How many points can you spend on edges? Right now I have six points worth, but none of them are game breaking (College education, Connection and Focused Concentration).

There are a couple of other ones that look nice, but I am not sure how many points worth I can get...

You using Priorities/Points system or BeCKs or Gaffer's homebrew?
And it's all up to the GM, too. Generally the rule [you all can check me on this] is no more than 10 points worth of edges/flaws.

No clue where Gyro is getting that number. The rule, or rather guideline, is no more than five edges and five flaws, and that the net point value gained or lost must be six or less either way.

~J

But we all know the priority system is arse anyway

The edge/flaw system works like this in the point based system published in the Shadowrun Companion:

You can have a maximum of 5 flaws and 5 edges. No edge can be above 6 points (only published exception is the ambidexterity edge level4=8 points, GM's option how many levels can the PCs buy from the high pain tolerance flaw). If you are using the priority system you can throw in up to 6 building points for edges.

hoped I helped.

Yes, the five Edges/five Flaws limit is correct, but there is no limit on how many Build Points can be used on Edges/Flaws, as long as the net total of Build Points spent or gained does not exceed six, as Kagetenshi stated above.

For example, if you wanted, you could buy five Edges worth 30 Build Points, but you would also have to take at least 24 points worth of Flaws (no more than five Flaws total, of course) to compensate, so as to not exceed the limit of six net total Build Points spent or gained.

As stated above:

Priority System: up to 5 edges, and 5 flaws, and the points values must be equal

Build Point System: up to 5 edges, and 5 flaws, and you must not gain or lose more than 6 build points in total

How many points I actually use varies widely, as some characters dont need many or any, and others need a lot. Like my current sam (get to use him sunday woot) has 9 points of edges, and 15 points of flaws. Typically Ill try to gain a few points off some flaws, to help round out a skill or two (like when it could be 6, but I only have 4 build points left, I go for taht 2 point gain from flaws). But thats just me, your milage can and probably will vary, especially on character type.

Designing edges and flaws Shadowrun Companion page 16

"No edge should be worth more than 6 points and no flaw should be worth more than -6 points"

As always it goes without saying that the GM can do whatever he wants but this is the official guideline and FASA never had DEFINITE rules like all good rpg companes.They just gave suggestions on how it should be played.

If one of the players is a min-maxer, though, you may wish to say that the edges/flaws have to level out completely. That will prevent them from taking a bunch of really low-impact flaws to expand their skill or attribute scores.

like that will help much... if he IS really a min-maxer

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