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Dumpshock Forums _ Shadowrun _ Infiltration, Shadowing, and Vehicles

Posted by: Abschalten Jan 27 2006, 08:20 PM

I was looking through the skills as I was creating this cool character concept I had (ex-Mossad drone rigger with a heavy emphasis on surveillance), and I noticed that the skill Infiltration can be specialized for Vehicles.

Typically Infiltration is linked to Agility, but if you were using a drone to sneak around, what would you use for your dice pool, since you're not PHYSICALLY trying to Infiltrate?

The same for Shadowing. If I were trying to use my drone to follow somebody without being spotted, how would I go about doing that?

Also (didn't want to make a seperate thread), is the Command program meant to be a panacea for every device you'd ever need to use it on, or do you need a Command program for a specific item? I wasn't too clear on that after looking through the rules.

Thanks in advance.

Posted by: Brahm Jan 27 2006, 08:25 PM

The way the book is written you would use Agility. However if you made the logical leap to using a mental attribute in place of the physical one you would use the chart on page 184 to translate that to Logic.

Posted by: MaxHunter Jan 27 2006, 09:08 PM

... or do as we do and use Intuition instead.

Posted by: Abschalten Jan 27 2006, 09:10 PM

QUOTE (MaxHunter @ Jan 27 2006, 04:08 PM)

... or do as we do and use Intuition instead.

I could arguably do that with Intuition, even though I hesitate to call it a Physical skill if I'm doing it with a drone. But I have a harder time trying to justify doing it with Infiltration, which uses Agility.