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[Riley37]

One house rule posted in a few places so far: making the Logic stat part of most Matrix and ECM skill rolls, and instead of the program grade adding dice, using it as a cap for hits (somewhat parallel to Force limit on hits for Spellcasting + Magic). I gather that many gamers thought that hackers should have a primary stat and/or that critical reasoning is part of the imagery or fluff of hacking. (Under RAW, the term "script kiddie" applies, meaning someone who just knows how to run the program but not enough to write or adapt programs, or search for loopholes in defenses, etc. IIRC, Bobby Quine in "Burning Chrome" could well be a script kiddie, he just slots the Kuang program and "rides" it... not that Gibson wrote from a coder's perspective.)

An alternate: Logic + Skill + Program Grade, and increase thresholds accordingly, much as better equipment adds to dice pool for many other tests.

I persuaded my GM to allow a heal wounds check of 1/2 BODY for a "taking it easy" day, lotsa naps and no strenuous activity (compare to 2x BODY for a full day of complete bed rest). Since I play a troll sam with high BODY, I got enough hits anyways.

What other house rules to 4th Edition are being used in gaming groups?

My main intent is to solicit house rules that a) explictly diverge from RAW, rather than being additions to the list of Qualities, the list of spells, etc. and b) are in actual use in ongoing games. There are some ongoing discussions, eg in the Augmentation thread, that may or may not have results specific enough to be "this is my house rule and it works for my group". With that said, I imagine that there may be interesting posts which diverge from my intent...