Aptitude Max

Nope, you still end up with 30 because the Furies maximum aptitude is 30 even though your character has an aptitude of 40 and a bonus of 5, he still needs a morph which can handle such an aptitude-rating (like the reaper-morph that has a maximum aptitude of 40 but hey, that one gives you +10 on REF or even +20 with Reflex boosters - but it stops at 40. Even if you have REF 40 and +20 by bonusses from the Reaper, you still end up with 40). For the ratings you want to apply, you would need a special tailored morph that is not in the rulebook and for that you would need to approve as GM In addition: p. 126 "No aptitude, however, augmented or not, may ever exceed a value of 40"

As mentioned earlier in this thread, the Exceptional Aptitude trait raises your limit on one Aptitude by 10.

It's just a bit unclear as to whether it increases only the Ego limit for that Aptitude or if it also raises the Morph limit (though still subject to the hard cap of 40, per p.124).

I think this is both an Ego and a Morph trait too, and it has two applications:

1) It allows the ego to get the maximum use out of any Morph that has an Aptiude max of 40. Theoretically it also raises the morph's cap to 50, but this is meaningless because it's impossible (for a player character with the current rules) to to obtain an aptitude of higher than 40.

2) It allows the ego to improve the capabilities of the worst morphs, allowing them to reach Aptitudes of 30 in a Flat and 35 in a Splicer etc.

Hmm yes, you're right.

Well, the simplest fix to that is to say that it's an Ego trait only. Thus it does not benefit those using flats, splicers etc. but it does allow the ego to get the full benefit of a morph that allows Aptitudes of 40.

Thinking about it, that's the way I'm tempted to run it.

There may eventually be higher grade or specialty processors that give Infomorphs various aptitude bonuses. In such cases, the higher aptitude maximum might come up.

I don't think it does Decivre. The Aptitude Maximum includes the morph Bonus.

The second paragraph starts

"Some implants, gear, psi, and other factors may modify a character's natural aptitudes. These augmented values may exceed amorph's aptitude maximum, as they represent external factors boosting the morph's ability."

Note the "implants, gear, psi and other factors" no mention of morph bonus.

The term "natural" just means ego+morph bonus, you're unaugmented score.

So you add the morph bonus to the ego's aptitudes, up to maximum of the morphs Aptitude Maximum. Then you add implant, gear, psi and other bonus to that up to 40.

There is another question, is Exceptional Aptitude really supposed to be an ego trait only.

This is how it's supposed to be:

Your natural ego aptitudes are maxed at 30. If you have an exceptional aptitude trait, that particular aptitude is maxed at 40.

Your morph's aptitude maximum will range from 20 to 40. Your ego aptitudes plus morph aptitude bonuses may not exceed these maximums.

External factors like psi, drugs, implants, gear, etc. may apply aptitude bonuses that allow your modified aptitude to exceed the morph aptitude maximum. (Simplification note: you can ignore this rule and just say no aptitude mods allow an aptitude to exceed the morph aptitude maximum. It may save you some headaches.)

No aptitude, no matter what it is modified by, can exceed 40.

The Exceptional Aptitude trait had some misleading text, this has been fixed in the errata. It was originally just meant to be an ego trait. Since we were fixing it, however, we also allow it as a morph trait that raises the morph aptitude maximum for a particular aptitude by 10 (but still maxed at 40, so it's only valuable to morphs with aptitude maximums of 20-30).

That all clear?

Its mostly because very few people would have that high of a REF. Base human (augmented gene fixed human I believe) is meant to be 15, not 30. I doubt very many people would have an Ego REF of 30. Most of mine start with 15-20.

The explanation would be that a person with such an exemplary model of transhuman ability (aptitude at 40) is so advanced in ability that the implant does nothing to further enhance them. If your Reflexes are at 40, you're already jacked so high that reflex boosters aren't giving you any measurable advantage. You are as quick-reacting as someone with lesser reflexes who has been amped up with reflex boosters.

Okay, so just to make sure, let me know if any of these are wrong.

• An ego with REF 25 is sleeved into a Fury. This augments it to a 30, the max for a Fury morph. The morph also has reflex boosters, though, which push that 30 REF up to a 40 because it's an implant modification.

• An ego with REF 30 is sleeved into the same morph. Because the morph's aptitude max is 30, they don't benefit from the morph bonus. They still do benefit from the reflex boosters, though.

And now I have to include an Implant row on my Character Sheets because I am anal as hell and did not know that Implants are capable of pushing Morph stats higher than the aptitude maximum.

Do drugs do it too?

Sorry for the thread necro.

I'd just like some clarification, preferably from Rob or Adam, about Exceptional Aptitude.

I've been reading the errata and it now appears that to play with an Aptitude of 40 you must now buy Exceptional Aptitude twice, once for the Ego and once for the Morph or buy it once for the Ego and buy a Morph with a relevant Aptitude maximum of 40.

Is that correct?

Well, it depends on the morph. You either need a morph with a max aptitude of 40 OR a morph with a max apt of 30 and the Exceptional Aptitude trait.

It's not meant to be easy to have aptitudes that high