If you don't have any people who are like this then this isn't a huge benefit, because in my experience it takes quite a lot of character optimization and specialization to reach the limits, and there's things you can do or get to increase them slightly - people who make this sort of character tend to also go for those options to increase their limits, and so their limit ends up higher than other peoples and comes into play about the same given their respective pools. This serves to moderate particularly unexpected rolls, and normalize particularly specialized characters so they fit into the same sort of possibility space as other more generalized characters. Those with very high pools will still win at it, but they won't win by -as much-, so maybe they can't punch out the troll in one single massive punch and it will instead take two. I can't give you any objective answers but I can certainly tell you of my experiences.Īdding limits is occasionally useful because it prevents (or at least increases the cost of) getting a bucketload of dice for a specific task and -massively- overwhelming anyone else in that task, typically combat. I've ran games with the limit there and I've ran games with the limit houseruled out. The leftover hits go wasted, as if they never happened. So, if for example you got 12 hits to punch someone, but only have 6 as your Physical Limit, you can only use 6 out of those 12 hits. I never felt the system was unbalanced or that I needed for some reason cut back the number of max hits one could get from any roll, but that may be just some sort of unconcious bias against a rule that I didn't ever remember it existed in the first place.Īre the Limit rules actually useful or needed for balance, or can I keep ignoring them safely?įor reference: The Limit Rule states that, for a big chunk of the rolls, you can't get more hits ("sucesses") on the die than your given limit value without spending a specific resource. I'm not sure if I want to start using this rule now, after my tables got used to playing without it. I'm pretty sure I glanced over it on the past, but for some reason never took notice of using it in my games. I made a few short stories, ran a lot of games, a few LARP events and baked a Shadowrun-themed cake for a loved one.Īnd, yet, for all of my time with it, I somehow never noticed the Limit rule until yesterday, when I was making my own character editor app for the system. I have every single book published for the system, a throve of supplements, maps, miniatures, cards, and a bunch of other acessories. I've been gamemastering Shadowrun 5e since it was published.
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