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Shadowrun Play => Character creation and critique => Topic started by: Bewilderbeast on <02-12-13/1054:27>

Title: Returning to the Game
Post by: Bewilderbeast on <02-12-13/1054:27>

I'm returning to the game after a long break. I haven't had much experience with Shadowrun at all, but I've been feeling the itch again. Here's a new character I've been making to refamiliarize myself with the character creation rules. It could really use some proofreading to make sure I haven't made any mistakes. I'm really confused on cyberlimbs in general, for instance, as well as item availability (12 availability is the standard, right?) Any advice or insight would be appreciated.

See below post for slightly more readable character sheet.

Title: Re: Returning to the Game
Post by: Bewilderbeast on <02-12-13/1500:15>

Name: Rebecca Kinnaird
Alias: Tink
Race: Human
Sex: Female
Nationality: UCAS
Lifestyle: Low
Karma Spent: 0
Physical Description: Awesome physical description I will spare you the details of.
Personality/background Awesome background I will spare you the details of.

Attributes

Body	Agility	Reaction	Strength
4	5	5(6)	2
Charisma	Intuition	Logic	Willpower
2	4	2	4
Edge	Magic/Resonance	Essence	Initiative
3	N/A	2.45	9(10)

Positive Qualities
N/A
Negative Qualities
Mild Allergy to Certain Rare Earth Elements (+5 BP)

Active Skills

Infiltration Skill Group	3
Athletics Skill Group	2
Automatics	5
Pistols	4
Dodge	4 (Ranged Combat Specialization)
Armorer	3
Perception	3
Lockpicking	2
Con	2
Etiquette	2 (Street Specialization)
Unarmed Combat	1

Knowledge Skills ( [Logic + Intuition] x 3 free points)

Firearm Design (Logic)	4
Local Street Gangs (Intuition)	4
Ares Corporate Culture (Logic)	2
Local Squatter Hangouts (Intuition)	2

Language Skills

English	N
Spanish	3
Japanese	3

Cyber/Bioware

Cyberware	Essence	Cost	Notes
Alphaware Wired Reflexes 1	1.6	22,000¥	No notes
Customized Obvious Cyberarm	1.25	34,000¥	Strength 6, Agility 5, Body 4, Shock Hand, Cyberarm Slide and Gyromount
Cybereyes 3	.4	9,250¥	Smartlink, Vision Enhancement 3, Vision Magnification, Flare Compensation, Low-Light Vision, Thermographic Vision

Reaction Enhancers 1	.3	10,000¥	No notes
Cosmetic Modification	0	1,390¥	Fiber-Optic Hair, Plastic Surgery

Gear (110,000¥)

Yamaha Pulsar w/ Concealable Holster and 20 Darts	325¥
Ares Predator IV w/ Smartgun (Included), Silencer and 10 Regular Ammo	750¥
Ceska Black Scorpion w/ Internal Smartgun, Concealable Holster, 5 Gel Rounds and 10 Regular Ammo	1,525¥
Ares Alpha w/ Smartgun (Included), Recoil Compensation 2 (Included), Shock Pad and 5 Regular Ammo	1,850¥
6 Smoke Grenades	180¥
6 Flashbang Grenades	180¥
Lined Coat with Nonconductivity 6	1,900¥
Hermes Icon Commlink w/ Iris Orb OS and Subvocal Microphone	4,050¥
Fake SIN	4,000¥
Fake License 6 (Obvious Cyberarm, Shock Hand, Cybereyes Smartlink)	1,800¥
Fake License 5 (Concealed Carry, Motorcycle License, Ceska Black Scorpion, Yamaha Pulsar)	2,000¥
Fake License 2 (Autopicker and Gel Rounds)	400¥
Medkit with 4 Medkit Supplies	800¥
Autopicker 5	1,000¥
Key Lock 5 on Apartment Door	50¥
3 Months Low Lifestyle	6,000¥
Motorcycle Helment	50¥

Vehicles
Suzuki Mirage Racing Bike

Handling	Accel	Speed	Pilot	Body	Armor	Sensor	Availability	Cost
2	20/50	200	1	6	4	1	-	6,500¥

Contacts Contact C/L Dr. Silas (Street Doc) 2/5 Mr. Twist (Fixer) 3/2 Hotzenplotz 2/1 Build Point totals: 400 = 210 (Attributes) + 153 (Skills and Qualities) - 37 (Gear and Contacts)

Title: Re: Returning to the Game
Post by: nullnostalgia on <02-13-13/1539:15>

Why not take some more qualities to flesh the char out a bit more? also, a full arm shouldn't be 1.25 essence unless it's like, secondhand.

Fake Licenses 5 and 6 are above your avail, if you're going standard avail.

Thirdly, you're doing the customized strength wrong. You would need enhancements to get your strength to 5, for instance. Customization just allows your cyberarm to take advantage of your body's natural physique, as opposed to increasing any stats.

Title: Re: Returning to the Game
Post by: Thrass on <02-13-13/1819:33>

Quote from: nullnostalgia on <02-13-13/1539:15>

Thirdly, you're doing the customized strength wrong. You would need enhancements to get your strength to 5, for instance. Customization just allows your cyberarm to take advantage of your body's natural physique, as opposed to increasing any stats.

It works up to the unaugmented maximum, not up to the actual value, so yes a strength 1 human can take a cyberarm customized for 6 strength and then add strength enhancement 3 and punch someone with 9 str.

Title: Re: Returning to the Game
Post by: nullnostalgia on <02-14-13/1036:55>

The way I'm understanding it, you need 5 strength to take advantage of customized 5 strength. Can you tell me where in the rules it says otherwise, though? Because that saves me a hellton of BP, if I've been doing it wrong all these years.

Title: Re: Returning to the Game
Post by: kirschkern on <02-14-13/1052:05>

Corerulebook SR4a Page 343:

Quote

 They allow the user to raise their starting Body, Strength,
and Agility attributes up to the character’s natural attribute maximum

Natural attribute maximum for humans without any exceptional qualities or genetic optimizations is 6. So you can indeed customize for str 6 and enhance to str 9 (it just gets expensive and the availability goes up quite a bit).

Title: Re: Returning to the Game
Post by: Bewilderbeast on <02-14-13/1448:23>

Thanks for the feedback. I downloaded Chummer and that helped clear up a lot of misconceptions, but I really appreciate the help.