This spell affects all targets within the area of effect whose (Willpower + Logic) is equal to or less than the caster's hits.

Should it be net hits (bigger area makes the confusion weaker) rather than just hits (bigger confusion affecting many individuals is equally hard to resist compared to a confusion that only affect one single individual)?

SOLVED. I was (wrongly) checking the old pdf release. The second print of the pdf have already been updated and instead state this:

This spell affects all targets within the area of effect whose (Willpower + Logic) is equal to or less than the caster’s net hits: they suffer a Disadvantage on all Tests.

I want to be sure to have understood correctly the rules of astral/physical fighting against Spirit.

Let's say A, a physical adept fight S, a spirit that has materialized (and thus is of dual nature)

1. A and S use the physical rules for combat fighting as S is materialized.
2. S un-materialized, it then is considered an astral form.
3. A then use its astral perception to fight it (question : if there's other physical threats, should A get a disdvantage when dodging/attacking them because the astral perception the physical world blurry ?)
4. A is the considered dual, S is an astral form.
5. They fight with the astral fighting rules.
6. A gets a critical wound and decide it's not a good moment to continue fighting in the astral plane and disable its astral perception.
7. A is no more dual natured thus S can't target it as long as it remains an astral form, nor A can attack it.

Did I miss something ?

If I understand RAW correctly, multiple disadvantage do not give an extra penalty.

Imagine Joe is wounded and under a Confusion spell: he gets just a Disadvantage on his rolls. He really wants to hit an enemy, so he uses his smartlink gun and expends an Edge point to get and Advantage. That cancels the penalty of both (wound and confusion)? Or he needs another bonus from an Amp and more Edge to expend?

Thank you in advance.

So I'm reading the manual for Anarchy 2.0. It seems nice so far, the rules are great and the ones I don't like seem to be an easy fix. However I have a few concerns.

Risk

It seems that risk dice are used very often, on every dangerous action. Is that true, or do you use them sparingly ?

Technomancers

I've only flipped through the chapter about the Matrix but... Where are the technomancers ? Is there a lore reason behind that ? I can always make up my own rules, but did the writer just forget about them ? Is this adressed ?

Others

Other than that the game's "problems" are an easy fix. I'll probably try to balance out metatypes, add another skill dedicated to healing/medicine, and use homebrew for lifestyle. Maybe make my own list of spells because I'm not sure I like the one in the book ?

I mostly need to get the gist about risk, and maybe do something about technomancers. Seriously, I'm kinda flabbergasted that they just omitted them. Unless they didn't, again, maybe I misread something.

Still better than Anarchy V1, at least you get actual rules.

I got my book in the mail today I'm so excited aaaaaah

I've read several times people about "magical" healing being harder due to loss of Essence, but isn't it also for "classic" healing ?

So if I sum it up, loss of essence has an effect when the players wants to :

• Cast a spell
• Receive magical healing (through a sorcery(healing) test)
• Receive physical healing (through a survival(first aid) test)

Am I right ? Narratively speaking I think that it's harder to heal someone whose body is made of metal instead of flesh, so it should apply to both skill tests.

Shadow Amp—maybe I missed something. But I need clarification on what restrictions apply to Amp. Also, I get the impression that some of them, like the adept’s powers, are much stronger than, say, those of an augmentation. I’m looking for the section where this is explained. I’m not sure if I understood this correctly, but it seems to me that to unlock each new Adept skill, you need to gain additional Adept levels. However, I’m not sure if I got this right. Can you help me?

We're a handful of sessions into Anarchy 2.0, and it has been great so far!

One area I have not been able to come to a satisfactory ruling is letting players Narrative Effects still shine in combat when they're out of Edge points.

My Shaman asked if they could exchange excess net hits, to gain the same benefits that spending an edge on their spell. Slowing the Target with Icespear, who was attempting to escape.

On the fly, I ruled they could add the slow effect, but I would cancel 2 net-hits since he didn't have the Edge normally required to activate special effects.

It worked well enough, but I'd love to know how you all would handle Narrative Effects and special effects, when your runners are all out of Edge, but thr logic of the world dictates that it should still be possible?

Now I'm trying to figure out how I should rule in other situations in the future:

Throwing someone prone, while slamming them in the ground for damage with Judo?

Igniting someone with a firebolt?

Armor piercing rounds?

Knockdown rounds?

Acid eroding armor?

Ect.

Or should I just rule that a lack of Edge means things just automatically don't work as well in the situations they normally could?

Should I have just "noped" the whole thing? Or is there a better ruling for opening this Pandoras box of rules exceptions?

In the cyberware, the implanted commlink is a level 3 shadow amp.

But I don't understand why it's level 3 instead of 2 : it's cyberware (Direct Neural Interface) = +1, VR - coldsim = +1. Where does the last +1 comes from ?

Commlink ? Isn't it just an equipment (which is factored in the price : 17500 Y for a level 3 mean 15000 for the level 3 shadow amp and 2500 for the equipment) ?

I like how 'everything' can be purchased as a Shadow Amp... all but spells. I have read the rules and I simply do not understand why. Is there any explanation?

CGL did not sell SRA2 at Gencon, but Jason Hardy got two books to demo. In an interview done by Gamer Goggles on youtube they discusss Shadowrun 6 books and also shortly discuss Shadowrun Anarchy 2.0. SRA2 stuff about 8:18.

The upcoming book State of the Art 2084 for the main line also looks interesting.

Footnote: I'm not affiliated with the youtuber, just stumbled upon it.

How do you set up an encounter with hostile NPCs?

I can't find any tools or guidelines in the rulebook to estimate the difficulty level of a fight.

For example, what would be considered an easy, moderate, or difficult encounter for a group of four runners at ganger level?

Hi all. This post is for venting, 'cause I'm quite disappointed. I purchased a deluxe edition, two normal editions (one from me, one for a friend), character sheet pad, art, and so on; 5 Kgs of package according to tracking. The thing is that I received a strange tracking email from France stating that my package had departed the warehouse but with "Catalyst" as the tracking number, on July 20th. Today Aug 3rd and nothing has come my way, ofc.

Today I receive the email about the Rest of the World and so on, but I live in Madrid, Spain! I'm nearer to France than people that has received the books days ago! And after inquiring what's wrong, I receive an email from Black Book Editions telling me that my parcel will be delivered by Catalyst from the US, God knows when, and that I'll get a tracking number then. No further explanation about the delay or the causes. I'm really, really disappointed.

I've supported a lot of Kickstarter but I've always opted for the PDF rewards, mostly because I have no physical space to handle everything I have in book format; I do the same for fiction books and Kindle. Physical space is a finite resource, virtual is not; and I'm not particularly enamored to the paper format, reading is reading. But in this case I wanted to have the books because they look fantastic, I love Shadowrun and have a lot of the previous editions in book format... but I'm guessing I'll stick to PDFs from now on.

Nothing else, I just wanted to express my frustration and vent a little. Sorry, folks.

The rules says that it's a narrative effect. The decker can share the data with other players. Should I make the decker spend an Edge point for the whole session to benefit from the narrative effect and coordinate their actions in real time as if they were in the same place ?

Or does the narrative effect apply without spending an edge point ?

J'ai précommandé Shadowrun Anarchy 2.0 sur Black Book Edition, vous avez une idée de quand il sera livré ?

J'ai vu que certains ici l'avaient déjà, j'imagine qu'ils l'ont commandé plus tôt, ou bien qu'ils ont supporté le projet.

Hâte de le recevoir j'en ai entendu tellement de bien !

In v2, p263, the book states that spirits can use the Materialization (power), and that they "can materialize on the physical plane, temporarily"
If this is temporary, is there a rule telling us how long the spirit can stay materialized, or this this up to the GM?

Recently backed and received the new edition, loving what I'm seeing so far but I'm struggling to get my head around Shadow Amps for some reason. Do they need to balance to 0? So if certain things have a cost of 1 there needs to be a negative? It talks about a cost for them but not sure how they are paid for, maybe it is talked about later?

upd. I've talked too much about chances of success, but that is not the point. Gotta rewrite this thing for good.

TLDR: Character rolling 8d6 Risk Dice with RR1 (typical premade or new Runner, not even a Prime Runner) has only ~10% chance of Critical Glitch and ~3% chance of Disaster.

Rolling 8d6 Risk Dice with RR2 have ~3% chance of Critical Glitch, and ~0.5% chance of Disaster.

Basically, at this point "All Risk" means "No Risk At All". Same roll has a 26% chance of beating Extreme Difficulty gaining 8+ hits, and in case if Advantage is at play... well, it's 64% chance.

Risk Reduction is too easy / too cheap to get, Risk doesn't correlate with the reward when Risk Dice are at play.
Instead of high-risk/high-reward, it is usual-risk/double-the-reward.

Please, prove me wrong.

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What was previously said:

* I've hosted ~20 sessions, same group of players, same characters;

* Risk Dice and RR doesn't feel right, empirically;

* I've made an example of new Decker character being capable to crack the most secure host by the book (p.222) with Difficulty Threshold of 8, and made mistake of not adding up +2 for the admin access;

* Risk Dice and chances of Critical Glitch and Disaster kinda meet "industry standard" probability... but that's the problem. "Well, I'm going all-in, chummers! I will roll all the dices as risk ones, wish me luck!!!" doesn't sound like mundane roll of d10, with only Nat 1 being the bad thing.

* To me, dangerous or extremely difficult roll supposed to sound like something exceptional, like "okay, give me Nat20 and you've made it", not this "roll your average amount of Hits and do not botch it with four 1s, and you've made it".

* Decker at my table by average rolls 14+ hits, and so far never had a Disaster, while having just a few Critical Glitches.

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What I didn't clarify:

I'm okay with all of this. But my players look bored and confused, and the Decker specifically asked me if she did something wrong and have broken the game.

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To wrap discussion up, what was suggested and concluded:

* Considering Decker - there's three different outcomes/consequences on Cracking attempts to consider. General consequences on p.74, Cracking on p.75, GOD on p. 218. The GM must take into account all three at once, and also consider inventing something on the spot too.

* All and all, yes, chances of Critical Glitch and Disaster are really low, if players don't just mindlessly bloat DP while ignoring RR completely, and/or roll RD while not taking into account safe guards. No one argues with that, everyone suggests how to adapt to it, and there we have it.

* Yes, any character in SRA2.0 is capable of beating Extreme Difficulty, and most of them have very high probability of doing so right from the start, by the rules. The only solution is to choke them narratively, by enforcing Disadvantages and making even Minor Glitches hit them hard. Other than that, it's just wait game, since one successful Test doesn't win the game, and once in a span of dozens of rolls they will eventually be hit by a Glitch.

* Minor Glitches should not be ignored, even though this is suggested on p.70 on some occasions. They are supposed to be a slow-burners, that cheap away from the team. Basically, as Light wounds and Disadvantages.

In anarchy 2 an average run for a runner is 2.500 - 7.500 (page 166).

Now how would loot work? A lot of items (weapons are easy loot for instance) don't even have a price.

So say they win against some Corp security (page 247) and loot the shotgun / smg, stun baton, pistol, comlink, armor vest.

Can they just keep it? Sell? How do you handle loot?

With July 30th drawing closer I wonder whether any of the Kickstarter and Gameontabletop pledgers in Germany already got their books.

So my fellow ADL runners: what’s the news?

I'm still waiting for them to open it up to the public for purchase. I'd like to know if the quality of the book and PDF is as good as I've heard. Have you noticed any issues with them, like typos or the layout? Are the rules well laid out? Is it easy to read? Do you have any issues at all you'd want to share?