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Posted by: esmdev Feb 5 2008, 12:47 AM

In the mission 'The Grab' the NPC Lady Jade has a 5 ( 8 ) charisma. I was wondering how this is obtained?

Edit: Had a happyface instead of the ( 8 ) this has been fixed.

Posted by: Fortune Feb 5 2008, 10:13 AM

Rating 3 Tailored Pheromones.

Posted by: esmdev Feb 5 2008, 03:44 PM

So does this mean in tailored pheremones when it calls it a die pool modifier, it's really an attribute modifier? Originally when I read tailored pheremones I thought this might be the case, but it seems based on that you would get a +3 to CHA and a +3 to social tests which didn't seem right. Since all social tests are charisma based the wording of the tailored pheremones entry seems very confusing.

Posted by: Fortune Feb 6 2008, 03:36 AM

No. It is a Dice Pool modifier, not an Attribute modifier (and hence does not fall under any Caps), even though the Missions scenario lists it that way. You only get the +3 from Tailored Pheromones once.

Posted by: BishopMcQ Feb 6 2008, 06:18 PM

The 5 ( 8 ) IIRC, was laid out that way to make it easier for GMs to eyeball DPs by just adding Skill + Attribute. In the case of Tailored Pheromones it would be Cha + Skill + rating, which we transitioned to (Cha + Rating) + Skill. Same number of dice, different order of operations.

Posted by: esmdev Feb 6 2008, 06:38 PM

Thanks for the info. The GM (new to Shadowrun) was confused by that and it caused some questions, glad to have an answer.