Acid

• Physical
• Reduces the armour rating of any armour it hits by 1
• If the acid is not removed (by washing, or because the acid is from a spell and evaporates into mana once the spell ends) then it continues to burn
• Each combat turn the DV is decreased by 1 and the damage applied again
• Each further round of damage further reduces the rating of any armour by 1

Cold

• Physical
• Any armour directly hit must make an armour test
• If it gets no hits the armour breaks and cannot be used unless repaired
• Glitch: armour is irreparably destroyed
• Critical glitch: armour is irreparably destroyed in a dangerous way

Electricity

• Stun or physical depending on source and target
• If an electrical attack damages a target:
• -1 dice pool penalty to all actions and defence tests for 1 combat turn
• Immediate -5 reduction in initiative
• These effects are not cumulative with multiple attacks but the length of the dice pool penalty is extended by 1 combat turn for each damaging attack
• When used against electronics or drones electrical damage is always physical
• Any drones/electronics that take electrical damage also take matrix damage equal to the physical damage taken rounded down (This extra damage is not taken by vehicles)

Fire

• Physical
• Can cause things to catch fire
• Roll Armour + Fire Resistance - Fire AP (Net hits rolled on the fire based attack)
• When something initially catches fire the fire has a DV of 3
• Damage is taken at the end of the combat turn and the damage increases by 1 at the start of each subsequent combat turn until the item is put out or destroyed
• To put out the fire: AGI + INT test. Reducing the fire’s DV by 1 for each hit

Type of Fire	AP
Open flame	-2
Fire based spell	-Spell force
Flame based weapon	-6