and given the increased influence the attributes have on skills and tests i say its justified

Your max starting attributes are 1/2 your BP, unless you start with higher than 690 BP.

4*8*10=320BP + 25BP (for a single 6) = 345BP * 2 = 690BP

They looked the same as third edition.

No, you get to add grade to magic attribute, not that plus +1 to magic attribute.

Yes, they have a list of powers, including some from SotA64.

Think you transposed skill caps. I think the only attribute cap I saw was 1/2 total BP.

well, any game that dont use classes to force you into a set role ends up having stuff thats allmost mandatory. atleast in games thats combat/conflict oriented. ie, you will want a high body to survive a beating and so on.

hell, even classes dont fully help. but they atleast makes it easyer to justify putting a lower stat on the one dealing with base survival

I checked the index and skimmed the matrix section without seeing anything more helpful. or definite.

Improving an attribute is done one point at a time at a cost of 3*new rating.

Improving skill group is 5*new rating.

Improving an active skill is 2* new rating.

New active skill is 4 karma.

New active group is 10 karma.

New Quality is 2*BP.

[edit] Not to cause dissent, but It did not mention altering damage tracks when their attribute got raised. Is it possible or did I not notice where it stated to do so?

Also, starting cash was based off of starting lifestyle.[/edit]

Skills are capped at 6 unless it is exceptional. Ditto Attributes unless racial modifiers apply.

That's what i meant by 'effectively'. The attribute doesn't increase, but you do get the increase in most used of the attribute? Which uses i guess is the real question.

Oops. Ok, so the max is always 1/2BP up until something absurd BP number for PC creation that allows you across the boad 6's.

5*10BP + 25BP = 75BP * 8 = 600BP * 2 = 1200BP

Interesting. That would seem to actually provide a bit of incentive to take a 1 skill at creation in any skill you expect to be increasing shortly after creation.

Yes.

Swordfish Mustardball.

Cybereyes can be purchased with variable capacities, 4-16, .2-.5 essence. Ears follow suit.

Yes, there are still datajacks, as well as much of the cyberware.

Bonelacing essence is .5, 1, 1.5 for original 3 types. Increases power still. Adds to B and armor like it did.

Availability ratings have changed and max at chargen is now 12. So cyberarm gyromounts are available at chargen. Cyber skulls are not.

Cyberlimbs now have Body rating too. Body, Strength and Agility come with rating 3, need torso too raise above 3. Do not see the old essence cost to increase them and the most expensive looks to be 250 nuyen per rating point. Probably limited by ECU (besides cap of 7).

Enhanced Articulation is .3 ess. and +1 die for any task with a linked physical attribute.

Bone Density acts like bone lacing, only less essence.

Mnemonic enhancer gives no karma reduction.

Pain Editor avail 18, no trauma damper listed.

Reflex recorders for skill groups. Athletics group has 4 skills, Biotech - 3, Close Combat - 3, Conjuring - 3, Cracking - 3, Electronics - 4, Firearms - 3, Influence - 4, Mechanic - 4, Outdoors - 3, Sorcery - 3, Stealth - 4, Tasking -3. If you raise a skill within a group seperately, you can no longer raise the group.

Same karma cost as BP cost.

Example:

Sorcery consists of Counterspelling, Ritual Spellcasting and Spellcasting.

Firearms is Automatics, Longarms, Pistols.

What i mean is that when faced with the choice of taking one skill at 2, and starting a new skill post-creation, or taking two skills at 1 and raising one of them post-creation, it is even in karma cost.

I guess not so much an incentive as the removal of a penalty.

Edge dice used for longshot tests do not explode (follow rule of 6). Otherwise rule of 6 only applies to Edge dice.

Sorry, that confuses me. What is a "longshot" test? Is that when the dice pool drops to zero or lower?

Yes. No, modifiers apply equally. (I was thinking between different types of vision.)

Yes.

Right, I probably was not clear on that.

Novatech's IPO contributed to the crash. Evo Corporation (formerly Yamatetsu), Horizon, NeoNet (evolved from Novatech), Wuxing are the big ten with some of the old faces.

May be but I did not see it in skimming.

I don't think it is humanly possible to comprehend the madness that would cause.

No, what we need is that damn PDF up for sale online.

I take it the AI sponsored runner teams were not succeseful in their strike to get it from Adam?
Does this mean that Adam is a GD or an IE?

All six of your teams failed? Lets hope they are in some sort of simsense feedback punishment right now?

Commlinks ... and if you want to control them with your thoughts, your brain needs access to them => DNI or cybernetic version (0,2 essence).

SYL