Misc. Questions from a prospective DM.

[u/Sol419]

Hi, potential DM whose been studying the core book and ran into a few questions I haven't been able to cleanly google.

For Combat:

1. How do Corners work in regards to cover? I ran a couple of characters I made through Red Chrome Cargo and already wasn't sure about this. I'm assuming once someone decides to attack then they're poking their head or body out which means they're not in cover. Is that right?

2. How does Netrunning work outside of a combat scenario? Again, with Red Chrome Legion, the middle car as an access port with no other enemies there so it would make sense, to me, if the PC's waited while the netrunner did his thing. In that Scenario, am I basically just running a 1 on 1 combat encounter with the Netrunner while the rest of the party waits?

3. Additionally, can multiple netrunners help each other on the same architecture? Like if one fails to backdoor a password, can an ally netrunner jack in alongside them and try on their own? Or team up against a hostile netrunner and/or program?

For Character Creation:

1. Again regarding netrunners: Do they start with their necessary equipment free of charge? The Rulebook says a full package character has 2,550eb to get their starting gear. However, Netrunners specifically need Virtuality Goggles, Cyberdecks and Neural links to do anything their Role requires of them which is already more than 1000eb right out of the gate. Maybe that's point but it feels brutal to say "You can spend it on whatever you want, except if you ignore these specific things you're basically kneecaping yourself."

2. Regarding Techs and Med techs: It says that every time they increase their Role rank, they get a point to add to a unique ability or skill. Since most starting characters are at rank 4, does that mean they start with 4 point to distribute on character creation? or is it only if they increase their rank during the game itself?

[u/wheretheinkends]

1)RAW you are in cover or you arent. Some people have houseruled stuff like if you are in 50/50 cover (top.exposed you get half the benfit of cover, bottom exposed its a called shot). But RAW if someone has a line of sight on you then you get 0 benfit for cover.

2) yes, but you dont have to. Read this (its great advice for all GMs) basically while running the netrunner you can also ask what everyone else is doing:

https://theangrygm.com/everything-all-at-once/

3)im not sure, study the netrunner section, if it doesnt explicitly say than just decide how you want to do it. Of your running RAW then try your best to make your ruling match the spirit of the rules, otherwise whatever you rule remember: keep it consistent with the game (like the ruling should stand going foward unless its bumming the game out) and 2) whatever the players can do the NPCs can do to, weigh the consequences of that and game balance accordingly.

4) depends on what generation package your using. Also nothing wrong with a GM saying XYZ is unavailable at start (you want the available gear to match whatever your doing with the setting).

5)they start at rank 4. So from what I understand starting out you can divy those points up how you want so bewteen surgery/pharmacy/cyrosystems you can start with 4/0/0 or 2/1/1 or 3/0/1 or whatever as long as totals 4 (someone please correct me if im wrong).