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Title: 6e Cover question
Post by: Johberion on <10-11-20/1600:06>

Hoi chummers!
I'm trying to figure out how the Edge action Fire from Cover is supposed to work. If says that "Attacks from full cover may be made without the -2 dice pool penalty.", but when I look at the Cover status, it says nothing about a -2 dice pool penalty. Am I missing something? I've tried searching, but nothing relevant came up.

Title: Re: 6e Cover question
Post by: Michael Chandra on <10-11-20/1722:05>

In the January updated PDF, it notes Cover IV imposes a -2 attack penalty:

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Cover I, II, III, IV
Whether you hide behind a wall, a dumpster,
or a body, Cover is protection from hostile fire.
It comes at four levels, indicating how much of
a character’s body is protected (one-quarter, onehalf,
three quarters, or all). A character in Cover
gets a +1 bonus per Cover level to their Defense
Rating and dice pool to Defense tests. Attacking
from Cover requires an extra Minor Action in order
to get clear enough to take a shot, imposes a –2
dice pool penalty to your attack at Cover IV, and
you cannot gain Edge while attacking from Cover
(you can gain it from defending).

Title: Re: 6e Cover question
Post by: Johberion on <10-11-20/1820:14>

Thanks! I figured it was something like that.
I have the first edition of 6e and the amount of typos and missing sentences is just about enough to cause actual brain damage.  :(

Title: Re: 6e Cover question
Post by: Michael Chandra on <10-12-20/0233:30>

At least you're not an SR5 CRB Rigger. But yeah, change blindness is a big problem with Shadowrun.