Tag: Shadowrun 5

Daily Punch 8-5-15 Push Past Limits Combat Edge ability for Shadowrun 5e

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Shadowrunners want more bang for their buck when it comes to chrome or spells.  Let’s add to their limits to see how that goes.

Push Past Limits

The character can spend a point of Edge to remove any safety inherent in their actions.  When a character with either cybernetic or magical enhancements to their ability scores spends a point of edge and uses this ability, add their the bonus they gained to that ability from magic or cybernetics again to their dice pool and increase their appropriate limit by that same number.  After the result are determined, a character must make an physical damage soak roll using only their body with the damage being the number of hits above their normal limit as the strain on their bodies damages them.  The damage from this ability is physical.  A character may spend another point of edge on any of their rolls to add their edge  to the roll or to reroll the results.

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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 6-29-15 Princess Kiki’s Automated Allergy Cureall!!!! item for Shadowrun 5e

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Reading about the vamps, and it made me think of something.  Had a friend suggest the seed of this idea!

Princess Kiki’s Automated Allergy Cureall!!!

Item Cost Rarity Bonus
Princess Kiki’s Automated Allergy Cureall!!!! 20,000Y per rating 10 per rating +1 to Resistance Test per rating

Named for one of the more….eclectic….engineers at Crashcart, Princess Kiki’s Automated Allergy Cureall!!! was developed to help customers who had severe reactions to allergens that would often incapacitate them or flat out kill them.  If the customer wears the item, they gain a +1 per rating bonus to Resistance Tests against their allergen when they are exposed as the machine will automatically detect the allergen in the environment and inject the wearer with the antidote or antibodies against the target.  When the Princess Kiki’s Automated Allergy Cureall!!! is created, it is designed specifically for one allergen and can not be reset later.

This device can be installed in a cyberlimb occupying a single slot.

Daily Punch 6-2-15 Medic Magic quality for Shadowrun 5e

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You can’t heal stun from a Medkit.  Some people would like too.  Let’s work on that.

Medic Magic

Cost: 7 karma

You were the kind of kid who always had to get a band-aid when you scuffed your knee.  Now as an adult, it hasn’t really gotten better.  When you use a medkit to heal damage, you can choose to heal physical or stun damage.  If you choose stun, you heal half as many boxes of damage as the kit is not designed to heal that kind of damage.  The normal amount of medkit reagents are used when you heal however.

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