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
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| Roll | Cheap | Same Level | Expensive |
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| 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 |
Shadowrun Equipment
A restricted item can be purchased, owned, and transported only under special circumstances. You are allowed to purchase and own a gun with the requisite firearms permit, and you can carry it with you with a special concealed carry permit. Licenses and permits can be obtained through legal channels, as long as you’re a solid citizen with a legal SIN—of course, that goes for shadowrunners with fake SINs acquiring fake licenses, too. A fake license is connected to a fake SIN, and if one of them is exposed, the other becomes worthless.
Forbidden items are never okay for anyone to own or buy or have—at least not for you, a private citizen. No amount of licensing or permits will make owning one anything like permissible in the eyes of the law.
Weapons
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.
| Type | Cost | Legality | Availability | Special |
| Professional melee weapons | 1 | Restricted | Uncommon | Shadowrunner starting gear and typical gear for security forces. Sufficient to perform relevant skills checks and combat actions with particular upsides or downsides. |
| Low-quality melee weapons | 1 | Restricted | Common | Seond-hand or badly built even if new. One downside. |
| Repurposed legal items | 0 | Unrestricted | Common | Kitchen knives, baseball bats, and other weapons of last resort. Breakable and another downside. |
| Combat axe | 2 | Restricted | Restricted | |
| Monofilament whip | 2 | Forbidden | Rare | Terrifying. Deadly. Iconic. For an Action Point, you can gain an additional instance of damage on a critical hit instead of receiving the doubled damage. When gaining a Strike for using this weapon, gain an additional Strike. Requires an appropriate Skill. |
Example downsides:
- Flaws: heavy, cumbersome, inconvenient
- Breakable (destroyed one-sixth of times used)