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Manufacturer edition.
That an Ares subsidiary in 2079?
>Just now started to read about Shadowrun.
>Always did DnD 3.5
>SR5 has magic and I wanted Cyberpunk instead.
Reading the way they got magic 'n shit is so fucking goofy. Just bewildered how hand wavy it is. Not to mention the native american nonsense. Having confederate states is kinda cool.
How does them getting augs even affect them? Is it that they lose "humanity" and die? Cyberpunk had it where they went insane, correct? Seems a lot more logical and cooler.
How didn't you know about the magic?
>Reading the way they got magic 'n shit is so fucking goofy. Just bewildered how hand wavy it is. Not to mention the native american nonsense. Having confederate states is kinda cool.
Yeah, it's really goofy at times. That's part of the charm for some people like me.
>How does them getting augs even affect them? Is it that they lose "humanity" and die? Cyberpunk had it where they went insane, correct? Seems a lot more logical and cooler.
Everyone has essence, which is something like the glue holding your soul to your body.
Augmentations and other unnatural tinkering damages your essence, having scarce essence bottlenecks your access to magic and makes you more and more distant from what a human "should be", to the point where interacting with people will give it away that there's something "missing".
you have 6 Essence, which in-game represent your holistic integrity, but is mostly a game-balance concern
Augmentations, Essence drain and some other stuff reduce your essence
If you reach 0 Essence you die, unless you take a extremely rare and expensive procedure that lets you "survive" below 0 ESS
Magic users and Technomancers lose Magic/Resonance when they lose essence
That is a funny, funny picture.
I'd have to just make them go crazy and send in the Psycho squad. Dying just seems anti-climatic for some reason. Guess it depends how you set it up.
Bought some books for reference, but they are pretty old.
>Dying just seems anti-climatic for some reason
unless they are extremely stupid and/or suicidal, why would they die?
It's more of a concern ("Hmm, I want to buy some upgrade to my Wired Reflexes, but my Essence isn't enough. Should I get better grades in my other ware, remove some other ware or wait until I can get the WR at a higher grade?")
>Bought some books for reference, but they are pretty old.
DO NOT BUY CGL BOOKS
DO NOT GIVE CGL MONEY
ALL SR BOOKS ARE IN THE OP PASTEBIN
If they're pretty old, they're unlikely to be CGL books (or if they are, they'll be second hand).
Honestly, why don't you just play CP2020 instead?
They haven't been referenced in the canon that I'm aware of, but it'd make sense for them to be a AA subsidiary.
Don't think about it too much. Essence is a mechanical limitation, the same as Cyberpunk's Empathy stat. Cyberpsychosis is a common affliction with older cyberware, particularly things like Wired Reflexes.