It's not good when your running several drones but if your running a single or even a pair of recon drones not being spotted on the matrix is very important.Īnd lastly talk to the gm about their and your expectations on what being a rigger entails and what expected drone losses might be and how to stay out of a Nuyen death spiral. Lastly unless I'm missing something fancy in rigger 5.0 or data trails, get a stealth dongle for a comlink or a cheap deck optimized for sleeze. A cheap assault rifle at 200m while not rolling a ton of dice is completely safe from gangers with shot guns. And if you do use drones in that support function put long range weapons in and keep them away from the main engagement.

And it's equally good as an advanced warning net/recon force. Pre set flanking sniper fire is always good. Useing drones as a support option is safer and more effective. But killing off a steel lynx doesnt have the same impact and therefore I'm more prone to sending firepower that way. Killing a character is a thing but generally shouldnt be happening all the time. And as a gm I'm naturally more prone to sending heat at drones than would be an actual character. If a few of your drones get shot down it could mean a net loss for your team much less your cut.

While you can put out as much firepower as one, your a bit more fragile and expensive. I get too addicted to mini-rabbit holes like this.A couple of things I've seen from the gm side of screen on non super optimized min max character's.ĭon't pretend to be a street Sam. My dive into this cover's origins have given me a thirst for all the information regarding it. I've already spent more time than I should have on this very silly endeavor, but if anybody has any information regarding the origin of this specific edit please tell me. So I spent all this time and am pretty familiar with the source of the pretty strange image for a Shadowrun cover, but what I was not able to find was who created this edit. The cover itself was done by Ayase Ginken (pixiv: ) I also found online listings for both the doujinshi: (sold out) and its sequel which was created the following year: (not sold out). After a number of reverse image searches, dead links, and wayback machine archives I was able to pin down the source of the image as the cover of a doujinshi called My Pretty Tools (self published manga) from Comiket 82 (a Japanese comic market event filled with doujinshis like this) back in august of 2012. I was more curious than I should have been about this kind of funny random quirk of my pdf, and felt like delving into this potential rabbit hole.

Rigger 5.0 pdf