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Title: Converting real Legends/Heros to run the Sixth World shadows.
Post by: JustADude on <01-25-12/2311:34>

So, here's a bit of a challenge / thought-experiment for everyone: Pick a real person that is in some way legendary for their technical, martial, or intellectual exploits, and convert them into Shadowrunners capable of pulling off an equivalent to their own famous exploits in the Shadowrun world.

To make sure the field is as wide as possible, let me remind everyone that those historical figures may well have been born as Elves or Dwarves, or Goblinized. Also, famous geniuses and no physical prowess would make great Magicians or Technomancers, depending on their areas of expertise.

Nikola Tesla as a Chaos Mage, Joan d'Arc as an Elvish Mystic Adept, Manfred von Richthofen as a Rigger, Lu Bu as an Ork Street Samurai, Vlad Tepes as a Nosferatu Pornomancer... the possibilities are endless.

For "cost tracking" purposes, use Karma-gen since it allows for Submersion/Initiation. No actual CGen limits apply on what can be bought, since these aren't really meant to be Player Characters (Well, not unless someone wants to make one heck of a weird game ;) ), but please do post up the totals of what you end up spending to make the character work.

And please also give a brief blurb about who they were and why we should care, since there's a lot of history out there, and not everyone can be expected to know everything.

To start things off I present...

Simo Häyhä:
"The White Death"

Karma Spent: 1,245

Fame: Häyhä was a Finnish sniper during the Winter War, a Soviet invasion of Finland in the winter of 1939. Over the course of less than 100 days he acquired, at a conservative estimate, over 700 confirmed kills; 500+ of them at long range (often in excess of 400 yards) with an un-scoped hunting rifle. He is also known to have evaded and neutralized multiple patrols, including several Soviet counter-snipers, tasked with the sole duty of hunting him down.

The Soviets, who gave him his monicker, feared him so much that they even resorted to carpet-bombing several positions where they believed he might be hiding. Purportedly, they got the positions right, but he walked away without a scratch. He even survived taking an explosive anti-armor rifle round to the face... though he probably had to burn a permanent Edge for that one, as it did put him in a coma for a week.

Häyhä is a national hero in Finland, and widely considered to be the single deadliest sniper of all time. When asked how he got so good, all he would ever say is "Practice."

STATS


Attributes

Body	Agility	Reaction	Strength
3	7	5 ( 8 )	2
Charisma	Intuition	Logic	Willpower
4	5	2	6
Edge	Magic/	Essence	Initiative
6	8	6.00	10 ( 13 )

Positive Qualities
(A * indicates a Metatype/Metavariant Quality)
Adept
Astral Chameleon
Hawk Eye
*Low-Light Vision
The Warrior's Way

Negative Qualities
Uneducated

Active Skills

Athletics Skill Group	2
C.Combat Skill Group	3
Automatics	4 (SMGs)
Disguise	6 (Camouflage)
Infiltration	6 (Wilderness)
Longarms	7 (Sniper Rifles)
Navigation	3 (Forest)
Perception	6 (Visual)
Survival	6 (Forest)
Tracking	5 (Forest)

Adept Powers

(All powers are under a Geas committing him to protecting his homeland) Power Cost Notes Cloak 8 1.5000 Combat Sense 8 2.0000 Way Discount Improved Ability 3 (Infiltration) 0.5625 Improved Ability 3 (Longarms) 0.7500 Way Discount Improved Reflexes 3 2.0000 Way Discount Mystic Armor 8 2.0000 Way Discount Temperature Tolerance 7 1.3125 Traceless Walk 0.7500 Initiation: Grade 6 Additional Power Point (3x) Masking Attunement (Rifle) Adept Centering [/spoiler]