Wednesday, October 21, 2015

SR5 Character Advancement costs and training times

General

  • You can never skip ratings.
  • Time to improve a skill is reduced by 25 percent (round down) if you can find an instructor
  • You cannot improve an attribute or skill that is on downtime from an associated implant/augmentation.
  • If you are only improving skills, you can learn/improve a number of skills up to Logic/2 (round up) during your downtime.
  • Otherwise, you can only improve one of the following during a single downtime period:
    • One Mental and one Physical attribute
    • One attribute and one skill


Learning/Improving an Attribute

  • costs (New Rating) x 5 Karma
  • You can improve a single attribute's rating by at most 2 during a downtime.
  • takes (New Rating) x 1 week to complete
  • Attributes cannot be improved past your metatype maximum using Karma.

Improving Edge

  • costs (New Rating) x 5 Karma
  • training time is instant


Learning/Improving a skill

  • Karma cost:
    • Active skill = (New Rating) x 2 Karma.
    • Knowlege/Langage skill = (New Rating) x 1
  • Max rating improvement per downtime:
    • Active = 2
    • Knowledge/Language = 3
  • At new ratings 1-4, it takes (New Rating) x 1 day to learn.
  • At new ratings 5-8, it takes (New Rating) x 1 week to learn.
  • At new ratings 9-13, it takes (New Rating) x 2 week to learn. (note that you cannot reach rating 13 without the Aptitude Quality)


Learning/Improving an Active Skill Group

  • It costs (New Rating) x 5 to raise and can only be raised by 1 per downtime.
  • It takes (New Rating) x 2 weeks to learn.
  • No other skills or attributes can be improved while you are improving a skill group.


Learning a new specialization

  • costs 7 Karma
  • takes 1 month
  • No other skills or attributes can be improved while you are learning a specialization.


Misc

  • New complex form costs 4 Karma
  • New spells/rituals/preparations costs 5 Karma
  • New initiate level costs 10 + (Grade x 3) karma
  • You can purchase Positive Qualities (with GM approval) for listed Karma cost x 2.
  • You can remove Negative Qualities (with GM approval) for listed Karma x 2.

1 comment:

  1. I'm sorry, I tried contacting you in private. Quote: "A character may raise the Rating of their Active, Knowledge, or Language skills up by a maximum of 3 rating points per any one downtime." pg 106.

    Could you touch in on the cost of training.

    Quote: "To go from 7 to 8 in a skill, you will pay 16 Karma (rating 8 x 2 Karma). To calculate the cost of jumping more than one level, subtract the number in the column with your current Rating from the number in the column with your desired higher Rating." pg 106

    That is the one error I made with upgrading my skills. One of guys in my group made us aware of the error.

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