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.