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If the spirit was summoned it would have to be a water spirit to take the power, but those rules go out the window when it comes to free spirits so you can pick whichever type you want: Air or Earth both seem reasonable to create a duststorm

You're not wrong. Modern processors are all built off of the principles of VLSI that, like most end-game Factorio factories, involve replicating tiles of a valid design across the silicon or map.

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If you don't want to play a mage, you can ask your GM if they'll let you hire an NPC mage or services from one's spirits.

Shape spells are hard to balance: you can't have too few or else each one provides too much utility, but too many and the value per spell decreases. Should a new mage take 4 different Shape spells, or just one fireball and hope it can make a hole in the wall?

Additionally, the choice of elements combined with a not-great GM section makes it hard to get consistent effects from the Shape spells. A Fireball has a predictable effect with minimal GM discretion. But materials? The same office building wall could be made out of wood, plastic, or stone depending on the GM. Which spell applies to a bullet proof window? Is asphalt a type of stone? Is the futuristic road even made out of asphalt anymore? All of this ambiguity makes for a poor player experience using Shape spells.

Lastly, the spells themselves are poorly defined: "[the material is] putty in your hands." Does Shape Stone make a pile of rock, or Michael Angelo's statue? The spell allows you to move 1 cubic meter per net hit, which is a huge amount of material. Forget making a hole in the wall, you can move the whole wall with just 2-3 net hits. How far can you move material? How fast? Can you trap an enemy in a stone coffin with Shape Stone? Because they are so open-ended, these spells are prime candidates for homebrew to nerf or adjust them as soon as players start to get creative.

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High level Shadowrunners in the barrens is kind of like sending The Avengers in to stop bank robbers. Gangers don't have real ways to stop them, but they can hope to slow them down: crash cars, blow things up, burn buildings down, anything that doesn't require directly attacking the runners (or even knowing exactly where they are) but puts an obstacle between the gangers and the runners.

The runners will take down any gangers they can get their hands on of course, and they should, but can they save the innocent bystanders at the same time? And can they do it before the gangers accomplish their own goal and escape?

Bestial Nature is the 6e book with shifter rules, but shifters in Shadowrun are first and foremost animals. They're born as animals and have animal thoughts and instincts, but can choose to turn into their metahuman form when desired. Think a wolf cursed to be a were-human, rather human cursed to be a werewolf.

Doctor Connor was a human. He grew up a human, English not lizard is his first language, and only by accident did he mutate himself into a lizard. This is what changelings are in Shadowrun, the only difference being SURGE usually comes from magic rather than science.

Shapeshifters in Shadowrun are animals that can turn into metahumans. To recreate Doctor Connor, you're probably looking for SURGE/changelings: metahumans with animal parts & characteristics.

Rules to create a changeling are in the Sixth World Companion starting on page 115, and you can spend up to 30 points of karma on metagenetic qualities during character creation.

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The US Census reports 2.9% because it defines Native American as having both origin and community attachment. In reality, a much larger portion of the US population likely has genetic heritage (to varyingly small degrees) without the cultural ties.

And of course, given the power and prestige of many tribes in Shadowrun, the sixth world should have plenty of Native American posers and people who explain any spark of magical talent as Native American heritage regardless of the true origin.

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Shadowrun 5e has tons of options you can use to pull off various levels of disguises, from an extremely simple Ballistic Mask with an Electrocromatic Modification, to a built-in Trid Projector or Trid Phantasm spell, up to a nearly imperceptible Synthskin Mask or False Face cyberware.

But would people in the Shadowrun setting use it? Absolutely, just not quite the same way as in the Cyberpunk 2077 setting. Both have street gangers putting on intimidating trid facades and your average person with cyberware but in Shadowrun your upperclass population flaunts their wealth through subdued implants. Where everyone in Cyberpunk from your homeless on the streets up to the corpo exec has telltale marks of cyberization, an up-and-comer in Shadowrun will pay a 50% premium on their cyberskull to make it look more natural.

This changes the dynamic a little for Shadowrun, and makes changing your appearance to meet the circumstances advantageous. Wandering around a C district or seedy night club? By all means, cover your face with trid static. But in a AA district or corporate office? Leave the cheap tech at home, because security is looking for any excuse to kick you to the curb.