Daily Punch 7-10-15 Multitasking negative quality for Shadowrun 5e

How about another negative quality for Shadowrun 5e

Multitasking

Bonus: 5 karma per rank (1-3 ranks)

Everybody thinks they can keep all the balls in the air at once.  Some people open commcalls to their boy on the freeway, other try to text for pizza in a firefight.  When you attempt to use technology in any manner while performing another simple or complex action on a combat pass that is not part of the complex or simple action, you gain a penalty equal to the ranks in this quality to the dice roll.  Technology that is part of the action such as a smart link or using a deck to mark a drone does not impose the penalties associated with this quality, but sending video feeds from a drone you’re piloting on that pass would.

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Daily Punch 7-17-15 Tunnel Vision negative quality for Shadowrun 5e

How about a negative quality for Shadowrun 5e?

Tunnel Vision

Bonus: 7 karma

You are hyper focused.  No minute detail escapes your notice.  However the major details slip right by.  When you make a  Intuition+ Perception check to observe something, you must ask a detailed question regarding one situation, person, or object.  You can a +1 bonus for to the dice pool, but you only get the exact answer to your question.  You can never receive general details for any perception check.  As an example, you can look at people in the street and ask about on person in the street.  That one person may be the important target, but you may also be asking about a random person uninvolved in anything you care about.

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Daily Punch 7-13-15 Go for Broke! positive quality for Shadowrun 5e

If you can do it in Dungeons and Dragons 5e, you should be able to do it in Shadowrun 5e.  Let’s make that happen!

Go for Broke!

Cost: 10 karma

You like to pull success from the jaws of failure.  Maybe you succeed in the clutch, maybe you’re just lucky.  When you lose 1/2 of your attack dice pool from negative modifiers to your dice pool and you gain 1 net success over the opponents dodge roll, add your edge score to the success total.

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Daily Punch 7-3-15 STANK! negative quality for Shadowrun 5e

Looking over some negative qualities, and I’d like to add another!

STANK!

Bonus: 4 karma per level (1 to 3 levels)

Maybe you just don’t shower after binges on the matrix.  Maybe the dumpster you call home just doesn’t have indoor plumbing.  Or maybe that hippy, dippy mage commune doesn’t have hot water.  Whatever your reason, you just STANK!  It’s in the area, it’s all around you, and it so physically palpable, it hurts!  For each rank you have in this quality, reduce the dice pool of any social tests anyone on your team makes by 1.  People who can’t smell are unaffected.

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Daily Punch 7-2-15 Sunday Driver! negative quality for Shadowrun 5e

Reading Run and Gun.  Let’s add some ideas to the qualities…

Sunday Driver!

Prerequisite: at least one rake in a pilot skill

Bonus: 4 karma

You just can’t seem to win!  You follow all the traffic laws, signal properly, stay BELOW the speed limit, and yet EVERYONE give you the one finger salute when they pass you.  When you drive, you vehicle only goes a maximum of 3/4 of its normal speed, and you reduce the handling rating of any vehicle you drive by 1.

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Daily Punch 6-30-15 Ghost in the Machine positive quality for Shadowrun 5e

Reading some Shadowrun books for a review.  One quality inspired me.

Ghost in the Machine

Cost: 12 karma

You love you the gear you ride in, even when you’re not there!  Characters with this quality are just that much more with their toys then characters who don’t.  When you are jumped into a drone or vehicle, gain a +1 dice pool modifier to all Pilot Skill tests and increase the vehicles Handling rating by 1.

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

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 12-15-14 Dueling Masters quality for Shadowrun 5e

I see lots of different masters, but what about people who are chosen by different spirits in Shadowrun 5e?  Maybe those spirits don’t like each other.

 

Dueling Masters

Cost: 5 karma

You’re a hot commodity.  You’ve  literally got a devil on your left shoulder offing you power while the angel on your right is still extolling some bull drek virtues you might not care about.  Gain a second mentor spirit.  You now get the benefits of one spirit at a time, but have to take the negatives of both.  As a free action, you can change which mentor spirit’s benefits you use at any time.

 

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