Anybody interested in playing Shadowrun?

[Douane]

@ Reapersaurus:

Re adept powers, I can mail you a list of powers and their responding costs or post it here, if that would help.


Surely balance is issue here, since you get an advantage over normal people, in this case an undisarmable weapon. It also prevents PC equipped with a slew of "small" modifications.

Another point would be theme of losing you humanity, which is quite common to cyberpunk, I believe. Sure, you can make yourself better, but there is a price to pay for that.

There is also the factor that the essence loss wouldn't really do anything to you, except if you are an awakened being. In this case almost everything disrupts your conncetion to the "magic source".


Folkert

 

[reapersaurus]

[BThere is also the factor that the essence loss wouldn't really do anything to you, except if you are an awakened being. In this case almost everything disrupts your conncetion to the "magic source".[/B]

Yeah, I get that it only applies to "awakened beings", I guess I just never "bought" that a phys-ad effectively would be less powerful if he replaces the tip of a finger.

Just my hang-up, and non-acceptance of the game's convention, is all.

edit: unless you have more adept powers to choose from than the 3rd edition corebook, or the adept's guidebook (whatever that was called) I didn't see anything I wanted more than what I had listed on my sheet.
Wait for the kind offer of the email, and I'll post Inue' (In-you-ay) tonight.

 

[Tory Adore]

Hey Shal! Thanks
I trust you in what you think will work the best, so she looks fine to me. As I remember (it was a few years ago that I played her), I doubt we started out at 1st level. Reap would remember better than I. SO whatever you do to tone her down and make her playable is okay with me.

I just REALLY appreciate your taking the time to fix her and help me. Thank you very much

EDIT:
Oops - I forgot to ask you if I will be able to keep the nano tattoo.

 

[Shalimar]

Well, everything costs essence as a balance issue reap, even to none awakened. There is just so much you can do to your body before it loses your soul, according to the game. The more cyber you get the more disassociated you get from everyone. People with lots of Cyber like Bowie are unpleasant as hell to be around, its just a certain menacing air that hangs about them. Just their reactin enhancing cyber makes them super twitchy and liable to react before they can think.

Well heres the equipment list I filled out for Bowie it includes everything she already had on it, and goes into the specifics so we know exactly what is where. I couldn't Get a Humvee so I got the closest thing an Ares City Master. Well here goes, oh and nano tatoos aren't bioware, or cyberware that costs essence. So its a simple 5k

276k left for purchase of contacts or other gear any thats left is divided by 10 and given for starting cash.

Armor
-Form Fitting Body Armor 4/1 (2/.5 when worn with other armor)
-Secure clothing 3/0 (For everyday wear)
-Secure long coat 4/2 (For everyday wear)
-Secure Jacket 5/3
-suggested run wear - Secure Jacket + FFBA 7/1.5

Weapons: (Each weapon has a back-up stored elsewhere) I would suggest not carrying any of it except the pistol unless running
-Viper Sliver gun (Smartgun 2 equiped) 30 flechettes
-AK-98 (Smartgun 2, Ares Antioch grenade launcher, Gas Vent 3 system -3 recoil, Shockpads -1 recoil) 38 reg rnds
-Ares Antioch (Smart Gun 2) 2 HE-OF, 2 AP-OF, 2 concussion

Ammo: Again I suggest only carrying a small selection of ammo tailored for the run, you'll be weighed down too much otherwise.
-1 clip with 30 flechette rounds
-300 flechette rounds
-2 clips reg rounds for AK-98
-1 clip Gel Rounds for AK-98
-1 clip Ex-explosive rounds for AK-98
-380 EX-explosive rounds
-380 reg rounds
-1 clip HE- Offensive mini-grenades
-1 clip Anti personnel Offensive mini-grenades
-1 clip Smoke Mini-grenades
-1 clip Concussion Mini-grenades
-1 clip Flash Mini-grenades

Gear:
-Clothing(Tres chic, Fine, and ordinary 1 set each)
-pager
-wrist-phone
-Micro-Tranceiver rating 6 (would have gone cyber but with essence cost you'd be dead)
-subvocal mic (would have gone cyber but with essence cost you'd be dead)
-2 sound suppressors (don't believe silencers work on assault rifles)
-pocket flash light
-survival kit
-Cyberware toolkit
-Computers toolkit
-Electronics toolkit
-Maglock passkey Rating 4
-Keypad sequencer Rating 4
-White noise gen lev 6
-Jammer lev 6
-Bug Scanner lev 6

Vehicles:
-Ares Citymaster

 

[Douane]

@ Reaper:

Sent you that list of adept-powers to your hotmail account!

Hope it helps!

Folkert

 

[Shalimar]

I would like to say that there is nothing for free in shadowrun, and it would be very much against the feel of the game to allow an essence free mono-whip. Just a single fingertip compartment is worth .1 essence. Its the rules of the game that we all have to follow, its just balance issues.

@Reap, I understand that she went with priority A money. Beta-ware is very very very very expensive, she could never afford half the stuff on that list even with 1 million. Cyberware in general is not a cheap thing, and buying all alpha-ware to save on essence costs as Bowie did is extremely expensive. But the real limiting factor in her cyberware is her essence. A body can only be polluted so much. It gives her areas to improve later. As we make more money and get contacts who have access to the very rare and very exclusive beta and delta clincs, she can go under the knife and upgrade her systems to more essence friendly variants. There is simply a limit to what you can do at character creation.

 

[Douane]

Please excuse my ignorance, but is this a humvee like the one Bowie has?

If so, I don't think it is anywhere near a Ares Citymaster, an "urban riot control vehicle which doubles as a command post" (and costs 582,000 nuyen )

 

[Douane]

Next try:

 

[Shalimar]

Well, vehicles aren't my specialty, thats magic so feel free to ignore and do what you think is best, I was never a vehicle kind of girl, more likely used the public transport. I always got schaufered around

 

[Douane]

Sorry, Shalimar, I meant no criticism!

I'm certainly no expert either, but I connected something else with "Humvee" and tried to confirm my vague memory. The image was googled by me.

IIRC, the Citymaster is something like a sealed APC. (Like I said I'm rigger kind of guy.)


Folkert