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Introduction
Lifestyle provides a measure of the quality
of a shadowrunner’s daily life and the expens-
es required to maintain it. The advanced life-
style rules in the Sixth World Companion (p.
179, 6WC) expanded lifestyles with qualities
to provide more details about how runners live
their lives. In this book, we introduce an alter-
nate way of adding details of your character’s
lifestyles, adding new options for travel, social
networking, and personal growth. In most cas-
es, lifestyle qualities in the Sixth World Com-
panion are compatible with these alternative
lifestyle rules, though some additional rules or
wording may apply. Advanced lifestyle rules
fill in the gaps with general details for when a
character hasn’t purchased specific gear for se-
curity, transportation, fashion, etc. These rules
help to streamline record-keeping as much as
possible while incorporating more details into
your lifestyle. Finally, the rules included add
more detail and meaning to a lifestyle through
the addition of perks and quirks.
Getting Started
Start by choosing the lifestyle category of
your character as per the core rulebook (p. 57,
SR6): Street, Squatter, Low, Middle, High, or
Luxury. This defines the baseline look and feel
of how the character lives. Each lifestyle has
five basic elements to it: Necessities, Comforts,
Neighborhood, Security, and Entertainment.
The lifestyle and monthly cost chosen deter-
mines the Lifestyle Points (LP) available to
spend in each element (see Lifestyle Monthly
Costs table). These points are spent on op-
tions for each basic element and give clarity
on how the character lives. General LP can be
spent on any assets within the basic elements,
or they may be used on optional assets, such as
transportation, social networking, and lifestyle
qualities. If you don’t spend all of the LP pro-
vided for one element, you may subtract one
from your leftover LP in order to convert the
rest to General LP—which can then be spent
on any elements or lifestyle qualities. While
the rules of each lifestyle asset apply to any
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lifestyle, your lifestyle category defines the nar-
rative details.
Rikki the Rat shaman wants a Low
lifestyle. At its base level, Low lifestyle on
the table provides two LP for each element:
Necessities, Comforts, Neighborhood,
Security, and Entertainment. Looking at
the table, Rikki can get up to four more
LP for things like transportation, though
the monthly cost increases. If Rikki wants
5 LP in each basic element, he would have
to begin with a Middle Lifestyle instead.
Ulysses chooses a High lifestyle, which
provides 4 LP in each basic element. In
Necessities, Ulysses only wants to spend
two LP on Living Expenses, leaving two
LP unspent. The remaining two LP can be
converted to one general LP for any asset
or lifestyle quality.
Lifestyle Category Ratings
RATING LIFESTYLE
0 Street
1 Squatter
2
3
Low
Middle
4 High
5 Luxury
Lifestyle Basics
Lifestyle SIN
Any lifestyle category of Middle or higher
requires a SIN—you must either tie it to their
real SIN (which requires the SINner quality,
p. 84, SR6) or have a fake SIN with a rating
equal to or higher than the lifestyle category
rating (rating 3 for Middle, 4 for High, and 5
for Luxury).
Moving on Up (or Down)
Unexpected events may require you to ad-
just your lifestyle. At the beginning of every
month, you can revise your lifestyle as long as
you aren’t behind on your lifestyle payments.
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lifestyle monthly costs
NEIGHBORHOOD ENTERTAINMENT
LIFESTYLE MONTHLY COST NECESSITIES (LP) COMFORTS (LP) SECURITY (LP) GENERAL (LP) TOTAL LP
(LP) (LP)
Street 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Street 100 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Street 200 0 0 0 0 0 2 2
Street 300 0 0 0 0 0 3 3
Street 400 0 0 0 0 0 4 4
Squatter 500 1 1 1 1 1 0 5
Squatter 800 1 1 1 1 1 1 6
Squatter 1,100 1 1 1 1 1 2 7
Squatter 1,400 1 1 1 1 1 3 8
Squatter 1,700 1 1 1 1 1 4 9
Low 2,000 2 2 2 2 2 0 10
Low 2,600 2 2 2 2 2 1 11
Low 3,200 2 2 2 2 2 2 12
Low 3,800 2 2 2 2 2 3 13
Low 4,400 2 2 2 2 2 4 14
Middle 5,000 3 3 3 3 3 0 15
Middle 6,000 3 3 3 3 3 1 16
Middle 7,000 3 3 3 3 3 2 17
Middle 8,000 3 3 3 3 3 3 18
Middle 9,000 3 3 3 3 3 4 19
High 10,000 4 4 4 4 4 0 20
High 15,000 4 4 4 4 4 1 21
High 20,000 4 4 4 4 4 2 22
High 25,000 4 4 4 4 4 3 23
High 30,000 4 4 4 4 4 4 24
High 35,000 4 4 4 4 4 5 25
High 40,000 4 4 4 4 4 6 26
High 45,000 4 4 4 4 4 7 27
High 50,000 4 4 4 4 4 8 28
High 55,000 4 4 4 4 4 9 29
Luxury 100,000 5 5 5 5 5 5 30

At this time, you may also reassign your LP to Maintaining a Lifestyle

change up your lifestyle assets as desired. You
may also adjust the level of your lifestyle up
or down, which provides more or fewer LP to
spend on lifestyle assets. If you want to move
to a new lifestyle category, use the same rules
as shown in Getting Started (p. xx)—maybe
your fellow runners will help you move.
example
Rikki just got banned from yet another bar. He
decides to become more refined in his downtime and
visit museums. In Rikki’s lifestyle, the LP spent on
Club/Bar are moved to Patron of the Arts at the be-
ginning of next month. Rikki’s monthly lifestyle cost
doesn’t change.
Running is hard. Sometimes a score doesn’t
cover your monthly expenses. When you don’t
make your lifestyle payment at the beginning
of a new month, the GM rolls a number of
dice equal to twice the lifestyle category rating
(minimum one). Any hits are subtracted from
the LP total from each column on the Lifestyle
Monthly Costs table. You must choose what
options to give up within each element, and it’s
probably a good idea to cut back on the op-
tional choices with your General LP to cover
for the losses from your basic elements—but
that’s up to you, chummer. You may not move
to a higher lifestyle category until you’re paid
up. If you miss your lifestyle payments two
months in a row, your lifestyle category goes to
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the next lowest (for example, Middle to Low,
Low to Squatter). And if you keep missing
payments, your lifestyle category keeps going
down by one each month until you either pay
up or hit rock bottom.
Roommates
When two or more people share a home,
they can share the lifestyle costs, although hav-
ing extra people increases the monthly cost by
10 percent for each additional person beyond
the first. Extra Mouth to Feed must also be
purchased as an asset in Necessities for each
additional roommate. The tricky part is prob-
ably going to be getting everyone to agree on
how the rest of the LP are spent.
Getting Burned
If the SIN attached to your lifestyle is burned,
so is the lifestyle associated with it. In 24 hours,
any assets associated with the SIN become un-
available: subscriptions are canceled, assets are
repossessed or seized by collections, and it’s a
safe bet that law enforcement will be stopping
by your place to make an arrest in even less
time. Unless you have a safehouse, bolt hole, or
other secondary lifestyle, your lifestyle category
goes all the way down to Street until you can
set up a new lifestyle under a different SIN—or
maybe one of your fellow runners will let you
move in with them.
Lifestyle
Elements and
Assets
As previously stated, there are five basic
elements to a lifestyle: Necessities, Com-
forts, Neighborhood, Security, and Enter-
tainment. These are assigned LP to spend
on options when you pick a level of lifestyle
and monthly cost. There are also a number
of optional assets associated to a lifestyle
that fall outside the basic lifestyle elements,
and may only be purchased using general
LP. The assets within these elements paint a
detailed picture of your character’s lifestyle.
Each asset may be represented differently
based on your lifestyle category. What you
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can afford to eat at the Street level category
is vastly different from a High lifestyle diet.
Note that there are negative effects that ap-
ply if you don’t spend any LP on certain
lifestyle assets. These represent fundamen-
tal physical and mental metahuman needs—
if you skimp on those, it will be detrimental
to you.
Necessities
Necessities cover those aspects of life every
metahuman needs to survive, namely food,
water, and shelter. Do you fend for yourself,
searching through dumpsters for scraps, or
do you have the means to get soystuff and
more? Note that if you don’t spend two LP
on the Living Expenses asset, you’re going to
go hungry.
Extra Mouths to Feed
For each two LP spent, your Living Expens-
es asset covers the basic survival requirements
of another roommate or a dependent (this as-
set is not available if you do not also purchase
the Living Expenses asset). Extra Mouths to
Feed reduces the additional financial expens-
es incurred by the Dependents quality by 200
nuyen.
Cost: 2 LP
Living Expenses
Living Expenses provides a roof over your
head and a daily amount of food and water to
survive. Without this asset, at the end of ev-
ery day you must make an Outdoors (Surviv-
al) (3) test. Gain a point of Edge on this test
if you spend at least 100 nuyen on supplies.
If you fail, you gain one level of the Fatigued
status. Every day you must make another test.
If you succeed, all levels of the Fatigued status
are removed, but if you fail you gain another
level of the Fatigued status. You don’t need to
make these tests during downtime—one test
at the beginning of each session and another
one for every day that passes during your ses-
sions is enough. However, your constant state
of malnourishment prevents you from gaining
or spending Edge during downtime. Your Edge
refreshes as normal at the start of each session,
even if you gain the Fatigued status.
Cost: 2 LP
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Lifestyle Category Details
Street/Squatter: Hacked vending machine,
soup kitchens, scavenged scraps, the occasion-
al devil-rat-on-a-stick
Low/Medium: Soy processing unit with fla-
vor packets, meal packs, stuffers
High/Luxury: Fresh food, nice restaurants
Survival Assets
Tending to a garden, orchard, mushroom
farm, chicken/cricket coop, or other similar
alternative provides an alternative source for
the basics you need in order to survive. Spend-
ing one LP on Survival Assets provides a bonus
Edge to Outdoors (Survival) tests. Spending
two or more LP on Survival Assets is equiv-
alent to purchasing Living Expenses. If you
have both Living Expenses and at least one LP
invested in Survival Assets, you gain a +1 dice
pool modifier per LP spent on Survival Assets
on natural recovery tests (p. 120, SR6).
Cost: 1 or more LP
Lifestyle Category Details
Street/Squatter: A makeshift cricket hatch-
ery, a wild berry bush on the side of a freeway,
somebody’s koi pond
Low/Medium: Potted herb garden, kombu-
cha/kimchi fermentation tools
High/Luxury: Apple orchard, fishing pond
Comforts
Comforts include things necessary not just
to survive but also thrive. Everything is bet-
ter with comforts, which transform a place to
sleep into a home. This includes things that
can be overlooked and taken for granted such
as sanitation and privacy, as well as the more
modern aspects that metahumans are used to:
reliable Matrix access, electricity, air condi-
tioning, heating, and other utilities. Note that
if you don’t spend any LP on the Personal Hy-
giene asset, you won’t look your best.
Personal Hygiene
Personal hygiene includes basic hygiene as
well as your make-up, wardrobe, persona cus-
tomization services, and all the other details
that help you express who you are to the world
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around you. If you maintain multiple identi-
ties, you must purchase this asset for each of
them. If you don’t spend any LP on this asset,
all Edge boosts and actions related to Influence
tests cost an additional point of Edge.
Cost: 1 LP each
Lifestyle Category Details
Street/Squatter: Basic hygiene kit, occasion-
al access to a sink with a mirror, public show-
ers, clothing from thrift stores and vending
machines
Low/Medium: A fully functional bathroom
at home, decent street or work clothes, regular
access to professional hair and makeup ser-
vices
High/Luxury: Automated walk-in closet,
luxury spa membership, fancy wardrobe sub-
scription service
Metatype Adjustments
If your metatype falls outside of the sizes
and shapes typical to humans, aspects of your
physical lifestyle will require some adjust-
ments (more leg/head/hoof room). Most struc-
tures are only designed with human shapes
sizes in mind. At one LP, everything you have
has been reduced or enlarged to fit a metatype
other than human, elf, or ork. This replaces the
10 percent markup on the metahuman adjust-
ment cost added to your gear. In the case of
pixies, centaurs, naga, and other metasapients
with a 20 percent adjustment cost, this asset
costs two LP.
For anyone else of a different metatype, no
Edge may be gained or spent on any tests made
to maneuver through your home, and when
applicable suffers the –2 dice pool penalty for
using unadapted gear (p. 247, SR6). In the case
of metasapients, this penalty is doubled to a
–4 dice pool penalty. The gamemaster may ad-
just this penalty according to the situation—a
centaur’s handheld weapon should not give
penalties for a human to use, and it’s totally
impossible to fit a troll in a pixie’s safehouse).
Cost: 1 or 2 LP
Privacy
Privacy is not just the personal space
around you or your home—it’s also how much
of your information is recorded and made
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publicly available to anyone with a commlink.
Maintaining privacy requires spending some
of your time and attention changing up your
routines, limiting your interactions with public
social media platforms, and paying a premi-
um to your Matrix service provider to reduce
the amount of information they package and
sell for marketing purposes. Without this as-
set, others gain a bonus point of Edge on Ma-
trix Search actions to gather information on
you, Outdoors tests to track you down, and
any Con and Influence tests opposed by you.
For one LP, you prevent these drawbacks. For
two LP, you take your privacy very seriously,
requiring you to change up your travel routes
and daily routines on a regular basis as well
as pay for subscriptions to some of the more
aggressive privacy protection services avail-
able. In this case, others may not gain or spend
Edge when attempting a Matrix Search action
to gather info about you, an Outdoors test to
track you, or any other test to acquire infor-
mation about you from a contact such as a fix-
er or information broker.
Cost: 1 or 2 LP
Improved Astral Privacy
You are good at hiding your astral tracks
and have a few simple mana barriers around,
or maybe you just take steps to make your
doss stand out less from astral perception. Add
Lifestyle category rating to any astral tracking
modifier to track you when you are in your
home (p. 161, SR6). The Force of the astral
barriers protecting your home is equal the
your lifestyle category rating (1 for Squatter, 2
for Low, 3 for Middle, etc.).
Cost: 1 LP
Improved Matrix Privacy
You’ve developed Matrix security habits
that a fugitive hacker would consider para-
noid, and you regularly pay an illicit privacy
service to cover your digital tracks. The thresh-
old of all Matrix Search actions to find you is
increased by one, and you gain a bonus point
of Edge on any tests to resist Matrix Percep-
tion and Trace Icon actions that target you.
Cost: 1 LP
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Lifestyle Category Details
Street/Squatter: Sticking to the shadows be-
neath the streets and along the alleyways, tak-
ing care not to sign up for services that track
your information.
Low/Medium: Intrusively paranoid Matrix
security habits, pay with basic credstick, regu-
lar and random changes to your routines and
routes that you travel.
High/Luxury: Digital watchdog agent soft-
ware that erases the day-to-day traces you
leave on the Matrix as part, anti-paparazzi
drones that interfere with surveillance drones
near you, paid decoys that leave false trails.
Permits
Everything associated to your SIN (real or
fake) that isn’t outright illegal is covered by le-
gitimate permits and licenses (p. 245, SR6). If
your lifestyle is associated with a real SIN, this
asset costs one LP. If your lifestyle is associated
with a fake SIN, then it costs two LP (p. 273,
SR6). Note that gear with an (I) next to its avail-
ability is illegal and is not available for a license.
Gear with an (L) next to its availability must be
covered by a license to be considered legal. No
license is required for other gear. Any gear that
is covered under the Permits is known to any-
one who succeeds on a Matrix Search action to
gather information about you. You may choose
not to get a license for gear that you would pre-
fer to leave unregistered. Note that these per-
mits are not fake licenses—they are real licens-
es that have been approved through legitimate
channels. If your lifestyle is attached to a fake
SIN, it must be rating 4 or higher—lower-quali-
ty fake SINs are identified and burned if you use
them to apply for a real license.
Cost: 1 or 2 LP
Sanitation
How clean are things? Without Sanitation,
dirt and pollution can pile up. Mold is a dou-
ble threat, causing digestive and respiratory
problems. Access to a shower and laundry ser-
vices doesn’t come for free. If you don’t spend
any LP on this asset, you can’t gain or spend
Edge on natural recovery tests, and the severity
of any triggered allergies are increased by one
level.
Cost: 1 LP
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Lifestyle Category Details
Street/Squatter: Public laundromat, pay-
per-use showers, and public restrooms
Low/Medium: Private bathroom, sink, ap-
pliances, basic cleaning drone
High/Luxury: Pristine conditions main-
tained by metahuman employees
Neighborhood
A neighborhood is the part of town you
live in. The Neighborhood element covers po-
lice and security services, access to resources,
the status of local pollution, crime, presence
of local gangs, and the general public reputa-
tion of the area. Note that if you don’t invest
any LP in the Neighborhood Rating asset,
your neighborhood’s rating is E. Check with
your GM to determine what areas of town are
available for your home neighborhood based
on the Security Rating.
Neighborhood Rating
What security protocols are a part of your
everyday life? This is more about how strict
the rules are than about how closely you fol-
low them. Typically, you know the rules of the
neighborhood and either how to obey them or
bend them without attracting too much heat.
The Neighborhood Rating asset defines your
local Security Rating (p. 238-240, SR6). Be-
cause of the expense, it covers both the general
protection of your residence and the law en-
forcement status of the whole neighborhood.
The default rating of your home security de-
vices (maglocks, cameras, motion sensors,
alarm systems) is equal to the LP invested in
this asset. You may also choose to augment this
with the purchase of specific gear. If you adjust
this asset to a different rating, this change rep-
resents either a move to a new place or a major
change in your neighborhood.
Cost: 0-6 LP
local security
LP SECURITY RATING
0 E or lower
1 D
2 C
3 B
4 A
5 AA
6 AAA
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Cleaning Services
Somebody comes by to tidy up the messes
you leave behind (trash, dirty dishes, laundry,
etc.), and keeps your home clean. Your com-
mon or seasonal allergies trigger at one level
of severity lower, to a minimum of Mild (p.
75, SR6).
Cost: 1 LP
Discreet Cleaning Services
A no-questions-asked cleaning service is
available to tidy up the messes you leave be-
hind (including bullets, bodies, and blood).
When the gamemaster rolls for Heat, your per-
sonal Heat modifier is reduced by one.
Cost: 2 LP
Delivery Services
Did you forget to bring something? Did
you need someone to deliver some goodies you
picked up back to your place? Maybe need
some Stuffer Shack snacks at your safehouse?
You have a subscription to a local delivery ser-
vice. You can remotely purchase any legal item
up to Availability 4 and it will be delivered to
your location within one hour (1D6 x 10 min-
utes). Your purchase history is recorded by the
delivery company, but they promise not to sell
it to anyone else—and if you believe that, I’ve
got some magic beans for sale.
Cost: 1 LP
Special Delivery Services
You have an arrangement with a special de-
livery service used by shadowrunners and oth-
er criminals. You can remotely purchase any
item up to Availability 4 and it will be deliv-
ered to your location within an hour (1D6 x
10 minutes), regardless of legality. All purchase
and delivery records are deleted, and they don’t
give a frag whether the cargo is illegal or not.
Cost: 2 LP
More Space
Having your own space is important. As
part of your comforts, you may have enough
room to yourself, or your place might be
cramped and cluttered. This includes spaces
within your residence as well as alternate spots
where you can let your guard down. For ex-
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ample, you might rent out a coffin hotel space,
but you have found an alternate space with
enough room to do your own thing. If you do
not assign any LP to Space, the interval for all
Extended tests made in the safety and comfort
of your home are doubled, and you don’t have
room to use anything bigger than a tool kit.
Setting up a magical lodge with a Force higher
than 1 is out of the question. For 1 LP, you
have a little bit of room—enough to prevent
those penalties and allow for a single tool shop
or a magical lodge up to Force 2. For 2 LP, you
have enough room for up to two shops or one
facility, or a magical lodge up to Force 4. For
three LP you have enough room for multiple
shops and facilities and a magical lodge of any
rating.
Cost: 1-3 LP
extra space
LP SPACE (EXAMPLE)
1 A small yard or patio
A single car garage or backyard that can be
2 temporary used for a lodge or workshop. A
rooftop, basement, or small yard.
Wide-open space, multi-car garage, hangar,
3
or other outbuilding.
Special Services
Special services function just like a contact,
but with Connection rating equal to the LP
cost and Loyalty rating of 1. You must specify
the type of service (armorer, mechanic, deck-
meister, fence, etc.). Per the gamemaster’s dis-
cretion, a service can be converted into a con-
tact through roleplaying and spending Karma
and/or nuyen.
Cost: 1 or more LP
Security
Security covers the steps you have taken to
protect yourself, your home, and your stuff.
This encompasses more than just one physical
location or purchased gear. A very paranoid
character could have multiple places to hide.
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Bolt Hole/Safehouse/
Panic Room
The concept of a safehouse or panic room is
to create a safe space in case of an emergency.
A panic room is a well-hidden and reinforced
space within your residence. A safehouse or
bolt hole is in another location. If you have a
safehouse or bolt hole when your regular life-
style is burned, this asset is not lost until the
end of the month—after which you may dis-
card it, add it to your new lifestyle, or make it
your primary residence for your next lifestyle.
Add two to the threshold for any test made to
track you down when you are using this asset.
Cost: 4, 6, or 8 LP
Panic Room
For 4 LP, a panic room is added as a secret
room within your residence. This room is rein-
forced, chemically sealed, and can be completely
shielded from the Matrix with a Minor Action.
Make sure you call for help or hit the panic but-
ton before you activate the Matrix shielding!
Bolt Hole
For 4 LP, you have a well-hidden and se-
cure bolt hole located somewhere within ten
kilometers of your residence. A bolt hole isn’t
a comfortable living space and offers very few
creature comforts beyond a place to sleep, a
mini-fridge or cooler, and a microwave for
heating up your stuffers. You may not gain or
spend Edge on natural recovery tests while you
are living in a bolt hole.
Safehouse
For 6 LP, you maintain a well-stocked, ful-
ly furnished safe house in a hidden or isolated
location within fifty kilometers of your resi-
dence. If your old digs get burned, you could
easily make this your new home.
Long Distance Safe House
For 8 LP, you remotely maintain a well-
stocked, fully furnished safehouse in a hidden
or isolated location somewhere far from where
you live. If you need to skip town, you’ll have
a comfortable place to land. Some runners
maintain a safehouse in another city where
they occasionally travel to do business.
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Lifestyle Category Details
Street/Squatter: Abandoned warehouse,
maintenance tunnels, storage unit
Low/Medium: Reinforced and hidden space
in an industrial area, cabin in the woods
High/Luxury: Secure hotel accommodations,
spare apartment, isolated house, secret lair
Bug Out Container
If the bolt hole fails and you need to get out
of town, you have a bug out container hidden
away for just such an occasion. This asset rep-
resents a reliably well-hidden spot to stash an
emergency kit of gear, so you can be 100 per-
cent certain that it will be there when you need
it. For one LP, you have enough room to store
what you could reasonably fit in your pockets.
This could be a collection of small items, such
as a fake SIN and a few credsticks, or a single
item up to the size of a heavy pistol. For two
LP, you have enough room to stash as much
gear as you can reasonably carry on your per-
son. For three LP, you have enough room to
stash a vehicle or enough gear to furnish your
next apartment.
Cost: 1, 2, or 3 LP
Defensive Setup
Your choice of residence, hangout, or shop
has been overly engineered for security. Every
angle and every corner is just slight offset to
prevent a clear shot into any room. Tables,
doors, and high-backed chairs have a layer of
Kevlar or are filled with ImpactGel. Not so
aesthetically pleasing, but it provides decent
resistance to flying shrapnel. You’ve also ar-
ranged reinforced defensive positions within
your residence. When you are inside or within
20 meters of your home, you benefit from Cov-
er 1. You may take cover up to Cover 4 from
anywhere inside or within 20 meters of your
home with a Minor Action. Only you gain this
bonus, and anyone else who takes cover in or
near your home is limited to Cover 3.
Cost: 3 LP
Lifestyle Category Details
Street/Squatter: Stacks of debris, barrels
Low/Medium: Reinforced doors, barred
windows, heavy furniture
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High/Luxury: Deployable cover, tastefully
reinforced alcoves, bullet-resistant windows
Escape Route
There’s always a way out—you made sure
of that. An escape route sets up a dramatic exit
from your residence, hangout, shop, or other
specified location. Discuss with the GM where
these escape locations are and what their na-
ture is (hidden tunnel, secret door, trap door,
etc.). If you are near your escape route, you
may spend five Edge to escape along with any
allies who wish to join you. Unless you are
grappled, even if you are surrounded or in the
midst of combat, you and your team get away
clean.
Cost: 1 LP each
Warranty Voider
(Home Edition)
As per the quality Voider of Warranties (p.
84, H&S), you’ve tinkered with a few devices
around the home to make them more secure.
Add one to the rating of all of the devices in
your home, which have been customized to
a degree that most would consider eccentric.
Whenever you perform an Extended test from
within your home, gain a point of Edge that
must be used on that test or lost. You must
have access to the appropriate tools in order to
gain this benefit. Additionally, if you have the
Voider of Warranties quality (p. 84, H&S), you
gain a number of bonus upgrade points equal
to your lifestyle category: none for Street, 1 for
Squatter, 2 for Low, 3 for Middle, 4 for High,
and 5 for Luxury). These can be used on any of
your upgraded devices.
Cost: 2 LP
Entertainment
What do you like to do for fun? Are you
a regular at a local watering hole? Do you
follow trends in music, trid series, or Matrix
games? Entertainment covers various activi-
ties, social functions, and other fun things you
like to do, both in and outside of your home.
For every LP invested in Entertainment, spec-
ify one of your entertainment interests. If you
invest at least one LP in Entertainment assets,
the Karma costs for acquiring or improving
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knowledge and language skills that are direct-
ly related to your entertainment interests are
reduced by one. You also gain a bonus Edge
on any Memory or Perception tests that relate
to your entertainment interests. If you don’t
invest any LP in Entertainment, you no lon-
ger get the Karma discount or gain Edge from
this element—though you still get to keep any
knowledge skills (including specialization and
expertise) that you acquired.
Club/Bar/
Restaurant Access
There’s a place that knows your name
(good or bad) and allows you in. It’s your
second home sometimes. Specify a bar, club,
restaurant, or other similar venue. You have
the equivalent of the Home Ground quality (p.
72, SR6) while inside. This costs one LP for
any smaller club, bar, or restaurant, and two
LP for those places that require a reservation
(Big Rhino, Club Penumbra, Dante’s). You can
always get in when they’re open, and they’ll
have a table waiting for you on a moment’s
notice. You gain a point of Edge on Influence
tests when inside the club, bar, or restaurant.
With a successful Influence (3) test, you can
convince the bouncers to assist you—provid-
ing backup in a fight, or perhaps preventing
one by not letting your antagonists through
the front door.
Cost: 1 or 2 LP per venue
Lifestyle Category Details
Street/Squatter: You work under the table
(mopping floors, taking out trash) in exchange
for cocktails and meals, and you’re well-liked
by the regular staff.
Low/Medium: You’ve patronized the es-
tablishment often enough that everyone who
works there knows you by name, and what
your usual order is.
High/Luxury: When you walk in the door,
you’re given the VIP treatment—both manage-
ment and staff fawn over you to ensure that
you enjoy your visit.
Entertainment Assets
Libraries, trid theaters, Matrix games, ta-
bletop gaming groups, and attending sports
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events are but a few examples of Entertain-
ment Assets that help you pass the time. Pub-
lic Entertainment Assets are facilities and ac-
tivities are shared with others: local library
(Matrix or otherwise), gym, swimming pool,
movie theater, etc. These have specific hours
they are open and limited hours of operation
(for example, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays), so
they may not always fit with a runner’s sched-
ule. Private Entertainment Assets are your
own and most likely accessed within your
residence. Private assets have no limit to their
use or access time.
Cost: 1 LP each for public, 2 LP each for
private
Lifestyle
Category Details
Street/Squatter: A library card, cheap seats
to local sports events, public swimming pool,
subscriptions to free podcasts.
Low/Medium: Streaming service subscrip-
tions, tickets to live sports, music, or theater
events, a pool or foosball table, basic home en-
tertainment system.
High/Luxury: Live entertainment, VIP
seats at sports, music, or theater events, be-
spoke trid and simsense entertainment, a home
library with real books.
Patron of the Arts
(Subject type)
Be it in music, history, sports, or art, you
enjoy supporting the creation of art and en-
tertainment. You spend your time going to
concerts, museums, sports arenas, conven-
tions, and even have a good-sized collection of
material related to the subject. In addition to
knowledge tests, the player may use lifestyle
category rating as a dice-pool bonus on any
social or legwork-related tests when it relates
to the subject type. This would include getting
into conventions, concerts, even some parties.
At the GMs discretion, a successful Influence
(Etiquette) (3) test gets you backstage passes
or exclusive access that isn’t available to the
general public. You also gain a bonus point of
Edge for all social skill tests when interacting
with an artist or fan of the subject you are a
Patron of the Arts for.
Cost: 1 LP per subject
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Lifestyle Category Details
Street/Squatter: You regularly make small
donations to support local artists or a sports
team
Low/Medium: You have season tickets to a
sports arena, theater, or museum, you main-
tain premium super-fan subscription access to
a band or solo musician
High/Luxury: You’re recognized as a signif-
icant sponsor of your local sports team, the-
ater, or museum, and the bands you’re into
know you by name because of how much and
how frequently you donate
Optional
Lifestyle Assets
Transportation Assets
How do you get around town? Some run-
ners may buy their own vehicle or hitch a ride
with the rigger, but what if you don’t have
those options? The Transportation element of
a lifestyle adds details to your preferred meth-
od of getting from point A to B. If you don’t
invest in any Transportation assets, you’ll ei-
ther have to walk or shell out for every cab
and bus ride. If you have the Motorpool qual-
ity (p. 169, Double Clutch) and invest at least
one LP in any Transportation asset, the Edge
cost to acquire a temporary vehicle is reduced
by one.
Long-Distance
Transportation
Representing more luxurious or globetrot-
ting modes of transportation, you have access
to long-distance transportation on a ship, air-
ship, or a plane, allowing travel to any major
port or airport in the world. For 4 LP, this rep-
resents above-board legal transportation that
follows all local laws and only departs and
arrives at official airports or docks. For 8 LP,
this represents preferential treatment that will
bend the rules and drop you off at unofficial
locations.
Cost: 4 or 8 LP
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Lifestyle Category Details
Street/Squatter: A ride in the cargo com-
partment
Low/Medium: General seating, flying
coach, cramped cabin
High/Luxury: First-class seating, a comfort-
able cabin
Private Transportation
You have a subscription to a private trans-
portation service. This service is only available
in areas with a Security Rating of at least D,
which requires that you spend at least one LP
in the Neighborhood Rating asset if you want
them to pick you up from your home. Taxis,
commuter hoppers, and even cars with flesh-
and-blood drivers are ready to pick you up
24 hours a day and can get you close to your
destination, and will arrive 2D6 minutes after
you request a ride. They won’t pick you up if
you’re in a combat situation, and won’t take
risks or break any laws on your behalf during
the ride. If you’re being chased, whether by
gangers, law enforcement, or your vengeful
ex, they’ll pull over and stop to “let” you out.
If you refuse to get out when asked or cause
trouble, they’ll deploy auto-tasers or Neuros-
tun gas to make you more compliant. This is
not an effective replacement to having a rigger
on your team, but it will get you from place to
place in normal circumstances.
Cost: 2 LP
Lifestyle Category Details
Street/Squatter: Automated carpool cab
that makes extra stops and may give rides to
multiple subscribers at a time
Low/Medium: Automated electronic cab
service
High/Luxury: Luxury cab, limousine, or
sky hopper operated by a rigger
Public Transportation
Your monthly pass grants you full access
to buses, trains, trolleys, and subway cars
that make stops at predefined locations and
stations. These operate on fixed routes and at
fixed times that are outside of your control.
The wait time for a pickup is 1D6 x 10 min-
utes, and the travel time varies depending on
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how far you are going. For rides within the
same district, the travel time is 1D6 x 5 min-
utes. For travel to another district, travel time
is 2D6 x 10 minutes. If you have the Affinity
for Transit quality (p. 167, DC), your wait for
a ride is only 10 minutes, and you may roll
twice and choose the best result to determine
your travel time. Public Transportation is not
available in areas with a Security rating of E
or lower. If you want to be able to access Pub-
lic Transportation near your home, you must
spend at least one LP on the Neighborhood
Rating asset.
Cost: 1 LP
Lifestyle Category Details
Street/Squatter/Low/Medium: The usual
busses, trains, or trolleys
High/Luxury: First-class accommodations,
with fewer passengers, shorter lines, and better
privacy and security
Vehicle Rental
If you’d rather not purchase a vehicle or use
public transportation, there’s always the option
of renting a vehicle. These vehicles are technical-
ly owned by the company that provides them.
These vehicles can only operate using autopilot
and GridGuide. There is a manual control over-
ride, but there is a 500 nuyen fine for using it.
In theory, this fine could be waived if it can be
proved that there was an actual emergency, but
in practice it is rarely waived for any reason. If
the vehicle is lost, stolen, or totaled, you must
make an Influence (Negotiation) + Charisma
(2) test. This threshold increases by one for each
rental vehicle you have lost in the past. If you
are not truly responsible for the loss (GM’s dis-
cretion), you gain a point of Edge on this test. If
you are actually responsible for the loss (GM’s
discretion), you may not gain or spend Edge on
this test. On a success, you are provided with a
new rental vehicle within 24 hours. On a fail-
ure, you are considered liable for the expense.
Half of the vehicle’s nuyen cost is added to your
next monthly lifestyle payment, and you may
not get a replacement rental until you cover the
extra expense—you may pay early to gain ac-
cess to a replacement vehicle before your next
lifestyle payment is due.
These vehicles are so loaded down with
tracking devices and software that most fenc-
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es and chop shops are unwilling to take them.
This makes it unlikely that they will be ran-
domly stolen, and also means that you can’t
just rent vehicles and sell them to a chop shop
for profit. No Edge may be gained or spent on
any test to illegally transfer the vehicle’s own-
ership, and any glitches on the test are treated
as critical glitches.
The actual vehicle provided (or an equiv-
alent that is approved by your GM) is deter-
mined by your lifestyle category.
Cost: 4 LP
rental vehicles
LIFESTYLE VEHICLE PROVIDED
Street Dodge Scoot
Squatter Chrysler-Nissan Jackrabbit
Low Ford Americar
Hyundai Shin-hyung or Toyota
Middle
Gopher
High
S-K-Bentley Concordat or Range
Rover
Luxury Mitsubishi Nightsky
Social
Networking Assets
Charity
Do you spend time volunteering to help
others in need? Whether you do so out of the
goodness of your heart or to establish a rep-
utation (or a cover), this asset improves your
reputation with a faction (p. 193, 6WC). For
every LP spent on this asset, reduce the Karma
cost to increase your reputation with a faction
of your choice by 1, and reduce the financial
cost by 1,000 nuyen. This cost reduction ac-
cumulates every month and is not lost if you
stop contributing. You may eliminate the Kar-
ma and nuyen cost of increasing your faction
reputation entirely using this asset over a long
enough period of time. You may also choose
to apply this to a different faction at the begin-
ning of each month.
Cost: 1 or more LP
Lifestyle Category Details
Street/Squatter: Cleaning up litter, provid-
ing rides, and running errands for locals
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Low/Medium: Volunteer work at a shelter,
clinic, or mentor program
High/Luxury: High-profile charity balls
and fundraising galas
Hangout
You have a relaxing place to socialize with
your friends and contacts, or perhaps you keep
up on interesting events around town to bring
people to. This asset represents an investment
of time and nuyen in your relationships. Each
month you gain one Favor Point with one of
your contacts or contact groups.
Cost: 2 LP
Lifestyle Category Details
Street/Squatter: Private rooftop access with
a cooler of drinks and scavenged chairs
Low/Medium: Swimming pool, a home bar
or rec room, access to a rented party room at a
favorite bar or restaurant
High/Luxury: Guest rooms, golf club house,
access to an exclusive resort
Significant Other/
Helpful Roommate
There is someone there you share your
household with. You don’t have to share the
workload alone, or come home to an empty
squat after a run. Your spouse doesn’t just sit
around at home waiting for you—they have
their own income, and so they do not increase
your monthly lifestyle costs or require the Ex-
tra Mouth to Feed asset. For one LP, you gain a
bonus point of Edge on any test during down-
time that isn’t an explicitly illegal activity—
this Edge must be spent on the test or it is lost.
For two or more LP, your significant other also
acts as a contact with Loyalty rating of six and
a Connection rating equal to the amount of LP
spent on this lifestyle asset. If you stop paying
for this asset, it represents a rough patch or a
breakup.
Cost: 1 or more LP
Retail Regular
You’re a well-known and well-liked regular
customer at the retail businesses in your neigh-
borhood. Employees are eager to help you find
what you’re looking for and make sure you’re
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aware of any coupons and special deals. You
get a 10 percent discount on all items that
are legally purchased using the SIN attached
to your lifestyle, and there is no restriction on
the Availability. Note that illegal gear may not
be purchased through these channels, and you
must have the requisite license for any gear
that requires a license. Keep in mind that the
megacorps (and by extension anyone capable
of doing a Matrix search) can review your pur-
chase history. It’s not all bad—at least the tar-
geted ads you receive will be relevant to your
interests.
Cost: 1 LP
Lifestyle Category Details
Street/Squatter: Stuffer Shacks, street ven-
dors, and strip malls
Low/Medium: Malls, department stores,
specialty shops
High/Luxury: Luxury goods and services at
your beck and call
Other Assets
Medical
Do you have medical insurance? What do
you do when you need medical support for
your augmentations and injuries?
For one LP, you rely on a medkit that is re-
stocked as part of a subscription service. For
two LP you have access to basic medical ser-
vices, which provides Edge on natural recovery
tests. For three or more LP, you have a con-
tract with DocWagon (or one of its compet-
itors), which will provide emergency medical
and rescue services if your biomonitor reports
that you are injured. The LP cost for each level
of care is listed on the Medical Coverage table.
Cost: 1 to 9 LP
medical services
POINTS COVERAGE
1 Medkit supplies subscription
2 Basic medical services access
Basic DocWagon contract (or
3
equivalent competitor)
5 Gold DocWagon contract
7 Platinum DocWagon contract
9 Super Platinum DocWagon contract
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Self-Improvement
Self-Improvement assets represent thera-
py and special training that helps you work
through your personal problems or help you
get closer to who and what you want to be-
come. For every month that you maintain this
asset, choose a quality and reduce the Karma
cost to purchase or buy off that quality by one
Karma. This can only reduce the cost to the
quality’s original Karma cost (or bonus Kar-
ma). If the Karma cost of purchasing or buying
off the quality is not doubled for any reason,
this asset has no effect.
Cost: 1 LP per quality
Lifestyle Category Details
Street/Squatter: Public clinic, automated
therapist software, spending time in a public
library
Low/Medium: Support groups, clinics,
group classes
High/Luxury: Personal trainer, private tu-
tor, luxurious wellness center
Store Front
You have a retail business on the side. This
might be a small shop you run out of your
home, a retail space you rent, or a virtual place
for Matrix shoppers. While this ultimately
loses you more money than you legitimately
make, it provides you with some extra options
when you need to move stolen merchandise.
Gain a point of Edge on any test to fence gear
(p. 246, SR6), and you may legally transfer
ownership of any gear that doesn’t require a
license with one hour of work and a simple
Electronics + Logic (2) test. You also gain a
point of Edge on Extended tests to transfer
ownership of licensed gear.
Cost: 2 LP
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Lifestyle Category Details
Street/Squatter: An agreement with a local
pawn shop, basic retail status on a Matrix auc-
tion and shopping host
Low/Medium: Your own booth or table at
a shopping center, premium retailer status on a
Matrix shopping host
High/Luxury: People, drones, and software
handle most of the work for you
Training Room
What do you need to practice your skills
or hone your mental and physical well-being?
Each training room (gym, firing range, study,
etc.) can be used to help with advancement
of one skill or attribute that may be redefined
each month. If you purchase multiple Train-
ing Room assets, you can apply it to an addi-
tional skill or attribute. Public assets are out-
side of your home, and must be shared with
other members or subscribers (p. 68, SR6),
and reduce the training time for the advance-
ment by 20 percent. Private assets are locat-
ed within or near your residence, and reduce
training time by 50 percent. In order to gain
any benefit from this asset, you must main-
tain it (pay LP each month) throughout the
required training time.
Cost: 1 LP each (public), or 2 LP each (private)
Lifestyle Category Details
Street/Squatter: Punching the refrigerated
soy-meat before the fast-food manager finds
you in the walk-in freezer, stacks of bottles and
cans (and the occasional devil rat) for target
practice
Low/Medium: Fitness machines, a dedicat-
ed firing range, access to a maker space
High/Luxury: Personal trainers, coaches,
and state-of-the-art equipment
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Lifestyle
Qualities
Lifestyle qualities are the little things usu-
ally outside of your control that make life just
that more interesting. Gamemasters should
limit these to only a few per lifestyle. You may
also purchase the lifestyle qualities presented
both here and in the Sixth World Companion
with general LP.
Positive
Lifestyle Qualities
Clandestine
Everything is not as it seems. The little
bookstore where you check out books also
sells illegal firearms. The all-night candy store
can also can refer you to a hired assassin. There
is another layer to your lifestyle that is never
seen. FBI? CIA? A Black Star neo-anarchist?
Do you have ties to one of the many secretive
organizations around the world?
At one LP, your whole lifestyle is fake
and provides you with a fake SIN with a rat-
ing equal to your lifestyle category rating.
With your gamemaster’s approval, you must
choose a faction that utilizes secret operatives
or undercover agents. You are an agent for
that faction, and your secret employer will
often contact you with orders. These orders
may be used by the GM to introduce adven-
ture hooks or throw in a complication during
a run. If you fail or refuse your orders more
than once or blow your cover, your entire life-
style is burned.
For two LP, you may upgrade your status
within your secret faction. This option is not
available at character creation—you must
succeed in following orders from your secret
faction at least once in order to upgrade your
status. This allows you some flexibility—you
are allowed to pick and choose your tasks on
behalf of your faction. If the GM introduces
orders that would complicate your run, you
may either accept or refuse them with no con-
sequences. If your cover is blown, your lifestyle
(and the attached fake SIN) is burned, but
your organization will set you up with a new
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identity within 1D6 days—you’ll have to fend
for yourself until then.
Cost: 1 or 2 LP
Aspected Mana
You must be Awakened in order to take this
lifestyle quirk, as it has no effect on mundane
characters. A ley line or other astral phenom-
ena goes right through your home, creating
a mana ebb or flow (p. 167, Street Wyrd). A
mana flow that is aspected toward your tra-
dition is beneficial, and costs one LP for a low
mana flow, two LP for a medium mana flow,
and three LP for a high mana flow. A mana ebb
that is aspected against your tradition causes
problems for you: a low mana ebb provides
one bonus LP, a medium mana ebb provides
two LP, and a high mana ebb provides three
LP. The mana ebb or flow affects your entire
residence as well as a radius of at least 20 me-
ters surrounding it.
Cost: 1, 2, or 3 LP (or –1, –2, or –3 LP)
Diamond in the Rough
There are many places that have been aban-
doned or gone bankrupt, leaving assets behind
in an ever-growing sprawl. Even forests have
grown up to obscure old streets and neighbor-
hoods from the flow of traffic. Your home ap-
pears on the outside to be up to two lifestyle
categories lower than it actually is. This might
represent a High lifestyle home hidden within
a cul-de-sac in a Low lifestyle neighborhood,
or perhaps a sealed-off Middle lifestyle apart-
ment tucked away in an abandoned ware-
house. No General LP may be spent on Neigh-
borhood assets. No Edge may be gained or
spent on any tests made to locate your home.
Incompatible with Lipstick on a Pig.
Cost: 2 LP
Lipstick on a Pig
From the outside, it looks like a nice place
with good structure and relatively clean land-
scaping in an upscale neighborhood. The inte-
rior, however, would mortify any homeowner.
A fire-gutted apartment complex, an aban-
doned storefront overrun with vermin and
mold, or an old crime scene (with hopefully
the evidence already removed) is what you
find. These are places that other residences
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tend to gloss over, otherwise their real estate
value goes down. Add +1 to thresholds in find-
ing your place, as who would believe you actu-
ally live in there. Cannot spend Edge on social
tests while there. Incompatible with Diamond
in the Rough.
Cost: 1 LP
Negative Lifestyle
Qualities
Corporate Owned
Requires a lifestyle category of Low or
higher.
To gain the advantage of relatively cheap
housing, you are stuck in a corporate-spon-
sored/mandated community. You owe your
soul to the company store. Stores in your
community only sell the corporate brand of
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items. There are strictures on what you wear,
drive, and even eat. The community expects
you to participate in keeping the neighbor-
hood appearance clean and occasionally fes-
tive, but most importantly you’re expected
to conform with corporate standards. Your
comings and goings are observed and scru-
tinized, and any unusual guests or behavior
becomes hot gossip in your neighborhood.
When you are in or near your home, you
may not lie low to reduce Heat, and you may
not gain or spend Edge on Stealth tests. If
you flagrantly violate corporate norms, your
personal Heat modifier increases by +1. Se-
curity response times to your home are the
minimum for your neighborhood security
rating, for good and ill. These places include
wageslave apartments near megacorp facili-
ties.
Bonus: 2 LP
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Day Job
You have a fairly mundane job . This could
be a shift at the Stuffer Shack or some hours
as a wageslave. Part of the character ’s time is
unavailable for running in the shadows—ten
to twelve hours a week are allocated for this
quality. If the character gets fired, then the
Lifestyle has to be adjusted for the LP loss.
During a session, roll a D6 at the beginning
of each day to determine if your character is
supposed to be at work. On a 1, you’re sched-
uled for a shift and won’t be able to actively
participate in the run unless you either skip
work or gain one level of Fatigued (p. 52, SR6).
Each consecutive day without a shift adds 1
to the next D6 result that will trigger a shift
(1–2 on the second day, 1–3 on day three, 1–4
on day four, etc.), which resets after each shift.
For each shift you choose to skip, your next
monthly lifestyle payment goes up by 100 nuy-
en x Lifestyle category (representing the lost
income). Each time you skip a shift, you also
need to make a Charisma + Edge (1) test, and
this threshold increases by one for each time
you skip work. On a failed test, you’re fired
from your job and may not take the Day Job
lifestyle quality for at least one month. On a
glitch, your Heat modifier goes up by one due
to nosey and suspicious co-workers. On a crit-
ical glitch, one of your co-workers has discov-
ered that you’re a shadowrunner. They must
be dealt with (a bribe of 500 nuyen x Lifestyle
category will do, or you could do something
more drastic), or else they’ll turn you in to the
authorities—burning your lifestyle and its at-
tached SIN.
Also, if anyone is looking for you and scores
at least 4 hits on a legwork-related test—in-
cluding a Matrix search—they’ll be able to
connect you to your place of employment and
may try to intercept you there—if they can fig-
ure out when you work.
Bonus: 1 LP
Drifter
Some people want to keep their options
open, or perhaps you love being the mysterious
stranger who is “just passing through.” With
mobility comes a certain level of anonymity.
Since you don’t have ties to one spot, you can
move on and reduce more Heat with Lie Low
(p. 237, SR6)—which reduces Heat by two in-
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stead of one per month. For Low, Middle, or
High lifestyle categories, you must own a vehi-
cle with the Living Spaces mod (p. 238, DC).
Street or Squatter lifestyles don’t require own-
ing a vehicle, but it makes things easier on you.
For Luxury lifestyles, this represents staying in
fancy hotels and resorts wherever you roam.
Bonus: 2 LP
Haunted
Just because magic exists and spirits can be
summoned doesn’t mean that paranormal phe-
nomena is fully understood or easily explained.
At 1 bonus LP, your home has a reputation for
being haunted, whether due to local legends
or some spooky events that happened to oc-
cur nearby. Except for your contacts and close
friends, you may not gain or spend Edge on
any social skill tests within your home (with
the exception of Influence (Intimidation) tests,
which gain a point of bonus Edge). Sure, may-
be things move around or fall off the count-
er because of passing spirits or errant magic.
Nothing really intelligent at work. At 2 bonus
LPs, there’s something seriously spooky going
on—for real. Whenever you are in your home,
the GM may describe a horrifying supernatu-
ral event. Anyone who witnesses the haunting
event must make a Composure (3) test—failure
results in gaining the Frightened status for one
hour. The source of the fear is your home, ap-
plying a –4 penalty to dice pools for any tests
within your residence. Leaving the area re-
moves the Frightened status after ten minutes.
Bonus: 1 or 2 LP
Hotel California
Like the song says, when you enter, you
might never leave. Within your home, there’s
a physical or magical manifestation that oc-
casionally keeps you trapped within for 2D6
hours, unable to contact anyone until you are
mysteriously released—no Matrix connection,
no astral travel, nothing. No more than once
per session, when you enter your home, the
GM may roll 1D6, with a roll of 1 triggering
this event.
Examples: When you travel, you are stuck
in a cargo container among a plethora of con-
tainers until the ship docks. During certain
times of the year, the fae knock on your door,
turning your bedroom into a glaive until you
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get back. For security purposes, the bolt hole is No Forwarding Address
actually a bank vault that will only open every
Not sure why, but you get a lot of junk
twelve hours. Your little party room can only
mail that’s not addressed to you. It’s like your
be reached during low tide, then is submerged
residence (or general vicinity) is the default
the rest of the day.
mailing address for, like, everywhere. Occa-
Bonus: 2 LP
sionally something is dumped at your resi-
dence: mysterious packages, crates with air-
Household Gremlins holes. Usually someone will come by to pick
Paranormal critters are prevalent in your it up in 24 to 48 hours. Until then, it’s the ones
neck of the woods. And as fate would have it, with the duct taped care/feeding instructions
they keep crossing paths with you. Some love that you must be concerned about. The GM
shiny toys, others love flittering astral things, has free rein to introduce an NPC in search of
and some are spiteful critters who find your their missing order or strange packages that
home offensive. The GM has free rein to in- bring unusual complications, especially when
troduce critter complications into your life— you run out of Edge.
especially when you glitch. If this quality is Bonus: 1 LP
triggered, some piece of your gear goes miss- Off the Grid
ing or becomes damaged as if it was chewed
You live out in the wilderness, outside of
on, kicked, or worse (what’s that yellow stain
urban areas and with little to no access to pub-
on your cyberdeck, chummer?). Missing gear
lic utilities—or even paved roads. Places like
can be recovered with a Outdoors (Tracking)
the southwest side of the Puyallup district,
or Perception (6, 10 minutes) Extended test.
some Cal-Free ghost town, or just far out in
Damaged (or defiled) objects need to be re-
the woods somewhere. Your home devices are
paired or cleaned up with an Engineering +
not designed to connect to the Matrix. with
Logic (6, 10 minutes) Extended test.
manual or archaic controls. All gear that is
Bonus: 1 LP
part of your lifestyle is considered a Throw-
back device (p. 247, SR6). Power is provided
Metaplanar Gateway by independent sources including solar panels,
Since the Yellowstone incident, there have wind turbines, generators, and batteries. No
been strange occurrences all over the globe. LP can be spent in Neighborhood (considered
Unfortunately for you, your residence or near- 0 level). Reduce the LP provided for the Neigh-
est facility you commonly hang out at has had borhood element by one, then convert any re-
a little astral event. Now some doorway also maining Neighborhood LP to general LP.
doubles as an astral gateway and not a very sta- Bonus: 2 LP
ble one, changing metaplanes on a whim and
only active at apparently random times. Occa-
sionally a spiritual entity may wander through
like a tourist, and astral travelers seeking ac-
cess to the metaplanes often pass through the
astral space within your home. You may not
take this quality if you also have the Improved
Astral Privacy asset, which is what most peo-
ple would set up when they have to deal with
this drek. The GM has free rein to introduce
astral complications into your life, particularly
when you glitch on a Magic-related test.
Bonus: 1 LP