Shadowrun 5.5

An effort to take the best parts of 4th Edition stir in a bit of 6th Edition to create an improved Shadowrun 5th Edition.

Character Creation

Attributes

Body, Quickness, Strength, Intelligence, Willpower, Charisma.

Reaction & Intuition are unnecessary. Create a character as normal. At the end average (round down) Agility + Reaction to get Quickness and Logic + Intuition to get Intelligence.

Base attribute cannot be lower than 3.

Derived Attributes

Judge Intentions = Intelligence + Charisma
Memory = Intelligence + Willpower

Magic

Mystic adepts don't exist.

Adepts cannot learn or use spellcasting.

Metatype

Dwarves & Trolls do not have additional Lifestyle costs. Lucky for you Evo cares about your comfort making life affordable in 2080.

Metatype	Body	Quickness	Strength	Willpower	Intuition	Charisma	Edge
Human	1-6	1-6	1-6	1-6	1-6	1-6	1-7
Dwarf	1-7	1-6	1-8	1-7	1-6	1-6	1-6
Elf	1-6	1-7	1-6	1-6	1-6	1-8	1-6
Ork	1-8	1-6	1-8	1-6	1-6	1-5	1-6
Troll	1-9	1-5	1-9	1-6	1-6	1-5	1-6

Quality

Allergen is disallowed.

Pregnancy can only be taken in play. Don't be that person who makes it weird.

Skills

Skills can be rank 1 - 10. If a character has a rating greater than 0, then he knows more than the average person on the street.

A starting character can have only one skill at Rating 6 with rest at Rating 4 or less. Alternatively a character can have two skills at Rating 5 with the rest at Rating 4 or less.

Skill List

Bold skills can be used untrained. All skills have a default attribute but they can be rolled with other things. For example Influence may be rolled with Strength or Body if a character is attempting to be physically imposing. GM Discretion.

Astral
Athletics
Biotech
Close Combat
Con
Conjuring
Cracking
Electronics
Enchanting
Engineering
Exotic Weapons
Firearms
Influence
Outdoors
Perception
Piloting
Sorcery
Stealth
Tasking

Alternative idea:

Instruction just doesn't exist. Its a specialization for Leadership.

Add these skills to the listed skill group.

Athletics
Escape Artist
Free fall
Biotech Group
Chemistry
Close Combat Group
Throwing Weapons
Enchanting Group
Arcana
Engineering Group
Demolitions
Locksmith
Firearms
Heavy Weapons
Outdoors
Animal Handling
Diving
Stealth
Forgery

Priority Table

Priority	Metatype	Attributes	Skills	Magic / Resonance	Resources
A	Human (9), Elf (7), Dwarf (7), Ork (8), Troll (5)	24	32	Full: 4 Magic, Aspected: 5 Magic, Adept: 4 Magic, Technomancer: 4 Resonance	450,000
B	Human (7), Elf (4), Dwarf (4), Ork (5), Troll (2)	20	24	Full: 3 Magic, Aspected: 4 Magic, Adept: 3 Magic, Technomancer: 3 Resonance	275,000
C	Human (5), Elf (1), Dwarf (1), Ork (2)	16	20	Full: 2 Magic, Aspected: 3 Magic, Adept: 2 Magic, Technomancer: 2 Resonance	150,000
D	Human (3), Ork (0)	14	16	Full: 1 Magic, Aspected: 2 Magic, Adept: 1 Magic, Technomancer: 1 Resonance	50,000
E	Human (1)	12	12	Mundane	10,000

Good ideas

Dicepools

Dice pools for starting characters are capped at 14d6. This includes skill + attribute + gear + specialization + quality. It does not include situational modifiers in play such as friends in melee.

Metatypes

Core races only.

Priority

Resources E gets 10,000 nuyen instead of 6,000

Skills

Skill Ranks

The maximum skill rating for starting characters is either one skill at Rating 6 (with the rest at Rating 4 or less) or two skills at Rating 5 (with the rest at Rating 4 or less). Your character cannot start with both one Rating 6 skill and two Rating 5 skills.^SR4e

With aptitude you can have a single skill at 7 and the rest at 4.

Starting characters may raise purchased skill groups to a maximum rating of 4. Skill groups may not be broken up or specialized at Chargen.^SR4e

Artisan

Artisan should be taken as knowledge skill.

Instruction

Instruction just doesn't exist. Its a specialization for Leadership.

Skill Groups

These skills are considered to be a part of the listed skill group.

Athletics
Escape Artist
Free fall
Biotech Group
Chemistry
Close Combat Group
Throwing Weapons
Enchanting Group
Arcana
Engineering Group
Armorer
Demolitions
Firearms
Heavy Weapons
Outdoors
Animal Handling
Diving
Stealth
Forgery
Locksmith
Conjuring Group
Assensing
Sorcery Group
Astral Combat