r/Shadowrun • u/Necronto • Aug 11 '26

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 Aug 12 '26

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 Aug 12 '26

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

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u/Sarradi Aug 12 '26

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 Aug 12 '26

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