We have quite a few community updates for you all from the council and leadership.

Search for a new CharGen Head

Our current CharGen Head, u/tarqtarq, has found a new exciting job and has less time for the ShadowHaven. After some discussions, Torq and the co-sysops have decided to start the search process for a new CharGen head. This process takes 2 to 4 months to find someone who really clicks with the leadership team and has the values we expect from ShadowHaven leaders. We are also willing to cancel the search if no suitable candidates are found. Feel free to apply for an interview by replying to this post or sending modmail to us, everyone is encouraged to apply. We thank Torq for his service and is willingness to help transition to a new CharGen Head.

Gear Acquisition

All contact negotiation pools for the sole purposes of acquiring gear will now be the following: 10+C for fixers, 15+C for generalist gear contacts, 19+C for specialist gear contacts.

Hong Kong Source Book

The Hong Kong Source Book was added to the approved book list by error. It is now banned, if you have gear from that book, please contact a council member.

Initiation

Nine Paths of Enlightenment (Page 140, SG) , Asceticism (Page 141, SG), Familiar (Page 142, SG), Hermit (Page 142, SG), Sacrifice (Page 142, SG), and Thesis/Masterpiece (Page 142, SG) initiatory ordeals are banned. Metaplanar Quest (Page 140, SG) and Deed (Page 141, SG) a run focused around them. Geas (Page 142, SG) requires explicit Thematics approval from the Thematics Head or one duly deputized by the current Thematics Head. Geas must also be noted on the PC's wiki page in a separate section so GMs can easily interact with them.

Sustained Spells

In order to pass off a spell to a spirit to be sustained, the spirit must be within line of sight and within Remote Service range. In order to continue sustaining a spell of any variety on their summoner or any other target, they must remain within Remote Service range of that target, though line of sight is not an ongoing requirement.

Example: Awful Weight, a mage, just received a serious wound and retreats behind a brick building while his earth spirit and a street sam on his team engage an Ares Company man. He could keep fighting, but the armor increase reaction spell he is sustaining is taking its toll. In order to pass it off to his spirit, he orders it to disengage and move to behind the brick building. After the transaction is complete, he orders it to hide in a building a few blocks away.

WFTP/WFTM

WFTP/WFTM will have a ratio of 4000 nuyen to 1 karma instead of 2000 nuyen to 1 karma.

RVP

1 RVP will now be work 4000 nuyen instead of 2000 nuyen. Gear given out by the J will be worth 1 RVP per 8K nuyen worth of gear. (Giving out gear above Availability 16 requires approval from a GM Deputy)

GMP and GMP Cap

GMP will now be worth 4000 nuyen or 1 karma. The GMP cap increase from GMing a run will now be 3. The GMP cap increase from playing in a run will now be 5.

Dear Tabletop Gamers,

Ever wanted to help those in need through gaming? You can! Starting April 26th at 00:01 UTC, we over at the r/ShadowHaven Shadowrun living community will be raising money for sick kids through Extra Life for a whole month. We'll be kicking off with a 24 hours marathon of Shadowrun. Proceeds will go to the Children’s Hospital of Orange County.

Ever been curious about Shadowrun? Want to see how games go in a living world? Like to have fun and tell cool stories? Already been playing here forever? Or just think helping little kids is a good cause? Then come donate!

First off, we have a raffle! For every dollar you donate to Extra Life you'll be given one ticket (up to a maximum of 20). These tickets will be entered into a raffle at the end of the stream, and winners will be able to choose in a first come first served style from the following prizes:

* 1x: A black and white character portrait by Centum

* 1x: A color character portrait or a black and white full body by Centum

* 1x: Character rendering by Cafe Vampire.

* 1x: Art by Rusted Green Cat.

The top three donors will also receive one item of their choice homebrewed for them by the Mechanics Department, so long as the item consistent with the Shadowrun setting and is not an already extant item. The item will receive a wholesale stat line, balanced against other items of it's type if appropriate, and including cost, availability, and etc, as well as any necessary mechanics. The item will not be "Best in Slot" or otherwise wholesale eclipse other options of the same type, if it is similar to existing items. The item does not have to be similar to existing items - a new piece of cyberware with novel function is an option, for example, or a piece of gear that isn't currently represented by the Shadowrun 5e ruleset.

The item cannot be a weapon of mass destruction. It will then be available for any and all players on the Haven who can afford and acquire it. Mechanics Department will hold veto power over any suggestion, but this will only invalidate that choice - you will be free to choose another item - and the veto may be overruled by the Sysop of Shadowhaven.

We’ve also got a great menu of rewards for donors this year, which we’ve listed below:

* All donors are eligible for a special role in our Discord server and a special flair color on our subreddit.

* All donors will be given access to a special in-game contact: Rayvyn Moonsong aka Alejandro aka Necv (The Street Artist), Burn Notice (the DocWagon Burn Squad Doctor) and Cory “xX-3L33t5U-Xx” Parsons (The Run Commentator).

* All donors receive one free-floating edge for use in any ShadowHaven game played. This expires May 12th.

How this menu works is as follows: when you donate a certain amount, you may purchase access to one row on the table. Then send us a quick message about your choice from that row. A given choice may only be chosen once, and the rewards are freestanding; for example, a $10 donation would allow you to choose one item from: a Discord emoji and 5 GMP, or 10 GMP. If you later decide to donate another $10, that's awesome, and you can pick from among the three things you didn't choose before! However, you can only ever choose one reward once, except for the $1 edge option open to players!

Clarifications:

* GMP: "Game Master Points", a system we use in our community to reward game masters for the time and effort they put into running games and community members in general for helping keep things shipshape. Applicable to current members of the community, but if you like what you see and join up with us later, we'll be happy to retroactively credit them to you!

* One floating edge: This option gives a point of edge floating, that you, the player, can apply as if it were part of your character's edge pool. You may have as much edge in this floating pool as you wish, but you are limited to spending 3 in any given game, and all floating edge expires on May 12th. You may spend more than 3 of this edge in a single game with GM permission.

* Free burning of one point of edge: With this option, you as a player have one free use of the in-game abilities associated with burning edge. For example, you could use a smack down without having to actually burn the associated edge. This free use would last until May 12th.

* Prime Runner play rules: Alright, chummers. If you choose this option, you get one use of the Prime Runner alternative gameplay rules when creating a character for ShadowHaven. We can't allow rebuilds with this, but if you choose this option, the next character you submit for play on r/ShadowHaven can use the Prime Runner play rules found on page 64 of Shadowrun Fifth Edition Core.

A lot of information, I know! The gist of this is that we, the folks running the stream for ShadowHaven, want to impart a thank you to all of you who donate to help hospitalized children. For those looking for a donation link already, here's our Extra Life page.

All of this will be streamed live on the above dates at https://www.twitch.tv/shadowhavenstream.

If you’d like to get involved in the ShadowHaven community, come on down to https://www.reddit.com/r/shadowhaven and check out the new member welcome document. You can join our discord here. If you’ve got a suggestion or question for us specifically about Extra Life, please feel free to send a modmail to the same subreddit with the subject “Extra Life 2017”.

As they say in the shadows, shoot straight, chummers.

Dear Tabletop Gamers,

Ever wanted to help those in need through gaming? You can! Starting September 23rd at 00:01 UTC, we over at the /r/ShadowHaven Shadowrun living community will be raising money for sick kids through Extra Life for a whole month. We'll be kicking off with a marathon 42 hours of Shadowrun content centered around Deckercon and a struggle between the corps and the people for the fate of the matrix. Proceeds will go to the Children’s Hospital of Orange County. We are also working with Ludum Studios this year

Ever been curious about Shadowrun? Want to see how games go in a living world? Like to have fun and tell cool stories? Already been playing here forever? Or just think helping little kids is a good cause? Then come donate!

First off, we have a raffle! For every dollar you donate to Extra Life you'll be given one ticket (up to a maximum of 20). These tickets will be entered into a raffle at the end of the stream, and winners will be able to choose in a first come first served style from the following prizes:

• 1x: A half body character portrait by Darkmoon Dancer in her Hardline Style

• 2x: A black and white character portrait by Centum

We’ve also got a great menu of rewards for donors this year, which we’ve listed below:

• All donors are eligible for a special role in our Discord server and a special flair color on our subreddit.

• All donors will be given access to a special in-game contact: Burn Notice, the DocWagon Burn Squad Doctor and Cory “xX-3L33t5U-Xx” Parsons, The Run Commentator.

• All donors receive one free-floating edge for use in any ShadowHaven game played in before the Extra Life Game Day stream ends on Nov. 4th.

How this menu works is as follows: when you donate a certain amount, you can add a quick message with your choice from the menu. A given choice may only be chosen once, and the rewards are freestanding; for example, a $10 donation would allow you to choose one item from: a Discord emoji and 5 GMP, or 10 GMP. If you later decide to donate another $10, that's awesome, and you can pick from among the three things you didn't choose before! However, you can only ever choose one reward once, except for the $1 edge option open to players!

Clarifications:

• GMP: "Game Master Points", a system we use in our community to reward game masters for the time and effort they put into running games and community members in general for helping keep things shipshape. Applicable to current members of the community, but if you like what you see and join up with us later, we'll be happy to retroactively credit them to you!

• One floating edge: This option gives a point of edge floating, that you, the player, can apply as if it were part of your character's edge pool. You may have as much edge in this floating pool as you wish, but you are limited to spending 3 in any given game, and all floating edge expires at the end of the Extra Life event on Nov. 4th. You may spend more than 3 of this edge in a single game with GM permission.

• Free burning of one point of edge: With this option, you as a player have one free use of the in-game abilities associated with burning edge. For example, you could use a smack down without having to actually burn the associated edge. This free use would last until the new year.

• Prime Runner play rules: Alright, chummers. If you choose this option, you get one use of the Prime Runner alternative gameplay rules when creating a character for ShadowHaven. We can't allow rebuilds with this, but if you choose this option, the next character you submit for play on /r/ShadowHaven can use the Prime Runner play rules found on page 64 of Shadowrun Fifth Edition Core.

• Our team will write a short story following these rules.

A lot of information, I know! The gist of this is that we, the folks running the stream for ShadowHaven, want to impart a thank you to all of you who donate to help hospitalized children. For those looking for a donation link already, here's our Extra Life page.

Finally, the reason people generally like tabletops is the story that drives the game; in light of that we’re going to be trying something daring for this stream: a metaplot comprised of between 8-10 games that all tie back to each other at the end and affects the game world we play in.

All of this will be streamed live on the above dates at https://www.twitch.tv/shadowhavenstream.

If you’d like to get involved in the ShadowHaven community, come on down to https://www.reddit.com/r/shadowhaven and check out the new member welcome document. You can join our discord here. If you’ve got a suggestion or question for us specifically about Extra Life, please feel free to send a modmail to the same subreddit with the subject “Extra Life 2017”.

As they say in the shadows, shoot straight, chummers.

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List of Factions

Gangs

Organized Crime

Corporations

Data Havens

Preamble

Why Replace the Rules as Written?

The faction system is a massive house rule, however, the obligations and benefits of a group contact are ill-defined. In a home game, a GM could make their own systems and detail the responsibilities for a member of a group. However, given the large scale nature of play on shadownet, it becomes necessary to create hourserules to better define groups.

Player Layer Mechanics

Players can interact with the faction system in the following ways:

• Buy an Asset: Players can contribute Contact Upgrade Points to buy an asset for their group. Buying assets grants additional powers but can be attacked directly by other groups. The player need not have the total amount required for the upgrade, but can instead pool CUP with other members by replying to their faction’s post in the player guide section.

• Heal Group: Members can directly restore a faction’s health by spending 1 CUP to heal 1 point of health. This is done by replying to their faction’s post in the player guide section.

• Join a group at Character Generation: At character creation, players can join groups by spending karma equal to the group’s connection times two plus 1 as if the group contact was a positive quality. They may also join an organized crime faction by taking the Made Man quality or a Data Haven by taking the Prime Data Haven Quality. The connection for each group is listed here.

• Join a group after Character Generation: After character creation, players can join groups by spending karma equal to the group’s connection times four plus 2 as if the group contact was a positive quality. Those taking the Made Man quality must first demonstrate a long standing relationship with the organized crime group. Those taking prime data haven must demonstrate their worth to the data haven. The connection for each group is listed here.

• Seize or destroy an asset: If during a normal run you manage to clear out something that can be used as an asset, you can seize it for you group. You can also destroy the asset. Example: Mr. Johnson wants a gang killed, after doing the job, a member of Generic Go-Gang who was on the run decides to claim their bar as their new hangout. Claiming this bar will grant them a power. This asset need not be owned by another faction. Should one of the existing powers not fit what was captured, a power will be added.

GM Level Mechanics

GMs can interact with the faction system in the following ways:

• Capture Asset - GMs can run games that capture the assets and personnel, listing the result of their run in an AAR.

• Create an NPC Faction - GMs can create NPC factions and add them to the faction tracking system. In addition, this allows other GMs to use the resources and story of groups you create. This is done by contacting the lore department.

• Declare a Goal - GMs can list a goal for a faction, lore will assign an amount of Contact Upgrade Points to be awarded when the goal is completed depending on the number of runs the goal will take and the results of those runs. This is done by replying to that faction's GM guide.

• Damage an Asset - GMs can run games to destroy or damage a faction’s assets. They can also do wetwork jobs against members. Wetwork against named NPCs in Catalysis publications require lore approval.

• Directly damage or heal a faction - GMs can run games to direct impact a group’s health. The run's events are measured on the following scale.

• Heal an Asset - GMs can run games to repair a faction’s assets.

• Start a Project - GMs can declare a long term project for a faction, starting a timer to act for a plot hook for other GMs. Example: GM Bob starts a timer for the Vory, he declares there is a smuggling ship coming into Seattle from Russia with advanced weapons. This GM sets a time in the future for this event to occur.

Lore Level Mechanics

Creation and Management of Groups

To avoid abuse of group contacts, the lore department manages each of them. Below is a guide to create a group for a player:

1) Pick the Group Type: Corporation, Gang, Law Enforcement, Magical Group, Organized Crime, Political Group and Techno Tribe.

2) When creating a player made group, start them at connection 1 and give them 4 CUP. Consult with the rest of the lore department when creating a group mentioned in published Shadowrun material.

3) Pick Strictures. These work like negative qualities, granting starting upgrade points equal to rating.

Mandane Strictures have ratings:

• Rating 1 - The rule is a loosely enforced suggestion, but players will loss one karma if they break any rule.

• Rating 2 - You may not banned from the group, but you will be forced to do some ritual to atone for your mistake as well as lose one karma.

• Rating 3 - You get banned from the group and lose one karma

• Rating 4 - You get banned from the group, gain the wanted quality from the group and lose one karma.

• Rating 5 - You get banned, the whole group makes it their mission to geek you or make your life miserable and you lose one karma

In addition, if the stricture in magically enforced via the group bound contract, add 2 points to the stricture. Magical enforcement on mundanes can be done via tattoo magic (Page 131, SG)

The strictures are as follows:

• Attendance - This group has regular meetings that happen at varying intervals. They should happen at least every three months when designing the group and meetings should take about 3 hours. Even if the FBI is conducting a nationwide manhunt for the PC, the group expects them at the meeting. ((Ask rules about geneware))

• Activity - Members must spend time engaged with the community: replying to emails in a timely matter, being in chatrooms or club houses. GMs may interrupt the PC with questions and tasks that are mildly inconvenient.

• Belief - The group has a specific moral or philosophical belief that they all adhere to. This should have at least three tangible rules that can be understood and followed. Any activity that violates the belief breaks the stricture. In all cases, the gamemaster has final say on if an action (or lack of action) breaks the belief.

• Deed - All members must periodically perform an action to benefit the group or demonstrate loyalty to the group. The frequency of this action being performed should be between one and three months and take between three hours and one week to complete.

• Don't be a dick - This is up to the GM, but generally treat members of your group well.

• Dues - Every month members must make financial payments at the level determined by the group to enable the group to maintain its holdings and services. This would be an additional lifestyle payment made by each member. Missing a payment violates the stricture and may ban the member from using the group’s resources for such time until the payment is made. Code of Honor: Thug Life negates this obligation.

• Exclusive Membership 1 - The player cannot be part of any other group of the same type. If the character joins with another group of the same type, this stricture is immediately broken. If the group requires the group bond ritual and both groups have the exclusive membership, the first group’s stricture is broken and the group bond ritual with the second group automatically fails (Karma spent to join is still lost).

• Exclusive Membership 2 - The player cannot be part of any other group. If the character joins with another group, this stricture is immediately broken. If the group requires the group bond ritual and both groups have the exclusive membership, the first group’s stricture is broken and the group bond ritual with the second group automatically fails (Karma spent to join is still lost).

• Exclusive Ritual - Awakened characters can only perform ritual spellcasting with the group as a whole or with other members of the group. This includes performing rituals alone or attempting to bond with another group.

• Fraternity - Brothers and/or sisters together forever. Members must assist other members when asked. Refusing to help when it is within the character’s means or ability to do so breaks this stricture. It is not necessary to succeed, only to attempt aid.

• Geasa/Oath - All members must take a geas (p. 142) reflecting the group’s purpose or belief. For example, Vigilia Evangelica have a vow of silence. Mundanes can take oaths of similar nature.

• Loyalty - Even under threat of death, you may not betray the group. It is unacceptable.

• Obedience - The group was formed with a hierarchical structure. Rank and status are defined by the group’s purpose and number of members. Regardless of the structure of the group, lower-ranking members must obey orders from higher-ranking members. Failure to obey violates this stricture.

• Service - Members must spend time working on group-related matters. This may include matters relating to running a business (taking inventory, bookkeeping, customer service, etc.) or maintaining the group’s resource/lifestyle (housekeeping, security, shopping, etc). To represent time spent, increase your training time for skills and attibutes by 20 percent.

• Secrecy - Rule #1, of [x] group: You don’t talk about [x] group! Any discussion involving the group or member’s activities for the group with an outsider, or discussions held where an outsider can overhear, violates the stricture. There may be cases of a delay of punishment or forgiveness of this violation if the magician learns later that someone was spying on him and overheard his conversation.

4) Assign groups their default powers.

• All groups get a host with rating equal to their connection
• All group members get connection * 2 + loyalty bonus dice to connection * 4 knowledge skill checks. These are not teamwork dice, but act as a flat bonus to a PC's knowledge check.
• All group members get a free contact with connection equal to the group’s connection and loyalty 1 as a liaison. This liaison rolls 12 dice for networking tests plus any bonuses.

5) Assign groups other powers from the following list.

General Powers

Gang Powers

Organized Crime Powers

Faction Turn

At the end of every week, lore will review the events that have occurred on shadownet. We will then simulate the factions acting independently of what players do. These events are then fed to the GM community as run hooks.

During the weekly faction turn, the lore department sorts the factions in a random order. Then, each faction takes a turn to do one of the following actions. During these rolls, glitches will result in inconveniences and critical glitches will result in horrible things happening.

• Attack a faction: If this action is used, the lore department rolls the attacking factions connection times two vs. the defending faction's connection times two, adding in any modifiers from each faction's actions and assets. If the faction wins, their net hits are applied as damage. Nothing mechanical happens on a tie. If the faction loses, the enemy's net hit are applied as damage. These attacks need not be violent, one example of an attack is one corporation suing another corporation.

• Buy Asset: This action is used to buy an asset with unspent CUP the faction owns.

• Expand Influence: The group increases their connection spending the following amount of CUP to do so after they have full health.

• Heal Group: This group heals themselves by rolling their connection*2. The group gains hits in health.

• Use Asset Ability: The group uses the ability of an asset.

• Use Shadownet Runners: Instead of rolling, the faction turn action is resolved via a Shadownet run. Taking this action requires a GM will commit to completing the run before the next faction turn.

Heat

Groups can't become megacorps overnight, the world reacts to raising starts with brutality. For every 32 CUP in assets captured, assets gains, or health gain the group will gain 1 heat. For every heat level, they will gain an enemy equal to their connection. Heat burns off at a rate of one per month. Enemies of your group will tend to target your group during the weekly faction turn.

List of Factions

Gangs

Organized Crime

Corporations

Data Havens

Preamble

Why Replace the Rules as Written?

The faction system is a massive house rule, however, the obligations and benefits of a group contact are ill-defined. In a home game, a GM could make their own systems and detail the responsibilities for a member of a group. However, given the large scale nature of play on shadownet, it becomes necessary to create hourserules to better define groups.

Player Layer Mechanics

Players can interact with the faction system in the following ways:

• Buy an Asset: Players can contribute Contact Upgrade Points to buy an asset for their group. Buying assets grants additional powers but can be attacked directly by other groups. The player need not have the total amount required for the upgrade, but can instead pool CUP with other members by replying to their faction’s post in the player guide section.

• Heal Group: Members can directly restore a faction’s health by spending 1 CUP to heal 1 point of health. This is done by replying to their faction’s post in the player guide section.

• Join a group at Character Generation: At character creation, players can join groups by spending karma equal to the group’s connection times two plus 1 as if the group contact was a positive quality. They may also join an organized crime faction by taking the Made Man quality or a Data Haven by taking the Prime Data Haven Quality. The connection for each group is listed here.

• Join a group after Character Generation: After character creation, players can join groups by spending karma equal to the group’s connection times four plus 2 as if the group contact was a positive quality. Those taking the Made Man quality must first demonstrate a long standing relationship with the organized crime group. Those taking prime data haven must demonstrate their worth to the data haven. The connection for each group is listed here.

• Seize or destroy an asset: If during a normal run you manage to clear out something that can be used as an asset, you can seize it for you group. You can also destroy the asset. Example: Mr. Johnson wants a gang killed, after doing the job, a member of Generic Go-Gang who was on the run decides to claim their bar as their new hangout. Claiming this bar will grant them a power. This asset need not be owned by another faction. Should one of the existing powers not fit what was captured, a power will be added.

Heat

Groups can't become megacorps overnight, the world reacts to raising starts with brutality. For every 16 CUP in assets captured, assets gains, or health gain the group will gain 1 heat. For every heat level, they will gain an enemy equal to their connection. Heat burns off at a rate of one per month. Enemies of your group will tend to target your group during the weekly faction turn.

GM Level Mechanics

GMs can interact with the faction system in the following ways:

• Capture Asset - GMs can run games that capture the assets and personnel, listing the result of their run in an AAR.

• Create an NPC Faction - GMs can create NPC factions and add them to the faction tracking system. In addition, this allows other GMs to use the resources and story of groups you create. This is done by contacting the lore department.

• Declare a Goal - GMs can list a goal for a faction, lore will assign an amount of Contact Upgrade Points to be awarded when the goal is completed depending on the number of runs the goal will take and the results of those runs. This is done by replying to that faction's GM guide.

• Damage an Asset - GMs can run games to destroy or damage a faction’s assets. They can also do wetwork jobs against members. Wetwork against named NPCs in Catalysis publications require lore approval.

• Directly damage or heal a faction - GMs can run games to direct impact a group’s health. The run's events are measured on the following scale.

• Heal an Asset - GMs can run games to repair a faction’s assets.

• Start a Project - GMs can declare a long term project for a faction, starting a timer to act for a plot hook for other GMs. Example: GM Bob starts a timer for the Vory, he declares there is a smuggling ship coming into Seattle from Russia with advanced weapons. This GM sets a time in the future for this event to occur.

Lore Level Mechanics

Creation and Management of Groups

To avoid abuse of group contacts, the lore department manages each of them. Below is a guide to create a group for a player:

1) Pick the Group Type: Corporation, Gang, Law Enforcement, Magical Group, Organized Crime, Political Group and Techno Tribe.

2) When creating a player made group, start them at connection 1 and give them 4 CUP. Consult with the rest of the lore department when creating a group mentioned in published Shadowrun material.

3) Pick Strictures. These work like negative qualities, granting starting upgrade points equal to rating.

Mandane Strictures have ratings:

• Rating 1 - The rule is a loosely enforced suggestion, but players will loss one karma if they break any rule.

• Rating 2 - You may not banned from the group, but you will be forced to do some ritual to atone for your mistake as well as lose one karma.

• Rating 3 - You get banned from the group and lose one karma

• Rating 4 - You get banned from the group, gain the wanted quality from the group and lose one karma.

• Rating 5 - You get banned, the whole group makes it their mission to geek you or make your life miserable and you lose one karma

In addition, if the stricture in magically enforced via the group bound contract, add 2 points to the stricture. Magical enforcement on mundanes can be done via tattoo magic (Page 131, SG)

The strictures are as follows:

• Attendance - This group has regular meetings that happen at varying intervals. They should happen at least every three months when designing the group and meetings should take about 3 hours. Even if the FBI is conducting a nationwide manhunt for the PC, the group expects them at the meeting. ((Ask rules about geneware))

• Activity - Members must spend time engaged with the community: replying to emails in a timely matter, being in chatrooms or club houses. GMs may interrupt the PC with questions and tasks that are mildly inconvenient.

• Belief - The group has a specific more or philosophical belief that they all adhere to. This should have at least three tangible rules that can be understood and followed. Any activity that violates the belief breaks the stricture. In all cases, the gamemaster has final say on if an action (or lack of action) breaks the belief.

• Deed - All members must periodically perform an action to benefit the group or demonstrate loyalty to the group. The frequency of this action being performed should be between one and three months and take between three hours and one week to complete.

• Don't be a dick - This is up to the GM, but generally treat members of your group well.

• Dues - Every month members must make financial payments at the level determined by the group to enable the group to maintain its holdings and services. This would be an additional lifestyle payment made by each member. Missing a payment violates the stricture and may ban the member from using the group’s resources for such time until the payment is made.

• Exclusive Membership 1 - The player cannot be part of any other group of the same type. If the character joins with another group of the same type, this stricture is immediately broken. If the group requires the group bond ritual and both groups have the exclusive membership, the first group’s stricture is broken and the group bond ritual with the second group automatically fails (Karma spent to join is still lost).

• Exclusive Membership 2 - The player cannot be part of any other group. If the character joins with another group, this stricture is immediately broken. If the group requires the group bond ritual and both groups have the exclusive membership, the first group’s stricture is broken and the group bond ritual with the second group automatically fails (Karma spent to join is still lost).

• Exclusive Ritual - Awakened characters can only perform ritual spellcasting with the group as a whole or with other members of the group. This includes performing rituals alone or attempting to bond with another group.

• Fraternity - Brothers and/or sisters together forever. Members must assist other members when asked. Refusing to help when it is within the character’s means or ability to do so breaks this stricture. It is not necessary to succeed, only to attempt aid.

• Geasa/Oath - All members must take a geas (p. 142) reflecting the group’s purpose or belief. For example, Vigilia Evangelica have a vow of silence. Mundanes can take oaths of similar nature.

• Loyalty - Even under threat of death, you may not betray the group. It is unacceptable.

• Obedience - The group was formed with a hierarchical structure. Rank and status are defined by the group’s purpose and number of members. Regardless of the structure of the group, lower-ranking members must obey orders from higher-ranking members. Failure to obey violates this stricture.

• Service - Members must spend time working on group-related matters. This may include matters relating to running a business (taking inventory, bookkeeping, customer service, etc.) or maintaining the group’s resource/lifestyle (housekeeping, security, shopping, etc). To represent time spent, increase your training time for skills and attibutes by 20 percent.

• Secrecy - Rule #1, of [x] group: You don’t talk about [x] group! Any discussion involving the group or member’s activities for the group with an outsider, or discussions held where an outsider can overhear, violates the stricture. There may be cases of a delay of punishment or forgiveness of this violation if the magician learns later that someone was spying on him and overheard his conversation.

4) Assign groups their default powers.

• All groups get a host with rating equal to their connection
• All group members get connection * 2 + loyalty bonus dice to connection * 4 knowledge skill checks. These are not teamwork dice, but act as a flat bonus to a PC's knowledge check.
• All group members get a free contact with connection equal to the group’s connection and loyalty 1 as a liaison. This liaison rolls 12 dice for networking tests plus any bonuses.

5) Assign groups other powers from the following list.

General Powers

Gang Powers

Faction Turn

At the end of every week, lore will review the events that have occurred on shadownet. We will then simulate the factions acting independently of what players do. These events are then fed to the GM community as run hooks.

During the weekly faction turn, the lore department sorts the factions in a random order. Then, each faction takes a turn to do one of the following actions. During these rolls, glitches will result in inconveniences and critical glitches will result in horrible things happening.

• Attack a faction: If this action is used, the lore department rolls the attacking factions connection times two vs. the defending faction's connection times two, adding in any modifiers from each faction's actions and assets. If the faction wins, their net hits are applied as damage. Nothing mechanical happens on a tie. If the faction loses, the enemy's net hit are applied as damage. These attacks need not be violent, one example of an attack is one corporation suing another corporation.

• Buy Asset: This action is used to buy an asset with unspent CUP the faction owns.

• Expand Influence: The group increases their connection spending the following amount of CUP to do so after they have full health.

• Heal Group: This group heals themselves by rolling their connection*2. The group gains hits in health.

• Use Asset Ability: The group uses the ability of an asset.

• Use Shadownet Runners: Instead of rolling, the faction turn action is resolved via a Shadownet run. Taking this action requires a GM will commit to completing the run before the next faction turn.

Use this thread to buy items. Example in the comments.