduing combat, so your original question possesses an invalid supposition.
8. Tentatively, the increased initiative from the Improved Reflexes adept power will not stack with drugs that provide bonus initiative dice. This is subject to change at a later date.
The Improved Range Finder accessory does not stack with magnification of any kind, whether or not it is on the weapon. This is a tighter reading of the rules than is strictly reading, but matches with Mechanics Team's perceived reading of the intent. +
This will be in the Downtime Rules™. They're coming Soon™. +
Please phrase your question in the form of a question. +
This question has been answered elsewhere in the thread. +
RCC noise reduction and sharing are out of a pool of Device Rating. They also slots for cyberprograms equal to their device rating. Note that in order for a program to modify an attribute, the device must possess that attribute in the first place. +