Shadowrun
Shadowrun Play => Character creation and critique => Topic started by: Aria on <10-19-12/0812:55>
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She may not be a really useful character as she's a bit of a one trick pony but I'm hoping you can all offer some suggestions to improve her. She's probably always going to be a 'support' character and certainly wouldn't work well solo. I'm also slightly concerned about her lack of stealth but as most of my adepts have a large helping of it I thought I'd try for something a bit different for a change.
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So, is she fundamentally flawed? She's an NPC in one of my games and not a runner but I'd like to think that this sort of concept might have a role in a SR team...?!?
Thanks
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I think you can tweak things a bit to have a workable character.
1) You have 4 Charisma, 5 Logic, no Logic skills or cyberware, and 2 foci. You'd be better off with a 2-3 Logic, 5 Charisma, and a Charisma tradition.
2) No summoning or binding is shooting yourself in the foot big time; it's cheap to have Summoning 1, and spirits with Magical Guard can teamwork your Counterspelling as well as help out in other ways.
3) I think you have too many mehhh physical combat skills. I'd just take Pistols and Dodge and call it a day.
4) Parazoology (spirits) is very handy if you want to be good at dealing with magical threats and other mages. Quite a lot of magical threats are one-trick ponies that have one really, really nasty cheap trick; it's very good to be able to know what that trick is before your entire team is paralyzed or something like that.
5) Your 1 additional spell should be Mana Static. I would really have more spells, too. I would suggest grabbing Sound Cloud (WAR!), so you have a way of dealing with groups of living opponents.
6) A Yamaha Sakura Fubuki with Stick-n-shock is a good idea.
7) What is that "Manipulation Focus?" Is it Spellcasting? I don't suggest bonding low-rating foci like that at chargen, because they have to be thrown out to be replaced.
8) Counterspelling foci suck. They only add to one school, and they aren't cost-efficient because of that. Save up your piggy bank for a Shielding Focus, which is much better (it's more expensive, but covers all schools).