Hi everyone! (first post )

Anyway, I recently picked up a copy of SR4, and was curious how Technomancers interacted with AR (I couldn't find it in the corebook; if it's there and I missed it, please point me in the right direction )

Can they interact with it like everyone else as if they had the full equipment to do so? (e.x. like someone with a commlink, AR gloves, etc.).


Also, how do technomancers work with subscriber lists? Do they need a commlink to do so, or can they create a sort of mental link with the program?

Technomancers wold be aware of the existance of AR stuff methinks, but without a commlink at the very least, they couldn't interact with it so much (I think). I was fuzzier on that part of the book. I would suspect you could use your Innate programs to interact to some extent....

wait for a better Technomancer. -_-

Yes, technomancers can interact with AR. For all intents and purposes, count them as having a commlink with a HotSim modified sim module.

The biggest differences that technomancers have over your average computer user is that:
1) They don't have a commcode - you can't just call your friendly technomancer. Most technomancers would keep MatrixMail (webmail) accounts for messages and mine lurks on a couple of chat sites for interactive conversation.
2) They're persona and their meat share the same damage boxes, so technomancers are exceptionally prone to IC attacks.
3) Technomancers don't need control rigs to access drones, they feel the wireless dataflow, see machine interfaces (as long as they're wireless), and can find nodes be merely thinking of them.
4) Technomancers have no form of physical storage. You can't hack a techno's memory, they don't have a signal that's easy to track to hack their PAN, and anything they want to download needs to be put to an external device - hence some technomancers might carry around commlinks for ease of storage, else they need to copy the data to chips or drones they control.

Think that covers the big factors...

It is kinda wierd that TMs have no commcodes but they can be part of subscriber lists, and have their own, for that matter. We decided that for our game purposes, the Living Persona is either spoofing a commcode or making one up that it uses to talk to that node. It affords TMs a high degree of security automatically, but that's nothing a normal Hacker can't pull off with a few hardware and/or software tests.
Does that make any sense?

I run TMs as if they are a commlink, commcode and all. The only difference is that the commcode is considered spoofed. As for how do they interact with AR, I'd say that AR is their world, they interact within regardles of the technological crap that people say you need (i.e. AR Gloves) but that's because I love TMs and think everyone should play them. I'll go sit in my corner now.

We tried not to overthink the Matrix too much and just took for granted that everything works like it's supposed to. The where the book talks about spoofing the datatrail on page 224, it's clear that you can supply a bogus commcode through software or hardware, and most nodes won't talk to an device without ID. So we assumed that TMs all have several commcodes that they use, just like regular commlinks. All the commcodes that a TM uses are basically hardware driven, so there's no need for Hacking or the Spoof Complex Form.