Talk:OOC:Rules Modifications

Street Cred tests

Status: Proposal

Community Scale Social tests

When rolling a social test to interact with a community, replace Charisma with Street Cred. For example, planting false rumours would be Street Cred + Con, easing tensions might be Street Cred + Ettiquette, and inciting action or calling a rally could be Street Cred + Leadership. Limit is still intrinsic Social limit. Street Cred bonus does not apply since it's already part of the roll, but all other social modifiers (from the table or personal modifiers) relevant to the action apply.

At GM discretion, this may be an extended test.

Legwork tests

When trying to find information through your network of contacts, make a Legwork test; this applies both for active searches, and for passive searches, e.g. being informed of new rumours. Roll (Street Cred) + (number of relevant contacts); the limit for this test is the highest Loyalty+Connection for any individual relevant contact.

At GM discretion, this may be an extended test.

Note: There is actually something for this in the book: RF p.177 says you need to make a Leadership + Charisma [Social] test to determine how many Contacts you can muster, and then the contacts are avaliable to use in a teamwork test. You must pay each contact individually. — Revàn^(Talk) 11:46, 30 November 2020 (EST)

Rationale

We don't currently have rules for actions at this scale and I liked them the couple times we have used them in the Magic Mike run so far.

— Jynx (talk) 17:31, 17 June 2020 (EST)

+1 --Malta^Talk

Do I Know You?

So in RF there's a table for thresholds on a random shadow community person knowing you based on Street Cred/Noteriety (RF p.179) As it stands with 11 street cred this means every runner in North America would know everyone in the party, and I don't think this feels right; this would mean every Rating 5 or 6 contact would be the same.

I am proposing that we apply the Street Cred > Connection transformation for the purposes of this table. That is, 11 street cred would 'translate' to connection 5, so it lowers threshold on the printed table by 5 (meaning that only every Shadowrunner in Seattle knows us)

Machinist Can Slave Drones

Status: Proposal

Right now Machinist Riggers get the benefits of an RCC but can't form a PAN. Meaning none of them apply. I think they should be able to slave Drones *and only drones* without the quality that allows PANs.

Rationale

So Darcy can have fun

--Malta^Talk

+1 — Jynx (talk)

Increasing Contact Connection

So after reviewing the chip rules in RF, here's my suggestion on expanding contact connection in a sanctioned way for the future:

• You cannot be raising the Connection rating of a different contact
• You must be Loyalty 3 or higher with the contact you are trying to raise.
• You need to spend chips equal to new Connection rating
• You need to spend karma equal to new Connection rating
• You need to either spend time equal to new Connection rating in weeks or wait twice that time (this represents either you working to getting the word out or waiting for word of your deeds represented by the chips to disseminate naturally)

— Revàn^(Talk) 11:24, 30 November 2020 (EST)