Wow! That's some response. Thankyou all, I wasn't expecting that.
To go through the questions asked in here
Farothel - I haven't absolutely made up my mind yet, particularly as I am expecting to jump about a lot, and there's no guarantee the first one will be your home city necessarily (if that makes sense).
HydroRaven - Doh. That should be 35 for Magic 7, 10 for the Initiation if you want it. Sorry!
Xzylvador - Either could work very well and I am sitting up in my bed applauding the amount of work you've done on your backstory.
Also; good question on secondary skills, I'll say you're allowed 3 skills at 5.
For Mystic Adepts, I would rule that the guy's max non-overcasting spell force is 3.
And thanks!
Emotitoys are banned with prejudice. Thanks for reminding me.
Jian - Either would work, although I see from your PMs you've gone with the Horizon kid.
Mysteris - Replying to you in PM
Katrex - The combat doctor or the third genner sound the most like what I'm looking for.
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Anybody who's still toying with concepts
Unless I decide to go with Charlie's Fallen Angels as a group concept, I'm not looking for any more ex-whore/stripper archetypes; there's been quite a few submitted, all of them rather good, and I'd prefer to have a good range of backgrounds involved. Although Charlie's Fallen Angels does sound like an interesting running group, I might nick that for NPCs...
There doesn't seem to be a whole group of people pitching at the "I break into places and kill people" end of things, which surprises me; a lot of Mages and Hackers/TechnoTechnoTechnoMancers, not so many Physical Adepts and Street Sams. Which means you've got more chance with that.
Finally - a 600bp character is a big fish, make backgrounds worthy of that! These guys have been around the block and proven their worth, reflect that.