[Linkdeath]

And Season 5 runs do most definitely have GM rewards listed in the back where you wrap everything up.

[Michael Chandra]

Q: Seeing as how normally this is a GM call: May a player, while still only receiving 25 karma for it, take more than 25 karma in Negative Qualities, e.g. when the quality-combination you want ends up at 26?

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I am aware the rules state you can't take more than 25 in negative qualities and disregard the excess above 25, aka get 25 karma for -25+ in qualities. Aaron has stated it requires GM approval, as such I am asking here, since there's only 1 real Missions GM, the rest of us are proxies. ^_^

To go into further detail: What gave birth to my question in the FAQ topic, and as a result here, is a topic from a player who has Corporate Limited SIN (15), Ork Poser (6) and Prejudiced Biased, Humans (5), for a total of 26.

Edit: I have cleared out my other posts just like ZeConster and DWC have.

[Crunch]

While, obviously, in the context of missions only Bull's opinion will matter, I can't imagine the answer to this at most tables being anything but "it's outside the letter of the rules but I'll allow it."

[Linkdeath]

While, obviously, in the context of missions only Bull's opinion will matter, I can't imagine the answer to this at most tables being anything but "it's outside the letter of the rules but I'll allow it."

In the context of official Missions, I can't image the official answer to this at a table being anything but "it's not in the errata and it's not in the rules, so I won't allow it."

[lurkeroutthere]

So i had a chance to read the current faq, two points struck me as odd.

You may not take more than four weeks off between shadowruns After all, you need to keep your name out there. Runners that stay hidden too long run the risk of being forgotten, and your fixer will stop calling if you ignore him too often.

I guess my immediate thought is, why? What's the point in running a living campaign that we don't really audit peoples paperwork anyway and then being so hostile to character advancement. "Congratulations, you saved up X runs worth of karma to raise one of your stats above a 4 or your skills above a 5. Now you've got the money and wherewithal to support yourself while you pump iron, hit the range, or do eye spy, but your fixer will stop calling you if you pass over a magical threshold of 4 weeks without blowing something up. Enjoy waiting another run for your advancement."
It just seems counter to any kind of good sense.

f you go looking for a piece of gear, use the standard Availability Test rules (p. 418,
SR5) and mark off the appropriate amount of time on your Missions Calendar. Note that you can only search for one item at a time, as this represents you physically
going out and looking for the item, spending time making phone calls, talking with people, buying them drinks, etc

This actually runs quite counter to the rules on p.418. Shadowrun has moved into the telephone ordering economy, someone no longer has to spend weeks pounding pavement to find gear, and thank sweet D's ghost for that. The timeframe is now the time to deliver not the time to find.

f you go looking for a piece of gear, use the standard Availability Test rules (p. 418,
SR5) and mark off the appropriate amount of time on your Missions Calendar. Note that you can only search for one item at a time, as this represents you physically
going out and looking for the item, spending time making phone calls, talking with people, buying them drinks, etc

This actually runs quite counter to the rules on p.418. Shadowrun has moved into the telephone ordering economy, someone no longer has to spend weeks pounding pavement to find gear, and thank sweet D's ghost for that. The timeframe is now the time to deliver not the time to find.

[Michael Chandra]

Q: Seeing as how normally this is a GM call: May a player, while still only receiving 25 karma for it, take more than 25 karma in Negative Qualities, e.g. when the quality-combination you want ends up at 26?

Rather than a hypothetical question this one has just become an actual one for me: One of the players used a sample character during Ashes and is now designing their own character. However, their negative qualities are now at 26 total.

[Bull]

You can only get 25 Karma for Negative Qualities.  however, feel free to take as many negative qualities as you like.  You don;t get the karma, but if they're appropriate for the character, go for it.

Me, I still remember the days when there were no qualities, positive or negatives. We took stuff like this anyway.  It was called "roleplaying"

[Michael Chandra]

And you had to walk uphill while fighting Bug Spirits both to and from school, while having to carry 50kg in equipment including Panthers, and this while it was snowing.

[Belker]

And the bad guys had Vindicators. Can't forget that.

[DWC]

I love when the bad guys have Vindicators.  That turn spent spinning up the barrels is the perfect opportunity to kill them.

[Bull]

Our bad guys came with pre-spun Vindicators.

[PittsburghRPGA]

Our bad guys came with pre-spun Vindicators.

And a mage ally sustaining a Silence spell on it.

[Michael Chandra]

That reminds me: How's the Mayor Campaign going?

[Bull]

Bull is NOT running for mayor.  He has enough going on these days, thank you.

[Michael Chandra]

Ah, so he's going for governor?