Re: OOC Idle Chatter
Looking at some of the character ideas that have come up (or may come up) there are a lot of questions about gear - it is SR after all.
In a dice light, no initiative, no modifiers combat system there are a lot of implants, augments, weapons parts and gear that actually have no impact in terms of game mechanics (eg. attention coprocessor, synaptic booster, muscle augmentation or toner, image enhancement, recoil comp, silencers or supressors, extended clips... the list goes on). Feel free to add them to your character and RP the 'effects' but in terms of mechanics, this is all cosmetic. You can do the same for just about any implant or piece of gear - just RP it out. Since I do the rolls, I`ll only add buffs or nerfs for the stuff you have actually 'paid' for in chargen or aquired through advancement and legwork.
Same goes for a lot of the magic accessories like lodge materials, reagents and fetishes. Foci are different however and will provide an in game effect (usually boosted for a specific spell casting or conjuring activity). Formulae are also purchasable gear or can be acquired through research.
Data jacks with image link are almost entirely universal and can add color to a character as well. Whether you RP reading a mission chip or reviewing target dossiers on your laptop, wrist comp, the back of your mirrorshade computer display or projected directly onto your retina, it`s all good.