CHARACTER CREATION

Here is where Character Creation will take place!

CHARACTER GENERATION INFO: PRIME RUNNER BUILD
Modify the resources column on the Priority Table as follows:
• Priority A: 500,000 nuyen
• Priority B: 325,000 nuyen
• Priority C: 210,000 nuyen
• Priority D: 150,000 nuyen
• Priority E: 100,000 nuyen
• Karma: Each player receives 35 Karma to customize characters (maximum of 70 Karma).
• Gear Restrictions: Device Ratings must be rated at 6 or less. Maximum Availability is 15 or less.
• Nuyen Restrictions: Characters may convert up to 25 Karma into nuyen (50,000 nuyen).
• Karma Restrictions: Instead of the normal Charisma x 3 Karma for contacts, increase this amount to Charisma x 6 Karma for contacts.
• Follow all other rules for Character Creation/Advancement as laid out in 'Creating a Shadowrunner'.

Hey all! I'm not the most system-smart guy around, but I got Chummer5 up and ready to crank out a character. Definitely a recommendation for anyone new since it does all the math for you.

As for my character, I'm thinking on a street samurai with mobster ties.

I'll go for a former soldier from our PCC way looking to cash in on his skills & knowledge.

Hi everyone! I was gonna play a troll bruiser but now I'm thinking I'll play a decker since we seem to be filling up on martial types (assuming decking will be important to the game... Some GMs don't like to mess with the Matrix)

I have an awesome decker named Nero from another 5e game that didn't launch that I'd love to play.

*When I try to submit a character only custom sheets are allowed, can you amend the post to allow 5e sheets plz?

JUST REMEMBER TO STAY WITHIN THIS BUILD!

Character Generation:
PRIME RUNNER PLAY
Modify the resources column on the Priority Table as follows:
• Priority A: 500,000 nuyen
• Priority B: 325,000 nuyen
• Priority C: 210,000 nuyen
• Priority D: 150,000 nuyen
• Priority E: 100,000 nuyen
• Karma: Each player receives 35 Karma to customize characters (maximum of 70 Karma).
• Gear Restrictions: Device Ratings must be rated at 6 or less. Maximum Availability is 15 or less.
• Nuyen Restrictions: Characters may convert up to 25 Karma into nuyen (50,000 nuyen).
• Karma Restrictions: Instead of the normal Charisma x 3 Karma for contacts, increase this amount to Charisma x 6 Karma for contacts.
• Follow all other rules for Character Creation/Advancement as laid out in 'Creating a Shadowrunner'.

Ok here's what I'm working with...

Nero - Decker

Bone Density does not add to the body attribute. Only add the bonus for soak tests.

Ohhh good point, I overlooked that bit.

I would like to know from the GM how viable a decker will be in the game though as I know matrix play can tend to slow things down...

Human(D) Magician (C)Face
Former Ares Firewatch
Lifestyle (E)

"What happened next was a series of fatal errors that lead the city to its fiery death."

Attributes(A) 24/24
Body -3 (4)
Agility -3 (4)
Reaction -3 (4)
Strength -3 (4)
Willpower -3 (4)
Logic -3 (4)
Intuition -3 (4)
Charisma -3 (4)
Edge 0 (2/7)
Essence 0 (6)
Initiative 8

First Impression 11pt
Analytical Mind 5 pt
Natural Athlete 7pt
Ambidextrous 4pt
Mentor Spirit 12pt (Dragonslayer +2 Social Tests +2 Combat Spells Preparations and rituals; -1 on everything if a promise is made until promises are kept)
Spirit Affinity 7pt
Quick Healer 3pt
Focused Concentration 12pt

54/60 Karma

SINner Ares Corporate -25pt

29/60 Karma

Skills (B) 36/5
Summoning 5 free
Binding 5 free
Banishing 3
Etiquette 2
Leadership 2
Negotiation 3
Spellcasting 3
Counterspelling 2
Gymnastics 1
Running 1
Swimming 1
Ritual Spellcasting 2
Alchemy 1
Artificing 1
Disenchanting 1
Unarmed 5
Automatics 5
Tracking 3

Spells:
Powerball
Heal
Killing Hands
Mystic Armor
Astral Perception

Lifestyle: High 10000
Taxes to Ares Corp: 10000
80,000 remaining assets

Bone Lacing Titanium 30000
Rating 2 Cyber Eyes 6000
-Flare Compensation 1000
-Smartlink 4000
-Vision Enhancement 2 8000
-Thermographic Lowlight Magnification 5000

Ingram Smartgun X 800
Ares Alpha 2650

Ingram Smartgun X Spare clip×5 25
Ares Alpha Spare clipx5 25

Actioneer Business suit 1500
Armor Jacket 1000
Full Body Armor Suit With Helmet and Chemical Protection and Fireproof Environment Adaptation 9500

69455 before ammo

ISX Ammo 160 3200
AA Ammo 160 3200

75855

GOLD credstick
Dodge Scout 3000

Qi focus (Unarmed Strike 3) 6
Spell Shaping Focus 2 6
Power Focus 3 18

Karma 1

The 70 karma just means that you can take up to 35 negative qualities to total 70 usable karma. With our starting karma of 35 and your SINner quality you have 60 to use.

Sorry to be nosey about it.

No worries being nosey. I prefer the input as I've never played shadowrun 5e

I'm the same way, and Shadowrun is a super crunchy system in general so the way I see it many hands make light work.

Again, Chummer5 can really help!

I learn way more about the system doing it myself and as a lifelong rules lawyer I am not going to give up system mastery any time soon

Oh wow I was just playing with chummer5 and it is pretty sweet. I may have to switch up my build now...

Still thinking decker but I still want to hear from the GM about how useful/viable a decker would actually be in this game. Are you planning to run any Matrix at all Grezen?

Coming down to final purchases. Then spending Karma.

Will probably run a separate thread for the Matrix stuff and cross credit the gaming stuff into the playing thread - sound good?

Lets see if we can make it peanut butter smooth, well at least crunchy peanut butter smooth - LOLZ!

FYI

I 'play' negative and positive qualities - just saying!!!!!

I was already operating under this assumption. Just because Ares fired my Face doesn't mean they'd let him out from under their thumb. They've made substantial investment in the new Dragonslayer. He's up to date on his taxes and generally speaking has no issue with wasting bugs for the crime of existing.

I anticipate most if not all of my contacts will be corporate stooges, lackeys, and overlords.

Anything I should know role-playing wise about being a Knight Errant?

Nobody likes you. Literally nobody.

The other Shadowrunners don't trust you because you're likely still on Ares' leash. And fragging Knight Errant at that.
Johnsons will exploit that tie.
People on the street will spit in your food if they notice your corporate SIN.
Even your mother is so disappointed in you for falling out of the corpo-cradle she might send a kill-squad to erase the shame.

But 'ONLY' if they 'FIND' out. Faces are just that many 'faces'.

It's a good thing Corporate sins just appear to be national sins and people will have to do some digging to see it as anything but that. Which will likely attract the attention of not only Ares Corp, but also my character and neither of them are big on letting those that know that particular secret live.

And honestly those are all okay by me. That's why I roll 9 dice for first impressions and 7 for each time after. And this will be my primary focus for improvement.

If all else fails, an 11 die blast ball solves the most dogged opposition 80% of the time. He might be a baby Dragonslayer, but he's still the Dragonslayer.

Besides I've got you guys and with friends/acquaintances/fodder like you all, who needs a nice world?

You're in luck. My character follows Omerta. So when she finds out you're KE she'll just drop you like a stone but won't kill you. ^^

I'm not a big fan of player versus player games which is why I don't play modern video games. I can see you're a sunbro so how about jolly cooperation instead?

Well it will definitely something that we'd need to work out when we get to it, since Omerta doesn't allow for disclosing info to cops.

Knight Errant??? Who let this fraggin' guy in here?

; )

I still can't submit a sheet, only custom sheets are currently allowed. Could you add Shadowrun 5e sheets please?

*Thanks for that chummer5 tip! Now I'm going for an elf Decker build. So easy to weigh out options with that program.

5E has a lot more moving parts than when I last checked in on ShadowRun. I should have a sheet posted up in here for a quick review tonight maybe. Another couple of sets of eyes to spot math or rules errors would be greatly appreciated. I'll definitely have questions though...

Ok, here is my new elven decker build... MUCH better than the last one.

Ren Sato "Nero"

Are you sure you didn't make a street sam? :D

He's a combat Decker ;)

Still a few tweaks to do, I might lower some of his Bioware expense in favor of a better cyberdeck. Every time I get into a 5e game it dissolves before I get to the Matrix so I have to relearn the whole thing each time I play. Suggestions welcome.

Build is done need to transpose to the sheet and come up with contacts now.

Hey there everyone! I see we have a decker, a face, what else do we have so far? I had the idea of playing a gun adept but I'm also perfectly fitting into what we need. Just give me a heads up on what is one the table so far.

Here's a quick, initial WIP for my character:

Former Merc, now freelance.

A: Attributes (24 pts)
B: Skills (36/5)
C: Finances (210K ¥)
D: MetaType- Human (3)
E: Magic-none

Qualities: (10 Karma remaining: 35+24-49)
5 Bilingual
10 Guts
14 High Pain Tolerance/2
7 Natural Athlete
10 Magic Resistance/2
3 Quick Healer
--
-5 SIN: National
-10 Insomnia
-9 Addiction: Sedatives (moderate)

Attributes: (+24 pts)
Body: 1+4 (5)
Agi: 1+4 (5)
Rea: 1+3 (4)
Str: 1+ 3 (4)
Will: 1+3 (4)
Log: 1+3 (4)
Int: 1+3 (4)
Cha: 1+1(2)
---
Edge: 2 +(3) = 5
Essence:. 6

Skills: 36/5
TBD

I've decided to start over on my character, after reading the premise.

Looks like we are missing a mage, so I'm willing to jump in that hole.

Seemed like Jomsviking was making a mage of sorts

*But can you ever really have too much magic?

Oh, right, never mind then. Good thing because I'm pretty new and magic was not something I've dug into yet. :)

Important question for GM:

What books are allowed? Is it core only or can we use books like Data Trails and Kill Code?

Here's a pure decker I built in-case my combat elf seems too spread out:

Gloria Palmer "GloWorm"

My new concept is a fully chromed up catwoman. (Including cyberpsychosis!)

Hi all :) Excited to join you. I’m quite new to SR but find it really interesting. I know basically nothing of setting or system, however I’v played rpg for decades.

I’m just consulting Grezen about how to best create a character. Aiming for a Rigger type, human. I hope I can learn as we go and tag along for the ride

It's a really interesting and involved setting. TL;DR: cyberpunk mixed with fantasy set on Earth circa 2060-2070. I'd definitely watch a few ShadowRun lore videos on YouTube to get caught up. The system is really crunchy but there's a couple of other players and the GM who can help walk you through the mechanics.

Here's a couple of links to some short-ish videos that help explain the setting:

https://youtu.be/x5kI5aHhD80

https://youtu.be/ctJx6lCH0Rg

@grezen

How does magical tradition Teutonic sound to you?

GUYS:

I don't mind what your Character looks like, feels like, is made up or smells like all I ask is that you stick to this:

CHARACTER GENERATION INFO: PRIME RUNNER BUILD
Modify the resources column on the Priority Table as follows:
• Priority A: 500,000 nuyen
• Priority B: 325,000 nuyen
• Priority C: 210,000 nuyen
• Priority D: 150,000 nuyen
• Priority E: 100,000 nuyen
• Karma: Each player receives 35 Karma to customize characters (maximum of 70 Karma).
• Gear Restrictions: Device Ratings must be rated at 6 or less. Maximum Availability is 15 or less.
• Nuyen Restrictions: Characters may convert up to 25 Karma into nuyen (50,000 nuyen).
• Karma Restrictions: Instead of the normal Charisma x 3 Karma for contacts, increase this amount to Charisma x 6 Karma for contacts.
• Follow all other rules for Character Creation/Advancement as laid out in 'Creating a Shadowrunner'.

It is when you don't that I will have a problem. Other than 1 person who I am negotiating with right now, everybody else needs to stick to the PRIME RUNNER BUILD exactly. Then no problems!

That would be pretty interesting!

Our only magic so far seems to be the face, so it seems like I will be filling that role. I'll get an idea drawn up shortly.

Awesome, Rip!

Ok, character submitted. I went with the pure decker girl, my elf combat decker just seemed too arch. GLO[worm] is a dry, sarcastic young know-it-all otaku type who I modeled after Aubry Plaza (lol). She grew up on the mean streets of Chicago making her way by boosting rides and cracking credsticks. She recently borrowed fifty large from a mob loan shark to finance a new arm after a burst from an Ingram shredded the real one and now the pressure's on to pay it back before they come for her legs...

Gloria Palmer "GLO[worm]"

Well, got my soulless abomination character done in Chummer5! Lots and lots of math in it because I went with 4 cyberlimbs. Going to transfer it all to a GP character sheet tomorrow.

Highlights:
0.01 Essense! Woooooo!
Will hopefully do nicely in melee like any street sam should.
Super dexterous and physically flexible, good at dodging.
Supah-stealthy.
Can throw some shurikens or grenades if she really has to do ranged combat.
Batshit crazy.

Alright, Onmyoji has been submitted. I went with a bit of a generalist Mage since it's good to have some flexibility as a caster. No summoning, but I'm good at spell casting and astral combat along with con and etiquette. Also decent in banishing and counter spelling and I have some generalist skills like pistols as a backup, sneaking and perception as must-haves, etc.

I really can't thank you enough for the chummer recommendation! It's so fun! I also made a four-cyber limb electro-samauri just for kicks. Crazy battle monster with 17 in Assault rifles and 20 armor. I've made about 8 characters so far lol.

And here I was thinking 14 Dice for Unarmed Combat was cool

It's fun right? Only problem is I absolutely loaded myself out with gear and now I have to copy it all over. :D

It is cool! 12 and up is more than serviceable!

Haha, it's copying the skills over that takes me the most time.

I only do the ones that I have points in.

Same on that, not much point in doing the ones you don't have points in

Same here but they can still be fairly numerous ;)

SR is such a crunchy gane, it's a super involved process to do anything character-wise. I'm still sorting some things out but should be finished fiddling with things soon.

really can't tell you how simple the Chummer5 program made creation. I 1000% recommended it.

In my infinite wisdom, I figured I could tackle character creation the old fashioned way. I can see now that may have been one of those "bit off more than I can chew" moments of hubris...

Does it work on smartphones? I hardly ever post on GP from a regular laptop.

Same here, I'm all cell phone for GP but sadly no, chummer5 only works on a real computer. Worth the effort though.

I learned things like that you cannot spend more than 35 karma points on positive qualities even if you take negative qualities that add more karma to your total. Those extra karma points from your negative qualities can only be spent on skills attributes and nuyen.

Well my problem is I have a pregenerated character, but I can’t even transfer it to the GP sheet. Fx I can’t see where all my drones fit into the sheet. It’s a steep learning curve

Can't see your sheet, did you open it to sharing?

@Dominion some of your stats seem odd; agility, strength and edge?

Yeah I put a note at the bottom of my sheet explaining that. Since the attribute boxes on the GP Shadowrun sheet don't let you use any slashes or periods and I have a cyber arm I put the three numbers for strength and agility representing left arm, average, and right cyber arm stats respectively. For essence, same problem with the no period so read 251 as 2.51

It was being super finicky with me on mobile, should be good to go now.

Introducing..... Imperatrix!

Once there was a joy-girl called Lizzy Banks. She worked for her mob pimps and was actually a high-class escort. But one night one of her customers wasn't pleased for some reason, and complained to her bosses while trowing out some big deal that was in the making. Her boss was furious, and took a big steel pipe and beat her, and beat her, and beat her some more until he was all covered in her blood. His suit never recovered. Poor guy.

As for Lizzy? From what she heard later, another joy-girl had taken her to Doc, that old grouchy troll street doc. When she woke up on a cold slab with him suturing up the worst of her wounds. He told her the bad news. Her body was fragged up to hell. She'd be looking at a year of recovery before even trying to walk again. Naturally, she didn't have the dough to cover such treatment, let alone rent while invalid. And something was messed up in her head too. Years of working the night, and this is the thank you she got? She just wanted it all to be over. So she said. "Doc, I'm fragged to hell anyway. Jus... Jus give me that cat set of chrome. Ya know, the one the customer freaked out on last second. It's been collecting dust and ain't gonna do ya no good."
Now Doc is a hard-ass troll, and he took a drag of one of those stinking stubs of fat cigars he always seemed to have in his mouth, even when working on patients.
"Shit Liz, that's a Grade-A set. Alphaware girl. And amped up to the max too. Worth a fortune. And worse, that much gear... it's gonna burn you out girl."
Doc had a tender spot for the joy-girls. He had to fix them up often enough when customers got handsy. He was a big bullying bastard to most of his customers, but he had a soft heart for the girls. He knew what this was going to do to Lizzy. But she didn't care. Burning her soul seemed like the right thing to do. That way she wasn't suffering no more. But there was a burning part of her, some primal rage, that wanted to live on, and deal out some payback.
"Jus... do it Doc. I'll work it off for ya. It's that... or ya can throw me in the meat grinder now. Can't work. No money. No rent. Nothing. Won't last a year. Fuck, not even a month. Give me the chrome, and I'm gonna make it right with ya."
Doc sighed, and looked at the gear. His mouth turned sour, but Lizzy could see he was going to do it.
"Frag it. No way I'm selling it. Alright girl, but don' say I didn't warn ya."
Lizzy tried to smile, but it hurt.
"Yer... Yer one of the good ones Doc. I'll make it right. Promise."
Doc said nothing, but got out his tools. Last thing Lizzy heard was "Breathe deep" before he put a mask on her. Then the lights went out, and with it, the pain.

She had no idea how long she was out. Sometimes she'd wake up, seeing machines beeping, bags of medical stuff hanging over her. Sometimes in a recovery ward, sometimes back on the slab. Sometimes missing a limb. It was weird. Only when she had to test out if the neuro-links were working did Doc wake her up fully, and only briefly. Until one day, it was all done. She took her first steps on her new legs, shaped like a cat's, all chrome covered in fur. She fell over and grabbed a bedframe for support, only to crush it in her grip. Doc said he would add it to the tab and for her to be careful, she wasn't no 'frail girl no more'.

And then, the streets again. Getting used to her chrome, then using it to work off the debt. Working out the big hole in her head. Something was gone, but with it all the hurt was gone too. She laughed at that, but didn't know why.

A few years went by. Lizzy was gone. Now she was Imperatrix, the cat-empress of the night. She had paid off Doc. Much of her creds had come from stealing cyberware. She was quite good at it, leaving behind a pile of bewildered people who just got a part of their body yanked out. Suckers. Of course she couldn't get full money for those used bits, but she found a pawn broker willing to give a good price for what she brought in. A few months later he gave her a contact, a fixer who would pay her big time for some shadow work. That sounded like good fun, and so Big Momma came into her life. She never figured out who was behind that AR persona, but the leads were solid, and running the shadows paid big-time. And besides, what else is a girl to do except have some fun, eh?

Oh god, we’re all gonna die

Wow very cool concept! What book did you find all the cyberpsychosis qualities? I like those. Im sure you didn't mean to list both reaction enhancers AND wired reflexes though, their descriptions say they're incompatible :(

*Dang, I just noticed that I bought too high a rating on my Cerebral Booster... I bought rating 3 but it has an availability of 18 and we are limited to 15. Wah-wah.

So people with fractional essence be legit scary asf.

Chrome Flesh baby. It has allllll the shiny toys. *mrrrrrrr*
Bawwww, someone didn't read the wireless section! Here you go sweetums! <3

Wireless: Reaction enhancers are compatible with a wireless wired reflexes system, and the total bonus Reaction from the two augmentations can be above +4 if both systems have wireless activated.

Oh wow man, it was literally the next sentence! LMFAO how the heck did I miss that and why have I been cheating myself all this time? Your eyes are better than mine obviously.

Any thoughts on my spell list? I wasn't really sure how I wanted to go so I figured I would cover a decent amount of ground to make sure we had the important stuff covered. I'm willing to swap some stuff around.

Combat:
Lash
Slash
Stunbolt

Astral:
Astral Armor
Astral Window

Survival:
Improved Invisibility
Heal
Stabilize

Interaction:
Control Emotions
Rewind
Thought Recognition

Looks like a good spread to me! I only have the Core book and Kill Code so I couldn't read up on some of them but seems like you have your bases covered.

Lash and slash are your typical combat spells but for every 2 physical damage you do, you also do 1 stun but at a higher drain.

Astral Armor is the Armor spell, but it works in the Astral Plane instead of Physical Space

Astral Window lets you look through mana barriers in the Astral

Control Emotions lets you make someone feel a specific emotion, if they want to act against it they get a -2

Rewind erases the last (net hits) number of minutes from the target's memory

Thought Recognition scans the target's thoughts for a specific keyword or phrase

The rest are in the CRB and are pretty straight forward

Man, rewind seems like a winner! I personally would have taken Control Mob over Control Emotion but I'm sure you have something specific in mind (I've never played a mage in SR)

I think using people as puppets would go too far for my character

I'm excited to start this thing! Seems like almost everyone has submitted, although my char hasn't been approved by the GM yet...

Same

I'm still tinkering with my soldier. I think I'll have to break down and actually try Chummer5 to get the math right on everything.

it's seriously a game changer for SR5

I will say though I noticed an error in its calculation where it gives every firearm a base recoil compensation of two so be sure to factor that in when you copy over your weapon stats. Just subtract two from The recoil compensation. Unless someone who knows the program better has better info on this subject?

Haven't heard from our GM in a while... Do we have a start date?

Last activity was just two days ago & he's in a few other games; plus, it's the weekend slump. Patience, Chummer.

I'm in another game with him and hadn't seen a post all week so my emotion synthesizers kicked in and I began to worry ;)

*Is spazzing out on Jazz and Wired Reflexes*

"Patience? Pat-ience? PATIENCE!? REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!"

*Sounds of glass, heavy equipment and walls breaking*

It’s not a bad idea to keep the threads active anyway with how flighty PBP players can be.
Just stay away from the K-10 buddy

This. Forever this.

Starting Cash (Middle Lifestyle)

[jacking in]
............ INITIALIZING


COMPLETE.

//29.08.22//HOST:GP:SR:OOC//

Daily check in. Spent the weekend huffing cram, redlined to the gills. Gonna hang out here at Chicago General until I'm sure my core ain't gonna overheat. -GLO[worm]

[jacking out]

[jacking in]
............ INITIALIZING


COMPLETE.

//30.08.22//HOST:GP:SR:OOC//

Daily check in. Survived the cram OD, spent this morning burning some deepweed to come down from the long night. Gonna check out a host on the local grid /dev/grrl told me about that should be holding specs on some new deck mods coming out this year. -GLO[worm]

[jacking out]

[jacking in]
............ INITIALIZING


COMPLETE.

//31.08.22//HOST:GP:SR:OOC//

Daily check in. New mods were worth the IC, looks like Renraku is designing a new chipset that will let users hard switch between configuration states without running a configurator program thus freeing up RAM (program space) when in multi-use environments. Been waiting on my Johnson to come through with work, starting to feel like they forgot about me! That's what I get for not sending a Christmas card...
-GLO[worm]

[jacking out]

OCC: Sorry guys! Huge internet problems and have shifted house but it's all good now! Will continue with game over the next two days! Thanks for your patience!

He lives! :o

Woo, it's on like Donkey Kong.

Yay! Glad to have you back!

Soooooo... When are we starting?

Checking in...

Are we ghosted here?

I wouldn't jump that far yet

Or, you know, I suppose we are.

Looks like that's the case, unfortunately.

Well, no reason not to at least stick around just in case.

What a bummer, I really liked my character. I guess the Shadowrun curse continues, I'm thinking that I might run a SR game on here soon but I just started running a second game so I'm gonna wait and make sure I can handle the load.

*Sigh*

All I wanted was to be was a cyberpsycho. Will no one think of the cyberpsychos?

Cyberpsychos really are an under-represented group.

No more complex rules systems for me. It's too much time to make a character for these results. Ciao yall