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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Abstruse" data-source="post: 7651798" data-attributes="member: 6669048">No, it's 4A stripped down to the bone and rebuilt. This should catch you up.Priority is how you made characters in 1st-3rd Ed core (there were build point options in SHADOWRUN COMPANION for 2nd and 3rd Ed). You have five categories (Race, Attributes, Skills, Magic Talent, and Resources) that you assign a priority A, B, C, D, or E. You start off with whatever that priority says, so if you choose Priority B for Attributes, you get 20 points to raise your Attributes by.Accuracy is a new mechanic in the game and is a subset of Limits. In SR5, when you make a skill test, you roll a number of dice equal to an Attribute + a Skill. Every 5 or 6 that comes up is a "hit". You count up all your hits and that's your result. However, your maximum number of hits on any given roll is equal to your Limit. So to fire a gun, you roll Agility + Pistols and count up your hits. Your Limit is the gun's Accuracy, so if your gun's Accuracy is 5, that's the most hits you can use on the test, even if you rolled 7.In SR4, damage was changed a lot. There are now only two types of damage - Stun and Physical. You still stage wounds like you did in SR1-3, but instead of going from M to S or whatever, you just increase the number of boxes of damage you do. So the 6P in a gun's damage rating meant that a base hit did 6 Physical damage (the equivalent of a Serious wound in the old system). The attacker and defender then stage that number up or down, depending on who got more sucesses on the damage resistance test.It's a big difference, but if you can unlearn the rules from previous editions, it works out far better. It's also more realistic in how it treats armor (in this case, if the damage dealt is less than the armor rating, the round doesn't penetrate so you take Stun damage instead of Physical...more like how modern ballistic armor works in the real world).My review will be up on Ain't It Cool News tomorrow (I talk a lot more about Magic and the Matrix in mine), but the short version is I really like this edition. And I've been playing Shadowrun for almost 2/3 of my life at this point.</blockquote>

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