Here is an idea. Make it a priority for you to understand what you are reading.

The initial point of the first paragraph of this thread seems to me to be talking about a way to help avoid the diddling around with the last bit of cash during character generation. You then set into suggestions about that topic.

My suggestion here also deals with that, and coupled with a Resources + Logic roll for items missing from the inventory sheet covers large swaths of it. With the added bonus of helping to encourage characters to emerse themselves in a blackmarket economy instead of more player detached Sears Roebuck catalogue view of the world.

You put the problem right up there in the first paragraph. However what I'm really suggesting is that in your inital suggested house rule you missed some aspects of the underlying causes in your analysis. Among other things that being that if you don't use up all that money at chargen then when you start play it is mostly gone, and the overall grouping of nearly all procurements along with monthly Lifestyles under the running count of explicit nuyen.

So yes, this is talking about that house rule. Albeit tied via the inital paragraph of your post. Which is what you were trying to address, right?

I still suggest that you go with the toolkit idea: if someone's got a generic package of stuff that'd reasonably have what you want, there's no need to itemize the exact contents. If someone's got an Electronics toolkit, you can safely assume he's got solder, a soldering iron, wire clippers, etc. Wire clippers are a specific item, mentioned elsewhere, but why should you make them buy one specal?

And I do agree with you on the bean-counting thing, but my point was more along the lines of this: if a player forgot to buy clips, and he's trying to reload in the middle of a firefight when he discovers this, I'd safely ret-con it into letting him have a free clip, already loaded. I wouldn't make any Shadowrunner make a knowledge roll, or anyone for that matter: it's just ludicrious to assume that you're carrying 15 loose rounds without realizing they're not in a clip.

I'm waiting for emo to post his "being awesome" toolkit that contains anything one might reasonably need to be awesome. And of course, that's "reasonably" as in, emo samurai campaign "reasonably."

We love you emo.

No, the problem is that you seem to me to have missed the flow of the thread that lead us to here. I just don't feel up to reinterating the thread.

It's a bit more involved than that. Adventure! characters have an attribute called Inspiration, which they can spend to insert elements into the story. The more these new elements affect what's happening, the more it costs.

"Grabing a brick off the ground" is too minor to count as dramatic editing. Something very minor, or that only comes into play after a certain amount of time ("My gang buddies are going to get here in 15 minutes to help me out") costs a point. Something minor but immediate costs 2, something major costs 3 and something huge that blatantly contradicts previous descriptions costs 4.

Each "edit" demands an appropriate explanation and must be approved by the GM. All of these expenditures are temporary: Edge/Inspiration should refresh normally after being used for dramatic editing.

Having a crowbar or wire cutter on hand is probably something I'd charge 1 Edge for. It gets you a tool you didn't have, but you still have to make the appropriate tests to use it.

Having a backup weapon after being searched and disarmed is probably worth 3 points, and requires an appropriate explanation.

GM's Option Rule baised on character background.