I know there has been some discussion as of late about buying gear in downtime and using the party face character to purchase it. Before I use this means to acquire gear, instead of using a contact, I wanted to be sure it's legal.
The biggest reason being that if our party face is rolling 20 dice to acquire gear, that means that he can buy 5 hits. In reality, he can buy anything up to Avail 20 (which also buys 5 hits) for face value. It may take some extra time to acquire the item, but it won't cost extra money.
Two questions here:
1) Is this working as intended? If so, I'm dropping 21K on a Krime Cannon.
2) Can the face character charge an extra 10% or 15% as a finder fee? Are characters normally allowed give their money to other players in missions games?
Maybe that's three questions, but I just wanted to be sure I was playing the living campaign within the rules... I can already see other GM's rolling their eyes when I pull out an assault cannon