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{SR6] No Future
Shinobi Killfist:
It would be pretty lame out of the gate, but I could see it happen if after the 4th time repo man showed up and in the fight trashed the deckers gear the decker said fine I'm spiking this jerks drink and collecting the bounty myself.
I have a serious distaste for negative qualities like hunted because far too often its really the teams disadvantage.
Robert:
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--- Quote from: markelphoenix on ---wait...so stolen gear:
1) Gives you karma
2) allows you to spend upto 15 karma to get 150k worth of gear
3) Taking all 20 points of karma nets you 150k Nguyen gear + 5karma to spend?
Is that correct?
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By my understanding, yes. As explained above, my understanding is hardly the only way to interpret the rules as-is. It's still an imperfect interpretation, because under that reading, it's impossible to spend 16-20 karma and qualify for the last category of bounty hunting victimhood. So clearly something is off.
--- Quote ---What does that do to normal karma to nuyen conversion after that 15? is it 1 to 2k or 1 to 5k?
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By my understanding, the existence of the cap means there is no more karma to nuyen conversion after 150,000.
--- Quote ---God that quality is a mess...
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Agreed. It needs something to fix it, whether you read it my way or any other way. Balance-wise, I have my hopes that the karma imbalance between this and In Debt (which gives 0 karma...) can also be addressed.
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8) Waving the hands and doing a bit of thread necromancy...
Coming back to the topic of "stolen gear" quality. I think we all had the wrong interpretation. Because it is a negative quality, we assumed that it would give Karma. However the text states otherwise: "The player and gamemaster must decide on the exact details, but the benefit is that for each point of Karma (up to 20) spent on Stolen Gear, the character gets 10,000 nuyen (see below) to spend on gear, cyberware, and/or bioware during character creation."
Also the table at the bottom shows "Karma Spend" (and not "Karma gained").
In addition consider the statement " These points are spent instead of the normal Karma for extra cash (not in addition to)". This means the normal "karma for extra cash" rule cannot be used and that also means the quality "indebt" cannot be used, as that depends on the same "karma for extra cash".
Nowhere in the description text it says that selecting a certain level of "stolen gear" results in Karma generated.
So my new interpretation of "Stolen Gear" would simply be: It is the "next up" version of "karma for extra cash" or "in debt".
* Normal Karma for extra cash: 2,000 Nuyen per Karma spend
* Quality in debt: 5,000 Nuyen per Karma spend, but you have debts and need to pay interests. If you pay back the principals, the negative quality is gone.
* Quality Stolen Gear: 10,000 Nuyen per Karma spend, but you have stolen and someone hunts you down. If you pay back the value of the stolen stuff, the negative quality is gone.
To me this sounds like the way, the quality was intended.
There are two confusing things.
1) That strange limit to 150k. I believe this is a "left over" from SR5. In SR5 you were only allowed to spend 10 Karma on "Karma for extra cash" or "in debt", meaning your maximum extra cash was 50,000. The quality "stolen gear" allows you to increase that limit by 150,000. Thus in my view "extend the possible additional funds to 150,000¥" should have read "extend the possible additional funds by 150,000¥"
2) That strange box at the top that says "Bonus: 1 to 20 Karma". My guess is that this a formatting thing, putting "Cost" on top of all positive qualities and "Bonus" on top of all negative qualities, without reading the complicated text.
@SSDR, what do you think of this interpretation?
Stainless Steel Devil Rat:
--- Quote from: Robert on ---@SSDR, what do you think of this interpretation?
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Well, I think changing it from being a negative quality to being a positive quality is an idea with pretty good potential, actually. But yes, as you say, there's the nonsensical cap that'd still be causing problems.
No matter how you come at it, I fear there's no making it "work" without changing or ignoring SOME aspect of the rules on that quality. I haven't been smart enough to make it work completely as-written, at any rate.
Aria:
--- Quote from: Robert on ---
--- Quote from: Stainless Steel Devil Rat on ---
--- Quote from: markelphoenix on ---wait...so stolen gear:
1) Gives you karma
2) allows you to spend upto 15 karma to get 150k worth of gear
3) Taking all 20 points of karma nets you 150k Nguyen gear + 5karma to spend?
Is that correct?
--- End quote ---
By my understanding, yes. As explained above, my understanding is hardly the only way to interpret the rules as-is. It's still an imperfect interpretation, because under that reading, it's impossible to spend 16-20 karma and qualify for the last category of bounty hunting victimhood. So clearly something is off.
--- Quote ---What does that do to normal karma to nuyen conversion after that 15? is it 1 to 2k or 1 to 5k?
--- End quote ---
By my understanding, the existence of the cap means there is no more karma to nuyen conversion after 150,000.
--- Quote ---God that quality is a mess...
--- End quote ---
Agreed. It needs something to fix it, whether you read it my way or any other way. Balance-wise, I have my hopes that the karma imbalance between this and In Debt (which gives 0 karma...) can also be addressed.
--- End quote ---
8) Waving the hands and doing a bit of thread necromancy...
Coming back to the topic of "stolen gear" quality. I think we all had the wrong interpretation. Because it is a negative quality, we assumed that it would give Karma. However the text states otherwise: "The player and gamemaster must decide on the exact details, but the benefit is that for each point of Karma (up to 20) spent on Stolen Gear, the character gets 10,000 nuyen (see below) to spend on gear, cyberware, and/or bioware during character creation."
Also the table at the bottom shows "Karma Spend" (and not "Karma gained").
In addition consider the statement " These points are spent instead of the normal Karma for extra cash (not in addition to)". This means the normal "karma for extra cash" rule cannot be used and that also means the quality "indebt" cannot be used, as that depends on the same "karma for extra cash".
Nowhere in the description text it says that selecting a certain level of "stolen gear" results in Karma generated.
So my new interpretation of "Stolen Gear" would simply be: It is the "next up" version of "karma for extra cash" or "in debt".
* Normal Karma for extra cash: 2,000 Nuyen per Karma spend
* Quality in debt: 5,000 Nuyen per Karma spend, but you have debts and need to pay interests. If you pay back the principals, the negative quality is gone.
* Quality Stolen Gear: 10,000 Nuyen per Karma spend, but you have stolen and someone hunts you down. If you pay back the value of the stolen stuff, the negative quality is gone.
To me this sounds like the way, the quality was intended.
There are two confusing things.
1) That strange limit to 150k. I believe this is a "left over" from SR5. In SR5 you were only allowed to spend 10 Karma on "Karma for extra cash" or "in debt", meaning your maximum extra cash was 50,000. The quality "stolen gear" allows you to increase that limit by 150,000. Thus in my view "extend the possible additional funds to 150,000¥" should have read "extend the possible additional funds by 150,000¥"
2) That strange box at the top that says "Bonus: 1 to 20 Karma". My guess is that this a formatting thing, putting "Cost" on top of all positive qualities and "Bonus" on top of all negative qualities, without reading the complicated text.
@SSDR, what do you think of this interpretation?
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This is how I've 'programmed' it in my excel character generator... seems to work ok :)
Also SRM FAQ seems to have included the pre-run damage which I adopted in one of my games (with the PC writing a suitable scene as a pbp game) and that adds some stick to the carrot
Robert:
--- Quote from: Stainless Steel Devil Rat on ---Well, I think changing it from being a negative quality to being a positive quality is an idea with pretty good potential, actually.
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No need to change it to a positive quality. Just treat it the same as "in debt". That also is a "negative" quality and nets you 5k instead of 2k for every Karma SPEND.
Any chance you could get hold of the person who wrote that qualtiy and ask him how it was intended? ::)
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