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Rules without tables, how do i deal with them?

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Sobakaa

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« on: <01-23-15/0601:29> »
Reading through 5ed Core Rulebook i can see that a number of pretty important rules (like for instance the health bar of a matrix icon/ic/device) aren't linked to any tables, just a plain text without even a bold/italic styling.
For now i'm just writing them into a textbook, but since this game is around for about 20 years i thought maybe there are already some charts/tables i can look for stuff missing from the book? Or maybe i'm just blind and there are those tables in the book itself?

Thanks.

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« Reply #1 on: <01-23-15/1319:17> »
There is a gigantic thread of rules that are easy to miss.  Easily Missed Rules and More.  If you wanted to try to compile those into a table or something that would be interesting.
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« Reply #2 on: <01-24-15/1537:08> »
I think many people (especially myself) feel that the rules are also somewhat haphazardly organized. Lots of people have also put work into trying to summarize and collect them, as well as to clarify confusion and flesh out the rules-as-intended.

For your specific question (the Matrix Condition Monitors, aka health) you can see my notes here.

Also, the game may have been around for 20 years but the current version of the rules was only published in 2013.