House Rules 92/5/23

Target Numbers:  If the target number is higher than 10 you lower it to
10 and subtract the difference from the skill used for the test.
Skills don't reduce below 1.  E.g. Skill 6 vs. Target 12 means you roll
4 dice vs. a 10.  Skill 6 vs.  Target 19 means you roll 1 die vs. a 14.
Target numbers below 2 add dice in a similar fashion.

Rule of 6+: For every 6 over the target number count another success.
E.g. if your target is 4, rolling a 10 counts as 2 successes, a 16 as 3, etc.

Everywhere the rules say "auto-success" you should change it to say
"Automatic 6." You can only burn 2 karma for an autosuccess *if* you
can show why things should happen that way.

Dice Pools are refreshed at the beginning of the first combat turn and
on each action thereafter.  Dice pools may not be used in the first
turn if surprised.

Initiative: Everyone rolls one die and adds it to Reaction, Rule of 6
does not apply.  The unwired act at that number and every decrement of
7 below it, down to 1.  Wired characters do not add extra initiative
dice, instead their decrement is reduced by 1 per point of essence cost
of the wiring.  E.g. Wiring 2 adds +4 to your reaction and lets you
decrement by 4 instead of 7.

When your turn to move comes you should already know what you plan to
do and have the necessary dice if any in your hand.  State your action
and roll the dice.  If you're not ready when your turn comes you'll be
considered to be holding.

Combat: All weapon attacks stage up one wound level per 2 extra
successes, and stage down by their listed staging.  All unarmed attacks
stage up one level per extra success.

Armor:  Ordinary armor (up through combat jackets) gives 1 auto success
and its rating in extra dice.  Heavy armor gives 2 auto successes and
its rating in extra dice.  Helmets don't add.  Dice from armor are not
affected by any target number modifiers.  Half your points of impact armor
(rounded up) are subtracted from your dodge pool.

Dodge:  The target number for Dodge is 4 for most attacks, 5 for things
that scatter - grenades, shotguns, autofire bursts, 6 for things like
miniguns and dragonbreath.  If the dodger has more successes than the
attacker, the attack misses entirely; otherwise the dodge successes are
subtracted from the attack successes, the attack is staged up, and is
then staged down by body and armor.

         +1       +2       +3       +4
12 11 10  9  8  7  6  5  4  3  2  1  0  D

Instead of the conventional damage scale of 10 boxes each for mental 
and physical damage, you have one track numbered 0 to 12.  When you
take damage, roll 2d6 for hit location and mark off 1 box for a light
wound, 3 boxes for a medium wound, 6 boxes for a serious wound and 10 
boxes for a deadly wound, starting at the number rolled and counting 
down.  For stun damage, mark with a /.  If the box already had a / 
change it to an X, if it already had an X skip it.  For physical 
damage, mark with X's and skip any boxes that already have X's.  If 
your lowest mark is at 9 or higher, you have a +1 target penalty.  At
6, a +2.  At 3, a +3.  If stun damage goes past 0 you fall unconscious,
and further damage wraps to 12.  If physical damage goes past 0 you're
"dead" (in quotes, 2041 medical tech being what it is).  Healing erases
boxes from lowest to highest.

Autofire:  Firers can allocate their skill dice among as many targets
as they like, down to one die per target.  Single shot uses 1 round and
does the base damage listed.  Burst uses 3 rounds and is resolved as
one attack with +1 damage code.  For example, an HK does 5M3 fired
single shot and 5S3 on auto.  Recoil penalty is number of bursts fired
minus recoil compensation.  Dice used from dodge pool count vs. all
bullets fired as part of the same action.

Magic: Sorcery drain is resisted by magic rating instead of willpower.
Spell resistance tests are made vs. the force of the spell, not sorcery.
Fetishes & Exclusive only add dice to the spell, they don't change its force.
Watchers don't exist.

People have intrinsic Spell Defense equal to (6-Magic Rating)/2, e.g.
normals have 3 dice.

Control spells are one drain level higher, act vs. willpower, and need
threshold (net successes) equal to the target's willpower.  If the
target is aware of it he can resist with willpower.  Health spells
are run differently.

Shamans must use all the services from a spirit when it's called; you
can't bind them to keep around like mages can elementals.

Elementals cannot be burned for automatic successes; instead, asking
an elemental to aid a spell adds the elemental's force in dice to *both*
the success roll and the drain roll.