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Jan 27, 2020 9:57 pm
It actually might be more exciting to try filling a role your character is not suited for, at least in the beginning. Since it's easier to level up low skills, it can probably go interesting directions! :P

Hey @bowl, would you mind if I play solo with your rules? Just a one-shot battle with myself (on my own forum, of course). :D
Jan 29, 2020 10:01 am
Welcome to the game, Eskaton
Look around the Character Creation rules, check out what you're interested in playing and if you have any questions, just ask in here
Jan 29, 2020 3:17 pm
So sorry for being slow in getting to this - work and home life has sucked away most of my time. I am excited to get into some Cyberpunk, though (too few games in that genre on GP).

What types of characters have been created thus far? I like the idea of a katana-wielding infiltrator, but don't want to double-up if someone else was going a similar route.
Jan 29, 2020 3:24 pm
We have a Cyborg Infiltrator that uses a long range rifle and a Human Negotiator with a sword as main weapon. As I mentioned before, doubling up is not necessarily a problem as long as everyone feels sufficiently unique
Jan 29, 2020 3:38 pm
Cool, I rolled up an android mechanic. Playing a quick game of shadowrun, but I'll come back and do the gear portion. This setting looks super fun!

Edit: Oop, I see awsmack is back in action. If #'s are too high with me, no worries to drop me for the folks you planned on!
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Jan 29, 2020 3:42 pm
No, it's alright, we'll go with four players now. If someone has to drop, we'll still have enough to continue that way
Jan 29, 2020 3:43 pm
@Eskaton: I approved your character sheet. Looks good to me so far
Jan 29, 2020 8:52 pm
Just to make sure I'm clear, are the resistances all additive? In other words, you get a value for origin, then it looks like adjustments for both upbringing and class (which often works against each other).
Jan 29, 2020 8:58 pm
They are but they are optional. You take the base value from the origin and then you can apply the mods from the other stages or not, your choice
Jan 29, 2020 9:59 pm
Sorry, so why would you not want to apply the modifiers? Can it ever be a bad thing to increase Resistance?

Also, what is the NII skill?
Jan 29, 2020 10:15 pm
Higher resistances are good but you always get one +1 and one -1 at every stage.
If you always apply the mods, you could end up with one resistance extremely low which might not be a good idea so you can choose to apply them or not.

Yes, I think I actually forgot to explain NII anywhere in the forums ':D
It's "Non-Intelligence Interactions". It's meant to cover interactions with animals and not full AIs.
I'm sure there's a better term for that out there but I couldn't think of one.
Since everyone has an idea for what everyone is playing at this point, you can also discuss if and how your characters know each other before the adventure. Some of you might be an established team, you might have just worked a job with someone else at some point in the past or you might have never met any of the others before this job. It all works equally well with this set-up
Jan 29, 2020 10:23 pm
Well, my character is from a corporation planet that has been abandoned by its Corp. They still have technology and a small space port, but the are regressing some on the tech side.

He has left his planet to make his fortune. He is good with a sword and good socially.

I am fine with us being a preexisting team, or someone could have hired us individually for a job and hopefully we find that we work well as a team.
Jan 29, 2020 10:55 pm
awsmack says:
I like the idea of a katana-wielding infiltrator, but don't want to double-up if someone else was going a similar route.
I’ll have to check a bit better when I have some time, but I think my PC concept may work as a soldier if we want to diversify abilities. Even though I like the combat disable, stealth is not really a thing I was planning. Maybe dodge master and rage suit Lain as well.
CESN says:
I'd say we know each other. Maybe one PC is new to the group, but the others would have worked together at some point (if not currently). Depending of awsmack's PC, we could have worked for the same coorporation or he could be my oldest's star recruit. I probably smuggled the wilderness PCs to join the "shadowrunners" (which can really be the team name...). So My PC has potential to be the connecting point for the party.
Jan 30, 2020 1:11 am
ANDREW was a spaceship tool prior to being put out to pasture, decommissioned, or disconnected from his initial assignment. I think it makes the most sense for him to have been utilized at a site that one of the other group members was working or stationed at, then roped into the crew for the game run.

I put some items into my gear section as well, not sure what value to assign the armor.
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Jan 30, 2020 4:10 am
I am fine with CESN being the point of contact
Jan 30, 2020 3:53 pm
OOC:
adding ANDREW to the suggestion:
Lain runs away in old spaceship where she finds and repairs ANDREW (maybe he was shut down for awhile?). She teams up with awsmack's infiltrator to form shadowrunner mercenary team specialised in cover missions (spy+hack). They recently got a good contract that allowed them to expand their skillset and hired some of the people they smuggled from thew wild worlds


Lain still works as a soldier, but now can aim to destroy the enemy's armour from afar :) With Bloodrage she may even try to destroy all armours or quickly reduce the enemy numbers!!! this probably worked well to allowthe other two from her team to hack and infiltrate or to cover their run when needed. She is now much more of a spaceship pilot :D
[ +- ] Soldier version
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Jan 30, 2020 4:42 pm
Awesome. Like this a lot. ANDREW would have a special connection to Lain as its savior and would be willing to put itself on the line for her sake (maybe a holdover of an old directive just with a new assigned target)
Jan 30, 2020 5:47 pm
Sounds good. We'll go with you all being a loose team, having worked together before a couple of times and all kind of centered around Lain. ANDREW could be sticking around Lain constantly, the others might work jobs here and there with her.
Once we've figured out awsmack's equipment, I'll create an intro post!
Jan 30, 2020 7:54 pm
Eskaton, I looked through your equipment and you mentioned a laser rifle. I didn't mention it anywhere before, but while laser weapons exist in the setting, they're very rare and expensive. Your weapons would fire bullets, so I'd say it would just be a regular rifle. If you want something more exotic, we can probably think of something else.

I'll post the intro post still today. We can finalize equipment still afterwards. At least for a couple of posts, you shouldn't yet need your weapon stats.
Jan 30, 2020 10:49 pm
Oh no problem, my mistake. I'll switch it to just like "scoped rifle" or "hunting rifle," whatever you'd prefer
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