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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 6549208" data-attributes="member: 4936">I just finished my character in Chummer.Man, I hadn't tried to make a technomancer in 5th Ed before, and it's a lot tougher to make a good one than it is in 4rth! But I am pretty happy with what I wound up with.Finalizing contacts and knowledges, but here's a few highlights of the stats:[sblock=Priorities]Attributes A, Skills B, Resonance C, Metatype (human) D, Resources E. I then spent 4 karma to buy some nuyen for gear. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />[/sblock]BOD 3AGI 4REA 4STR 2CHA 3INT 5LOG 6WIL 5EDG 2RES 6Superbrain. This plays into the character's delusion, as I'll explain in due time.Qualities:Codeslinger (Hack on the Fly) - This adds 2 to my chosen form of getting marks on Matrix opposition; a significant bonus.Natural Hardening - Technomancers are vulnerable to Matrix damage, this makes me harder to hurt by raising my Firewall by 1 for damage resistance.Photographic Memory - Basically an RP quality I picked to reinforce my delusion. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />SINner (UCAS national) - My character has a name, a history, and a life she may not want to despoil. This will make it harder to avoid.Active Skills: Even with priority B, my skill list is fairly small and TIGHTLY focused. This is because hacking is a brutal business, involving many rolls. Getting your dice pools as close to maxed out as is feasible isn't powergaming; it's a necessary precaution. This is especially true for Technomancers, who cannot use programs to give themselves situational bonuses. Compiling 5Decompiling 5Registering 5This is my skill group purchase.Computer 6Cybercombat 3Electronic Warfare 6Hacking 6 (specialized in Hosts)Perception 2Pistols 3 (specialized in semi-automatics)Sneaking 1 (specialized in Urban)Software 6A special note: Hacking 6, specialized in hosts, combined with her Codeslinger quality, gives her a dice pool of 16 to hack host systems on the fly. This means that the character is very, very good at getting into unauthorized systems, mucking about in them, and then leaving. She is NOT particularly good at battling countermeasure programs or security hackers. Her tactic of choice is to attempt to avoid notice entirely, and she has a number of ways to do so at her disposal. In particular, she has a Technomancer toy called a Complex Form that lets her raise her 'sleaze' Matrix attribute, making her harder to detect (and boosting her Hack on the Fly pool even MORE).I may fiddle with her Electronic Warfare skill...it might be a tich higher than it needs to be.Gear1 month of Low Lifestyle...she is po' and lives like it.Rating 2 fake SIN - This won't hold up under scrutiny. Getting a better one will be a pretty major goal in-character.Armor - Chameleon suit (with chem protection, nonconductivity and thermal damping all at rating 2), and an armor vest. The chameleon suit is her main work outfit. She is semi-decent with her gun, but like hacking, her primary goal in meatspace combat is to keep out of sight. Thermal damping means even thermographics have trouble spotting her. This is important, since to do her job right she often needs to be in full VR and unresponsive to the real world. The armor vest is for situations where she needs protection and can't afford to be too obvious about it.Weapon - Browning Ultra Power. Not as nice as the Ares, but is cheaper and uses a laser sight which she can use instead of a smartlink which she can't. Oh, she could get a smartlink on her eyewear, but it doesn't provide any mechanical benefit over a laser sight unless it's actually an implant...and it costs a LOT more. No backup weapon. Had to give that up for my other cool stuff. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> This could be a bad thing.OtherA Sony Emperor commlink. What, you say? A commlink? Can you not simply access the Matrix with YOUR MIND? Yes. But a living persona is fairly easy to tell apart from a device persona for anyone doing Matrix Perception. Being recognized as a technomancer takes away a lot of the advantages of being one, so it's nice to have the option to masquerade.Contact lenses with Flare Compensation and Low Light Vision. Two things everyone needs, be they from natural abilities, cyberware, or gear. Other visual enhancements you can take or leave, but those two will almost always be handy.Subvocal microphone. This is good because it's wireless enabled, letting her use it without actually speaking even a little bit.Trodes. They're handy for connecting to systems that have no wireless access. The trodes can be connected to a fiber optic dataport, then be set to wireless access, creating an 'opening' in a closed system that the team has secured. This is otherwise very difficult for technomancers to do.Electronic paper. She can access it wirelessly, using it to draw pictures, write, or whatever she wants...without even so much as having it in her hand. Quite useful, potentially.Stealth tags. Good for tracking meatspace targets in the Matrix, which is very useful for her. Slap a tag on someone, and that little node shows us everywhere they go.Sensor tags. Even better, because that little node has a microphone or a camera (only one sensor per tag, half and half) that lets us listen in. Or she can put cameras around her hideyhole, so she can 'see' around her body while in VR.Low light flashlight. Because seeing is believing.Slap Patch (Stim 3). As a technomancer, she will be taking Stun damage sometimes just from using her abilities, or taking Matrix damage. The stim patch can't correct that damage, but it can help keep her on her feet if she's taking a combination of normal physical stun (which can be stimmed away) as well as biofeedback stun (which cannot be).What delusion, you ask? You've read all this time, and now you're curious?...Maybe I should wait for that until we start playing. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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