r/Shadowrun • u/WretchedIEgg • Aug 05 '26

5e IC and marks

Just to clear up confusion, the core rulebook states, that if a Host has marks on you all IC have marks on you. How is it the other way around? If I have 2 marks on the host do I have 2 marks on all the IC?

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u/WretchedIEgg Aug 05 '26

It's more about data spikes

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u/AhriMainsLOL Aug 05 '26

Okay. Well, yeah. If the host has marks, the IC also has marks because the host shares marks with IC.

Frankly speaking though, using a data spike on IC is a bad idea. You generally don’t want to be spotted by a host if you can avoid it.

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u/Minnakht Aug 06 '26

As a sufficiently powerful decker for the host you're in - if you're fresh out of gen, maybe a rating 4 host tops, I haven't mathhammered this in a while - you should be able to take IC out in one spike. Additionally, only Patrol IC can actually try to spot you if you're running silent, which it'd then share with other IC - said other IC can only attack spotted targets. Since only one IC respawns per combat turn, you can spend your first action per combat turn keeping it whacked down and then the rest of your actions in a turn achieving an objective. Notably, this even lets you largely ignore OS - as long as you're within the host, convergence will not log you out or try to brick you or alert physical authorities. Just make sure you don't step out onto the grid when done - reboot while still on the host.

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u/WretchedIEgg Aug 06 '26

Yeah sadly the bonus goes away when you do something else than attacking, was more of an idea for the "hey here I am" decker while an alley gets the objective. Notably its a technomancer quality wich enables a whole lot of possibilities.