Equipment (Old)

Any equipment listed in any Shadowrun sourcebook is generally permissible to purchase.

Strike Rules

Tools

Some Skills require tools to use properly. If you don’t have any tools, you can’t attempt the task. If you have makeshift tools only, you may attempt it with Disadvantage. This may depend on the complexity of the task.

Your character starts play with appropriate tools for their starting Skills. These may be lost as a result of Twists. When you learn a new Skill you do not automatically get tools—you must acquire them in play.

Costs

Wealth level 0 Penniless 1 Poor 2 Rich 3 Super-rich

Item/cash parcel value 0 5¥ to 100¥ 1 100¥ to 2,000¥ 2 2,000¥ to 40,000¥ 3 40,000¥ to 800,000¥ 4 800,000¥+

Buying checks

Roll	Cheap	Same Level	Expensive
6	Success + Bonus	Success + Bonus	Success
5	Success + Bonus	Success	Success + Cost
4	Success	Success + Cost	Success + 2 Costs
3	Success	Success + 2 Costs	Twist
2	Success + Cost	Twist	Twist + Flaw
1	Success + 2 Costs	Twist + Flaw	Twist + Flaw

If you try to buy something two levels or more below yours, you can. You do not need to roll. You cannot use your Wealth to buy something two or more levels above yours. If you want to make that sort of purchase, you need to get a loan, find a wealthy patron, or take further measures to be able to do so. To purchase anything else, use the above table to determine the results. Items below your Wealth are labeled “cheap” and items above your Wealth are labeled “expensive.”

There is a Condition that typically goes with Wealth: Short. When you’re Short, you act as though you were one Wealth tier lower. When you get two Costs, one of them is always a Flaw, while the other is either that you are Short or that you owe someone a Favor. The GM will decide which.

Often when you roll a Twist, the GM will ask you if you would rather do without the item in question, or “break the bank” to pay for it. A worse Condition happens when you “break the bank”: being Broke. It’s the same as being Short, but is much harder to recover from. Being Broke does not mean you have no money at all, just much less than you were used to having.

If you get the Short Condition twice, nothing changes. Simply note it down. The third time, however, automatically “breaks the bank” and Short upgrades to Broke. Later on, if you manage to get Short and Broke at the same time, they combine to cause you to treat your Wealth as two levels below normal. Multiple instances of Broke compound too. Effectively, being Broke is the same as a permanent reduction in your Wealth, but with the opportunity to work your way out of it. This is rough, but unlike other Conditions, the GM cannot simply give it to you. You choose it or else earn it by getting three Shorts.

You recover from being Short by working your job and being frugal for a week, or any equivalent way of making money. You can also recover by spending a cash parcel (see below) equal to the Wealth tier you are recovering to. To recover from Broke you need to work your job and live frugally for a year or equivalent, or spend a cash parcel one level above the one you are recovering to.

Shadowrun Equipment

An Always available item can be purchased, owned, and transported by anyone. A check to find such an item will only be required in unusual circumstances, such as trying to find a fresh-baked baguette at midnight in the barrens.

A Restricted availability item requires either a valid SIN or the use of the black market to purchase. These items are not strongly regulated, but are sufficiently restricted that they can't legally be bought with cash. A roll is likely required to find these items on the black market, but with Twists and Costs representing not necessarily a failure to find the item, but a cost, delay, flaw, increase in price, or other negative consequence. Restrictions on possession are unlikely to be enforced unless secondary to other legal or security interaction.

A Controlled item is highly restricted and requires licenses, permits, or other credentials attached to a valid SIN for purchase, possession, and transport. A basic fake SIN is insufficient to buy these items, and a roll is almost certainly required to find them on the black market, likely at disadvantage. Open possession of such items in a high-security area is likely to draw one or more of personal and electronic attention.

Gear

Personal Electronics

Type	Cost	Availability	Description
Commlink	0-1	Always	A portable universal computation and communications device. More expensive models may include military-grade encryption, biometric readers, and limited trid recording gear.
Credstick	0 -1	Always	Generic secure data store. Can act as a passport, keyring, credit card, checkbook, wallet, and business card. Cheaper models may be encrypted using passcodes, while more expensive models include biometric readers.
PANICBUTTON™	1	Restricted	A keychain-sized device providing covert emergency alert and tracking with a chosen security service.

Surveillance

Type	Cost	Availability	Description
Binoculars	0	Always	Allows the user to view objects at a distance.
Laser Microphone	2	Restricted	Used to pull sound off a solid obect, like a windowpane.
Micro-Recorder	1	Restricted	Can record nearby image, sound, and limited trid for up to a week in a device the size of a quarter.
Shotgun Microphone	2	Restricted	Used to listen in on distant conversations.
Telescopic Video Gear	1	Restricted	Can record high-quality video from a significant distance.

Security Devices

Type	Cost	Availability	Description
Biometric Scanners	1	Restricted	Fingerprint scanners, retinal readers, voice and gait analyzers, DNA testers, and more.
Chem Sniffer	2-3	Restricted	Detects airborne molecules. Can be set to alert on detection of particular categories of substances, such as explosives or ammunition propellant.
Cybermod Manacles	2	Restricted	Restraints wrists and ankles, with a mechanism to exert agonizing pressure on tendons and bones if cybermods are extended from the restrained area.
Cyberware Scanner	2	Restricted	A sonic/magnetic scanning wand that detects and identifies cyberware.
Full-Body Scanner	4	Restricted	An enclosed booth that performs a full-body mapping. Can find even hidden cyberware. Takes about a minute to do a full scan.
Headjammer	2	Restricted	A locking headset that jams transmission and reception for implanted radio devices.
Jackstopper	0	Restricted	A plastic insert with a quick-bonding epoxy to fill and plug a cyberjack.
MADS	2	Restricted	Magnetic Anomaly Detectors are used to detect weapons and concentrations of metal. They come in hand-held wand-type designs and free-standing or architecturally-integrated doorway systems.
Skilltwitchers	1	Restricted	Sends a jamming signal into skillwire implants to disrupt all mental and physical activity.

Covert Operations Gear

Bug Scanner	2	Restricted	Detects recording equipment. May be unable to detect sufficiently sophisticated recording setups, but is capable of detecting temporary recording setups.
EM Tool	2	Restricted	A general-purpose tool for analyzing and interacting with electromagnetic signals.
Type	Cost	Availability	Description
Subvocal Mic	0	Restricted	Allows the wearer to record sound subvocally, making them harder to hear.
Ultrasound Detector	0	Restricted	Detects the use of ultrasound, such as used with ultrasonic motion sensor systems and ultrasonic sight.
Ultrasound Spoofer	2	Controlled	In addition to detecting ultrasound fields, can attempt to spoof the ultrasound sensor.

Survival Gear

Type	Cost	Availability	Description
Chemsuit	1	Always	A slick and impermeable set of booted coveralls, hooded poncho, and mittens. The hood is transparent, or mirrored for privacy, and fitted with an air filter. Designer versions are used in major cities on days with hard rain.
Climbing Gear	1	Always	Everything need to climb, including harnesses, rope, gloves, carabiners, crampons, pitons, and so forth.
Climbing Gear (Stealthed)	1	Restricted	Climbing gear with the pitons and ropes that can be electronically triggered to dissolve to a fine powder.
Grapple Gun	1	Restricted	Can shoot a grappling hook more than 50 meters. Can use stealthed rope.
Micro-Flare Launcher	0	Always	This pen-size flare launcher can shoot color-adjustable flares more than 200 meters. The flares can illuminate a city block.
Respirator	1	Always	A small (20 x 10 cm) oxygen cylinder connected to a full or partial face mask provides several hours of air.
Survival Kit	1	Always	A rugged bag containing basic survival gear.

Weapons

Type	Cost	Availability	Description
General
Melee	1	Restricted	Melee weapons designed for combat, but without any particular traits or bonuses.
Ranged	2	Restricted	Ranged weapons designed for combat, but without any particular traits or bonuses.
Specific
Monofilament whip	2	Controlled	Terrifying. Deadly. Iconic. Uses the monofilament whip skill, which can be used for intimidation prior to a fight, given an appropriate combat build. Enemies Taken Out with a monofilament whip are dead.
Ranger Arms SM–5	3	Controlled	A legendary assassin's weapon. Extreme range, sound suppressor, imaging scope, Smartlink, and its plasticeramic construction disassembles for storage in a briefcase that can pass through most security checkpoints, even including a light physical examination.

Characters are assumed to start the game with standard shadowrunner weapons appropriate to their skills and combat build. Characters can buy special weapons that have advantages (e.g., narrative benefits, mechanical benefits, combat benefits) and/or flaws.

Example downsides:

• Flaws: heavy, cumbersome, inconvenient
• Breakable (destroyed one-sixth of times used)

Entertainment

Type	Cost	Availability	Description
Simrig	2	Restricted	A tight-fitting cap contain numerous electrodes allowing playback and limited recording of simsense signals.

Services

DocWagon

Type		Cost	Availability	Description
DocWagon Basic Contract		2	Special	Upon receiving a call from a contract-holder, DocWagon franchises guarantee arrival of an armed trauma team in less than ten minutes, or else the emergency medical care is free. DocWagon does not respond to calls on extraterritorial government or corporate property without permission from the controlling authority.
	High-Threat Response	3	-	Where hostiles need to be cleared for extraction.
	Hospitalization	2	-	For treatment of serious injuries.
	Total Rebuild	4	-	A vat-grown replacement body for recovery from irreparable damage to the body. May be used to rehost a recovered black box. Replacement of unrecovered or destroyed cyberware not included.
DocWagon Gold Contract		3	Special	As a basic contract, but costs for hospitalization are included. Also includes one free high-threat response per year.
DocWagon Platinum Contract		4	Special	As a gold contract, but costs for high-threat response are included. Also includes one free rebuild a year.

A DocWagon contract requires the filing of tissue samples (held in a secure vault staffed by bonded guards, spiders, and mages) and comes with a biomonitor RFID tag implant or wristband that can be activated to call for help and then to serve as a homing beacon for DocWagon armed ambulances and fast-response choppers in the area. Rupture of the band will also alert DocWagon representatives.

SINs

Type	Cost	Availability	Description
Fake SIN	1	Restricted	A SIN with enough presence in a publicly-accessible SIN registry to, until blown, pass a casual identity check, such as might be used to access lightly-secured facilities or during a routine police stop.
Registered SIN	3	Controlled	A SIN identifying you as a citizen of somewhere that someone actually gives a shit about. Until blown, sufficient to travel internationally, purchase equipment listed as restricted, enter highly-secured publicly-accessible facilities, and pass a thorough police stop. Any restricted services tied to a

Ware

Bioware

Type	Cost	Availability	Description
Bioears	2	Restricted	Excellent hearing that extends above and below the normal human range.
Bioeyes	2	Restricted	20/10 vision that works well – and reflects back light – in the dark. These come in a variety of cosmetic options.
Biogills	2	Restricted	Allows breathing in fresh and salt water.
Digestive Expansion	3	Restricted	A modified gastro-intestinal tract allows for the productive consumption of almost anything organic, though low-quality food sources (e.g., grass and leaves) may require massive consumption and long periods of low-activity.
Enhanced Immune System	3	Restricted	Augmented white blood cells can fight off any known mundane disease. Five to ten years of updates can be expected.
Oral Secretion Sacks	3	Controlled	Select one (multiple if taken multiple times) compound to slowly generate for oral excretion on command, to which you are immune: a narcoleptic, a neurotoxin, an intoxicant, a hallucinogen, or other as appropriate.
Scent Glands	3	Restricted	Can be used to release pheromones tailored to the manipulation of non-metahuman animals.
Tailored Pheromones	3	Controlled	Can be used to release pheromones tailored to the manipulation of metahumans.

Cyberware

Type		Cost	Availability	Description
Bone Lacing		2	Restricted	The bones are laced with a reinforced mesh and cannot be broken except by incredible force.
Cranial Bomb		1	Controlled	Just enough explosive power to guarantee painless suicide. Used with DNI-only access by high-level operators to have a final way out of a torture scenario or implanted for radio activation to ensure the loyalty of key or unreliable employees.
Cyberarm		2	Restricted	A strong, untiring grip with inductive data reception and transmission and position sensors for virtual controls. Degree of replacement (partial hand, full hand, forearm, or whole arm; individual or both) may be specified so long as consistent with any additional augmentations selected.
	Arm Compartment	2	Restricted	A long, thin compartment hidden within the forearm or bicep. Very difficult to distinguish from an ordinary cyberarm without a medical-quality scan or major disassembly.
	Climbing Claws	1	Restricted	Extrude tough, unsharpened claws that provide the benefit of climbing gear.
	Fine Senses	2	Restricted	Read printed text by touch, feel the wear patterns on a security keypad, accurately measure temperature and weight, and perform similar detailed measurements of touched or held objects.
	Fingernail Compartment	1	Restricted	A micro-compartment hidden beneath a fingernail, large enough for a data chip or other tiny item. Impossible to distinguish from an ordinary cyberarm without a medical-quality scan or major disassembly.
	Fingerprint Remapper	3	Controlled	Randomize fingerprints or set them to a recorded pattern.
	Gyroscopic Stabilization	2	Restricted	A counterweight levers out from the bicep to balance the hand and forearm against any penalties from an uneven surface or mount.
	Implanted Weapon	2	Controlled	A weapon is implanted in the forearm. Specify at the time of selection. Popular options include collapsing swords, stun batons, monofilament whips, and pistol-caliber slugthrowers. Very difficult to distinguish from an ordinary cyberarm without a medical-quality scan or major disassembly and cannot be disarmed.
	Prybar	2	Restricted	Massive force can be slowly expended in prying something apart.
Cyberears		2	Restricted	Peak human hearing ability with built-in audio recording and playback. One or both ears replaced as preferred so long as consistent with any additional augmentations selected.
	Enhanced Auditory Processing	2	Restricted	Audio processing circuits can execute audio-adjustment software to allow for the filtering of repetitive background noises, the suppression of disorienting sounds, and other basic audio tasks. Typically only used with dual-ear replacement.
	Enhanced Microphones	1	Restricted	Enhanced microphones with increased frequency range and sensitivity.
	Parabolics	2	Restricted	The ear can shift in shape to become a parabolic microphone, allowing the detection of sounds at extreme ranges while blocking out other noise.
	Spatial Positioning Sensors	2	Restricted	Additional implanted sensors around the dome of the head allow the precise location of the source of perceived sounds.
Cybereye		2	Restricted	20/10 vision with built-in image capture and display. One or both eyes replaced as preferred so long as consistent with any additional augmentations selected.
	Cosmetic Modification	1	Always	The color of the iris may be changed on demand.
	Enhanced Optical Processing	1	Restricted	Video processing circuits can execute image-adjustment software to allow for the compensation of significant disparities in illumination (e.g., HDR), the suppression of disorienting lights, and other basic video tasks. Typically only used with dual-eye replacement.
	Low-Light Sensors	1	Restricted	Enhanced sensors function well even in low-light conditions.
	Microscopic Vision	2	Restricted	Optical lenses enhance vision as if looking through a magnifying glass or microscope.
	Retinal Display	3	Controlled	The retinas function as displays and can be assigned a visible pattern, such as might be used to fool a retinal scanner.
	Telescopic Vision	2	Restricted	Optical lenses enhance vision as if looking through a powerful pair of binoculars.
	Thermographic Vision	1	Restricted	Enhanced sensors and visual processing allow the distinct perception of infrared light.
Cyberlegs		2	Restricted	The legs never fall asleep, the owner can sleep standing up (if both replaced), and the soles of the feet provide inductive data reception and transmission. Degree of replacement (partial foot, full foot, calf, or whole leg; individual or both) may be specified so long as consistent with any additional augmentations selected.
	Hidden Holster	2	Restricted	A hidden compartment with an articulated grasper big enough to hold a pistol, collapsable melee weapon, or a grenade. Difficult to distinguish from an ordinary cyberleg without a medical-quality scan or major disassembly.
	Launching Hydraulics	2	Restricted	Hydraulics in the legs can power jumps a dozen yards high and dozens of yards long.
	Prybody	2	Restricted	Requires cyberarm prybar The whole body can prybar, including lifting massively heavy objects off the ground.
	Shock Reinforcement	2	Restricted	Reinforcement of the skeletal frame allow the survival of arbitrarily-long falls with a proper landing, with increasing difficulty for longer falls.
	Tremorsense	3	Restricted	Sensors of the soles of the foot can detect anything moving that is in contact with the ground in the general vicinity.
Cybernose		3	Restricted	Perform chemical analysis of gaseous compounds.
Cybertongue		3	Restricted	Perform chemical analysis of liquid and solid compounds.
Datajack		1	Always	Provides an external link for an implanted DNI and relevant implanted devices.
Head Rig		3	Restricted	An implanted control rig. Wireless link required for wireless access; datajack required for wired access.
Health Monitor		1	Always	Sensors implanted throughout the body provide real-time feedback of health status, with customizable alerts.
Laser Rangefinder		3	Restricted	An optical band around the rim of the head provides 360° distance perception in the immediate area.
Mouth Gun		3	Controlled	A micro-dart gun implanted in the mouth, able to deliver various compounds at short ranges.
Optical Sensor		2	Restricted	An additional optical sensor implanted in the body.
Oxygen Reserve Tank		2	Restricted	An implanted tank of air supplies sufficient oxygen for a few hours. Refills through breathing over the course of a day, with an optional external rapid-refill port.
Personal Black Box		4	Restricted	The skull is massively reinforced and armored, the brain is laced with a shock-absorbing web, and a hibernation suspension system is implanted at the back of the head. The brain will survive for several days after a normally fatal injury or accident, though the rest of the body may die. A configurable radio beacon can be set to alert a rescuer, such as DocWagon with a suitable contract.
Reality Check		1	Restricted	An implanted coded chip with protected DNI access. Can be used to verify whether one is unknowingly experiencing full-immersion simsense.
Skull-deck		3	Restricted	An implanted deck. Wireless link required for wireless access; datajack required for wired access.
Sleep Regulator		3	Restricted	Sleep requirements are halved in both duration and frequency, what little sleep that is needed can be achieved on demand, recovery from sleep is nearly instantaneous, and other appropriate functions.
Voice Remodulator		3	Controlled	Dynamically codeable voice remodulation. Modifies tone and pitch, but not pronunciation, word choice, or other verbal elements of impersonation.
Wireless Link		1	Always	DNI access to wireless telecommunications and for relevant connected devices.

Magical Goods

Formulae

Type	Cost	Availability	Description
Combat Spells	2	Controlled	Combat spell list
Detection Spells	2	Restricted	Detection spell list
Health Spells	2	Restricted	Health spell list
Illusion Spells	2	Controlled	Illusion spell list
Manipulation Spells	2	Controlled	Manipulation spell list
Ritual	3	Controlled	Ritual list

Combat Spells

All combat spells require support in the Tactical Combat build of the character.

• Acid Stream
• Toxic Wave
• Punch
• Clout
• Blast
• Death Touch
• Manabolt
• Manaball
• Flamethrower
• Fireball
• Lightning Bolt
• Ball Lightning
• Shatter
• Powerbolt
• Powerball
• Knockout
• Stunbolt
• Stunball

Detection Spells

• Analyze Device
• Analyze Magic
• Analyze Truth
• Clairaudience
• Clairvoyance
• Combat Sense
• Detect Enemies
• Detect Enemies, Extended
• Detect Individual
• Detect Life
• Detect Life, Extended
• Detect [Life Form]
• Detect [Life Form], Extended
• Detect Magic
• Detect Magic, Extended
• Detect [Object]
• Mindlink
• Mind Probe

Health Spells

• Antidote
• Cure Disease
• Decrease [Attribute]
• Detox
• Heal (Tactical Combat build only)
• Increase [Attribute]
• Increase Reflexes
• Oxygenate
• Prophylaxis
• Resist Pain
• Stabilize

Illusion Spells

• Agony
• Mass Agony
• Bugs
• Swarm
• Confusion
• Mass Confusion
• Chaos
• Chaotic World
• Entertainment
• Trid Entertainment
• Invisibility
• Improved Invisibility
• Mask
• Physical Mask
• Phantasm
• Trid Phantasm
• Hush
• Silence
• Stealth

Manipulation Spells

• Animate
• Mass Animate
• Armor (Tactical Combat build only)
• Control Actions
• Mob Control
• Control Thoughts
• Mob Mind
• Fling
• Ice Sheet
• Ignite
• Influence
• Levitate
• Light
• Magic Fingers
• Mana Barrier
• Physical Barrier
• Poltergeist
• Shadow

Rituals

• Curse
• Prodigal Spell
• Remote Sensing
• Ward
• Circle of Protection
• Circle of Healing
• Renascence
• Watcher
• Homunculus