QUOTE (Trigger @ Jul 19 2013, 10:58 AM)
So, the text of Cerebral Boosters state that they "increase your Logic attribute by their rating". This is not "they add their rating to your Attribute" like it is stated with say Muscle Toner, so it sounds like they like mean something a little different, directly increasing the attribute instead of modifying it. Does this mean that you can use your Cerebral Boosted Logic attribute to determine your starting free Knowledge skills? I checked the one example in the book with a Cerebral Booster, the Decker archetype, and it was not helpful; the example has a Logic 5(6) and Intuition 4 and 19 points of Knowledge skills, so they either added one too many or one too few, or spent Karma on 1 point of Knowledge's, I can't tell. So, Dumpshock, how do you think it should work?
I don't believe the authors would try to create such a nuanced sentence like you're reading. Unless they specifically add words to say something like "this is different from other augmentations in that it directly increases..." you should use the KISS rule. I think it should be interpreted just like all the other attribute-augmenting augments.