Feature Requests

[Mathias]

Originally Posted by RavenX

equipment rated at 3 or less and availability less than or equal to 4R. Real ghetto level gaming, but its turned out to be really fun for my group.

Allowing users to edit the rating and availability limits for characters is already on my to do list, and I hope to get it in soon.

Adding an option to forbid "Forbidden" availabilities (and I might as well add an option to forbid "Restricted" availability, too) is a good idea, and I'll try to get that in when I set up the way to change the availability and rating limits.

[thedarkelf007]

While it is not common I have two characters with Magic Rating and a Resonance Rating.

Will it be possible to do this with a house rule?

The first is a pixie technomancer, the second is a mage who critical glitched and fell into a resonance well / astral rift created by aztechnology trying to combine both features. He was the only survivor from the encounter.

[Mathias]

Originally Posted by thedarkelf007

While it is not common I have two characters with Magic Rating and a Resonance Rating.

Will it be possible to do this with a house rule?

The first is a pixie technomancer, the second is a mage who critical glitched and fell into a resonance well / astral rift created by aztechnology trying to combine both features. He was the only survivor from the encounter.

I'm afraid I went by SR4A pg 68: "Magic and Resonance are mutually exclusive attributes. A character who possesses a quality that grants a Magic of 1 or higher cannot have a Resonance attribute."

Within Hero Lab, I'm afraid that most of the places that are looking at whether to display information about Magic or about Resonance are using if...elseif tests - meaning if you have the one, Hero Lab doesn't even check if you have the other. Allowing this house rule to be applied would be a very complex operation, and I'm afraid it's going to be a while before I'll have the time to try that.

[thedarkelf007]

Originally Posted by Mathias

I'm afraid I went by SR4A pg 68: "Magic and Resonance are mutually exclusive attributes. A character who possesses a quality that grants a Magic of 1 or higher cannot have a Resonance attribute."

Within Hero Lab, I'm afraid that most of the places that are looking at whether to display information about Magic or about Resonance are using if...elseif tests - meaning if you have the one, Hero Lab doesn't even check if you have the other. Allowing this house rule to be applied would be a very complex operation, and I'm afraid it's going to be a while before I'll have the time to try that.

That is understandable, and I can work around it. Most of my players are using rules from the other source books as well so I'm not sure if the characters will ever be fully buildable in the tool. We just go for best fit and write down the differences. Works for Pathfinder where there is an issue such as custom magical items or spells that I don't have time to script.

Thanks for the reply.

[nylanfs]

Yea, just bought HL for ShadowRun

[Wind]

Can we add races from RC or is that an update that you would have to release? If we can do it, can someone explain how?

[RavenX]

Gender: Androgynous would be a nice add on

[nylanfs]

Technically not a gender, it would probably have to be a negative quality

[RavenX]

Originally Posted by nylanfs

Technically not a gender, it would probably have to be a negative quality

I would not consider it a negative quality, A man that feels he is a woman trapped in the wrong body who goes through transgender surgery is a woman for all intent and purpose, but there are people like Prince who fall in between the gender lines. Its all how the person views them self.

However I may actually play around with the idea of a negative quality for it. I will bring it up with my players tomorrow morning and see what they think.

[Erich]

Originally Posted by RavenX

I would not consider it a negative quality, A man that feels he is a woman trapped in the wrong body who goes through transgender surgery is a woman for all intent and purpose, but there are people like Prince who fall in between the gender lines. Its all how the person views them self.

When it comes to negative qualites of this sort, I would think that the deciding factor would not be how the person felt about themselves, but how society reacted to them. Take for example, elf and ork posers.
-Erich