Nanopaste Ratings? Options

[DnDer]

Where would I find these? Our Face wants some for himself and the party.

SR4a says that the rating of a nanopaste disguise adds dice to a disguise test (p338). The table on the same page only lists the availability and price.

A quick search through the 4errata pdf didn't turn up a note about it, and I didn't see anything written about on a search through the DS forums. Has this been published or cited anywhere? I also didn't see notes about it under the Disguise skill, or the Using Disguise reference a few pages later.

[Redjack]

The rules are the same as latex face masks

New disguises may be programmed with a rating equal to the hits on a Computer + Edit Test (max hits equals Disguise skill).  They may also be copied
from a biometric scan (rating equals scanner rating ).

[DnDer]

Oh! I misunderstood that part about rating.

It's been that kind of day...

[Bearclaw]

So the rules are clearly for impersonating someone else. What about if the point is to look like ANYONE else?

[CanRay]

"With a face like that, I'm not surprised you buy Nanopaste in bulk!"

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Sorry, couldn't help it. Should have put that in the Quoteables. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[_Pax._]

So the rules are clearly for impersonating someone else. What about if the point is to look like ANYONE else?

Funny thing: I've actually pondered a Face character who is ALWAYS in disguise - even what his fellow runners think is "really him", is in fact a disguise. Giving him, thus, the option to simply wipe the makeup off, and have an infinite-hits "disguise" for shaking a tail, going to ground, etc.

And I am seriously talking "the whole hog" - shoes to change height, weighted clothes to change apparent body mass, Melanin control adept power, that jigsaw-skull augment that lets you resculpt your face, fake cyberlimb(s), all of it. Throw in him being n Ork, and having Human-looking but then re-disguising himself as an Ork again.

Would be very fun to play, I think, in a deeply Black Trenchcoats campaign.

[NiL_FisK_Urd]

Exept that the jigsaw skull lights up in every (decent) cyberware scanner ^^

@OP: If you have access to spy games, use a Face Case. Costs much less than having to buy a ton of nanopaste.

New disguises may be programmed with a rating equal to the hits on a Computer + Edit Test (max hits equals Disguise skill).  They may also be copied from a biometric scan (rating equals scanner rating ).

Last time i checked, biometric scanners had no ratings, but used the rating of the lock. How should this work?