Character Creation

If you have any question on the character creation , you can post them here.

I'm working on a face character that mostly has ties to the streets.

With Adept power or just plain old charisma?

Just plain old Charisma. I'm keeping it simple.

Ok, she's all done. Let me know what mistakes I made (I'm sure there are some) and if you have any questions. I kept good notes during character creation. Haven't fleshed out my background yet.

Rolling for starting cash:1,600

haha, i made my character without realizing the forum was up. forgive me, i'm new to this site. i ended up making a face-style character too. is the game going to require a more diverse skillset? i can change up my character if required.

That's would be for the best, I prefer to play with small group : 3-4 players , the good thing is I can give more focus on each of your character but the drawback is that having two people play the same role can be problematic.
Do you have experience in Shadowrun?

yeah, ive played a couple of sessions of 4e, and ive played pretty much every shadowrun video game except chronics.

As we have two new players, can I orient your choice to Magic/Matrix character. They are not mandatory in a shadowrun game but they ease the life of a shadowrun's group.

decker then. ;3

Don't be surprise if I still call them Hacker :D.

Now that we are all here, let's talk about the team. You can decide if you are already a team or if your fixer just made one. Because I'm a nice guy , you gain a free fixer contact. I will give you more info about him later.
A point that my previous team all ask me : Yes, you can share the same appartemment to reduce the lifestyle cost.
To make yours contacts seem more alive, I need a name and some info : their job, personality and every thing you can think about them.

Working on contacts, character bio is up. Any hooks you want us to include in contacts?

You can include hook if you want, GM loves hook, it's like a drug. But I won't surprise anyone if I said that the first mission will come from the free fixer. :)

Well, if we have a decker and a face I guess that leaves us with muscle and magic? Or a rigger, nothing says muscle like a tricked out Steel Lynx.
Quick question for our illustrious GM: What books are you allowing?

The illustrious Gm allow mostly the core book but if you have an idea with an other book we can discuss it. I never had a Rigger player : I'm curious to see what you will do with it. :)

I was thinking Rigger 5.0 for the vehicles/drone and the upgrade options for vehicles and drones.
Looking at an ex-CAS military Rigger who was based on the Texas/Aztlan border

For the players:
Already a team? Planned Lifestyle? If we're sharing space I'd have given you access to the sweet garage.

Already a team works for me.

so then, would you like me to switch to something magic so the newbie can play a street samurai? a rigger is not a decker, i'm just thinking of ability spread.

What I love with Shadowrun is that you can do any character you want, as you are not chosen by destiny but by Johnson and fixer. It is in their interest that you succeed so if you lack magical power they won't send you against major magic force.

So do the character you want , the plot will adapt itself and if one day you need an additional skill for a mission, you can still call a friend.

Working on my character today/tomorrow. I'm going back and forth between a street samurai and magic user. I'm fine with already a team and living together, even if we all have wildly different backgrounds there's always the reason of convenience for job to make a crack team.

Heads up if you're looking at Sammy, I've got a Steel Lynx with a MMG, so when the stuff gets hot, we can always use that. Also, it can load and unload from the van pretty quickly.

Ahhhh, hmm, well I'm almost finished with the street sam I was making, just picking qualities and contacts. But if everyone really wants some hocus pocus in the joint and we're packing too much steel I could try my hand at magic - it seems hella confusing haha.

To be fair, a gatling drone is not a solution to all problem, it may be the best infiltration's tactic.

If you're making a street sam, go for it, we'll just avoid jobs where we need a mage.
And yes, the drones aren't exactly sneaky (I have those too), I'll mostly leave it for when the drek hits the fan.

I Imagine a big red button on AR with "Subtility off" on it.

did we decide if the team was living together or not? i think my character would likely prefer to live alone, reclusive decker and all that.

While Heron isn't the most personable guy ever, he'd have no problem sharing space. Just don't mess with the drones in the garage. If we're looking at separate spaces, that also works.

Maybe we all have our own places, but hang out at Heron's when planning runs?

I like that idea

Only one more Character and we are good to go.

uploading now then, sorry for the wait. backstory forthcoming!

You'd all get added to the garage's maglock biometric reader.
Looking forward to this.

As we are close to the beginning of our dark adventure where your capacity will be put to the test , your moral challenged and expose your soul, Here is your promised free fixer

Nyssa Hallas
loyalty: 1
Connection :6
Elf
Nyssa is the new owner of one of the most famous club in seattle : The club Penumbra. Relatively new to the seattle scene, the beautiful elf made her entrance with the reopening of the Penumbra. She kept the traditional shadow part of the club and handle with her management team a dozen of shadowrunner squad. She handle job from knee breaking to corporate destabilisation. She sometimes take the scene of her club to show that management isn't her only talent. Nobody know were she found the money to finance the club.

You aren't really her close confident, she spot you at her club or an other artistic event and she remaks " I like him/her, put it on the list." and you gain prime acces to the club and a steady flow of little job : give a lesson to a dealer, take picture of a cheating husband. Nothing glamorous but it pays the bill, the big job are reserved to the more experienced team : the shadow is an ecosystem and you are far from the apex predator.

Most of the time, it's one of the bouncer or a manager that give you the instruction, some times you wonder if she stills know who you are but everybody have to begin somewhere.

aaannnnddd The game is up!

Realized didn't do my starting wealth, so here it is: 1,600

Would it be alright for me to spend the 500 nuyen to set one of the seats up as troll ready in the van? Given that we've been running together for a while?

Also, front or back, Ink?

To be fair I complety forgot that troll could have problem with normal car proportion, so you can , no problem. I would say that 500 is a bit much : for this price you can have a heated seat.

That's the price listed in Rigger 5.0 (p171), though it's for drivers, either way, I'll drop the nuyen, your call

Thank you for the info, I am going to read that.

backseat is fine with me! (sorry for the late response, weekends are incredibly busy)

So was I wrong in assuming that Heron was our leader, Ujimona? He's the only one with a military background. I'm just the one who sweet-talks the Johnson. I should not be the one planning things. I would be okay with anyone being the leader, as long as it's not my character. :)

I don't think he'd appreciate the idea. The guy's about as personable as a rock. I'm fine with him serving as defacto leader (or anyone else doing so), just that he'd no appreciate it being point out.

Homemade is accustomed to more of a fluid leadership structure, so I assume he'd just defer to whoever had the most experience with the task at hand. He's not a big authority type.

hey, would you guys mind posting your character sheets to the library? That way we have a better idea of each of our strengths and weaknesses, which we would have as a team that's worked together. Alternately, we could just post something here.

My character has no computer skills whatsoever, for example, so without getting some info mined by someone else, she's really limited with what she can do.

If you go to, say, what we've written in the "Drinking Buddies" chapter and IF the person is posting as their character (as Ink or Homemade or Heron), then you can click on their picture and see their character sheet.

EDIT: Ah, I get what you mean now, we all weren't in the library yet - my character should have been added to the library, can you see it?

Thanks, can see it now!

Can someone help me understand the color scheme? Is green for all electronic communication? Can we use a different color for comms?

I started using green for stuff I was saying via DNI (since I don't need to do anything physical for it), but it looks like it's all our electronic communications. If you want to use something for voice communications, go ahead.

Ojousama's gone dormant...can we replace with a new decker?

Is this game still a go?

*tap, tap*

Everyone but us has gone dormant, Ujimona. I'm going to leave the game, but will happily come back if the GM returns. Let me know if you ever decide to run a game or join another...I've enjoyed playing with you.