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post Oct 15 2003, 11:02 AM
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After reading a recent thread, thought it'd be a good idea to post how the Cyberware surgery rules work and what a group should ignore to make the rules a bit more friendly.

First, ignore the Surgery Table on page 146, that'll make life ALOT easier.

TNs:
Basic Grade: 4
Alpha Grade: 5
Beta Grade: 6
Delta Grade: 10
Basic Bioware: 5
Cultured: 6

The number of successes is the most important thing:
1 Success: 2 negative options
2 Successes: 1 negative option.
3 Successes: No options.
4+ successes: 1 Positive Option possible per success over 3.

Now, the confusing part for most people. Take the Highest Rolled Dice if you have 4+ successes and subtract your roll from the required TN. This is your Calculated Threshold. You gain a maximum number of Positive Options equal to the number of successes over 3 AND whose total Threshold value is equal to or less than your Calculated Threshold.

So, if your Calculated Threshold is 4 (TN is 6, and a 10 is rolled) than you can get 2: +2Threshold Positive Options if you also got at least 5 successes on your Biotech roll.

As you can probably see, chances of rolling that many successes with an NPC that has a skill of 6 is pretty slim with those TNs. So make sure your Doctor has a Rating 6+ skillwires with a rating 6 CED and a Rating 6+ Biotech soft if you want to gain both Essence Slot and Essence Reduction. :P

If, however, you are getting a nice legal piece of body enhancement inside a hospital with a team of doctors, you can reduce the TN by the total number of Doctors on the team. Or, a nice illegal piece of body enhancement in one of those pleasant development labs which qualifies as a hospital with a team of said doctors... that'd also be... "safe" Muahahahah.... :cyber:

Sphynx

Hope that helps in understanding the rather cryptic surgery rules in M&M.
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- Sphynx   Cyberware Implantation Surgery Rules   Oct 15 2003, 11:02 AM
- - TinkerGnome   There are a lot of ways to bring the numbers down,...   Oct 15 2003, 01:56 PM
- - Sphynx   Wel,, except for the -2 for Magic Healing, yeah, t...   Oct 15 2003, 02:03 PM
- - TinkerGnome   It's TN 2, though my initial math was off. I ...   Oct 15 2003, 02:47 PM
- - Sphynx   Actually, inital TN for Beta is 8. The Clinic is ...   Oct 15 2003, 03:00 PM
- - TinkerGnome   Umm... what printing of M&M are you looking at...   Oct 15 2003, 03:10 PM
- - Sphynx   My bad, you're right about Beta. Anyhows, y...   Oct 15 2003, 03:19 PM
- - TinkerGnome   Well, I would rather hope that all of the discussi...   Oct 15 2003, 03:38 PM
- - Siege   See, that makes sense and it's easy to follow....   Oct 15 2003, 03:48 PM
- - Sphynx   Except it was missing the most important (as far a...   Oct 15 2003, 04:00 PM
- - TinkerGnome   Threshold is only important for positive options w...   Oct 15 2003, 04:06 PM
- - Sphynx   I realize that, but the idea of this thread was to...   Oct 15 2003, 04:22 PM
- - TinkerGnome   The short of threshold is this. Take the highest ...   Oct 15 2003, 04:28 PM
- - Wish   Keep in mind that most docs will have some ware of...   Oct 15 2003, 04:44 PM
- - Sphynx   So, uhm.... what are you saying here TG that I did...   Oct 15 2003, 04:52 PM
- - TinkerGnome   I just spelled it out with an example. I learn th...   Oct 15 2003, 04:59 PM
- - Siege   I dunno -- I think any surgery involves some fine ...   Oct 15 2003, 05:08 PM
- - Cochise   QUOTE (TinkerGnome)Threshold is only important for...   Oct 15 2003, 05:33 PM
- - Sphynx   Not quite Cochise. I know the p148 reference seem...   Oct 15 2003, 05:42 PM
- - TinkerGnome   Three quick points. If you don't get more tha...   Oct 15 2003, 05:44 PM
- - Cochise   QUOTE (TinkerGnome)Three quick points.  If y...   Oct 15 2003, 06:08 PM
- - TinkerGnome   QUOTE (Cochise) QUOTE (TinkerGnome)As near as I ca...   Oct 15 2003, 06:34 PM
- - Cochise   QUOTE (TinkerGnome)Exactly what I was getting at....   Oct 15 2003, 07:01 PM
- - Sphynx   QUOTE (Cochise) ----------------------------------...   Oct 15 2003, 07:08 PM
- - TinkerGnome   My experience with surgery has all been as a playe...   Oct 15 2003, 07:16 PM
- - Cochise   QUOTE (Sphynx)Yeah, the one on page 148 that says ...   Oct 15 2003, 07:51 PM
- - TinkerGnome   QUOTE (Cochise) Yes, it does. Although my example ...   Oct 15 2003, 08:10 PM
- - Cochise   QUOTE (TinkerGnome) Huh? How many times are you r...   Oct 15 2003, 08:25 PM
- - Siege   Would you believe the character has been abusing s...   Oct 15 2003, 10:40 PM
- - TinkerGnome   Cochise, I keep reading your examples, and coming ...   Oct 15 2003, 10:48 PM
- - Cochise   Either I'm facing a severe form of language ba...   Oct 15 2003, 10:55 PM
- - TinkerGnome   So you are increasing the target number and reduci...   Oct 15 2003, 11:04 PM
- - Cochise   QUOTE (TinkerGnome)So you are increasing the targe...   Oct 15 2003, 11:19 PM
- - BitBasher   this isn't the only case where a success test ...   Oct 15 2003, 11:33 PM
- - Cochise   QUOTE (BitBasher) this isn't the only case whe...   Oct 15 2003, 11:45 PM
- - Sphynx   Well Cochise, doesn't look like this'll le...   Oct 16 2003, 08:00 AM
- - Cochise   QUOTE (Sphynx) Well Cochise, doesn't look like...   Oct 16 2003, 09:57 AM
- - Fortune   QUOTE (Cochise) With the remaining problem that op...   Oct 16 2003, 10:12 AM
- - TinkerGnome   QUOTE (Fortune @ Oct 16 2003, 06:12 AM) Isn...   Oct 16 2003, 01:47 PM


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