with other movement mods). In addition, it provides a +2 limit bonus to Performance tests. The boosters make the skateboard unwieldy, reducing the user's Physical Limit by 1. In Combat mode, the skateboard's panels splay open, turning the board into an obvious melee weapon with a bonus to AP and damage.

• “Little known fact! I tested these for hours in the labs, so the splayed panels were tuned to some nasty offensive tricks I came up with! Check the attached DVD for 200¥ if you want to try them yourself!” -- Toni Thunderbird

TRADITIONAL EGYPTIAN RULES [APPROVED 3.0]

Those that follow traditional teachings of the Egyptian religion (SSP 3), venerate and adhere to the path of Heka, the cosmic force of creation and deification of magic. Egyptians believed that all living creatures possessed the Heka to some degree and thus must be respected. They shun combat spells that wrought death and destruction, favoring healing and apotropaic magic. However, the use of curses and sympathetic magic to harm an enemy is practiced. Traditional Egyptians follow these rules:

• Cannot use the Binding skill.
• Cannot cast Combat spells, alchemical preparations and rituals.
• Must take the Mentor Spirit quality (SR5 76).
• Gains +2 dice bonus for casting Health spells, alchemical preparations and rituals.
• Gains +2 dice when Summoning Guidance spirits.
• Gains the Shielding metamagic (SR5 326) for free.

TRADITIONAL HERMETIC RULES

Some magicians of Hermetic Tradition (SR5 279) choose a focused path, sacrificing something in exchange for enhanced prowess in their chosen field. Mechanically, these serve as Traditional Rules for Hermetic magicians. A character following the Hermetic Tradition can optionally choose one of these alternate paths:

Hermetic Elemental Path
These Hermetic mages devote their magic into the classic Hermetic Elements (Air, Earth, Fire and Water). For the purpose of Elements: Acid counts as Earth, Cold counts as Water and Lightning counts as Air. Some of them specialize further and become Elementalists (FA 43) while others go down the dark path of Hermetic Elementals (FA 181) after years of abusing spirits. But these are not necessarily the directions everyone on the Elemental Path must take. Followers of the Elemental Path gain the following bonuses and penalties:

• Can only cast spells or alchemical preparations that have an effect directly related to at least one of the four Hermetic elements (Air, Earth, Fire or Water), such as the Frigid spell (SSP 16), any [Element] spell, or spells that deal Water (SG 105) or Elemental damage (SR5 170).
• Gains +2 dice to all Sorcery and Alchemy skill tests involving elemental spells and alchemical preparations.
• Cannot Conjure any spirit other than Spirits of Air, Earth, Fire and Water. But gains +2 dice to all Conjuring skill tests involving these spirits.
• Gains the Elemental Master (FA 36) and Elemental Focus (HT 191) qualities for free.

Hermetic Metallurgy Path
These Hermetic mages have studied the elements and infused metallic alloys with magic. They put a greater focus on alchemy and enchanting. This allows them to enchant objects normal Enchanters will struggle with. The process is still a challenge and only the most experienced master it. Followers of the Metallurgy Path gain the following bonuses and penalties:

• Cannot use the Conjuring skill group.
• Can Attune normal items as per an Adept.
• Gain the Durable Preparations quality (FA 36) for free.
• Reduce Object Resistance of items and devices by 2 for purposes Artificing or targeting with spells.

TRADITIONAL HINDUISM RULES

Hinduism (SG 46) in its traditional form is all about rituals and reagents. Rituals are performed with mathematical precision and reagents must be perfect both in quality and in exact quantity. If the ritual is performed right, even the Devas (Gods) must answer the call of the Rishi (Sage). Magical items are also given divine importance, treating them as items of great power that must be earned through Tapasya (Austere meditation). The right attire is needed before a Hindu magician is to be able to practice magic. Followers of Traditional Hinduism gain the following bonuses and penalties:

• Cannot use the Summoning and Disenchanting skills.
• Must take the Mentor Spirit: Holy Text (FA 95).
• Reduce the opposing Force of Ritual Spellcasting by 2 for all rituals.
• Reduce the drain for Rituals by 1, to a minimum of 2 drain.
• Gains the Spectral Warden (FA 40) and Items of Power (FA 38) qualities for free.

TRADITIONAL OLYMPIANISM RULES

Hecate Path
Another route of Traditional Olympianism has been explored with more fervor in recent years. Hellenic Sorcery is increasingly popular, perhaps in response to the growing worship of Hecate among the Greek or believers in Olympianism. The Sorcerers use cursing, hexing, and other traditional ritual practices dating back thousands of years, based on the teachings of Hecate, the Greek goddess of sorcery and witchcraft. Parts of Hermetic study are rooted in similar practices, and even the most potent Hermetic Mages will acknowledge the power and validity of the teachings of Hecate. Almost all magicians that follow the teachings of Hecate are female, with the male "witch" being a rarity indeed. Hecate Path Olympianists follow these rules:

• Cannot use the Banishing and Disenchanting skills.
• Suffers -2 dice penalty when casting Combat spells.
• Gains +2 dice bonus when casting Manipulation spells.
• Gains +2 dice bonus for Ritual Spellcasting.
• Gains the Mentor Spirit quality (SR5 76) for free, but must choose the Goddess mentor (BOTL 129).
• Gains the Animal Familiar quality (FA 31) for free.

Hero Path
Traditional Olympians (FA 84) who follow the hero path, go a step further than the traditional deity focused but polytheistically father the rank and file members of the Tradition. Traditional Olympians directly communicate with their deity and often consider themselves a direct descendant, leading them to be referred to as "Demigods." This makes the traditional extremely popular with Mystic Adepts. These "Demigods'' often have a deeper connection to their Mentor "Gods" than others do with the spirits, giving them a special connection to the Oracles and the powers manifested in their physical forms. Traditional Olympians tend to be extremely proud of their connection to the Gods, and these connections are often physically apparent in their constantly worn Mentor's Mask and fondness for "Gifts from the gods'' in the form of Magical Trinkets. Hero Path Olympianists follow these rules:

• Cannot use the Binding skill.
• Gains the No Man Left Behind negative quality (SL 181) for free.
• Gains the Mentor Spirit and Chosen Follower (FA 35) qualities for free.
• Must choose a Mentor's Mask (FA 182) if available.
• Gain one metamagic or enhancement of your choice from the Physical Arts (SG 156) for free.

TRADITIONAL QABBALISM RULES [APPROVED 3.0]

Qabbalism (SG 48) or Kabbalism was, before the awakening, a more obscure field of study within the Jewish religion that sought to explain the nature ofGod and the soul in more detail. Those who studied Kabbalah occasionally learned of ways that they could use their understanding of Sephirot (the divine energies of creation that originate from God) to manipulate the physical world around them. After the awakening, the practice became much more widespread within the Jewish community as what was seen before as esoteric, impractical mysticism, became to yield useful, predictable and repeatable results.

These days pursuing kabbalah is a common practice for Awakened Jews. Kabbalists often do not consider what they do to be “magical”, in the sense that they claim to only invoke the power of God and the energies they put in place when God created the world. Kabbalists may be wary of the mages from other traditions due to the command given to Moses in Leviticus 19: “Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them.” though this varies by community with Reformist and Progressive Rabbis being much more accepting of other magical traditions than their Orthodox counterparts. The same chapter of the Torah forbids “divination or seeking omens”, so divination magic remains a very controversial subject.

Kabbalist magic includes heavy use of the Hebrew alphabet, specifically writing the “true names” of things in Hebrew, as well as using numbers and numerology to represent the Hebrew alphabet. It is said that Adam gave everything its name in Hebrew and could see into its soul. A “Shem” (literally translated to mean “name”) or one of the names of God possess great power in Kabbalah, as God has many names, some closer to his true name than others. Writing a Shem on something can imbue it with “God’s power”, causing magical effects. For example, the typical creation of a golem, a living being made of clay, was achieved by writing a Shem in the clay of the golem's forehead. This would cause either a spirit or “the energies of God” to enter into the clay shell and bring it to life.

Kabbalists refer to spirits that they summon as “Elohim” which translates to the plural form of God. This is used to refer to God or often the concept of angel. Spirits summoned by a Kabbalist mage might take the form of the six winged “Seraphim” in Isaiah 6 or like the many faced “Hashmallim” and the burning wheels covered in eyes of the “Ophanim” found in Ezekiel chapter 1.

Some mages may incorporate elements of Jewish worship into their practice such as reciting prayers in Hebrew, wearing a Tallit (a kind of prayer shawl, traditionally worn by men, that comes in two types: a small Tallit Katan that is worn under clothes all day and a large Tallit Gadol that’s worn during prayer) or using Tefillin (a small wooden box that is placed on the forehead and secured with leather strips that wind around the head and down the arms). Followers of traditional Qabbalism follow these rules:

• Cannot use the Alchemy skill.
• Cannot cast Detection spells or rituals.
• Cannot practice magic on the Sabbath (Geas). This is usually on every Saturday.
• Must take the Mentor Spirit: Holy Text (FA 95).
• Gains the Structured Spellcasting metamagic (FA 44) for free.
• Gains the Shielding metamagic for (SR5 326) free.

TRADITIONAL SHINTO RULES

Those of the Shinto tradition (SG 48) seek to live in harmony with the Kami (Spirits) of the world as well as seeking to maintain spiritual cleanliness. When they summon spirits, they do not bind them and will leave offerings to appease the Kami. Their spellcasting is tied to ceremonial rituals such as the Kagura, limiting them to ritual spellcasting or alchemical preparations which take the form of ema with the wish listed upon it being the spell. With the awakening, their rituals of spiritual cleanliness now applies to astral cleanliness as well with them often learning rituals to counter background counts. A character following the Shinto Tradition can optionally choose to follow the traditional version. Followers of Traditional Shinto gain the following bonuses and penalties:

• Cannot use the Binding and Spellcasting skills.
• Gains the negative quality Code of Honor: Harmony with Nature, the Shaman’s Code (RF 26), for free.
• Gains the Durable Preparations (FA 36) and Chain Breaker (FA 33) qualities for free.
• Gains the Cleansing metamagic (SG 154) for free.

TRADITIONAL WICCA RULES

Followers of traditional Wicca (SG 50) can choose to either follow Goddess (Willpower + Intuition) or Gardenarian (Willpower + Logic) teachings. They gain the following bonuses and penalties:

• Cannot use the Banishing and Disenchanting skills.
• Cannot cast Combat spells, rituals and alchemical preparations.
• Gains +2 dice bonus when casting spells, rituals and preparations of Detection, Health, Illusion and Manipulation categories.
• Gains the Mentor Spirit quality (SR5 76) for free,but must choose between Goddess (BOTL 200), Great Mother (FA 99 or SASS 33), Peacemaker (SG 200), Green Man (FA 98) and Wise Warrior (SR5 324).
• Gains the Animal Familiar quality (FA 31) for free.

Matrix

STATIC SHOCK

Prerequisite: Van Der Waals Effect
Mastery of the Van Der Waals Effect (KC 102) has allowed you to be able to create stronger electromagnetic fields. This allows you to emulate Shock Gloves (SR5 423) using bare hands and an infinite number of charges. Additionally, when a device that uses a power source such as a Stun Baton (SR5 422) is held with bare hands, the device regains charges as if plugged in to a power source. Partial Credit: /r/ALightInTheDark

Martial Arts

FLOWING DRAGON [APPROVED 3.0]

Styles available to: Dragon. INTERRUPT ACTION (-5 Initiative Score) Often mistaken for an Adept power, this elusive technique allows one to redirect incoming melee or unarmed attacks towards another adjacent target, who is not the attacker. The character makes an Unarmed Combat + Reaction [Physical] test vs the incoming attack. If the character gets any net hits, they avoid the attack and can instead redirect it towards another target within melee range of the character with net hits equal to that of the original attack + any net hits by the character. The new target may defend against the redirected attack but at a -2 penalty due to the unexpected turn of events. If the redirected attack hits, the new target takes damage equal to the original attack’s DV plus net hits. MOUNTAIN STANCE [APPROVED 3.0] Styles available to: Boxing (classic style), Tae Kwon Do, Wrestling (sumo style). This technique teaches how to use one’s weight and center of gravity effectively to avoid getting knocked or pinned down. Each time this technique is learnt, increase your Physical limit by 1 for purposes of resisting knockdown (SR5 194) or being subdued (SR5 195), up to a maximum bonus of +2. ROLLING SNAKE [APPROVED 3.0] Styles available to: Jujitsu, Krav Maga, Wrestling (MMA style). This technique teaches how to use one’s agility and leverage against their opponents center of balance, allowing for easier grappling. Each time this technique is learnt, your unarmed attacks reduce the target’s Physical limit by 1 when determining Subduing (SR5 195) or attempts to escape from it, up to a maximum reduction of 2. SWEEPING HOOK [APPROVED 3.0] Styles available to: Boxing (brawler style), Capoeira, Muay Thai. This technique teaches how to put one’s own weight behind their attacks allowing one to power through their opponent’s balance and knock them prone. Each time this technique is learnt, add +1 to your Strength for only determining Knockdown (SR5 194), up to a maximum bonus of +2. Qualities Expanded Mastery Qualities Apart from the rules of Mastery Qualities (FA 30-31) These are additional rules for Expanded Mastery Qualities: Mastery Qualities are always Positive qualities. Their karma cost does not double after character creation. Unlike Mastery Qualities in Forbidden Arcana, Expanded Mastery Qualities don’t necessarily require a Magic rating. While there are mastery qualities for Awakened, most of the listed mastery qualities can be taken by anyone as long as they meet the minimum requirements, even if they are mundane or technomancers. Expanded Mastery Qualities cannot be exchanged with spells. BEAST BOND Cost: 15 Karma Minimum Requirements: Animal Handling 6. You have a loyal pet and you have spent a lot of time training it so you can now act as a much more effective team. You must spend a number of days emotionally bonding with a trained critter equal to its Willpower. Once you have emotionally bonded, the pet gains the following benefits: When you roll initiative, your bonded pet may use the same number as you rolled for their initiative. For every rank in Animal Handling you possess, your bonded pet may learn one additional trick of your choice. The threshold for teaching new tricks (Step 5: Training) (HS 184) is also reduced by 1. You may use Protecting the Principle (RG 125) on your pets without costing an edge. All other rules and restrictions for Protecting the Principle apply. Benefits granted by your ranks in Animal Handling doesn't take into account the Improved Ability Adept power (SR5 309) or any augmentation that adds ranks in Animal Handling. Only base skill ranks trained with karma and time. This quality does not work if the animal is being rigged into. You can only have a single bonded pet. If you attempt to bond with another pet, your bond with any previous pet breaks and you lose all benefits. Your bond also breaks if the pet dies. DEDICATED ALCHEMIST Cost: 10 Karma (Aspected Mage or Enchanter: 5 karma) Minimum Requirements: Magic 1 and access to Alchemy skill. Characters with this quality must completely forfeit the use of the Spellcasting and Ritual Spellcasting skill. However, they may still use any existing ranks in said skills as Knowledge skills. In exchange for this, characters gain a new spell as an alchemical preparation (SR5 305), every time they raise their Alchemy skill and the Karma cost for learning new alchemical preparations is reduced by 1. Characters with this quality also receive a free alchemical preparation for every rank they already possess in the Alchemy skill at the time of purchase of this quality, including character creation. Specializations count as a skill rank for purposes of free alchemical preparations, but the preparation must be from the same category as the specialization. Aspected mages who are able to learn skills in the Enchanting skill group and Enchanters automatically meet the requirements for this quality. This quality is incompatible with Dedicated Conjurer (FA 36). FLEXIBLE SPELLCASTER [APPROVED 3.0] Cost: 15 Karma Minimum Requirements: Arcana 7, Alchemy 6, Spellcasting 6, Magical Theory 6 (academic or street). Through your research and practice of magic you have understood that both spells and alchemical preparations and similar fundamental roots but a different execution. You can use a learned spell to cast an alchemical preparation and vice versa; regardless whether the spell was learned as an alchemical preparation or a spell. However, doing so increases the drain of the spell or alchemical preparation by 2. GUNSLINGER Cost: 10 Karma Minimum Requirements: Pistols or Automatics 6 and Akimbo martial art. "Double the gun, Double the fun." You've watched way too many trids and matrix games about dual wielding guns. In reality, this is a clumsy and ineffective fighting style, but after all these years of careful observation you seem to have figured it out.

You can shoot two one-handed firearms (any type of pistol, taser, revolver, machine pistol or SMG) in tandem. Both guns must be fired in the same firing more (SS/SA/BF/FA), using the same action. Both guns must expend the same amount of ammunition, but only your main hand weapon inflicts damage. Defense penalties remain unchanged, as if using a single weapon to make the attack. Eg: a -5 defense penalty from a Simple Action full-auto attack still remains the same and doesn't become -10 because of two weapons expending the same amount of ammo. Double the amount of recoil, but combine the recoil compensation of both guns to determine final recoil compensation value.

While you are dual wielding guns and you meet the above criteria. You can make a Complex Action attack (eg: long burst / semi-auto burst, complex full-auto fire or suppressive fire) using a Simple Action. IN MY IMAGE Cost: 5 Karma Minimum Requirements: Animal Handling 4. You are able to form deeper and more long-lasting connections with creatures that are similar to you. Whether by sharing your spirit or simply investing more deeply into your new best friend, you impart a little of what makes you you to this creature. This quality cannot be bought more than once per critter and must be bought separately for each critter. The bonus you gain depends on whether you are Mundane, Awakened or Emerged.

Mundane: Any one critter that you own gains one positive quality of 10 karma or less that you also possess (excluding metagenic qualities). This must be a quality that is reasonable for the critter to have and does not allow the critter to do anything it normally could not (Eg: A critter with the Bilingual quality still cannot speak, but can understand commands in both languages).

Awakened: Any one paracritter that you own gains a single adept power point. They cannot discount the cost of powers by any means. These must be powers that are reasonable for the critter to have and do not allow the critter to do anything it normally could not (Eg. A critter with the Linguist power still cannot speak, but can understand commands in all languages it learns). If you are an Adept, this paracritter can also be turned into an attuned animal (SG 123) and thus becomes eligible for the Empower ritual (SG 128).

Emerged: You may tame and own a single technocritter. You must teach it any and all tricks yourself. Treat an emerged technocritter as an undomesticated paracritter for training purposes. Technocritters do not respond to mundane training methods, and you gain no advantage from training equipment. Instead, the Host Emulator complex form is treated as the training equipment for a technocritter. Technocritters cannot be purchased and must be caught in the wild. Work with your GM on an interesting mission to capture and tame a technocritter that your GM will allow. KEYBOARD WARRIOR Cost: 10 Karma Minimum Requirements: Cybercombat 6. Some say you are all talk and no action and that you can only talk big behind an AR keyboard and screen. They call you just a matrix tough guy. Thing is, in the Sixth World, being fast with a keyboard with an aggressive attitude can be a deadly combination. The hacker may make a single Brute Force (SR5 238) matrix action on each of their Action Phases as a Simple Action while decking in AR. When Brute Force is used in this manner, the target will be alerted of the attempt regardless of success or failure. LASER COMMANDER Cost: 12 Karma Minimum Requirements: Directed Energy 6 with Laser Weapons specialization. Pew pew! You have tinkered and altered your laser weapons in a way so they are a lot more deadly and effective: Laser weapons used by you don't lose their DV due to distance or visibility conditions. After you successfully attack a target with a laser weapon, each consecutive successful attack on the same target increases the DV of the weapon by +1 per attack (eg: +1 DV on your 2nd attack, +2 DV on your 3rd and so on), up a maximum extra DV equal to your ranks in the Directed Energy skill. If you miss an attack, stop attacking for consecutive Initiative Passes or split your dice pool to attack multiple targets (SR5 196), you lose this benefit. MORPHINE MASTER [APPROVED 3.0] Cost: 6 Karma Minimum Requirements: First Aid 6. You are specialized in the concoction and administration of powerful painkillers. Make a First Aid + Logic [Mental] test while expending a full box of Medkit Supplies (SR5 450). Every 2 hits allows you to target one subject with a biological system (including yourself) with a potent dose of painkiller. It takes 1 minute per subject to administer the painkiller. At the end of treating all subjects with the painkiller, each subject benefits from the High Pain Tolerance 3 quality (SR5 74), for 1 hour. The High Pain Tolerance 3 gained this way stacks with other sources of High Pain Tolerance or Pain Resistance. PAIN TRAIN Cost: 8 Karma Minimum Requirements: Running 4. Perhaps you were a college athlete or a natural born sprinter. But there is an undoubtable power in your leg muscles that make you run like a freight train and when you hit someone with all that momentum, it's like the pain train. Choo choo, motherfragger!

You move an extra 2 meters per hit on Sprinting tests (SR5 162) (ie: 3m per hit for dwarves and trolls. 5m per hit for elves, humans and orks). Additionally, when you Sprint, you can make a melee attack at the end of your movement as part of that same action (Charging/Running bonuses apply). PULL YOUR PUNCHES Cost: 5 Karma Minimum Requirements: 5 ranks in any Close Combat or Melee skill. You're so accustomed to friendly matches and spars that you know how to effortlessly ensure that your swings knock your opponents out without doing any lasting damage. When dealing stun damage with an unarmed or melee attack, you can take a -4 dice penalty to your attack to ensure that the damage never overflows into the victim's physical condition monitor. This quality does not apply when physical damage is converted to stun by armor. Your original DV must be stun. Positive Qualities AVERAGE JOE Cost: 2, 4 or 6 Karma Prerequisite: Mundane. 2 Karma: Normalcy is sometimes underrated. For denizens of the Sixth World, it can be surprising how comforting being a relatively adjusted person is when it comes to dealing with other people. Your nonplussed approach to a lightly augmented, very mundane lifestyle gives you a little social clout that you may not even realize. At the 2 Karma Level, for every 2 points of Essence you have, you increase your Social Limit by 1.

4 Karma: Physical training goes a long way, and that's even more true when it's all you've got. In a world where Augmentation and Magic have changed the game for athletes all over the Sixth World, this has led to an increase in training programs and alternatives for the average person. You're incredibly focused and talented in your chosen physical activities. Yoga, Crossfit, flexibility training, whatever it is you're doing, keep doing it! At the 4 Karma Level, you retain all the benefits of the previous level. In addition, for every 2 points of Essence you have, you increase your Physical Limit by 1.

6 Karma: You were born smart, and you've developed that intellect into a finely honed tool. You may be an unusually talented detective or a world-class codebreaker, but you've always come to it naturally. No one knows if it's the lack of outside influence from the manasphere, resonance, or cybernetic connection, but you probably aren't itching to find out, and you're probably tired of taking the Adept proficiency testing. At the 6 Karma Level, you retain all the benefits of the previous levels. In addition, for every 2 points of Essence you have, you increase your Mental Limit by 1.

BASELINE BIOLOGY Cost: 4 Karma Prerequisite: Mundane without any metagenic qualities. Palliative care is a lot more effective when your biology is well understood. The doc (auto or regular) doesn't have to worry about a host of implants, weird genetic expressions, metagenic variation, cellular essence concerns, etc. It's easier to patch you up and care for you in the long term.

You don't suffer the "Patient has Implants" penalty from the Healing Modifiers Table (SR5 208) when you are receiving healing from any source. Additionally, First Aid tests done on you don't require a threshold of 2 before you can start healing. BETTER LUCKY THAN GOOD Cost: 4, 6 or 10 Karma Prerequisite: Mundane. You are incredibly lucky in specific circumstances, so much so that you can often rely on it to perform tricks others might think of as Superhuman. Things just seem to fall into place for you easier than others, and the things you are skilled at come with an ease that surprises even your awakened allies.

4 Karma: Whenever you use an edge on a dice roll, you gain +2 dice and +2 Limit to that edged roll. If you use edge on Blitz (SR5 56), the +2 dice bonus is treated as a flat +2 bonus to your initiative instead.

6 Karma:You have all the benefits of the previous level but the bonuses are increased to +3 dice and +3 Limit. If you use edge on Blitz, the +3 dice bonus is treated as a flat +3 bonus to your initiative instead.

10 Karma: You have all the benefits of the previous levels but the bonuses are increased to +4 dice and +4 Limit. If you use edge on Blitz, the +4 dice bonus is treated as a flat +4 bonus to your initiative instead. Additionally, when you burn edge to Smackdown (SR5 57) you automatically succeed on your action with 8 net hits instead of 4.

CONCEAL, DON’T FEEL Cost: 6 Karma You've been taught your whole life to keep your emotions hidden. Even when you're in pain, you don't let it show. Whenever you make a Social test while suffering a wound penalty, you may make a Composure test with a threshold equal to your current wound penalty. On a success, you may make the Social test without suffering the wound penalty. On a failure, treat your wound penalty as 1 point higher for that test. COVER SHOOTER [APPROVED 3.0] Cost: 5 Karma Whenever you anticipate or face combat the first thing that pops into your mind is "Take Cover!". Whenever you use the Take Cover action (SR5 166), any defense bonus gained from being in cover is increased by 1. Additionally, when you make any ranged attacks from cover, the Accuracy of your ranged weapons are considered 1 higher.

However, you have become so accustomed from being in cover that standing out in the open makes you more vulnerable. Whenever you are not in cover, you take a -1 die penalty to all your defense tests. CRASH TEST DUMMY Cost: 12 Karma What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. One too many volunteer work for dubious automobile testing has oddly made you resilient to crashes, like some kind of living crash test dummy.

Whenever you would take damage from crashing a vehicle you are driving manually or in AR, reduce the crash damage you take by 25% (rounded down) before you make your damage resistance test. In addition, when this quality reduces the damage you take from a crash, you don't need to make a Composure test to resist mental trauma from that crash. DESIGNER BABY Cost: 10 Karma Prerequisite: Mundane with either Records on File (RF 158) or SINner [any level] (SR5 84). The character has had genetic modifications done on them during their embryonic life. It may have been by their parents who wanted a designer baby or maybe as a part of some science experiment. Whatever may be the reason, the character's genome is malleable and easily integrates with foreign genes. All Genetech (CF 155-166) costs 10% less essence (retroactive) and 20% less nuyen on purchase. This discount doesn't stack with any other source of nuyen discount. This quality can only be taken during character creation and is incompatible with the Gifted Genetics quality. DON’T TELL ME THE ODDS Cost: 8 Karma Prerequisite: Mundane with 6.0 Essence. Others hear the word "impossible" and back away, but you have a habit of taking it as a challenge. Once per run, you can choose to use Push the Limit and Second Chance (SR5 56) edge actions on the same roll. You still expend edge as normal for both. The Second Chance reroll does benefit from exploding 6s if done after Push the Limit. This quality is incompatible with Prototype Transhuman (CF 54). FORTUNE FAVORS THE BOLD Cost: 15 Karma Prerequisite: Mundane with 6.0 Essence and at least 5 Edge at the time of purchase of this quality. Luck is a fickle mistress. It gives and it takes away. But when you are bold enough to pay the price and keep going, even the scales rig themselves in your favor. After you burn one or more points of edge, the next point of edge you buy will cost 5 karma regardless of its actual cost. This quality is incompatible with Prototype Transhuman (CF 54). FULL-AUTO EXECUTIONER Cost: 5 Karma Clean, instant executions exist only in spy trids. You know that in the real world, people don't die easily; you need to strike hard while you have the chance! So why use one bullet when you could use many?

When attacking a target that does not get a defense test with a full auto firearm attack at short range, you deal increased damage. For every 2 net hits on your attack increase the damage by an additional +1DV. If the target is further than 15 meters, this quality does not apply, even if that would place them within short range for your weapon. This quality does not apply against barriers. GIFTED GENETICS Cost: 5 Karma Prerequisite: Mundane. Gene mods have been around for some time and it's possible that parents sometimes pass on exotic genetic implants into their children. This quality allows the character to have a single Gene Mod from either Phenotype Adjustment (CF 157), Exotic Metagenetics (CF 158), Transgenics (CF 160), Environmental Microadapation (CF 163) or Complementary Genetics (CF 165) without costing any essence. The character must still pay for the gene mod and is subject to availability during character creation. This quality can only be taken during character creation and is incompatible with the Designer Baby and Prototype Transhuman (CF 54) qualities. GUARDIAN [APPROVED 3.0] Cost: 3 Karma You have mastered the ability to bodyblock and protect others from incoming attacks. Perhaps you are an experienced bodyguard or maybe you have seen one too many superhero movies. Protecting the principle (RG 125) no longer costs an edge. HERETIC Cost: 8 Karma Prerequisite: Must be able to summon spirits. Select a player-available magical tradition other than your own and replace one of your tradition's spirits with the selected tradition's equivalent (Combat, Detection, Health, etc). The spirit must be summoned in the manner of the selected tradition and is treated as if it were summoned by a magician of the selected tradition. However, your astral signature is still attached to it. This means that you must resist drain with the attributes of the selected tradition, not your own. Whether this spirit has the Materialization or Possession, power is determined by the selected tradition.

Gain 1 point of Notoriety that cannot be removed while you have this quality. Members of either tradition might react negatively to your status as a heretic or appropriation of their methods. Characters with this quality are unable to group initiate or partake in rituals with others awakened. This quality can be removed as if buying off a negative quality (ie: at the cost of 16 Karma), in which case the selected spirit is replaced by the original spirit for your tradition. INTELLECTUAL LIAR Cost: 10 Karma Those with social grace always seem to know how to mislead people. You don't have that grace, but what you do have is the ability to conceptualize and analyze the quality of a 'creative truth,' allowing you to approach the problem from a different angle. Use the lower of Intuition or Logic to replace Charisma for Con tests. You cannot use the Seduction or Fast talk specialization while using this quality. LET ME MAKE IT CLEAR Cost: 8 Karma While others might try to seem scary when interrogating a target, you don't even have to try. A calm explanation of the consequences of disobeying you is usually all it takes. When threatening to harm a captured, outnumbered, or otherwise vulnerable character, you can substitute Logic in the place of Charisma for the purpose of Intimidate tests. LIKE A TERMINATOR Cost: 10 Karma Prerequisite: Mundane. There is something about being cybered out that can unnerve people. You just happen to know how to capitalize on it. For every full point of Essence missing, you get +1 dice to Intimidation tests if you can make your cybernetic nature obvious (flexing some muscle replacements, taking apart your arm to reveal the shotgun inside, etc). So the next time you say "I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle" to some ganger, you know they'll immediately comply. LIKE THE BACK OF MY HAND Cost: 8 Karma Prerequisite: Mundane. Nobody knows your chrome like you do. It is who you are. All that cyber technology knowledge went in one ear and out the other, but how hard can it be to do some of your own customizing on your own body?

Once per day, you can change the skill of your Cyberlimb Optimization (CF 87). This process takes 1 hour per limb. The total time to change all your Optimizations can be shortened with a single Hardware + Logic [Mental] check. Every hit shaves off 20 minutes from the total time to a minimum of 20 minutes. You can also, at the cost of one Edge, change the skill of all your Cyberlimb Optimizations with a single Simple Action. This will not count towards the cap of 1 change per day. The strain of this will cause 1P damage per full cyberlimb (max 4P), resisted by Body.

In either case, the limbs stay this way until you go to sleep, change your cyberlimb optimization or reboot your cyberlimbs; at which point they will automatically revert back to their original skill. MENACING PRESENCE Cost: 8 Karma You are one big, strong, mean looking fragger and you make sure everyone knows it. Whether or not you are capable of a truly intimidating conversation, your very presence can cause people to drek their pants. The fact that you can follow up on your threats and snap their necks, further reinforces the idea that you are not to be fragged with. Instead of Charisma, you can use the lower value between your Body or Strength for Intimidation. Use average Strength in case of using cyberlimbs. PLASTIC SOUL Cost: 10 Karma Prerequisite: Mundane with Biocompatibility (CF 54). None can really take advantage of 'ware as well as normal folk. Awakened and Emerged lose their power, but your average joe that didn't win the universal lottery? They only gain it. You've installed so much ware into yourself that there's barely anything of "you" remaining. Whether it's through adaptation or the fact that you've got much less to lose than the non-mundane folk, your body has grown exceptionally accustomed to any form of intervention. You also gain the benefits of Biocompatibility (Bioware) if you have Biocompatibility (Cyberware) and vice versa. POLYMATH Cost: 8 Karma Prerequisite: Mundane with Jack Of All Trades, Master of None. You don't have to be born with Magic or Resonance to be special. Sometimes lack of all these fancy stuff can give you more time to expand on your skillset and skills do pay the bills Chummer. You do not suffer the increased Karma cost for raising skills above Rating 5 due to having the Jack Of All Trades, Master of None quality (RF 147). This quality is incompatible with Specialist. SPECIALIST Cost: 7 Karma Prerequisite: Mundane. You're gifted when it comes to learning the fine details of a skill or trade. Your single-minded focus on learning the ins and outs of a topic has paid off big when it's time to nerd out over something. You learn niche details and applications of your pursuits with ease. All specializations after the first one in a given skill costs 3 Karma instead of the usual 7. This quality is incompatible with Jack of All Trades, Master of None (RF 147). TACTICOOL MALL NINJA Cost: 6 Karma Some people look good in casual, others in formal, yet others have a flair for some of the absurd fashion in the Sixth World. For you fashion, begins and ends at the military surplus store. Whether it's tactical black or camo, you can pull it off with ease. This allows you to impress people who don't know much about combat, but your antics have no effect on people who are experienced in combat apart from getting sighs and eyerolls from them

As long as you are dressed in a "Tacticool" way, you gain a +2 dice bonus to all Social interactions with non-combat personnel. Your GM has the final say whether you are looking Tacticool or not but the look generally involves wearing multiple pieces of military gear such as visible firearms with multiple attached accessories, full body armor or other combat armor, tactical goggles, military helmets, ballistic masks, gear access or holsters everywhere, etc. This quality is incompatible with Thousand-Yard Stare (SL 181). UNCOMMON SENSE Cost: 1 Karma You are used to spending time watching videos about the origin of memes or how much rolls of toilet paper can fit into a Nissan Jackrabbit. You are known for your Uncommon Sense (and probably mostly useless knowledge). Once per run, you can get pretty useless but fun or interesting information from your GM. WORKED FOR THE MAN Cost: 1 Karma per Rank (Max Rank 5) You have done some work for the man in your early Shadowruns and the work experience has honed you into the professional you are today. During character creation, you gain 4000¥ per Rank of this quality. This quality can only be taken during character creation. Negative Qualities BUGGY CYBERWARE [APPROVED 3.0] Bonus: 2 Karma per Rank (Max Rank 4) Prerequisite: At least one piece of cyberware. Your cyberware has some kind of hardware fault that causes it to emit a low level electromagnetic noise. For each rank of this quality that you have, your cyberware generates 1 point of Noise that only affects you, your augmentations and your gear. This noise can be reduced normally by noise reduction. If your cyberware is removed, this quality must immediately be bought off in full. Buying off this quality assumes that you have fixed whatever hardware issue your cyberware had. BUTTER FINGERS Bonus: 10 Karma They call you "butter fingers" because things always tend to slip between your fingers. No matter how hard you try you just drop them. People around you should try to ensure you are not carrying any sensitive or volatile equipment or maybe you should start wearing gecko gloves.

Whenever you attempt to Insert Clip (SR5 165), Reload (SR5 167), Throw, Catch or Quick Draw (SR5 165) anything or perform any similar action that requires fine handling of an object with your fingers (decided by your GM), make a Composure (3) test. On a failure, you drop the item near your feet potentially wasting an action. Gecko grips or slings don’t help you from not dropping stuff, you are that clumsy. Better be careful with live grenades! DWARFISM [APPROVED 3.0] Bonus: 6 Karma You don't have to be a Dwarf to be born on the small side. Characters with this quality are on the small side of their metatype. They may suffer from actual SED (formerly called Dwarfism) or simply an extremely small version of their standard metatype.

Your size becomes one category smaller: Trolls become elf/human/ork sized, elves/humans/orks become dwarf size, dwarves become gnome sized. Your walking and running speed multiplier also reduces by 1 (ie: Walking becomes AGI x 1 and Running becomes AGI x 3 m/turn). This quality is incompatible with Neoteny (RF 121) or any other quality that modifies movement speed multiplier such as Satyr Legs (RF 118).

This quality can also be taken as a Metagenic Negative Quality (as part of SURGE) for the same karma bonus, but you cannot take this quality as part of both SURGE and standard. If taken as a standard non-SURGE quality, this can only be taken during character creation. In either case this quality can never be bought off. It's part of who you are. GUN GREMLIN [APPROVED 3.0] Bonus: 12 Karma Prerequisite: 4 ranks in either Pistols, Automatics, Longarms, Heavy Weapons or Directed Energy. You are that lazy bum who never cleans their gun or perhaps you like to make mefeed videos of torture testing your firearms as a "gun review" and then uses the same gun during a Shadowrun. If your gun was alive, it'd hate you with a passion! Whenever you engage in combat, at the start of the first Combat Turn and then every alternate Combat Turn (3rd, 5th and so on), roll a single d6. On a roll of 1, your gun jams or overheats. Unjamming or heat venting your gun takes a Complex Action. MIND LIKE A SIEVE Bonus: 2 to 6 Karma You have experienced something which has caused major gaps in your memory. This could be anything from excessive exposure to Laés to repeated (or major) physical trauma. This manifests itself as a -1 penalty to all memory tests your make, for every 2 karma you gain. The quality can be taken up to three times, each time with a cumulative -1 penalty. You can ignore this penalty by spending a point of edge however you will not gain any other effects for it and you cannot spend more edge on this roll. MUTE Bonus: 5 Karma Being deaf or blind cuts you off from the world. This quality cuts the world off from you. Due to a disease you've contracted, all manner of magical mishaps, or just plain shitty luck, you do not have a functional vocal apparatus. You are unable to make any tests involving speech, and cannot specialize in Speaking for any language. This also prevents you from using any voice based ability such as relevant adept powers, command based spells, etc.

POP CULTURE WIZARD Bonus: 6 Karma Prerequisite: Must have the Spellcasting active skill. Most magicians get their magical training either from sources like universities, religious institutes, shaman lodges or for the less fortunate, from the streets. But you seemed to have picked up most of your "wizardry" from pop culture sources like trid shows, AR comics and tabletop RPGs. As such, you have formed an idea that to cast a spell, you need a traditional wizard wand or staff and must loudly chant some magical words.

You cannot cast spells without using a Fetish. The Fetish must take the form of a plainly visible wand, staff, spell book or some other equally visible pop culture arcane spellcasting item. If you lose the ability to cast spells, you must buy off this quality immediately. SPRITE BLOCK [APPROVED 3.0] Bonus: 8 Karma Prerequisite: Technomancer. You are unable to compile or register a particular type of sprite. This quality can be selected multiple times, each time for a specific type of sprite. Each time you pick this quality, choose a type of sprite. You cannot compile or register that sprite while you have this quality. This quality can only be removed after a foundation run to the resonance realms, to find out the problem and then paying the required amount of karma. Positive Metagenic Qualities When “Creating a Changeling” (RF 103), depending upon the class of SURGE chosen, characters get a balance of metagenic Karma to use in selecting Positive Metagenic Qualities and balancing them with Negative Metagenic Qualities below. More Positive Metagenic Qualities can be found in (RF 111). ELECTROKINESIS Cost: 5 Karma Your body produces extra electrostatic energy. Everyone's hair always stands on end when you're nearby. You are immune to your own electrostatic energy. You can, however, harness this ability offensively. To strike an intended target, you can use a Complex Action to make a Ranged Attack using Agility + Directed Energy (Electrokinesis) [Physical], with a range of Body meters. Alternatively, you can use a Complex Action to make a melee attack using Unarmed Combat (Electrokinesis) + Agility [Physical]. Either type of attack causes electrical damage, with a DV of 8S(e) -5 AP plus net hits on your attack roll.

You can also use your innate electrostatic energy defensively. If you are grappled or subdued by someone, you can use a Simple Action to make a Unarmed Combat or Directed Energy (Electrokinesis) + Body [Physical] attack. The target grappling you cannot defend against this attack and must resist a DV of 8S(e) -5 AP plus hits (not net hits) on your attack roll. After using this quality to make an electrical discharge, you must wait for 15 minutes to recharge your energy before you can use this quality again. ELEMENTAL AFFINITY Cost: 12 Karma House Rule: Not allowed for SURGE I or II. You partially embody one of the four hermetic elements and your physical appearance reflects that. Perhaps your hair looks like fire, moss or wisps of air. Or maybe your skin bears markings, such as having earthen, crusty skin or sparkling, watery tattoos that move around. Or perhaps your eyes glow red like fire or sparkle blue with electricity. Usually changelings with elemental affinity bear such marks in multiple locations of their body that makes it easy to identify their nature. While effects aren't magical, the origins are and thus your mystical appearance. Choose one of the four elements: Air, Earth, Fire, Water. Electricity counts as Air, Acid counts as Earth and Cold counts as Water. You gain the following benefits: You gain a +1 die bonus to all skill tests that involve your chosen element. Whenever you deal damage with your chosen element, increase the damage by +1DV. You gain a +1 die bonus to damage resistance tests when resisting damage that is the same as your chosen element. In addition, you gain the following benefits based on your chosen element: Air: You can hold your breath for 90 seconds (30 Combat Turns) before needing to make any tests, instead of the usual 60 seconds (20 Combat Turns) (SR5 137). You also gain a +1 die bonus to all Fatigue tests (SR5 172) involving strenuous activity. This ability does not stack with Lung Expansion (CF 159). Earth: You gain +1 die bonus to your Body when making damage resistance tests. Fire: You don't suffer the secondary effects of Fire damage. Water: You gain a +1 die bonus and +1 Physical Limit bonus when swimming. Your swimming speed also increases to 200% of normal. However, having affinity with a single element puts your body at elemental imbalance. You also suffer the following penalties: You suffer a -1 die penalty to all skill tests that involve the other elements. When you suffer elemental damage from any of the other elements, increase the damage by +1DV (before damage resistance test). FLUFFY FEATURES [APPROVED 3.0] Cost: 8 Karma You have developed features traditionally associated with cute and fluffy things, whether it's like a cat, dog, bunny or a fluffy moth. Something about you makes people view you with puppy dog eyes; they want to pet you, touch you or nuzzle you. Any features you choose to display are cosmetic only and provide no mechanical benefit unless an appropriate quality is also chosen. You suffer a -3 modifier to Intimidation, but you gain a +2 modifier to Etiquette, Con and Negotiation tests made in a non-aggressive manner.

However, the +2 modifier comes at the cost of being spoken to like a cute snuggly animal. NPCs will want to pet you and refuse to take you seriously until you display hostility. If you refuse this or correct them, the +2 will immediately change to a -2. FUNCTIONAL WINGS Cost: 12 Karma House Rule: Not allowed for SURGE I or II. You have developed functional, full span wings. The wings can be feathery like a bird or leathery like a bat along with a few more physiological changes as part of your semi aerial adaptation. While they don’t allow for flight, the wings allow you to gently glide down from elevated positions. The wings can be folded close to the body when not in use.

As long as you are unencumbered or incapacitated, you can avoid Falling Damage (SR5 172) from any distance with a Gymnastics (Freefall) + Body [Physical] (2) test. If you succeed, you start gliding down. While gliding this way, you can choose to travel up to twice the distance horizontally that you fall vertically. In one Combat Turn, you fall 10 meters vertically and can move up to 20 meters horizontally. You must always be moving from a high point to a lower point. No gliding up!

Armor you wear needs to be specially tailored to accommodate for the wings, increasing the cost of all armor (but not armor accessories or modifications) by +50%. Characters with wings cannot wear armor with Chemical Seal (SR5 437). The wings cannot be hidden and characters with this quality will normally incur social modifiers (Freaks sidebar, RF 123). This quality is incompatible with any other quality or modification that grants wings as well as Cyber Manipulators or Shiva Arms (RF 118). SLIME GLANDS Cost: 1 Karma The character has developed cutaneous mucous glands. The character gains +2 dice bonus to Escape Artists tests. Additionally, when making defense tests to avoid being Subdued (SR5 195) or Clinched (RF 119) as well tests made to escape Subdue or Clinch, the character gains a +2 dice bonus. If the character has the Natural Venom quality (RF 117), the venom can be secreted as a Contact Vector Toxin via the cutaneous slime.

The character leaves slime wherever they go. Not a lot, but just enough to be noticeable and disgusting. Characters with this quality will normally incur social modifiers (Freaks sidebar, RF 123). Moreover, any test to Clinch, Subdue, Climb and maintain a grip on things is made at a -2 dice penalty. It's also almost impossible to not leave some genetic marker behind. Matrix Search tests and other tests to identify or locate the character is made with a +1 die bonus. This quality is incompatible with Dermal Alteration (RF 113) or artificial skin modifications, but is compatible with other natural skin modifications such as Dermal Deposits or Defensive Secretion (RF 114). Negative Metagenic Qualities These qualities are the price for those cool advantages of the Positive Metagenic Qualities. While these qualities are intended to be the dark side of SURGE, they can also be taken by characters looking for a little extra flavor from their character’s background, such as mysterious mutations or the side effects of gene therapies. See (RF 119). BRACHYCEPHALIC SYNDROME Bonus: 15 Karma Characters with this quality have a nose similar to an old flat vid villain, snake or pug. Due to this deformity, they have trouble breathing, can't keep a partner for snoring and wheezing, and physical activity is more difficult for them.

The character takes a -2 dice penalty to all Physical Active Skills. The character also suffers an added -1 dice penalty to olfactory Perception tests. Finally, fatigue DV from running (SR5 172) is increased by a cumulative +1S, every time you make a fatigue resistance test for running. Characters with this quality will normally incur social modifiers (Freaks sidebar, RF 123). CRITTER MAGNET Bonus: 6 Karma You would think that animals liking you would be a good thing. Well it's not! It's not like they just sit by you and chirp, meow, bark or whatever. They see you, and you are their best friend. They'll climb all over you, sit in your hair, your shoulder or rub against you. They won't leave you alone! So get used to it, Disney Princess.

Any non-hostile, non-aggressive critters that are within 10 meters of you are drawn towards you and want to snuggle. The critters will follow the character for 5d6 minutes or until either they are made hostile, they run away or they are killed. Don't expect these critters to reliably protect you in a fight. Small critters will run away if they get attacked or are otherwise frightened while large critters may go berserk and become hostile towards random characters (up to GM), which may include you if you are the attacker.

While undoubtedly adorable, the presence of the constant attention seeking animals is very distracting. For every critter that is enamored by you and is following you, it will inflict a cumulative die penalty to all your Skill actions that doesn't involve Animal Handling. The penalty depends on the size of the critter. -2 dice penalty per large critter (bear, big cat, bovine, moose, etc). -1 die penalty per medium critter (cat, dog, fox, etc) and -1 die penalty for every 5 small critters (rats, rabbits, most birds, etc). Pet critters that have been trained in at least one trick (HS 184) by you don't penalize your Actions. On the plus side, you gain +2 dice bonus to all Animal Handling tests made against non-hostile critters. This quality is incompatible with Critter Spook (RF 120). DEMONIC FEATURES [APPROVED 3.0] Bonus: 6 Karma You have unfortunately developed multiple features that resemble demons as portrayed by many cultures. The features can be fangs, horns, wings, tail, etc. Whatever they may be, they are cosmetic only, and provide no mechanical benefit unless an appropriate quality is also chosen. Characters with this quality will normally incur social modifiers (Freaks sidebar, RF 123) as well as the effects of the Distinctive Style quality (SR5 80).

It also causes the character to suffer the Hostile (SR5 140) social modifier when encountering any religious NPCs. The NPC may outrightly refuse to deal with this character or even act with hostility. If drawn into combat, such people may attack the character first (to remove the apparent evil). DIURNAL Bonus: 4 Karma A character with this quality has a short circadian rhythm. While most people are diurnal, they can still function at night. This character cannot. As soon as the sun sets, they start feeling sluggish and sleepy. All Mental attributes are reduced by 1 during night hours (after sunset, before sunrise) due to weariness. DUAL NATURED Bonus: 15 Karma You may have had the genetic potential to awaken, or you may have some genetic drift from a dual-natured species, but for whatever reason, something went terribly wrong. You exist as a permanent dual-natured being. You do not gain a Magic attribute if you already lacked one. Hence if you are mundane, you still count as a mundane. Technomancers also retain their Resonance and still count as technomancers. You’re at best a magical oddity, and at worst a victim of astral threats. But you now possess the Dual Natured critter power (SR5 395) as an always on, permanent effect. On the bright side, you may train in the Assensing and Astral Combat skills with Karma as normal, if you could not previously. This quality by itself does not grant you the ability to use foci. EXCESSIVE MOLTING Bonus: 10 Karma You shed your skin, scales, or fur with alarming regularity. The process is uncomfortable and happens during days least predicted. At the beginning of each run, you must make a Body (2) test to see if you start molting. If you fail this roll, you suffer a -1 die penalty to all skill tests for the length of the run due to discomfort of your skin slowly molting throughout the entire run. In addition, your skin requires special care and maintenance to avoid infections, increasing your lifestyle cost by +25%. INTERMITTENT HIBERNATION Bonus: 8 Karma Your genetic template includes something that enters regular hibernation, unfortunately, that's crossed with your metahuman DNA, leading to a massive appetite and outrageous sleeping habits. You suffer a 10% increase in lifestyle costs, and lose one Downtime Slot (See Downtime House Rules) per month.

LIVING HAIR Bonus: 4 Karma Your hair is made up of tendrils, tentacles, snakes or some other wriggly things (up to you). It flows and moves like a living organism and while you have limited control over it, it also seems to have a mind of its own, acting involuntarily based on your subconscious.

Your hair can hold onto items but it has difficulty with fine manipulation. Apply a -6 dice modifier to any attempt at fine manipulation of an object with your hair, such as pressing a button, pulling a trigger or making an attack. Your Living Hair has an effective Strength and Agility equal to half the character’s unaugmented values (rounded down) and a Reach of -1. Living Hair does not provide any extra attacks. If you have the Natural Venom quality (RF 117), the venom can be administered via stinger cells at the end of your Living Hair as an Injection Vector.

Physical or emotional stress can cause your Living Hair to react unpredictably, forcing you to make a Composure (3) Test (SR5 152). Failing the test will cause the hair to lash out and try to attack anyone nearby (preferably the cause of the stress), injecting any venom if available. The hair doesn't suffer from the -6 dice penalty and has 6 ranks in Unarmed when making this attack. This can cause surrounding people to react negatively or with outright hostility.

Characters with this quality will normally incur social modifiers (Freaks sidebar, RF 123). However, when making an Intimidation test, you don't suffer from Freak Modifiers, instead you gain a +1 dice bonus as long as your Living Hair is fully visible. This quality is incompatible with any other natural or artificial hair modifications such as Feathers (RF 120) or Mood Hair (RF 121). MUZZLE Bonus: 4 Karma Your nose and lips are much closer to that of an animal. Your jaws are elongated, making your mouth look like an animal muzzle. This slightly impedes your ability to speak, such as having difficulty pronouncing some words. Any Skill Test involving speech takes a -1 die penalty. Characters with this quality will normally incur social modifiers (Freaks sidebar, RF 123).

On the plus side, if you have the Fangs quality (RF 115), the Accuracy of your fangs improved by +1. This quality is incompatible with the bioware modification Muzzle (CF 121). NECROTIC FLESH Bonus: 8 Karma You embody death and decay, creatures that feed on carrion regularly call you their home. You resemble something akin to a traditional, decomposing zombie with a stench of decay. Only the strongest of will and stomach can take more than a short conversation in your presence. Any person within conversation distance of you will need to take a Composure (2) test to remain in your presence. If they fail, they will move away from you out of disgust and you will suffer an additional -3 dice penalty to all Social tests against that person. Your necrotic flesh makes healing difficult as your own immune system fights off any attempts to heal. All Healing tests performed on you, including natural healing are done at a -3 dice penalty.

On the plus side, you feel less pain and can ignore two additional boxes of damage when calculating Wound Modifiers (SR5 169). Characters with this quality will normally incur social modifiers (Freaks sidebar, RF 123). REPTILIAN AUDITORY APPARATUS Bonus: 5 Karma The character no longer has earlobes common to metahumans. Instead, their auditory organs formed like those of a lizard. They cannot wear eyeglasses, for they have no ears upon which to rest the temples. However, a metahuman is not a lizard and though the hearing of a reptile is generally known to be rather good, it doesn't translate well for the character.

Any test involving hearing takes a -3 dice penalty. The character's hearing cannot be repaired or corrected (even with cyber ears) due to the internal differences of a normal metahuman ear and the character's. Characters with this quality will normally incur social modifiers (Freaks sidebar, RF 124). SPIRIT BLIGHT Bonus: 10 Karma For some reason, you are an anathema to all spirit kind. Similar to Spirit Bane (SR5 85), a character with this quality really pisses off spirits, of all kinds. Any spirit within five meters of the character, that has not been summoned by them, reacts with hostility towards the character. Spirits will always use lethal force against characters with the Spirit Blight quality.

A character with this quality has a difficult time summoning or binding spirits and in combat an opposing spirit will seek her out and attempt to destroy the character first. The character suffers a -2 dice pool modifier to summon or bind spirits. If the character tries to banish a spirit, the spirit receives a +2 dice pool modifier for resisting their attempt. Spirit Blight is compatible with the Spirit Bane quality and the penalties stack. STUBBY LEGS Bonus: 10 Karma Instead of normal leg length, the character has stubby legs resulting from skeletal dysplasia. The character suffers a -1 penalty for the Athletics skill group. Additionally, their movement speed is halved. This quality is incompatible with any other quality that modifies movement speed. TRANSLUCENT SKIN Bonus: 10 Karma This is like albinism, but worse. Instead of a simple lack of pigment, the skin is translucent. The veins of the character are clearly visible, giving their skin a blue tint. Like an albino, their skin and hair have a complete lack of pigment, resulting in pink or crystal blue irises and bright red pupils with pure white hair.

They face a Weak Glare penalty (SR5 175) to all actions when working in regular indoor lighting or an overcast day, and a Moderate Glare penalty when working on a sunny day. All other Glare modifiers are increased by one level. Normal compensation methods work to mitigate the modifiers.

Due to the lack of protective pigmentation, they suffer sunburn more quickly and harshly. Halve the duration between resistance tests when exposed to the sun for extended periods and increase the base DV by 1 as per the Sunburn rules (RG 147).

Characters with this quality will normally incur social modifiers (Freaks sidebar, RF 123). This quality is incompatible with Albinism (RF 151) or any other natural or artificial skin modification. VESTIGIAL WINGS Bonus: 10 Karma Instead of functional wings, you have developed vestigial wings. The wings can be feathery like a bird or leathery like a bat. They don't have any mechanical benefits and are instead shriveled up, crooked structures that are more of a hindrance that get in the way. They are very sensitive and easily damaged, causing significant pain due to intact nerve endings. You suffer a -2 dice penalty when resisting damage to the torso from Called Shots such as Shoulder/Upper Arm, Sternum (RG 114) and Vitals (SR5 196).

Armor you wear needs to be specially tailored to accommodate for the wings, but since your wings are small and shriveled, this does not increase the cost or availability. Characters with wings cannot wear armor with Chemical Seal (SR5 437). The wings cannot be hidden and characters with this quality will normally incur social modifiers (Freaks sidebar, RF 123). This quality is incompatible with any other quality or modification that grants wings as well as Cyber Manipulators or Shiva Arms (RF 118). Shapeshifters [APPROVED 3.0] CERVINE Priority Cost: 10 Karma Karmagen Cost: 110 Karma Special Atts: A(7), B(5), C(3) Deer shapeshifters can be found all over the world in different types of habitat, from savannah to deciduous forests and even tundra regions. Cervid shifters in North America range largely from sitka deer to elk and moose. They are generally found in boreal forests with colder climates, most common in the northernmost part of the UCAS and farther. The majority of Cervid shifters find comfort in tight knit groups that travel together. Cervidae come in many shapes and sizes and their metahuman forms run the gamut of metahumanity, with dwarves being the rarest. CROCODILIAN Priority Cost: 20 Karma Karmagen Cost: 160 Karma Special Atts: A(4), B(2), C(0) Crocodilian Shifters first became popular when a member of "Crunch Time", an alligator shaman group determined to protect the everglades, went and turned into one on an attack on a Shiawase research center built too close to the glades. Before then, there were only unconfirmed reports of alligator shifters in South America. Crocodilian shifters can range from alligators to crocodiles to gharials. PACHYDERM Priority Cost: 30 Karma Karmagen Cost: 170 Karma Special Atts: A(4), B(2), C(0) Pachyderm shifters range from rhinos to hippopotamus and even small elephants. They are found in savannah and tropical regions of the world, primarily in Africa and parts of Asia. Needless to say, they are very well built and tough. Due to their naturally large size, they can only assume the metahuman form of a troll.

SHAPESHIFTER ATTRIBUTE TABLE Shifter Bod Agi Rea Str Cha Int Log Wil Edg Mag Ini Cervine 1/6 3/8 1/6 1/6 1/6 2/7 1/5 1/4 1/5 1 +2d6 Racial Traits: Goring Horns (RF 115), Low-Light Vision, Shift (Metahuman Form), Uneducated, Movement (x2/x5/+3m). Crocodilian 5/10 1/6 1/5 6/11 1/3 2/7 1/4 1/5 1/5 1 +1D6 Racial Traits: Bark Skin (RF 113), Cold Blooded (RF 120), Low-Light Vision, Natural Weapon (Bite: DV (Str +5)P, AP -3, Reach 0) (Tail: DV (Str)S, AP 0, Reach 1), Shift (Metahuman Form), Uneducated, Movement (x1/x3/+1m), Swim (Str x2/+4m). Pachyderm 7/12 1/5 1/5 8/13 1/4 1/5 1/4 1/5 1/5 1 +1D6 Racial Traits (All): Low-Light Vision, Shift (Metahuman Form: Troll)*, Uneducated, Movement (x1/x4/+2m).

Elephant: Larger Tusks (RF 116), Proboscis (RF 117), Rhino Hide (RF 114). Hippo: Natural Weapon (Bite: DV (Str +4)P, AP -2, Reach 0). Rhino: Goring Horns, Rhino Hide.

• = Pachyderm shifters can only buy Troll or troll metavariant as their metahuman form, at the usual Karma cost.

Social Maneuvers DEMORALIZE You make a statement that utterly demoralizes the enemy. As a Complex Action, make an Intimidation + Charisma [Social] test. Any number of enemies you target that can see, hear and understand you, must resist with an Intimidation + Willpower [Social] or Composure (SR5 152) Test (their choice). For every net hit you get on an enemy, they lose 1 Initiative Score. Multiple uses of Demoralize don’t stack in a single Combat Turn, only the highest penalty applies. DISTRACT You distract a single enemy causing it to make a mistake or allowing an ally to capitalize on an opening. As a Complex Action, make a Con or Performance + Charisma [Social] resisted by a Con + Charisma [Social] or Composure Test (their choice), of a single target. Any net hits you get acts as a negative dice modifier for the target’s next skill or defense test (whichever comes first) before the end of the current Combat Turn. Distract only works if you and the enemy can see, hear and understand each other. Multiple uses of Distract don’t stack, only the highest penalty applies to a given test. ROUSE As a Complex Action, spend a point of Edge and make a Leadership + Charisma [Social] (4) test. On a success, choose one ally who has accepted you as their leader. You must be able to see and hear each other. Before their next Action Phase, the ally can have a single dice roll they make, benefit from Push the Limit (uses your Edge attribute for bonus dice) or Second Chance (SR5 56). The ally cannot spend their own edge on a dice roll that benefits from Rouse.

Skydiving Making the Jump Skydiving involves making two Gymnastics (Freefall) + Body [Physical] tests, One for Parachuting and the other for Landing. Both tests can be teamworked if multiple people are skydiving together, in which case only the team leader makes the final skydiving test. Several factors modify the dice pool for this test.

SKYDIVING DICE POOL MODIFIERS TABLE Condition Modifier Teamwork* +dice = total hits on teamwork (up to skill ranks) Tandem jump* -2 dice Using improper equipment -2 dice HALO jump (Jumps at or over 30,000 feet) -2 dice LALO Jump (Jumps at 1500-5000 feet) -2 dice Active DNI or Mindnet** +2 dice

• = Only applies to the team leader. ** = Only applies when group or tandem jumping. Applies to each member in DNI or Mindnet.

Parachuting After you take the jump, it's time to open your parachutes and do your best to guide yourself towards the Landing Zone (LZ). Make a Gymnastics (Freefall) + Body [Physical] test. All dice pool modifiers from the Dice Pool Modifiers Table applies to this test. The threshold for this test is determined by weather conditions. Follow the table below to determine the threshold for this test.

PARACHUTING TABLE Base Threshold (Choose One) Condition Threshold Clear Skies 2 Light Rain or Fog 4 Heavy Rain or Fog 6 Wind Modifier (Choose One) Condition Threshold Modifier Light Wind No Modifier Strong Wind +1 Storm +2 to +8

If you meet the threshold, you succeed on your Parachuting test. Any net hits above the threshold is added as a positive dice modifier to your Landing test. If you fail to meet the threshold, then you go wildly off target. Determine the direction in which you go off target using the Scatter Diagram (SR5 182) and the distance by (2d6 x10) meters.

If you glitch on this test, the threshold for your Landing test increases by +1. If you critically glitch, your parachute system faces catastrophic failure and you fall towards the ground at terminal velocity taking appropriate Falling Damage (SR5 172) at the end of your fall. As long as you have a backup parachute, you can attempt the test again (SR5 49) at the usual -2 dice penalty even if you glitch (critical glitches must be downgraded to a glitch first, by spending an Edge). If you run out of parachutes, you better hope you have an edge or two, Chummer. Landing After you successfully or unsuccessfully make your Parachuting test, you must now make your Landing test as you attempt to land on your LZ. Make a Gymnastics (Freefall) + Body [Physical] test. All dice pool modifiers from the Dice Pool Modifiers Table as well as any net hits from your Parachuting test apply. The threshold for this test is determined both by weather conditions and terrain conditions (if any). Follow the table below to determine the threshold for this test.

LANDING TABLE Base Threshold (Choose One) Condition Threshold Sufficient Ground 2 Insufficient Ground 4 Little to no Ground 6 Wind Modifiers (Choose One) Condition Threshold Modifier Light Wind No Modifier Strong Wind +1 Storm +2 to +8 Terrain Modifiers (Choose all that apply) Condition Threshold Modifier Slippery Surface +1 Rough Terrain +1 Weak Terrain (Thin ice, Glass, etc.) +1 Hazardous Terrain (Fire, Spikes, etc.) Up to +10 Inclined or Vertical Surface* +1 or +2 Deep Water** -1

• = Immediately after the Landing test, make a Gymnastics + Strength [Physical] (3) Climbing test to not fall. Modifiers from the Climbing Table (SR5 134) apply. The GM may change the threshold. ** = Immediately after the Landing test, make a Swimming + Strength or Body [Physical] (2) test to avoid drowning. The GM may change the threshold. Reduce any landing damage by -4DV.

Meeting the threshold means you have succeeded on your landing test and take no landing damage. Congratulations! If you fail, you take damage equal to (Landing Threshold - Hits [Limit]) x 4 as Physical damage with an AP of -4, resisted by Body + Armor.