Category: Shadowrun 5th

Daily Punch 4-2-15 Jet Ax for Shadowrun 5e

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I recently rewatched the the Super Mario Bros. movie.  While it might be somewhat painful, it also wasn’t as bad as I expected!  I did get one idea from that movie as I watched.  Let’s make a combat ax a slightly better choice!

Acc Reach Damage AP AVAIL Cost
Jet Ax 5 or 4 2 (Str+7) P or (Str x 2 +7) P -3 or -6 12F 10,000Y
AVAIL Cost
Gas Canister 10R 50Y

Jet Ax:Where would your Neo Viking be without an ax that that has it’s own cyber-linked gasjet?  This ax can be used as a regular ax that with an accuracy of 5, AP -3, while doing (STR+7)P damage.  However, as a complex action using a wireless smartlink, a canister of CO2 can be fired shooting the ax ahead at an impressive speed using the better stats of the weapon.  Each canister has five charges before it must be replaced as a complex action.

Daily Punch 3-30-15 Personal Problems positive quality for Shadowrun 5e

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I have a few ideas for my character, and I want to take more then the 25 karma worth of problems.  Sure I can roleplay it, but let’s make it official and give me some starting karma for it!

Personal Problems

Cost: 5 karma

You’re pretty beat to heck.  For everything you got going for you, you’ve got two  that make it worse!  You can take up to an extra 25 karma worth of negative qualities, and instantly gain that much karma.

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Daily Punch 3-27-15 Astral Burnout negative quality for Shadowrun 5e

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I have a character that I want to be burned by magic so bad, he’s not magical.  Let’s make that happen in Shadowrun 5e.

Astral Burnout

Bonus: 20 karma

Magic is fickle.  Sometimes people do something to make it more so.  Some get amazing powers, while some get this.  You now count as dual natured for magic.  You gain none of the magical benefits to being dual natured, but all the negative effects of dual natured creatures now apply. You do not gain the ability to enter the astral plain fully or the ability to persevere astrally from this quality, but other effects may still give you those abilities.

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Daily Punch 3-25-15 Loyal Servants Lifestyle Option for Shadowrun 5e

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I’ve been catching up on some Shadowrun, and I thought of this as I went through Run Faster….

Loyal Servants

Be it your loving parents, a wife/husband, or the kindly butler who rescued you from the orphanage, you have someone(s) who serve you in maintaining your house, but won’t turn you over the the first goganger who offers them money.  The people who maintain your house are loyal to you and will never provide an opportunity to hurt you or any information about you.  This does not guarantee their safety.  Increase the security level and limits by 1, and reduce the available points of the lifestyle by 3.  The base lifestyle must be medium or higher to take this option.

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Daily Punch 3-24-15 Speed of Thought positive Quality for Shadowrun 5e

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You can get lighting reflexes and stay mundane and not cybered.  Let’s build on that!

Speed of Thought

Cost: 30 Karma

Prerequisite: Lightning Reflexes

You’re faster than fast.  You’ve either trained for it, or you were born with it.  Gain +1 to initiative rating and a bonus dice.  This stacks with lightning reflexes and nothing else.  Also, increase the bonus on defense tests by +1.

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Daily Punch 3-11-15 Glass Jaw quality for Shadowrun 5e

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In the rules, you never decrease your body rating for damage soak rolls in Shadowrun 5e.  Let’s play with that…

Glass Jaw

Bonus: 7, 15, or 25 karma

You might be awesome in a fight, but when you get hit, it hurts!  For seven karma, when you have three boxes of physical or stun damage, you take a minus -1 penalty to all damage soak rolls.  For 15 karma, when you have two full tracks of physical, stun, or a combination of both, you take a -2 penalty.  For 25 karma, when you have three filled tracks of physical, stun, or a combination of both, you take a -3 penalty to all damage soak rolls.

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Daily Punch 3-3-15 Lite Ice program for Shadowrun 5e

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How about some love for Shadowrun?  What if you could get a touch of black ice for you deck?

 

Program Avail Cost
Lite Ice 6+6xRating R Rating x 10,000Y

 

Lite Ice was reverse engineered by back alley deckers who’ve had their brains burned a few too many times by Black Ice.  When you have this program active, any device or icon you have a mark on and has three boxes of matrix damage takes a -1 to all actions.  The target takes additional penalties for each full three boxes of matrix damage beyond the first three up to the rating of Lite Ice you have running.

 

 

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Daily Punch 2-27-15 Support quality for Shadowrun 5e

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I always like when another character helps another character in an RPG.  Support classes might not get the accolades they deserve, but behind every troll tank is a medic keeping that meta standing!  How about a quality to help those players?

 

Support

Cost: 10 karma

You don’t have the lime light too often, so you’ve focused on helping those who are in it.  You’ve got skills to pay bills, but you let the others cash those checks.  When you assist another character with an action, in addition to all the dice you normally provide when you succeed at a check, the character also get a number of dice equal to 1/4 of the dice pool you used for that skill.  Normal limits apply, and the dice pool you count from does not factor in edge if you spend it.

 

 

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Daily Punch 2-15-15 Knowledge is Power quality for Shadowrun 5e

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If you can use a what you know in DnD, how about being able to do the same in Shadowrun?

 

Knowledge is Power

Cost: 5 karma

You know how to walk the walk, but more important, how to talk the talk.  So much so the silver-tongued devil that you are is almost as impressive as how book smart you are.  When you make a Charisma roll with any skill in the influence skill group, you may add your ranks in a relevant knowledge skill to the dice pool.  You must be invoking the knowledge to gain these bonus dice.  You can not gain these extra dice on a roll where you do not mention the skill.

 

 

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Daily Punch 1-29-15 Expert Social Edge idea for Shadowrun 5e

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In Run and Gun on page 126, there are several combat edge ideas added to Shadowrun.  What about being able to use edge in a non-combat setting?  How about being an expert in something? (Most likely to bull drek about it latter!)

 

Expert

You’re an expert.  People know your an expert because other people say your an expert.  That’s how it works.  When you make a social test and have ranks in a knowledge skill, you can spend a point of edge to add those ranks to your dice pool.  You must explain how being an expert in the specific skill adds to the use of this skill in this context.

 

 

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