[SichoPhiend]

Just for clarification, can you hire skill Instructors for skill groups or only for individual skills, if you can hire one for groups is there a cost difference.

[Michael Chandra]

Which doesn't mention a limit to the number of unbound spirits that a summoner can have active at any given time.

It's sloppy language, yes, so basically the question is whether "only summon one Spirit at a time" means "only have 1 Spirit summoned at a time", "only have 1 non-bound Spirit summoned at a time" or something crazy.

Q: Critter Form has higher Drain and more restricted usage than Shapechange, is "a specific non-paranormal animal" meant to read "a specific non-sapient animal", fitting with the two examples that are paranormal animals but not sapient?

Q: Is Possession missing "Immunity to Normal Weapons" or was that changed deliberately?

Q: For longer runs, if Insomnia (10 karma) fails the check, do they refresh Edge after 48h?

[jim1701]

Question about street cred.  On page 368 of the core book street cred is described as giving a bonus to the social limit of a character for social tests where the reputation is known.  On page 140 the table for social modifiers lists street cred of the character as a positive dice pool modifier for all social tests and the street cred of the target as a negative dice pool modifier for the same test.  These two sources don't explicitly contradict each other but it does seem odd to me the main description for street cred (pg. 368) doesn't mention dice pool bonuses. 

The issue I see with regards to Missions is that Contacts do not have street cred so there is no offset to the build up of street cred by the player characters and as a result I've seen some really amazingly large dice pools for buying equipment.  I don't know if that is what was intended but if not a clarification on the subject is probably warranted.

[The Masked Ferret]

Question from the Demo Team Boards -

Originally posted by Canis

What of the cyber-implant specialisation to Unarmed Combat? The doc would imply no, but the reasoning is the Martial Arts rules in Run & Gun supersede them but for implants they don't fully.

Shouldn't Cyber-implant weapons still be a valid option as a Specialization for Unarmed Combat?

[The Masked Ferret]

Will you include Shadow Spells in it?

[Michael Chandra]

Regarding SG and SS: When it says (+Counterspelling), what exactly is meant? That it can have Spell Defense against it but other spells cannot, simply an extra note that means Spell Defense also applies for those spells, or that full Counterspelling applies instead of Spell Defense?

[Michael Chandra]

Got one regarding Shadow Spells:

Q: Both casting Grenade and making one detonate reasonably count as Attack Actions. So no firing + 'throwing' or firing + 'detonating'. However, with the one-attack-per-IP rule, can these be done in the same IP since the two actions combined are what makes the attack? In other words, can I Reckless Spellcast a Grenade Spell at a total F+2 Drain, then detonate it in that same IP with a Simple Action?

[gargaM0NK]

How do trading karma for Nuyen (and vice versa) affect the karma total for the purposes qualifying as a prime runner?

[Bull]

Just for clarification, can you hire skill Instructors for skill groups or only for individual skills, if you can hire one for groups is there a cost difference.

They can train groups and specializations per p. 105 in the book.  It just takes a lot longer, and thus costs more because you're paying by the day.

[Bull]

Q: Critter Form has higher Drain and more restricted usage than Shapechange, is "a specific non-paranormal animal" meant to read "a specific non-sapient animal", fitting with the two examples that are paranormal animals but not sapient?

Hell if I know.    I'll check on that.

Q: Is Possession missing "Immunity to Normal Weapons" or was that changed deliberately?

Deliberate, because it made Possession Traditions ungodly powerful.  This means Shedim get a bit of a nerf (Which sucks, but whatever.  They do add half force in armor when possessing inanimate or dead bodies though, so at least there's that), but Inhabitation still gets the Immunity generally.

Q: For longer runs, if Insomnia (10 karma) fails the check, do they refresh Edge after 48h?

  Why wouldn;t it be the 24 hours listed in SR5?

[Michael Chandra]

Critter Form is covered by the SG errata so that's okay, and I have hopes that Shedim get fixed in the future. ^_^

Insomnia is phrased confusingly and that led to a confusing question as well, so basically if you fail the check you'll recover the next day instead of the current one?

[Bull]

Regarding SG and SS: When it says (+Counterspelling), what exactly is meant? That it can have Spell Defense against it but other spells cannot, simply an extra note that means Spell Defense also applies for those spells, or that full Counterspelling applies instead of Spell Defense?

Spell Defense is considered Counterspelling, which is why the verbage gets a little tangled.  But generally, it's whatever SPell Defense dice are available, yes.

[Bull]

Critter Form is covered by the SG errata so that's okay, and I have hopes that Shedim get fixed in the future. ^_^

I may just have to use special snowflake Shedim until then

Insomnia is phrased confusingly and that led to a confusing question as well, so basically if you fail the check you'll recover the next day instead of the current one?

Yeah

[Bull]

Will you include Shadow Spells in it?

Yeah, though that doesn't go "live" for Missions till October 25.

[Bull]

Ok, locking this down.  Questions are all in, FAQ is filled out, and is off to Jason for approval.  I'll post as soon as I get the word.