So you want to mod a drone?

Well first of all, it is strongly you buy rigger five from [here](http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/168944/Shadowrun-Rigger-50) if you plan to play a full blown drone rigger. That said, if you want to try out rigging before you go all the way, or plan to play a side rigger, you will probably need to put weapon mounts on your drones!

Fortunately, rigger 5 massively buffed your drone's capabilities. Unfortunately they are somewhat incompatible with the CRB's weapon mounts, so here are the rules for weapon mounts to make the drones compatible. Remember, if you want to do things like up-armor your drones (They are fragile little guys, huh?), upgrade their pilots, give them weapons, or make the literal terminator (yeah, really!) you will need to purchase rigger 5!

Instead of the usual weapon mounts in Core, each drone has a number of mod points that can be used to help customize the drone. By default, each drone has a number of mod points equal to its body, however for the purposes of these rules the following drones get a few bonuses:

The Ares duelist comes with 2 weapon mounts.
The Nisan Doberman comes with a standard weapon mount
The MCT roto drone comes with 3 extra mod points to be used for its weapons.
The steel lynx comes with a heavy weapon mount.

The categories of weapon mounts and their size are as follows:

Micro. 0 MP (Limit of 1), avail 8R. Holds: Single shot bullet (Holdout) or dart

Mini. 1 MP, avail 4R (yes, its lower than the micromount, poison flyspies are terrifying!) full holdout pistol or dart pistol, light pistol, reach 0 melee weapon, single shot grenade

Small. 2 MP, 8R. Heavy pistol, machine pistol

Standard. 3 MP, 10F. Sub machine gun, under barrel grenade launcher, dart rifle

Large. 4 MP, 12F. Shotgun, sporting/hunting rifle, assault rifle, full grenade launcher

Huge. 5 MP, 16F. Sniper rifle, light or medium machine gun.

Heavy. 6 MP, 20 F. Heavy Machine gun, rocket launcher, assault canon


There is one more thing you need to know for baseline drone use. As of rigger 5, drones no longer get a default vehicle ammo bay. Instead they only get 1 clip of ammo for their gun! However, for 1 mod point you can give the drone an extra clip for its gun that it can reload with internally, for only 50 nuyen! For 2 mod points, you can give it a full belt fed ammo bin that holds 100 shots for 2 MP and 500 nuyen!


Vehicle mods, much like drone mods, were vastly expanded in rigger 5. You want a motorcycle able to drive up walls? Of course you do! That said rigger 5 did change how smuggling compartments and vehicle weapon mounts work, and in order to ensure universal adaptation here are the bare bones mods you need to grandfather in your old cars. We are going to assume all of your old guns were turret mounts, and that they are not concealed, which means that you may have to remove some guns from your vehicle. Feel free to grab a 100% refund on those guns.

Much like a drone, your vehicle has a number of weapon mod spots equal to its body, which it can use to attach turrets. The weapon size limit, modpoint cost, availability, and nuyen cost are as follows:

Light weapon mounts: MP 3, avail 12F, 7500 nuyen. Allowed weapons: Melee, tasers, hold-out pistols, heavy pistols, machine pistols, and sub machine guns

Standard weapon mounts: MP 4, avail 14F, 6500 nuyen. Allowed weapons: Assault rifles, sniper rifles, shotguns, exotic ranged weapons, flamethrowers, and other special weapons.

Heavy weapon mount: MP 6, avail 18F, 9,000 nuyen. Allowed weapons: Machine guns, canons, launchers, lasers.

Furthermore, smuggling compartments were changed, gone is the day of cramming a troll smuggling compartment into your vehicle, smuggling compartments now are around 10-20% the size of your vehicle, with smaller vehicles erring towards the 10% and larger erring towards the 20%. Smuggling compartments take mod points out of a separate pool than weapon mounts, and you can have an amount of smuggling compartments on your vehicle equal to 1/3rd of your body, rounded down. Smuggling compartments cost 1,500 nuyen, and are 8F.