Shadowrun
Shadowrun Play => Character creation and critique => Topic started by: ARC on <10-22-11/0704:17>
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So My game group had been throwing around a SRM Round Robin where there is a different GM for each one of the SRM games. But to do this I need a character for when I don't GM. So I am going to have 3 weeks before I will have to play the character. I decided to do a poll to see what I should play. What Race should he be?
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Humans tend to be underrepresented. Show them you don't need anything fancy to get the job done.
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My best characters tend to be humans. I have had a lot fun playing Dwarves and Orks as well, but my vote would probably be human.
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Really it depends on how you want to approach the character building. Do you decide what sort of character you want to play (I want to build a hacker!) or make a background and have them be good at whatever they might be good at (Joe was a computer repair technician who got caught up in the wacky world of shadowrunning!)?
Thankfully the metahuman races do have valid mechanical niches even if some are far smaller than others. A rough laydown:
Human: You want an edge score of 6+ or your Body + STR score <= 6
Dwarf: You care about having a high willpower and logic scores and edge < 6.
Ork: You want to save points.
Elf: You want Charisma or you really want agility.
Troll: You want a high STR score or be tough.
If you can be a metavarient, things change a bit. Fomori and Gnomes are amazing. Good examples of each race playing to their strengths can be seen in Umaro's Archetypes (http://forums.shadowrun4.com/index.php?topic=4495.0).
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Sasquatch. ;D
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Ok, so to make it clear, I'm doing an experiment character to build my roleplaying. I'm going to build the character, but leaving the choices on the big stuff for the forums.
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Play the hot elf face woman. You are pretty comfortable with acting feminine anyway...:P
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Like male Elves are butch anyhow. ;)
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If you're going to play an elf face, make it a night one. Most Johnsons are closet furries.
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Catgirls are proof the Spirits love us and want us to be happy. ;D
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Question, Arc: Does this game replace or go alongside the game where Mason is/was playing? We only get the one meet per week. Want to know if he is finished or not, 'cuz if that one is done I want to play Mason more, so I would port him. Unless you want me to play The Artificial Man? =D
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We will discuss this Tuesday. At work now. Crazy night. My job sticks it to me again.
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If you're going to play an elf face, make it a night one. Most Johnsons are closet furries.
LMFAO!!! I might have to use that as a prejudice one of these days. ;)
Unless you want me to play The Artificial Man? =D
The Artificial Man? Sounds interesting...
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If you're going to play an elf face, make it a night one. Most Johnsons are closet furries.
LMFAO!!! I might have to use that as a prejudice one of these days. ;)
Unless you want me to play The Artificial Man? =D
The Artificial Man? Sounds interesting...
It's a character he created with an essence of like .01
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*primly* I'll have you know it is 0.006 Essence!
Link: http://forums.shadowrun4.com/index.php?topic=4842.0 (http://forums.shadowrun4.com/index.php?topic=4842.0)
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*primly* I'll have you know it is 0.006 Essence!
Link: http://forums.shadowrun4.com/index.php?topic=4842.0 (http://forums.shadowrun4.com/index.php?topic=4842.0)
Close enough
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Well, my best characters are all elves or humans, so I'd go with that.
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Ok so Elves and Humans are tied so as of right now it looks more than likely a Surge Character. Still got a few more days. Anybody else have any input?
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Play a SURGEd Wakyambi pistolier with cbernetic replacements.
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Play an augmented dwarf adept that has an ultrawideband radar and maxes out strength then grabs the 'Smashing blow' adept power.
If you grab Muscle augmentation 4, critical strike 3, and smashing blow along with the ultrawideband radar it allows you to see through walls to see where enemies are, then promptly break through those walls.
Surprise test anyone?
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A couple more days and voting will be closed for the race of the character. Next it will be specialty.
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The end is getting close, anybody who hasn't voted please do. It's all really close.
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Unless there is a last minute swing, looks like you'll be playing a Human.
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That is what it is looking like. That's why I want more votes.
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Well it looks like it's going to be a SURGE human. Ok on to the next poll. I will be posting that one soon.