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Pixie Mech Drone commander... Rigger or Adept?

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The Custodian

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« on: <08-17-16/1751:57> »
Right, so i was wondering if i could get some help on building a pixie character, rough concept is a riggertype hidden within an anthro drone and using it to fight (GM doesnt want any offsite characters while doing jobs)


Anyway, build is priority and i put funds for A, Meta B, and magic E.

Body 2, Agility 4 Reaction 6 Strength 1 Charisma 3 Intuition 5 Logic 6 Willpower 6 Edge 5 Mag 1

Skills are spread through out a couple weapon skills and piloting. and repair (Might have to respec these since we're undecided on wether to use gunnery as the main skill for firing drone weapons or the specific guns skill)

Main drone so far is a heavily tweaked Juggernaught with a smugglers compartment and life support, among a few other tweaks.

Max item availability is 14 while each character can take a single 16.



Got plenty more to spend on but  wanted some imput on the build. Ive been seing many other suggestions to build an Adept instead. If its a better method to do this character concept then by all means i will,

Kuirem

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« Reply #1 on: <08-17-16/1838:37> »
Pixie are super special snowflake cheesy builds. Here you are warned but I suppose that your GM had allowed you to build it so it won't be a problem. You can go for a Gnome or a Dwarf if your GM allow you to do the same for a less cheesy build and to avoid the annoying Uneducated Negative Quality.

First thing I would put C in Metatype. Edge is cool but Pixie start at 2 anyway and it is fairly easy to raise. I would go for A - Resources, B - Skills, C - Metatype, D - Attributes, E - Magic. There is plenty of useful skills you want to pick and physical attributes can stay fairly low since you are always hidden.

For Attribute you need LOG to aim when jumped in and REA or INT to pilot. RAW says its REA that is used for piloting but logically it should be INT since you are not in your body while jumped in, see with your GM which one he uses. I will assume that he use RAW so I would put :

BODAGIREASTRCHAINTLOGWIL
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If your GM use INT remove everything from REA and raise INT to the max and some WIL and BOD.

For skills you need Sneaking (spy drones are strong), Electronic Warfare (useful to reduce noise and can be used instead of Perception with sensors), Gunnery, Pilot Ground Craft, Pilot Aircraft (for spy drone at least). Because Pixie are uneducated Electronic Warfare will cost twice the normal skill points so you have used all your skill points. If your GM feels generous he might allow you to take it at the normal cost or through the Cracking Skill Group. For your 5 Skill group put it all in Engineering (once again it is up to your GM to allow it because of uneducated).

For equipment most of your Nuyen will go into Drones, Control Rig and your Riger Command Console. You can also take some Reaction Enhancers (if you use REA to pilot) and/or Cerebral Booster. Reflex Recorder should also work if you use REA to pilot.

The Custodian

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« Reply #2 on: <08-17-16/2107:09> »
Yes yes, Pixies are special snowflakes and blah blah blah.  I get it,, regarding the uneducated trait GM said I can negate it by spending 8 karma in the positive qualities  area.

As for other things, i did not realize pixies and other metasapients can go Priority c.. That kinda changes things for me, thanks ^^

One other thing that worries me, what about biofeedback damage? Should Willpower be kept rather high in an attempt to stave that off?
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Kuirem

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« Reply #3 on: <08-18-16/0155:15> »
5 is what most Rigger out there start with so I think you should be fine. If you start with a Vulcan Liegelord or Proteus Poseidon you will have 11 dice to resist Biofeedback. But if you want to be safe you could easily remove 2 REA to reinvest them into WIL, you will still have a pretty good dice pool for piloting and you can always get a Reaction Enhancers.