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'''Cyborg 50 BP''' | '''Cyborg 50 BP''' | ||
| − | :The character's brain has been transplanted into a Cranial Containment Unit (CCU), allowing it to be installed into an appropriately modified drone body. The CCU is delta grade cyberware normally costing 250,000¥. For all intents and purposes the character is a permanently disembodied rigger. The character has no physical attributes and may not learn new skills above the rating of its drone's skillwires. Their lifetime of experience allows normal cyborg characters to exceed this cap on any skill they possessed before the procedure, but they also suffer a -1 to all non-skillwire combat, physical, social, and some technical skills. The isolation experienced by these characters causes them considerable mental distress and as a result they must make a monthly Sanity test at -2 | + | :The character's brain has been transplanted into a Cranial Containment Unit (CCU), allowing it to be installed into an appropriately modified drone body. The CCU is delta grade cyberware normally costing 250,000¥. For all intents and purposes the character is a permanently disembodied rigger. The character has no physical attributes and may not learn new skills above the rating of its drone's skillwires. Their lifetime of experience allows normal cyborg characters to exceed this cap on any skill they possessed before the procedure, but they also suffer a -1 to all non-skillwire combat, physical, social, and some technical skills. The isolation experienced by these characters causes them considerable mental distress and as a result they must make a monthly Sanity test at -2. |
| − | :This quality is effectively a shorthand way of dealing with the nuyen cost associated with the CCU. Allowing this quality eliminates or reduces the necessity of expanding or eliminating the cap on buying nuyen with BPs. | + | :This quality is effectively a shorthand way of dealing with the nuyen cost associated with the CCU. Allowing this quality eliminates or reduces the necessity of expanding or eliminating the cap on buying nuyen with BPs. Also consider allowing players to purchase this quality as part of the normal limit on attribute points. That would eliminate the necessity of expanding or eliminating the cap on Qualities. |
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'''Child Brain 5 BP''' | '''Child Brain 5 BP''' | ||
:The character was converted into a cyborg as a child. A regiment of drugs, hypnotherapy, and magic have been used to suppress the characters memories; reducing the trauma of the experience. Due to their inexperience characters with this quality may not possess Active skills with a rating greater than 5. Characters with this quality do no suffer any penalty on the monthly Sanity test required of all cyborg characters. | :The character was converted into a cyborg as a child. A regiment of drugs, hypnotherapy, and magic have been used to suppress the characters memories; reducing the trauma of the experience. Due to their inexperience characters with this quality may not possess Active skills with a rating greater than 5. Characters with this quality do no suffer any penalty on the monthly Sanity test required of all cyborg characters. | ||
'''Clonal Brain 10 BP''' | '''Clonal Brain 10 BP''' | ||
| − | :The character never had a body and has only known life as a cyborg. Characters with this quality benefit from a +1 to vehicle tests and a +2 to the monthly Sanity test required of all cyborg characters. Active skills are capped at Rating 5 with the exception of skills in the | + | :The character never had a body and has only known life as a cyborg. Characters with this quality benefit from a +1 to vehicle tests and a +2 to the monthly Sanity test required of all cyborg characters. Active skills are capped at Rating 5 with the exception of skills in the Active and Electronics groups for characters with this quality. |
These qualities are non-canonical and should not be used without the express permission of your game master. | These qualities are non-canonical and should not be used without the express permission of your game master. | ||
