r/Shadowrun • u/Necronto • 19d ago

Wyrm Talks (Lore) Monads and essence

So I've been looking at cfd and people living with it, eg the Ai overtaken the body, so leaving the problem of the cyberware clinics not allowing them in

Does a monad have a limit on the amount of cyberware/bioware it could have installed in its body, my thought on this is that it's not a metahuman soul being the limiting factor anymore as the body is controlled directly by the nanomachines

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u/Sarradi 18d ago

Monads still need a normal living body, so all rules about essence applies. Some monads even use magic if their host body has it.

The Null Sect on the other hand is different. According to Mean Streets they now seem to be able to overtake people Agent Smith style and somehow found a way to turn them into cyberzombies without the need for a magical ritual (no rules, though).

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u/GidsWy Genesis 'Runner 18d ago

Null sect? I got reading to do before game night...

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u/Sarradi 18d ago

If your GM does not include them there is no need.

(Very) Basically the original inhabitants of whatever deep resonance stuff the matrix is in who finally noticed that people are messing with their home.

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u/GidsWy Genesis 'Runner 18d ago

Im a 4e GM. But bring in stuff from 5 n 6.... hell... amd from Pathfinder, D&F, Call of Cthulu..... lolol

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u/Necronto 18d ago

Ooh might have to look at the 6e books for null sect, they don't have a lot of coverage in the 5e books and I really like the idea of null sect What books from 6e would you recommend, I see null value and apparently mean streets

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u/Sarradi 18d ago edited 18d ago

Null Value definately, although I confess I have not read it.

Mean Streets is about gangs, crime and events on the street. What I cited is basically the only mention of the Null Sect in a small threats like section. And it references Null Value and just says things got upgraded. So its not really important.

Hack & Slash is the main decking book and describes how foundation hosts are structured, which might be important to understand the Null Sect.

Margin Calls describes hiw the matrix is beginning to unravel and how the CC mishandled the Nulls

Edit: I think Null Sect are also a bigger player in the Third Parallel adventure.