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To be honest, I still do not understand, explain again, is it possible or not?
Well, it depends on your interpretation of the phrase "buy Academic Knowledge skills at half price (round up)" and in particular how you determine when to "round up."To be honest, I still do not understand, explain again, is it possible or not?
Chummer is handling it by rounding the skills individually, and based on your question you thought it would be done for all of the academic skills as a whole.
I'm not sure which method is "correct," but Chummer's method is probably the safer bet especially for programming. It is a lot easier to have the program go through all of the academic knowledge skills and halve the cost being applied by them, rounding up. Trying to give a discount based on all of the skills overall would involve applying a discount to half of the skills and would be mildly confusing at best if the user isn't paying close attention...
So, to answer your question: Yes, Chummer is applying the effects of the quality in a correct way. You might be able to argue with a GM to allow you to take 10 rank 1 knowledge skills for the price of five, but it isn't explicitly worded that way. Technically by a strict reading of the quality you would look at each skill individually, and halve the costs for it at character creation (rounding up).
Side Note: since the other part of the quality (post character creation) explicitly gives a bonus on skills only of rank 3+, I would also argue that the quality is meant to allow you to take several skills at higher ranks for less cost rather than tons of super low rank skills.
It is interesting that college education is worded differently than some of the similar qualities. Some of the others say two for one, while college education says half price (rounded up).
Uh nice! Generally I prefer the darker '90s style of the old cards I've seen (even though some of those art were really rough), but it looks like they'd match well together
A bit necroposting, I have some general questions:
1) size of cards? is it standard 63.5 x 88 mm (2.5 x 3.5")?
2) size of coin? (just curious)
3) the short story in the add-ons is the same of the main campaign or a different one? and where can I download it?
4) will the short story and the novella be published in the usual other ebook sellers? (I'd like to buy it from Kobo, where I have all my SR fiction)
5) does the box include a list of the cards contained in every box?
6) what's the maximum number of decks using one box? I know the minimum is 2, but can I make 5 decks of 60 cards each for example? Or I would miss some key cards to make them playable?
P. 63, Cyber SpikeEssence isn't a whole number, so don't think a divisor is necessarily needed? 5.3->5 makes sense.
"Make an Electronics + Resonance test vs. the traget's Body + Essence (rounded down)"
Issue: Rounding presumes this should be "Essence/2 (rounded down)"
Correction: Add correct divisor
