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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imperialus" data-source="post: 4945035" data-attributes="member: 893">4E hackers are a hell of a lot better in this regard than deckers.  Between AR hacks and the ability to pop in and out of VR without even breaking the initiative order (much) they can be busy trying to hack a set of turret controls while the sam holds off a corp sec. team and the mage runs astral interference all at the same time.  They're operating in different 'worlds' but the system lets them continue to work together quite well.Felon has good advice.  SR characters need a lot of money.  It is possible to run campaigns where the PC's have to worry about how much money they're spending on ammo but house rules are pretty well essential for such an endeavor.  I mean if your street sam needs to sink half a million nuyen into better ware then he really should have the means to do so by the time the mage is initiating.  What this means is make sure you pay them accordingly.  A lot of GM's I've seen tend to give out too much karma, even the book suggestion is a bit high IMO.  Really for an average run I'd expect each runner to take home between 20 and 25 K and 2, maybe 3 karma.  This is the only way I've found that the Sams and other cash dependent archtypes can keep pace with the awakened.</blockquote>