ShadowFighter15
2010-05-05, 12:32 AM
I'm wanting to try my hand at Shadowrun sometime but I'm a bit unsure about character builds. I decided to throw one together using the basic rules in the book (400BP, Availability 12). I thought I'd start out simple with a gunslinger who wields a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other. Made him an elf since I didn't want to play a human (most of my DnD characters are human, so I wanted a change) and none of the other metatypes appealed to me. After a while, and a bit of fiddling around with a character generator I found, this was the result: http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=204890
The fang implants were sort of a for-the-hell-of-it thing and I'm tempted to get rid of them if the extra nuyen can be used for something better. Two of the knowledge skills (Coffee and Turn of the Century sci-fi media) are just for flavour. To explain the second one; I find it hard to believe that YouTube or a site like it won't exist in a world like Shadowrun (there'll always be people wanting to watch the weird stuff people catch on camera, like the stuff in this song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtaCtAtHItw) (warning, some swearing)).
I threw the lockpicking and driving in so that he had more to offer than shooting and stabbing.
The Ruger Super Warhawk is more of a backup weapon for if something goes wrong with his Predator IV (smartlink gets hacked, drops/loses it) or he needs a weapon with a bit more punch. And in a pinch he can sheath the katana and use both guns at once. Can't remember now why I went with the Ulysses Line instead of a normal Lined Coat, worth keeping, or should I just use a Lined Coat?
SINner and Trust Fund were also for flavour (and because the character generator I'm using is a pain with pre-paying months of lifestyle, that might just be me though) while Spirit Bane was partly flavour and partly to free up some BP. Not sure why I threw the allergy in though; probably because I was using the Gunslinger Adept example character in the rulebook as a rough guide.
Haven't done up a background yet, gonna save that for when I have a proper look through the fluff in the rulebook (I read the history section, but kind of skimmed the rest), but can anyone let me know how this looks from a mechanical standpoint? Anything in there I don't really need or that I need more of? Anything I've missed?
The fang implants were sort of a for-the-hell-of-it thing and I'm tempted to get rid of them if the extra nuyen can be used for something better. Two of the knowledge skills (Coffee and Turn of the Century sci-fi media) are just for flavour. To explain the second one; I find it hard to believe that YouTube or a site like it won't exist in a world like Shadowrun (there'll always be people wanting to watch the weird stuff people catch on camera, like the stuff in this song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtaCtAtHItw) (warning, some swearing)).
I threw the lockpicking and driving in so that he had more to offer than shooting and stabbing.
The Ruger Super Warhawk is more of a backup weapon for if something goes wrong with his Predator IV (smartlink gets hacked, drops/loses it) or he needs a weapon with a bit more punch. And in a pinch he can sheath the katana and use both guns at once. Can't remember now why I went with the Ulysses Line instead of a normal Lined Coat, worth keeping, or should I just use a Lined Coat?
SINner and Trust Fund were also for flavour (and because the character generator I'm using is a pain with pre-paying months of lifestyle, that might just be me though) while Spirit Bane was partly flavour and partly to free up some BP. Not sure why I threw the allergy in though; probably because I was using the Gunslinger Adept example character in the rulebook as a rough guide.
Haven't done up a background yet, gonna save that for when I have a proper look through the fluff in the rulebook (I read the history section, but kind of skimmed the rest), but can anyone let me know how this looks from a mechanical standpoint? Anything in there I don't really need or that I need more of? Anything I've missed?