Shadowrun: Anyone Up For It?

[No Way]

Not as long as it will be on the finished sheet.

Being a Metahuman, Zeek was denied the one thing he really wanted in life: acceptance into a Japaneese Cooking School. Born in New Orleans, Zeek tried time and time again to get accepted into these forgien schools. When his hope finaly dried up, he latched onto the one peice of Japaneese culture left to him: the Samurai. Using the money he had been saving to fly to Japan and pay his way through cooking school, he exstensivley modified his body with cyber. Now, he has become a runner, looking to make enough money to found his own cooking school, were metahumans arn't rejected just because they are metahumans. However, do to his tendancy to blow all his money on food and weapons, and Ork's short life span, it dosn't look like this will be happening.

 

[Thanee]

Well, if Thanee goes full Mage, hopefully the character will work out more on The Face/Conjuror side to cover that basis, I mean...

I first need to look into the books, how things were done, but that should be fairly quick, really.

Conjuration will most certainly be on my list then, maybe I'll even make an elf, dunno how it works out yet. I've never created a character with edges/flaws, so I have to look through that stuff first to see what looks interesting.

I'll start to dig out my books tonite, I guess...

BTW, if you neglect conjuration, why didn't you make a sorcery adept!?
Or do you just want to "keep your options open"?

Bye
Thanee

 

[Shalimar]

She is a sorcery Adept. Thats why I said we should have someone able to deal with the astral, Kayla can't project and she doesn't have any real spells to fight against elementals.As far as edge and flaws that are really helpful to the Awakened, especially astral projectors, take a look at the Astral Chameleon (+2 TNs to read the characters Aura, and Spells are read as if they are 1 force level lower), the other good one is focused concentration, instead of a +2 to TNs for sustaining a spell, its only plus 1.

 

[Shalimar]

If you do go hermetic, especially elven hermetic, feel free to join Kayla's initiatory group, that way it keeps it very simple for Andrew as far as groups. It really does make it easier to initiate, mages are Karma guzzlers, so any way to save helps. The only thing I had built up about the group in my mind was that all the members of the group have been Kiros' students, and therefore are all Hermetics, and almost all elves, makes it a pretty small group for the magical link test to join. It would also give our characters a hook together, well besides the fact that your character might shop at Kiros' talismonger shop.

 

[Thanee]

Oh, must have mixed something up then.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Thanee]

Cranial Bomb (6 pts flaw)
...

The player need not pay for the bomb with the character's starting Resource points -- the bomb's a freebie.

...

Isn't that nice?

And no, I don't plan to pick that up...

Bye
Thanee

 

[Thanee]

The only thing I had built up about the group in my mind was that all the members of the group have been Kiros' students, and therefore are all Hermetics, and almost all elves, makes it a pretty small group for the magical link test to join.

But Kayla is human, right?

Where did you find, how you can have an initiatory group from the beginning?

Doh, 5,000 Nuyen isn't exactly much.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Shalimar]

Kayla is an Elf, if your character is also an elf, from her mannerisms, your character could tell she is a high ranking elf from Tir Tairngire.

Err, it says in the core book that you can use spell points for Karma, so I spent the 3 spell points to join. Its been established that you can initiate in character creation if you wanted, you just wouldn't have much spell points for spells.

Resources A (1 million) (Purchased 9 additional spell points)
Magic B (Sorcerer Adept)
Race C (Elf)
Attributes D (21) [22 with bonus attribute point Will edge]
Skills E (27)

 

[Thanee]

I see.

I'm currently thinking about a member of the Ancients (guess they are present in the city, too, figuring, that they are present in pretty much every bigger city), which could then be tied in a bit with your character (i.e. by taking that talismonger as a contact, I doubt I can afford any spell points for anything else than spells ).

Is there anything you need to buy/pick up to have this kind of background (apart from appropriate knowledge skills)!? An edge, for example?

Bye
Thanee

 

[Thanee]

One other question, Shalimar...

Where are those cantrips from (not the individual spells, rather the concept)?

Bye
Thanee