[SR5] Patrol IC behavior + Host security levels

You may be interested in my SR5 Matrix Rules Summary.

The rulebook does not specify exactly how to run Patrol IC behavior is supposed to work.

I came up with a system (with help from the people at shadowruntabletop.com) that integrates your Overwatch Score into the host's "security level". It also defines what the Patrol IC does.

Here is a sample host, but host behavior may vary (differing OS thresholds, Patrol IC check frequency, etc.).


OS 0-9
OS 10-29 Go to Yellow Alert (if at Green)
OS 30+ Go to Red Alert

• Green Alert (normal operation)
• Patrol IC doesn't scan for silent icons
• Patrol IC investigates first illegal action per turn
• Patrol IC monitors for custom condition (e.g. checking a special file for marks) once a turn
• If alarm raised, launches Level 1 IC
• Yellow Alert (cautious operation)
• System decker alerted
• Patrol IC scans for silent icons once per turn, but does not launch IC unless an illegal action is committed
• Patrol IC investigates first illegal action per turn
• Patrol IC monitors for custom behavior (e.g. checking a special file for marks) every pass
• If alarm raised, launches Level 1|2 IC
• Red Alert (high threat response mode)
• System decker alerted
• Patrol IC scans for silent icons every pass and immediately launches IC if spotted
• Patrol IC investigates first illegal action per pass
• Patrol IC monitors for custom behavior (e.g. checking a special file for marks) every pass
• If alarm raised, launches Level 1|2|3 IC
• (Optional host behavior such as archiving files or rebooting)

• Patrol IC
• Launches IC if a spotted icon ("loud" or "silent" but already spotted) performs an illegal action
• No initiative needs to be rolled until Yellow Alert

• Level 1 IC
• Acid (Firewall)
• Binder (Data Processing)
• Jammer (Attack)
• Marker (Sleaze)
• Crash (crashes a program)
• Track
• Killer (Matrix damage)

• Level 2 IC
• Blaster (matrix + stun damage, linklock)
• Scramble (reboots you)
• Tar Baby (linklock + mark)

• Level 3 IC
• Sparky(matix + biofeedback damage)
• Black IC (matix + biofeedback damage, linklock)

[SR5] Technomancer Rules Summary

Entries in curly braces {{{ }}} are house rules, typically because the existing rules are unclear.

• TMs are constantly in AR mode
• Dropping into VR mode puts them into a "trance"
• This gives you +2 to all Matrix actions, but NOT Resonance actions
• You can only be in hot-sim VR
• Resonance
• "attribute represents how connected you are to the Resonance"
• Resonance max is Essence rounded down
• Whenever Essence is lost, you lose an equal amount of Resonance rounded up
• Hitting zero Resonance means you lose the Technomancer quality and all Resonance abilities
• Resonance Signature
• Whenever a Resonance ability is used, it leaves behiind a unique signature = user's Resonance rating
• Lasts for 1 hour * rating
• Resonance beings can detect a signature as long as they get 3 hits on a Matrix Perception test
• If you've seen it before you recognize it (or do a Memory Test, GM discretion)
• 5+ hits = "you get an impression of what kind of being or ability left it there"
• Resonance beings have their own signatures "on themselves all the time" at the corresponding rating
• Sprites and their actions leave signatures for their compiling TM
• You can hide anyone's Resonance signature for 1 Combat Turn per hit on Erase Signature
• Resonance Actions
• Only usable in the Matrix but are not Matrix actions (no Overwatch score accrual)
• You do not get bonus VR dice for Resonance actions
• Living Persona
• You cannot store data, you have to store it on a "nearby device" (typically a commlink)
• Matrix Attributes:
• Device Rating = Resonance
• Attack = Charisma
• Sleaze = Intuition
• Data Processing = Logic
• Firewall = Willpower
• Matrix damage is counted as Stun damage
• You cannot be a slave or a matser, or part of a PAN or WAN
• May add Resonance to Addiction Tests for hot-sim
• You get an additional +2 to Matrix Perception tests
• Resonance abilities cannot be used through other devices like a commlink or a deck
• Can reboot their living persona as Reboot Device, but it doesn't count as a Matrix Action
• Threading
• Uses the Resonance Action "Thread Complex Form"
• Must also choose a Level for the effect (up to 3 x Resonance)
• Affected by noise, different grid and public grid modifiers
• Complex Forms only usable on spotted icons
• Complex Forms that target Devices can also target Personas (p.252)
• Sustaining a complex form gives you a -2 penalty on all actions per sustained form
• Anything that may break your concentration requires a Resonance + Willpower (2) test
• Cannot sustain forms when unconscious
• Complex Forms always cause Fading
• Fading = (Complex form Fade Value) or (DV 2), whichever is higher
• Note that Complex Forms have specific fade values relative to the Level
• Threading test net hits > Resonance rating, damage is Physical
• Threading test net hits <= Resonance rating, damage is Stun
• Killing Complex Forms
• Used to kill another technomacner's form without their permission
• Software + Resonance [Mental] vs. (complex form Level) + (threader Resonance)
• Each net hit reduces hits from their threading test, 0 hits ends the complex form
• Must resist Fading as if you threaded the targeted complex form
• Learning Complex Forms (p.252)
• Learn a complex by analyzing it with Software + Intuition [Mental]
• (# of hits / 12) = days it takes to learn
• Can know up to (Resonance * 2) complex forms
• Complex Forms
• Diffusion of (Matrix Attribute)
• Target = Device|Persona
• Duration = Sustained
• Force value = Level + 1
• Software + Resonance[Level] vs. Willpower + Data Firewall
• Their attribute is reduced by net hits (cannot drop below 1)
• {{{Threading another Diffusion for the same attribute replaces the old Diffusion (they do not stack)}}}
• Puppeteer
• Target = Device|Persona
• Duration = immediate
• Force value = Level + 4
• Software + Resonance[Level] vs. Willpower + Firewall (1|2|3)
• Free/Simple/Complex Action = 1/2/3 threshold
• Success means the target does specified Matrix action as their next action
• Resonance Veil
• Target = Device|Persona
• Duration = Sustained
• Force value = Level - 1
• Software + Resonance[Level] vs. Intuition + Data Processing
• Target "believes something has happened in the Matrix"
• If the target has reason to believe it's fake, they get Matrix Perception vs. (net hits)
• Fading
• Resisted by Resonance + Willpower
• Damage is only healable naturally through rest
• Caused by threading complex forms or sprite summoning
• see "Threading" or "Sprites" for specific damage reules
• Sprites
• General
• Device Rating and Resonance = Level
• Matrix Atributes are based on level and type of sprite
• If Sprite is physically tracked, it gives location of the owner (same for Convergence)
• Matrix Condition = 8 + (Level / 2)
• Sprites are personas, and cnanot be part of a PAN or WAN
• Commanded using the "Command Sprite" Resonance Simple Action (see Command Sprite Resonance Action for more details)
• Sprite-Technomancer Link (p.256)
• Can communicate with your sprite through the Matrix (text, images, etc.)
• Losing connection to the Matrix also loses connection to the sprites (but is restored when you're back online)
• Registered sprites will wait for you to come back, but compiled sprites will vanish
• Compiling a Sprite
• May be compiled at a Level up to (2 * Resonance)
• Every net hit on the Compile Sprite (Resonance) action is one task the sprite will do
• Limit of one compiled sprite at a time
• When compiled, Overwatch Score starts
• Convergence makes the sprite vanish immediately
• Owner is the TM who compiled it, and has their Resonance signature
• Compiled Sprite Tasks
• Task can be one of
• single use of a sprite power
• one Combat Turn worth of Matrix actions to the same job
• participation in cybercombat until all enemy combatants have been defeated or you escape safely
• (Sustaining a power counts as 1 task indefinitely unless you change it in some way)
• Registering a Sprite
• Registering requires (# of hours) = sprite Level
• Sprite Overwatch Score does not increase due to time while it is being registered
• Neither you nor the sprite can take other actions during this period
• Registering + Resonance [Level] v. (Sprite Level * 2)
• One net hit will result in successful registering
• Each net hit will also add to that sprite's # of tasks
• OS is erased immediately
• Registered sprites do not count against your compiled sprite limit of one
• You can register # of sprites <= Logic (this is from Errata)
• Sprite will stay with you as long as it owes you at least one task
• Registered Sprite Tasks
• Special task list only for registered sprites:
• Compiled Sprite Task
• Aid Study
• Assist Threading
• Loaned Task
• Remote Task
• Re-register Sprite
• Standby
• Sustain Complex Form
• Decompiling
• You can dismiss your own sprites {{{for free}}, decompiling is used for other owners's sprites
• Decompiling + Resonance [Social] vs. (sprite Level) + (compiler's Resonance only if sprite is registered)
• Net hits reduce # of owed sprite tasks by 1
• When the sprite reaches 0 tasks, it returns to the Resonance on its next action
• Sprite powers
• Using a sprite power is a Standard Resonance action
• Camouflage
• Cookie
• Diagnostics
• Electron Storm
• Gremlins
• Hash
• Stability
• Suppression
• {{{The exact implementation of the rules for this are unclear. What lies below is my own interpretation.}}}
• Sprite uses it to "stun" the next IC to be spawned for (Level / 2) turns. This takes up one power usage.
• The IC will still spawn and be visible, it just can't (and no one can act against it)
• Watermark
• Fade damage when compiling/decompiling/registering
• Fading = 2 * (opposed sprite net hits)
• Sprite rating > Resonance, damage is Physical
• Sprite rating <= Resonance, damage is Stun
• Submersion
• Strengthens the TM's connection with the Resonance
• Measured in Grades, starting from Grade 1 (cannot exceed your Resonance attribute)
• {{{Cost for submersion is 10 + (Grade * 3)}}}
• The original text is 10 x (Grade + 3) but this is a mistake
• If Resonance is ever lowered below Submersion, the Submersion grade goes down as well
• Resonance can be increased up to 6 + Submersion grade (spending Karma as normal to do so)
• Allows access to the Resonance Realms
• Each submersion grade gives you a new echo power
• Each Echo cannot be picked more than once unless otherwise stated
• Echoes
• Attack Upgrade: +1 Attack, max(2)
• Data Processing Upgrade: +1 Data Processing, max(2)
• Firewall Upgrade: +1 Firewall, max(2)
• Mind over Machine: +1 Rating control rig, max(3)
• NeuroFilter: +1 biofeedback resist, max(2)
• Note that this does not protect against Fade damage.
• Overclocking: +1d6 hot-sim VR
• Resonance Link: Establishes a one-way empathic link with another TM.
• Resonance [Program]: This echo lets you copy the effects of one common or hacking program (p. 245). Can be taken once per type of program
• Sleaze Upgrade: +1 Sleaze, max(2)
• Resonance Actions
• Call/Dismiss Sprite (Simple)
• Command Sprite (Simple)
• Sprites are intelligent and will follow orders to the best of their ability.
• If the command is complex or confusing, the sprite rolls a (Level * 2) test against a threshold set by the GM to see if it understands.
• Compile Sprite (Complex)
• Decompile Sprite (Complex)
• Kill Complex Form Sprite (Complex)
• Register Sprite (Complex)
• Thread Complex Form (Complex)
• Types of sprites (p. 259)
• Courier
• Cookie, Hash
• Crack
• Suppression
• Data
• Camouflage, Watermark
• Fault
• Electron Storm
• Machine
• Diagnostics, Gremlins, Stability

[SR5] Matrix rules summary

Opti has a neat flowchart for Matrix actions here.

Anything in curly braces {{{ }}} is a house rule. Usually the original rule or an explanation as to why is listed right after it.

• Everything in the Matrix is an icon
• Rules prevent icons from not resembling their actual identity (e.g. must look like a person, or a file)
• Matrix appears by default as a "black flatland under a black sky"
• Typically displays one icon per PAN
• But will still display dangerous devices on that network separately
• Terminology
• Hosts are a "self-contained place in the Matrix... [with] no physical location, as they exist purely in the Matrix cloud"
• Everything in the matrix is one of these six things: persona, device, PAN, file, host, or a mark
• Datastream visibility is filtered out by default but can be shown (but are useless without snooping)
• Personas are usually based on a commlink, cyberdeck, rigged vehicle/drone, or technomancer
• Devices represent electronic devices (such as cars, music players, maglocks, etc.). Typically they do something in the physical world
• Files are a collection of data, or possibly a collection of files (a "folder")
• Marks (matrix authentication recognition key) "keeps track of which personas have access to which devices, files hosts, and other personas"
• Grids are a Matrix Service Provider
• All public and global grids are accessible at any time
• Local grids are only accessible if you are physically in the area
• Hopping between grids is still confined to what is available in your area
• Grid by lifestyle:
• Low or lower = public grid
• Middle = local grid
• High = global grid (pick a Big Ten megacorp as provider)
• Luxury = any grid you want
• Commlinks are a "combination computer, smartphone, media player, passport, wallet, credit card, Matrix browser, chip reader, GPS navigator, digital camera, and portable gaming device"
• Data Processing and Firewall are = commlink's Device Rating
• Cyberdecks (p. 227)
• about the size of a small tablet or notebook
• built-in sim module
• Direct Neural Interface is required for VR
• This can come from trodes or having an implanted (datajacks|commlink|cyberdeck)
• Matrix Attributes
• Attack, Sleaze, Data Processing, Firewall
• Matrix Condition Monitor
• Every device in the Matrix has health = 8 + (Device Rating / 2)
• Damage is resisted by Device Rating + Firewall
• No wound modifiers (except Technomancers since they take Stun damage)
• Filling the Matrix damage track "dumps" you
• Repairing device Matrix damage requires:
• toolkit
• an hour of work
• Hardware + Logic [Mental] test (every hit repairs one box or cuts future repair session times in half)
• Device is not usable during the repair process
• Critical glitches permanently break the device
• IC and sprites also take matrix damage but cannot be repaired
• Biofeedback damage
• Resisted by Willpower + Firewall
• Stun if cold-cim, Physical if hot-sim
• Dumpshock
• If you disconnect from the Matrix while in VR without going to AR first, you get dumpshock
• 6S or 6P depending on cold/hot sim
• Resisted as normal Biofeedback (but if you got dumped due to a bricked deck you don't get Firewall to help resist)
• You also suffer 2 to all actions for (10 - Willpower) minutes
• Link-locked
• Any persona (includes agent, techno, sprite) can be link-locked
• When locked, you cannot use Switch Interface mode, Enter/Exit Host, or Reboot actions on your device
• You can escape with a successful Jack Out (p. 240) action but you still suffer dumpshock
• Typically falling unconscious during VR will switch you to AR automatically, but link-lock prevents this
• IC will keep attacking you even when unconscious
• User Modes
• AR
• Can be used without falling into a trance
• -2 to Perception tests in physical space
• Cold-sim VR
• All physical senses blocked (as if asleep)
• Initiative is Data Processing + Intuition + 3d6
• Biofeedback damage is Stun
• Hot-sim VR
• All physical senses blocked (as if asleep)
• Initiative is Data Processing + Intuition + 4d6
• Biofeedback damage is Physical
• +2 to all Matrix actions
• Noise
• Caused by distance, nearby electronics, natural/artificial dampening, cosmic background radiation, etc.
• Spam zones has huge Matrix traffic and everything is slowed
• Static zones have electromagnetic blockage (tunnels, sewers, deep in a steel building) or are far away from civilization (deserts, north pole, in the middle of the ocean)
• Noise penalty = distance + situational - noise reduction
• Penalty never applied to defense or resistance tests
• Distance table (p.231):
• Direct connection = 0
• 0 - 100m = 0
• .1 - 1.0km = 1
• 1.01 - 10km = 3
• 10.01 - 100km = 5
• > 100.01km = 8
• Situational modifier table:
• Faraday cage = no signal
• Salt water = 1 per cm
• Fresh water = 1 per 10cm
• Dense foliage = 1 per 5m
• Metal-laced earth or wall = 1 per 5m
• Wireless negation (wallpaper or paint) = Rating
• Spam or Static zone = Rating
• 1 = City downtown | Abandoned building
• 2 = Sprawl downtown | Abandoned neighborhood, barrens
• 3 = Major event or advertising blitz | Rural area, abandoned underground area, heavy rain/snow
• 4 = Commercial area in a city | Wilderness, severe storm
• 5 = Commercial area in a sprawl | Remote place with satellite access only
• 6 = Massive gathering or widespread emergency | Remote enclosed place (cave, desert ruin)
• {{{For Spam and Static Zones, take the worst of the target and the source. If the target is in a 4 noise spam zone and the source is in a 2 Static zone, they both have 4 noise to interact with each other.}}}
• Illegal Actions
• Failed Attack deals 1 damage per net defense hit (UNRESISTABLE)
• Failed Sleaze puts a mark on you and informs host, who launches IC
• Overwatch score
• Accumulates whenever you perform an illegal action
• Rebooting clears your marks and score
• Each hit on a defense test (regardless of test success or failure) adds to the score
• Every {{{5 + 3d6}}} minutes from the first tally, it increases another 2D6 (rolled in secret by the DM)
• Rules-as-written: 15 minutes
• If outside a host or when leaving a host with score 40+, convergence occurs
• You get hit with 12 DV Matrix damage (resist normally)
• forced to reboot (dumpshock applied if in VR)
• This even applies to technomancers
• physical location reported to owner of the grid and your current host
• Can use the Check Overwatch Score action or Baby Monitor program to check your score
• DM should not tell player how many hits the defense is getting
• PANs & WANs
• Can slave (Device Rating x 3) devices to your commlink or deck
• Whenever slaves defend, they can use master's firewall or their own rating for the test
• Marks on slaves apply to master as well
• In reverse, if you fail a sleaze on a slaved device only its owner marks you, not the master as well
• WANs can slave unlimited devices
• Being inside a host that has a WAN makes you "directly connected" to all devices in the WAN
• Only devices can be slaves/masters/part of a PAN (not personas, files, etc.)
• When directly connected to a device: (p. 358-359)
• you can target a device on a network independently without being on the host
• the device cannot use the host rating in tests
• Grids
• Targets must always be on a grid
• Megacorps would be on their global grid
• Smaller companies and wealthier people would be on the local or private grid
• Lower class people/organizations would be on the public grid
• Matrix actions against a target on a different grid have a -2 penalty (including trying to grid jump!)
• Changing grids requires either Grid-Hop (if you have access) or Brute Force/Hack on the Fly
• Penalties only apply when you're outside of a host
• The public grid has a -2 penalty always, even in a host (on a public grid)
• Typical Device Ratings
• 1 = General appliances, public terminals, entertainment systems
• 2 = Standard personal electronics, basic cyberware, vehicles, drones, weapons, residential security devices
• 3 = Security vehicles, alphaware, corporate security devices
• 4 = High-end devices, betaware, military vehicles and security devices
• 5 = Deltaware, credsticks, black-ops vehicles and security devices
• 6 = Billion-nuyen experimental devices, space craft
• Matrix Spotting Table
• Not running silent
• < 100m = Automatic
• 100+ m = Simple Computer + Intuition [Data Processing]
• a host (any distance) = automatic
• Running silent
• Must first check if there are any silent icons in the vicinity (within 100m or in the same host)
•  Opposed Computer + Intuition [Data Processing] vs. Logic + Sleaze (1 net hit = detect)
• If there are multiple silent running icons, you roll once against a random one
• {{{If you know "a feature" of an icon running silent (e.g. the last one who attacked you), you can look for a specific one}}}
• Matrix Perception
• Autospot anything within 100m that is not running silent
• Spotting beyond 100m or any silent device requires a test (see Matrix Spotting Table)
• Any marked icon is always visible
• Any spotted icon will stay visible even if it starts running silent
• Icon can use the Hide action or reboot/jack out
• If you are running silent you have a -2 modifier to all Matrix actions
• Sample things you can perceive per hit:
• Spot a target
• The most recent edit date of a file.
•  The number of boxes of Matrix damage on the target’s Condition Monitor.
• The presence of a data bomb on a file.
• The programs being run by a persona.
• The target’s device rating.
• The target’s commode.
• The rating of one of the target’s Matrix attributes.
• The type of icon (host, persona, device, file), if it is using a non-standard (or even illegal) look.
• Whether a file is protected, and at what rating.
• The grid a persona, device, or host is using.
• If you’re out on the grid, whether there is an icon running silent within 100 meters.
• If you’re in a host, whether there is an icon running silent in the host.
• If you know at least one feature of an icon running silent, you can spot the icon (Running Silent, below).
• The last Matrix action an icon performed, and when.
• The marks on an icon, but not their owners.
• Running Silent
• Switching to silent running is a Simple Action
• -2 to all Matrix Actions while running silent
• See "Matrix Spotting Table->Running silent" for spotting rules
• Any owner can set a Matrix object to silent running
• Noticing Hackers
• A successful Attack or a failed Sleaze will result in detection
• IC may be launched (only if in a host)
• Recognition Keys (marks)
• Marks are individualized to their owner
• Icons can invite other icons for 1-3 marks (Invite Mark action)
• Otherwise, Brute Force and Hack on the Fly are the only other options
• Marks are invisible to everyone but the mark owner, but can be spotted with Matrix Perception
• All marks you have and are on you are removed when you reboot
• Marks can never be given or transferred
• Owners
• Every device, persona, host, and file has an owner.
• Each Matrix object can only have one owner.
• "For all intents and purposes, owning an icon is the same as having four marks on it." (p.236)
• Owning a device and being its owner are not necessarily the same (e.g. if you steal someone else's commlink)
• Matrix Ownership is registered with the device and the grids
• Ownership can be transferred (if you are the owner) in a ~1 minute process
• You can illegally change a device's owner with:
• Hardware toolkit
• Extended Hardware + Logic [Mental] (24, 1 hour)
• Glitch results in an alert sent out to the authorities
• Note that changing a file's ownership can be done with Edit File to copy, then delete original
• Personas and hosts can never have ownership changed
• Matrix Teamwork Tests
• Assistants perform the same test, and each hit gives the leader +1 to their limit and dice pool (max is the Assistant's skill rating)
• {{{There is no specific ruling on how teamwork should work on Matrix actions, so all of the below is a house rule}}}
• When trying to assist another on a Matrix action, they both must be in the same host (if any)
• If they are on different grids, the normal "different grid" penalty applies
• Both characters accrue overwatch score from the action
• Add 1 to OS for both characters for each hit on the teamwork test
• Programs
• Come in Common and Hacking types (Hacking programs are illegal)
• Cannot duplicate programs on the deck
• Only provides benefit while the program is running
• Programs appear as icons connected to your persona
• Agents
• Autonomous programs rated from 1-6
• Take up one program slot on your deck
• Can use programs running on the same device as them
• Use the Matrix attributes of the device they run on (e.g. your cyberdeck)
• Use their own rating for other attributes (e.g. Mental)
• Intelligence is equivalent to Pilot Programs (p. 269) of the same rating
• Attacks on the agent are attacks on you
• Agents can run independently of you and have their own persona when doing so
• Hosts (p.246)
• No physical spot, but could be tethered to one (e.g. clubs, stores)
• Entering a host requires going through the actual host icon
• Always on a specific grid, but once inside the originating grid is irrelevant
• Can run IC
• Patrol IC behavior and host security levels
• Have file archives that hold files that aren't in use, cannot be hacked
• Hosts have a Host Rating (HR)
• Attack, Sleaze, Data Processing, Firewall
• Ratings are typically (HR + 3), (HR + 2), (HR + 1), (HR)
• IC have the same ratings as their host
• Host Convergence
• Overwatch Score accumulates while inside the host
• When convergence occurs, host gets three marks on you and deploys IC
• Leaving a host after convergence results in immediately grid convergence (should just jack out)
• Intrusion Countermeasures (IC)
• {{{Data Processing + Host Rating + 4D6}}}
• Rules-as-written is (Initiative = Data Processing + Intuition + 4D6)
• Hosts can launch one IC per turn, at the START of the turn
• Hosts typically have Patrol IC running all the time
• Hosts can run # of ICs equal to their Rating
• Hosts are capped to only one per type of IC at a time
• IC condition monitor = 8 + (Host Rating / 2) (p.228)
• IC resist attacks with Device Rating + Firewall
• IC attacks are:
• (Host Rating) * 2 [Attack]
• Complex Action
• Note that failed attacks damage the IC as normal

Matrix Actions

• Brute Force
• attack and add a mark
• Change Icon
• Check Overwatch Score
• Control Device
• Crack File
• Crash Program
• Data Spike (Complex Action)
• Cybercombat + Logic [Attack] v. Intuition + Firewall
• Matrix Damage = Attack + 1/net hit + 2/mark
• If you are Data Spiking an icon you are the owner of, that counts as 4 marks (+8 DV)
• Disarm Data Bomb
• Edit File
• Can be used to protect files
• Enter/Exit Host
• Erase Mark
• Erase Matrix Signature
• Full Matrix Defense
• Grid Hop
• Hack on the Fly
• Stealth add a mark
• Hide
• Invite Mark
• Jack Out
• Jam Signals
• Jump Into Rigged Device
• Matrix Perception
• Analyze an object or vicinity
• Matrix Search
• Search matrix for info
• Can be public info, or private info on this host
• Info:
• General = 1 (1 minute)
• Limited = 3 (30 mins)
• Hidden = 6 (12 hours)
• Modifiers:
• -1 intricate or specialized
• -2 obscure
• -2 on another grid
• Reboot Device
• if mark = 3, reboot device (specify delay to start back up 0-infinite)
• only works on devices
• Doesn't work on link-locked
• Send Message
• Set Data Bomb
• Snoop
• if mark >=1, intercept traffic to and from target
• Spoof Command
• if mark >=1, send a command
• only works on devices and agents
• Switch Interface mode
• Trace Icon
• Find physical location of device or persona if mark >= 1
• Doesn't work on hosts or IC (no physical presence)

[SR5] Nuyen scale

Electronic paper: 5
Chisel/Crowbar: 20
Flashlight: 25
10 Gel bullets: 25
Standard Rope: 50 per 100m
Trodes: 70
10 Explosive bullets: 80
Cheapest commlink (Meta Link): 100
Frag Grenade: 100
BTL (Tripchip): 100
Drug (Kamikaze): 100
Concealable holster: 150
Gas mask: 200
Maglock Rating 3 (100 x Rating): 300
Combat Knife: 300
Medium quality heavy pistol (Colt Government 2066): 425
Sword: 500
Area Jammer Rating 3 (200 x Rating): 600
Medkit Rating 3 (250 x Rating): 750
Fly-spy drone (MCT Fly-Spy): 1,000
Shotgun (PJSS Model 55): 1,000
Disposable Missile Launcher: 1,200
Medium-quality Assault Rifle (FN HAR): 1,500
Full body armor: 2,000
Anti-vehicle rocket: 2,800
Electric scooter (Dodge Scoot): 3,000
Medium guard drone (GM-Nissan Doberman): 5,000
Medium-quality Machine Gun (Stoner-Ares M202): 7,000
Large VTOL recon drone (Cyberspace Designs Dalmatian): 10,000
Medium-quality Sniper Rifle: 10,300
Activesoft Rating 3 (5000 x Rating): 15,000
Mid-range Family sedan (Ford Americar): 16,000
Luxury Sedan (SK-Bentley Concordat): 65,000
Civilian 4-seater plane (Cessna C750): 146,000
Armored luxury limo (Mitsubishi Nightsky): 320,000
VTOL commuter 30-seat plane (Federated Boeing Commuter): 360,000

Cyberware:
*Base 3,000 - 217,000
*Used modifier x.75  ... Deltaware modifier x2.5

Bioware:
4,000 - 165,000

Cultured Bioware:
2,000 - 285,000

[SR5] Rigging Rules Summary

Anything with a pipe | means "or".
Anything in curly braces {{{ }}} is a house rule.

*Rigging (p. 264)

• Control rig augmentation connects to cerebrum, brain stem...
• built in sim module that can Direct Neural Interface other devices
• Universal Data connector and cable (basically a datajack)
• Control type (highest to lowest priority);
• Rigger control
• Remote control
• Manual Control
• Autopilot
• Receiving contradicting commands at the same level before an action results in no action
• Noise
• Wireless has Noise Penalty (p. 230)
• Direct connections have no noise
• "Jump in" rules
• You can only jump into a device that has the Rigger Interface (p.461, $1000)
• You can only be in VR when jumped in (p. 241 "Jump Into Rigged Device")
• Method of jumping
• If you are already in AR, it's a Complex Action
• If you already in VR, it's a simple action
• Direct connection is simple action
• To jump into another rigged device while already in VR, you can use "Jump Into Rigged Device" (Simple Action) if it's slaved (p. 266)
•  If it's not slaved, you have to jump out and back in again
• To jump out, use the "Switch Interface Mode" (Simple Action) to go back to VR or AR
• Vehicle actions as Matrix actions (any matrix bonus applies to Vehicle actions such as Control, Gunnery, Sensor)
• All vehicle LIMITS are increased by the rating of your control rig (e.g. Sensor, Speed, Handling, Accuracy [only when fired by rigger])
• Includes vehicle/drone sensor, speed, handling, weapon accuracy
• Cold-sim initiative = initiative + 2d6
• Hot-sim initiative = initiative + 3d6 (note that the only benefit to hot-sim is the initiative bonus)
• Hot-sim also gives +2 to all Matrix tests (p.230)
• Biofeedback damage is Physical, not Stun
• protects the drone from direct matrix attack (they see and must attack your persona instead)
• Physical damage to the drone (while jumped in)
• You must resist half the damage taken (round up as usual) as Biofeedback (p. 229)
• Stun if cold-sim, Physical if hot-sim
• Resist using Willpower + Firewall
• Remote Control (p. 238 "Control Device")
• Action time is equivalent to the time it would take you to perform the action
• All actions use either the normal limit for the action (e.g. accuracy) or your Data Processing rating, whichever is lower
• If there is no similar action to what you want to do, use:
• Electronic Warfare + Intuition[Sleaze] vs. Intuition + Firewall
• If you are issuing the same order to all or some of the devices, you are not penalized
• If you are doing differnt actions you must split your dice pool into # of groups = # of devices you want to control with a single action
• Whenever you use your Sleaze as a limit it counts as a Sleaze action (e.g. Overwatch, reverse mark on failure)
• Minimum marks to perform an action:
• Free = 1
• Simple = 2
• Standard/Complex = 3
• Rigger Command Console (RCC) (p. 266)
• analagous to a cyberdeck
• primarily used to create a Personal Area Network (PAN) to master-slave drones
• Data Processing used for VR initiative and is the Command test Limit on the RCC
• Can be used to reduce Noise and/or improve "Sharing"
• Set when you boot the RCC. Noise + Sharing cannot exceed Device Rating
• Noise is a straight reduction (this applies even to non-slaved drones)
• Sharing is the # of simultaneous autosofts that can run on slaved drones
• Drones running their own autosofts cannot use any RCC autosofts
• The autosofts are running on ALL drones simultaneously, excluding above
• Values can be changed while running using the Change Device Mode action (p.163)
• Firewall used to protect against all attacks on the slaved drone network
• Can give a command to one, some, or all of your slaved drones with a Simple action
• Can jump from one slaved drone to another without "jumping out" first
• Commands issued are acted on the drone's turn, not the rigger's
• Can slave up to (Device Rating x 3) drones
• PAN:
• When slaved device forced to make a defense test, it can use either its rating or its master's rating
• Thus against a Brute Force attack you could use your (Willpower + RCC Firewall), instead of (Drone Device Rating x 2)
• If an attacker gets a mark on a slave, they get a mark on the RCC
• RCC cannot help defend against a direct connection
• WAN:
• All drones have zero noise regardless of distance
• Requires devices to be slaved to a host
• Drones
• Device Rating = Pilot Rating
• Device Rating is used whenever mental attribute needed
• Drones are considered "devices" in the Matrix
• When issued a "novel, unexpected or a complicated command" (and no one is jumped in) must roll DR x 2
• One hit means that it performs the command
• else does nothing
• Perception = Pilot + Clearsight[Sensor]
• Infiltration 
• (Autonomous) Pilot + Stealth [Handling] vs. Perception + Intuition [Mental]
• (Jumped in) Intuition + Stealth [Handling] vs. Perception + Intuition [Mental]
• Initiative
• Autonomous: (Pilot x 2) + 4D6
• Jumped in: Rigger's VR initiative
• Have both Physical and Matrix damage tracks. Filling up either one renders the drone inoperable.
• Attacking
• When autonomous: Pilot + (Weapon Targeting Autosoft)[Weapon Accuracy]
• When jumped in: Gunnery + Agility[Weapon Accuracy + Control Rig Rating] (p. 238)
• Note that the control rig is not the same as the RCC
• Drones must have an autosoft for their wielded weapon to attack. (p. 183)
• Defending
• Tests
• Standard defense test: Pilot + {{{Maneuvering_autosoft}}}[Handling]
• Full defense test: Pilot + {{{Maneuvering_autosoft}}} + (Pilot|RCC Rating)[Handling]
• Pilot takes the place of Reaction (p.199)
• Drones roll their Pilot + Autosoft [Handling]" does not specify the autosoft p. 205
• Resisting Damage
• Test is Body + Armor (minus AP) as normal
• Physical Condition Monitor = 6 + (Body / 2)
• Matrix Condition Monitor = 8 + (Pilot / 2)       {p. 228 Matrix Damage}
• If modified physical DV is < modified armor, attack deals no damage
• Ignore stun damage
• Do not suffer wound modifiers
• Recoil
• Recoil compensation = drone Body + any built-in weapon RC
• Vehicle and Drone mounted weapons have the advantage of a sturdy platform from which to fire." p. 176
• Can hold (autosofts|cyberprograms) up to DR / 2 (round up as usual)
• Swapping an autosoft or cyberprogram is a Complex Matrix Action
• Autosofts have a device rating from 1-6
• Availability = DR * 2, Cost = DR * 500 [this is from the errata]
• Clearsight, Electronic Warfare, Evasion, Maneuvering, Stealth, Targeting are the only autosofts
• Cyberprograms are still capped to one of the same type per RCC
• p.269 Rigger-specific Cyberprograms
• Autosofts are skill improvements, cyberprograms are like passive buffs
• Repairing Drones
• Rules-as-written (from Run & Gun p.143, incl. errata fix):
• 2% per physical box repaired in materials
• Labor cost is (Skill Rating * hours spent * 10)¥
• Extended test (Automotive|Aeronautic) Mechanic + Logic[Mental] (12/18/24 depending on difficulty, 1 hour)
• {{{My house rules to allow drones to be recovered past "death"}}}
• 2% per box in materials
• 10% per overflow box in materials
• Small drones can only be recovered from overflow equal to their BOD, larger drones BOD * 2
• Labor cost is (Skill Rating * hours spent * 10)¥
• Extended test (Automotive|Aeronautic) Mechanic + Logic[Mental] (12/18/24 depending on difficulty, 1 hour)
• Specific Drone Rules
• {{{MCT Fly-Spy gets -2 to attempts to detect it}}}
• {{{Ares Duelist attacks with Agility+Blades[accuracy]}}}

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