[Aria]

Here’s another character for consideration/comments/flames.  She’s perhaps not the best runner in the world but any pointers would be appreciated.  At least most shadowruns happen in the shadows…

<<Velvet>> Vampire, anti-vampire campaigner. 

[Ted Fast]

I see that Velvet has no weapons aside from her unarmed attack, that seems like something the will comeback to bit you in the ass sooner rather then later.

I also think that you should probably have more then one contact.

[Lethe]

The +3 initiative bonus for vampires is the combined reaction/intuition bonus, which you already calculated in those attributes. You don't get another +3, your initiative is just 9.

[UmaroVI]

I'm not sure going Unarmed is the way to go. You can't halfway do Unarmed combat, and you are right now pretty dependent on having time to buff up with Attribute Boost. I think you'd get more mileage out of either Pistols or Automatics and reallocating those adept powers.

[Aria]

Well she's a lover not a fighter 

I figured that one on one she was a match for most people (Command "stand still", then rip throat out  ).  More than that and she can mist form away (and not drop lots of expensive guns around the place either...)

Contacts and guns would have to be eaked out of initial karma, gaming I guess, those points are so thin on the ground when you have to pay 100BPs for your race!

@Lethe: are you sure?  Why list it if you'd calculate it in anyway?  I'm not saying you're wrong, just seems daft to me! Ah well, the joys of RAW 

[Ted Fast]

Well she's a lover not a fighter 

I figured that one on one she was a match for most people (Command "stand still", then rip throat out  ).  More than that and she can mist form away (and not drop lots of expensive guns around the place either...)

Contacts and guns would have to be eaked out of initial karma, gaming I guess, those points are so thin on the ground when you have to pay 100BPs for your race!

@Lethe: are you sure?  Why list it if you'd calculate it in anyway?  I'm not saying you're wrong, just seems daft to me! Ah well, the joys of RAW 

So is Velvet open about her vampirism or is it a secret? Only being able to attack in a very vampiric fashion ( For example "One fatal claw/bite-wound and no defensive wounds") seems like a bad idea when you hang out with Buff and the rest of the Scoobys

[Lethe]

@Lethe: are you sure?

Quite sure. The proof:
Your infected REA/INT is 4/5, with REA = N+2 and INT = N+1. So the normal REA/INT is 2/4.
Therefore normal INI = 6 and infected INI = N+3 = 9. Which is the same as adding your already infected REA/INT together.

[Aria]

No problem, easily fixed

[nulloperations]

Raw numbers, she seems interesting.

I'm concerned about the combat skill only being the unarmed vampire way of dealing with people with the concept of the character being an Anti-vampire campaigner. Seems with that mindset she'd avoid doing things that were more fitting with the vampire role and try to be more human. Some unarmed mixed in would be great, but not as highly focused.

That said, I like what's essentially a Vampire Face. Brings in a racial archetype I've had players try to use and steps it up into a more interesting concept.

The qualities are interesting and I'd like to see the character background information for that positive quality Privileged Family Name and the why for the negative quality Computer Illiterate. Since she's a sort of public figure, makes perfect sense for her to be a SINer and the negative quality for prejudiced works great here, assuming she's publicly a vampire.

Seems she would have more contacts to me, again going back to her role as a campaigner she'd be making political connections. The Vampire Hunter makes for an interesting shadow contact, but I'd love to see something more from the political or maybe media arenas.

Overall though, I'd totally let this character into my games with an attached cool Biography.

[Aria]

It might be a bit of a stretch but i pegged her at over 100 years old - pre Awakening!  I thought she might have been infected when Hailey's comet passed over in '86 and awoke something that should have been sleeping.  That was the reason for computer illiterate and not taking firearms etc, she's a little bit stuck in the past!  She would be campaigning against the acceptance of vampires into society, predators, beasts etc...that doesn't stop her from being one!  After all, deVries uses all his powers to hunt them, she just speaks out about them

She's more of a concept at the moment...haven't got a game to slot her into (although I am considering running a Jet Set game in the future and she would make an interesting NPC