Another thing to keep in mind is that the Tools cost is only for the price of the Tools. You still have to have somewhere to store/use them. A shop can be stored in a much smaller place (back of a van technically), but a facility will require actual floorspace to be rented for all the machinery.
Just buy the necessities portion of your lifestyle twice. Have a big arse "garage" and live over it. Heck take day job too and run a business out of it
Quote from: All4BigGuns on <01-18-12/1653:39>Just buy the necessities portion of your lifestyle twice. Have a big arse "garage" and live over it. Heck take day job too and run a business out of it Or, if you're not doing Missions, just take the "Workplace" quality for your Lifestyle; +1 LP, and it raises the "space" aspect of Necessities by two ranks.
"Jack not name, jack is job!"
This just made me think of a new quality:QuoteTechnical Genius (10 BP per rank, max 3 ranks)(Aka, MacGuyvering)When making any Test that requires physical tools, the Character treats their available tools as one level higher than their actual rating for meeting the tool requirement threshold. For each level of Technical Genius above the tool threshold, the player may choose to take either a +2 bonus on each roll, or lower the interval by one step, to a minimum of one Simple Action. This bonus is separate from the Superior Tools bonus provided by having tools that beat the required rating without the use of this quality. If no tools are available, the Character must make a Perception+Intuition test (threshold based on the character's location) to scavenge the proper materials. If the test is failed, the number of Hits by which the Character misses the threshold is subtracted from his Technical Genius rating for the purpose of the desired task.Potentially abusable, but I'm pretty sure MacGuyver somehow managed to get 4 ranks in it.
Technical Genius (10 BP per rank, max 3 ranks)(Aka, MacGuyvering)When making any Test that requires physical tools, the Character treats their available tools as one level higher than their actual rating for meeting the tool requirement threshold. For each level of Technical Genius above the tool threshold, the player may choose to take either a +2 bonus on each roll, or lower the interval by one step, to a minimum of one Simple Action. This bonus is separate from the Superior Tools bonus provided by having tools that beat the required rating without the use of this quality. If no tools are available, the Character must make a Perception+Intuition test (threshold based on the character's location) to scavenge the proper materials. If the test is failed, the number of Hits by which the Character misses the threshold is subtracted from his Technical Genius rating for the purpose of the desired task.
Quote from: JustADude on <01-17-12/1830:32>This just made me think of a new quality:QuoteTechnical Genius (10 BP per rank, max 3 ranks)(Aka, MacGuyvering)When making any Test that requires physical tools, the Character treats their available tools as one level higher than their actual rating for meeting the tool requirement threshold. For each level of Technical Genius above the tool threshold, the player may choose to take either a +2 bonus on each roll, or lower the interval by one step, to a minimum of one Simple Action. This bonus is separate from the Superior Tools bonus provided by having tools that beat the required rating without the use of this quality. If no tools are available, the Character must make a Perception+Intuition test (threshold based on the character's location) to scavenge the proper materials. If the test is failed, the number of Hits by which the Character misses the threshold is subtracted from his Technical Genius rating for the purpose of the desired task.Potentially abusable, but I'm pretty sure MacGuyver somehow managed to get 4 ranks in it.Isn't MacGuyvering already a different SR4 quality? (IIRC, "Jury Rigging"?)(To say nothing of TheGuyvering, which is an unrelated phenomenon.)
