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This post is intended to improve AI characters with a slightly different reading of the rules and by adding a minimum of house rules to make them more playable characters (I'm fascinated by them, but discovered that they are nowhere up to par with other characters)

This is supposed to be a form of communal project and so it's convenient to start out with differentiating what you state is creative reading or a a house rule (mark your text with CR or HR)


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AIs have no need for sleep. Meaning that they can spend every minute of their days doing something.

(CR) Extended Tests of 1 Day, 1 Week and 1 Month actually means Days of 8 hours of work, Weeks of five (or maybe six) Days, and Months of four (occasionally five) Weeks.

That would at the very least give some increase to the capacities of an AI. Given enough time he can program everything he would need, just like a fleshy being, only faster.

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AI's are fully virtual beings and do not fatigue. They have a total of 3 initiative passes.

(CR) If I'm not mistaken the Rules as Written don't have much in the field of mental fatigue without starting to house rule stuff.
(CR) Due to being so permanently virtual, there is no downside to running at that maximum speed constantly. Meaning that the AI can occupy himself with three different things at the same time. In effect operate as three different characters with only their default Initiative pass. This means he could do a lot more in the same time.


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And that's my Creative Reading parts.

As for Houserules on my 'table' there are a few in general, but only one affects the Creative Reading sections before.

(HR) Every form of Stun Damage that is the result of a mental activity (such as spellcasting, damage from Matrix Combat, some results of spellcasting) is damage from fatigue, which can only be regenerated through rest.
(HR) Every form of physical damage (Stun and Physical) when healed becomes damage from Fatigue.

At this point things go back to normal fatigue damage (page 164 SR4A)

(HR) At six boxes of Fatigue you need to make your Body + Willpower (2) Test to do any strenuous activity, until you rest.


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Houserules that would make AI's better

(HR) Give an AI the equivalent of an Essence rating, called Stability and allow the AI to code pieces of integrated software that function just like Ware. Either he has to trust someone to code this for him, or he has to code it himself. Damage from Augmentation also applies as per surgery. Costs in Essence are the same, Cost in Nuyen is the listed price.


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Anyone else wants to add things or ideas ? Or just shoot mine down because they don't work ?