I have a character that has some individual skills from skill groups but those groups are active.
This is this way for all skill groups but the Outdoors skill group. Character only has 1 skill from that group
but 2 in the other ones. Athletics, firearms and close combat seems to be working fine if purchased as a group
in character creation.

I just noticed an error:

if you max out a (any) skill group (rating 4) during character creation, you are unable to improve the skill group in career mode, you are only able to improve individual skills.

when the skill group is not maxed out you can raise the skill group rating to rating 4 and above in career mode.

btw: the is the absolut best character Generator I have ever seen. Many many thanks for your hard effort.

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As far as I can tell, the sensor rating doesn't change with the installed sensors itself. The sensor rating is like the Intuition attribute for the drone when it makes perception checks, modified by the Clearsight autosoft and other things. Even in Arsenal, there isn't a hard rule that improving sensors does increase the sensor rating, only that it "should also be improved accordingly."

I think it's fine that chummer doesn't change the sensor attribute of vehicles & drones. As a GM I'd issue modifiers to the DP for drones making sensor checks based on what their sensors are.

p. 105 Individual Sensors and Sensor Tests
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“Each vehicle and drone has a Sensor rating that acts as an abstract composite of all of the sensors in the vehicle combined. This rating represents the fact that only a combined array of 4 or more sensors can provide effective multidirectional maneuvering, tactical solutions, and spatial awareness to a vehicle.
Individual sensors in an off-the-lot vehicle’s sensor package have a default rating equal to the vehicle’s base Sensor rating. This Sensor rating should be used for most situations and is equal to the average rating of all the sensors in a package (rounded up.) Sensors that do not possess ratings are treated as if they had a rating equal to the vehicle’s default Sensor rating.
Under certain circumstances, a gamemaster may decide that certain vehicle sensors may not apply, or that only one specific type of sensor is relevant to the situation at hand. Some sensors might just not be suitable for the given task, may be pointing into the wrong direction, and so on. Alternately, the character may elect to use only one sensor for a particular job (such as taping a nearby conversation with a camera or audio mike). In these cases consider the applicable sensor to have the same rating as the vehicle’s Sensor rating, though if the character has previously modified the sensor package, the individual
sensor may use its own rating (if higher.)
If a character improves the ratings of all of the individual components in a sensor package, the overall Sensor rating of the vehicle should also be improved accordingly. For the purpose of improvement, sensors that do not have a rating are considered to be automatically upgraded, when all the remaining sensors in a package are improved to a higher rating.”

Arsenal Errata:

Ok, just started using this and don't feel like reading through almost 150 pages of comments, but did Eagle shifters get errata'd down to 55 BP at some point or is that an error in the generator? My copy of RC lists them at 60 BP.

Thanks

I just noticed an error:

if you max out a (any) skill group (rating 4) during character creation, you are unable to improve the skill group in career mode, you are only able to improve individual skills.

when the skill group is not maxed out you can raise the skill group rating to rating 4 and above in career mode.

I have a character that has some individual skills from skill groups but those groups are active.
This is this way for all skill groups but the Outdoors skill group. Character only has 1 skill from that group
but 2 in the other ones. Athletics, firearms and close combat seems to be working fine if purchased as a group
in character creation.

Also fixed in the next update. The problem is that Create Mode doesn't break Skill Groups since you can freely play around with the Active Skills and Skill Groups as desired. It won't fix existing characters, but moving a character to Career Mode will now break Skill Groups if any of their associated Active Skills having a Rating that does not match the Group's. You could modify the save file for any character you want to correct this on by finding the appropriate <skillgroup> and changing <broken> to True ("<broken>True</broken>").

The suprathyroid gland does not work together with the adept power increased reflexes, although both should add to the reaction attribute. When you have both it is even impossible to increase the reaction attribute using the "improvement" tab in career mode.

2. How can you add Street Cred, Notority and public awareness to a character?
Also there are several qualities that should automatically add/remove notority. Furthermore according to SR4A 265 Street Cred should be Karma / 10, public awareness should normally be (Street Cred + Notority) /3 rounded down.
Can you add this, so that the correct figures are print out on the sheets. Currently they show all as zero.

The suprathyroid gland does not work together with the adept power increased reflexes, although both should add to the reaction attribute. When you have both it is even impossible to increase the reaction attribute using the "improvement" tab in career mode.

Also the nanoware Neural amplifiers neocortical and limbic only add the first rating point to the skill pool bonus, even if you take rating 3 (which should add 3 dice to the respective dice pools)

1. Adept power "improved ability" may add up to the rating of the skill x1,5, so if you have an aptitude (rating 7 skill) this should be +4. Currently only +3 are calculated/added when you print out the character

2. How can you add Street Cred, Notority and public awareness to a character?
Also there are several qualities that should automatically add/remove notority. Furthermore according to SR4A 265 Street Cred should be Karma / 10, public awareness should normally be (Street Cred + Notority) /3 rounded down.
Can you add this, so that the correct figures are print out on the sheets. Currently they show all as zero.

Improvement tab should allow to touch REA nevertheless. I cannot even decrease REA to mimic the temporary loss of an adept power (from a Geas for example).
Nebular, could you make adept powers toggleable?

I understand how frustrating those can be. Wish you luck with that, but I'm pretty confident you will prevail!

Edit: Oh, and regarding the attributes and adept geas part, why not use the Improvements tab to impose such temporary penalties? You can assign negative values as well as positive ones.

Regarding the Street cred and co, maybe you for each you can keep track of 2 things:
- the default result of the formula
- the added/removed points (by GM intervention or diminution of Notoriety by Street Cred and such)

Regarding the skills, SR4a, page 118, directly states that with Aptitude a modified skill rating is maxed at 10. This would suggest that you round down.

Personally my understanding on modified skills was that you could gain one extra die for every two ranks in said skill. This would be supported by what I found in SR4a and a few of the qualities in RC (like Catlike) that specifically state you have to have a skill at least at 2 to gain their benefits.

Thanks! I knew I had it set to round down for a reason! I was searching my PDF for "rounded" and forgot that the page gives an example that implies its rounded down instead of explicitly stating so. The rounding methods in the book are horribly inconsistent; some round up, some round down, but they usually seem to be in the character's favour. This is seemingly the one time where it isn't (from my quick search for the rounded term).

From War!
Can the dice roller allow the larger dice pool options from War!?

It has been a while since I used Chummer, and I cannot locate if this was added or addressed or not...

I remember that you can adjust gear prices in career mode, but is their any way to do so in creation mode?

Or at least some sort of workaround to simulate gear in character creation being more or less expensive than standard?

Some races/metatypes have size issues which affect prices, and some GMs may rule that some items be more or less expensive.

-k

Have an idea about the Peripheral Devices Category I was trying to create.
Would it be possible to create a flag in a category say, "AllowCommAttributes"? If it's set to true then it any device in that category is allowed to have Response, Signal, System and Firewall, and if it's missing or false then devices in the group aren't allowed to have those attributes.

Could weapon also use the ammunition that are not a parent node of the gear list?
I usually have extra clips holding ammunition and can't have those used when I reload from the weapon tab.

I have War, I'm just not familiar with a lot of its content. What page are these options on?

Hi, I'm searching for a way to add "free skills" in career mode.

After visiting a new city (and taking few bullets ^^), the GM gave us the corresponding Area Knowledge for free. I can't find a way to do that in Chummer. If there is no other way, don't worry, I'll add some more karma with a clear explaination and the refund option.

Apart from what Dakka Dakka already mentioned, there is nothing in place to change the price for characters based on their Metatype. Armor, Gear, Weapons, and Vehicles have a Markup field when you're in Career Mode to help accommodate this. The only other way is to create a manual Nuyen Expense in Career Mode to compenstate for the difference in price.

Hm. Okay.

I was converting my Missions pixie character to Chummer.

Sapient Critters, including pixies, have an +50% lifestyle markup and an optional gear cost markup for stuff that specifically needs to be sized for them. (RC pg 84)

Missions sets this gear cost markup at +50%, same as the lifestyle.

However, the sapient critter size markup rules in Runners Companion, unlike the size rules for dwarves and trolls, do NOT have that passage suggesting that this markup be suspended in character creation. (Even for dwarves and trolls, this is a suggested rule, not a hard rule)

So I'd always understood that the Pixie gear cost markup included character creation. If I am wrong, well, I've shorted myself a lot of nuyen.

I'd also had the thought that being able to adjust the prices in character creation would provide some flexibility for a GM who wants to mark up or down certain items based on their personal preferences.

I suppose I can make a set of custom gear files with all the gear I think would need to be custom sized for sapient critters, with the price markup baked in.



-k

Page 310-311, core (anniversary). Basically, gear at chargen is already made for your size. Additionally, the rule implies (though never explicitly states) that gear after character creation generally doesn't have to be adapted for your size either, unless the GM warrants it to be too rare or obscure for the Evo MetaErgonomics division to have mass produced in that size.

Hm. Okay.

I was converting my Missions pixie character to Chummer.

Sapient Critters, including pixies, have an +50% lifestyle markup and an optional gear cost markup for stuff that specifically needs to be sized for them. (RC pg 84)

Missions sets this gear cost markup at +50%, same as the lifestyle.

However, the sapient critter size markup rules in Runners Companion, unlike the size rules for dwarves and trolls, do NOT have that passage suggesting that this markup be suspended in character creation. (Even for dwarves and trolls, this is a suggested rule, not a hard rule)

So I'd always understood that the Pixie gear cost markup included character creation. If I am wrong, well, I've shorted myself a lot of nuyen.

I'd also had the thought that being able to adjust the prices in character creation would provide some flexibility for a GM who wants to mark up or down certain items based on their personal preferences.

I suppose I can make a set of custom gear files with all the gear I think would need to be custom sized for sapient critters, with the price markup baked in.

-k

Other thing bothering me, I can't find cultured organs / limbs, etc from AU p126-127.

Does Chummer handle converting any {L,M,H}MG into a minigun? I couldn't find how to do it if so...

Er... no? Where are the rules for doing this? I don't think I've noticed them (or at least don't remember anything about them )

There are no rules for converting traditional MGs to miniguns, but there is a rule saying that the GM can invent new minguns with any MG as base (Arsenal p. 30). That's all there is, no price, no mod rules no nothing.

I'm not entirely sure where this would even go. It's not Bioware because they don't have an Essence cost and don't have grades, and it's not Gear because it's not really something you use in the traditional sense. I may just create a separate category for it in Bioware.