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Dwarf Rigger, no hacking or technomancy

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« on: <02-19-12/1038:09> »
Okay, I'm a noob at Shadowrun. My group's upgrading from second edition, so this is my first time doing 4th. I read the books, I've got a feel for the game, but every rigger I see on the forums here are part hacker or technomancer.  Now we already have a hacker as well as the rest of the meat, so I want to be the car/drone monkey with minimal hacker skills/attributes. Can I do that without a bunch of hacker skills? if not, then should I go technomancer or gear hacker?  Thanks to anyone that replies.

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« Reply #1 on: <02-19-12/1158:06> »
You can make a rigger who can't hack, it just isn't an overly good idea because people can hack your drones and you can't do jack about it. Also, there's a significant overlap between stuff you need to rig and stuff you need to hack (eg, a good commlink). I would suggest starting by looking at the two riggers in my sig: the Mercenary Rigger for a mundane rigger with secondary skills in hacking and street samurai, and the Info Savant for a technomancer rigger with secondary skills in hacking.

You could in theory take the Mercenary Rigger and just drop the hacking skills and gear and buy other things with it. There's not much room to actually be better at rigging by doing so, though, and like I said, it isn't a terribly good idea. If you want to do it anyways, though, by all means. I would suggest that a better way to think about it is "be a good rigger, then spend leftover points being a good hacker."

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« Reply #2 on: <02-19-12/1202:33> »
Okay, I'm a noob at Shadowrun. My group's upgrading from second edition, so this is my first time doing 4th. I read the books, I've got a feel for the game, but every rigger I see on the forums here are part hacker or technomancer.  Now we already have a hacker as well as the rest of the meat, so I want to be the car/drone monkey with minimal hacker skills/attributes. Can I do that without a bunch of hacker skills? if not, then should I go technomancer or gear hacker?  Thanks to anyone that replies.

The main reason I would make a rigger that is also a hacker is because I'm in a rather small gaming group.  That said we're generally missing the Awakened team member and the hacker (and almost always missing the rigger).
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« Reply #3 on: <02-22-12/0629:42> »
I was looking at the info Savant, and it looked interesting. I think I'll try that build out, with a few modifications. (he's also a pyromaniac, so a couple points are going into Demolitions)  Thanks for the advice, I'll try and figure out technomancy a bit more.