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> Recreating the drone usage chart from SR4A for SR5, Anyone already do it?
Liam
post Aug 16 2013, 10:11 PM
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There was an awesome chart in SR4A that showed you what stat+skill to roll for various common drone actions depending on how you were controlling that drone. I'm trying to figure out how a rigger would control drones in SR5, and was thinking it might be a good idea to recreate that chart. Drones acting on their own are pretty straightforward: Pilot+applicable Autosoft acting on the drone's initiative (Pilotx2+4d6).

Jumping in seems pretty straightforward, too, with stat+relevant skill being rolled for the test, acting on the jumped in character's VR matrix initiative. However, remote controlling drones without jumping in is where I'm having trouble figuring things out. Who's initiative do they act on? Whose stats+skills do you use?

Lastly, in the Matrix chapter it lists command device as varying in action type depending on what kind of action you're commanding the device to do. However, on the section detailing RCCs, it says that issuing commands to drones is a simple action. I assume, that since an RCC is a specially designed piece of hardware, it would override the general rules for issuing orders from a commlink/cyberdeck, right?
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