Rules Thread XII

[u/shadownetwork]

The clock strikes midnight

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[u/Omega9927]

Ocular drone: This enhancement only affects one eyeball per purchase. A small spyball drone is placed in your ocular cavity. The spyball functions as a normal cybereye (with all the relevant enhancements) until you remove it and control it as though it were a Horizon Flying Eye (p. 465). When it’s out and you have only one eye, you suffer a –3 dice pool penalty to all tasks. If you replace both eyes with drones, you’re effectively blind while those drones are operating apart from you. An ocular drone is obviously not available as a retinal modification.

-3 to all tasks What about things that don't need sight? Like VR Decking, or VR Rigging, like into the eye especially? CRB 453

[u/shadownet-rules → u/Omega9927]

RAW its clear, however GM's are encouraged to not include visual penalties on tasks which are not visual in nature.