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Message no. 1
From: justin@******.net (Justin Bell)
Subject: [shadowrun] New character creation idea
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 19:22:50 -0500
At 03:07 AM 2/28/2003 -0800, Valeu John EMFA wrote:
>I think I finally figured out how to do character creation.
>
>I made a questionare based off the Harlequinn's Back handout "Less then
>Twenty Questions" entitled "Slightly More then Twenty Questions". It
forces
>a character to create a backstory, while I fill in the blanks on the
>character sheet. If something doesn't jive (ie, discarded Yakuza-built
>death machine), stamp the form REJECTED and give them another copy.
>
>So has anyone tried something like this before?
>Did it worked?

is this like the 20 questions section of the core rulebook?
Message no. 2
From: zebulingod@*****.com (Zebulin Magby)
Subject: [shadowrun] New character creation idea
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:28:00 -0800
"Justin Bell" <justin@******.net> wrote:

> At 03:07 AM 2/28/2003 -0800, Valeu John EMFA wrote:
> >I think I finally figured out how to do character creation.
> >
> >I made a questionare based off the Harlequinn's Back handout "Less then
> >Twenty Questions" entitled "Slightly More then Twenty Questions".
It
forces
> >a character to create a backstory, while I fill in the blanks on the
> >character sheet. If something doesn't jive (ie, discarded Yakuza-built
> >death machine), stamp the form REJECTED and give them another copy.
> >
> >So has anyone tried something like this before?
> >Did it worked?
>
> is this like the 20 questions section of the core rulebook?
>
>

Or how about the 50 Questions taken from Bull's Place on the web:

http://bull.dumpshock.com/sr/50quest.html

[:

Zebulin
Message no. 3
From: ValeuJ@*************.navy.mil (Valeu John EMFA)
Subject: [shadowrun] New character creation idea
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 03:23:40 -0800
> >>I think I finally figured out how to do character creation.
>
> >>I made a questionare based off the Harlequinn's Back handout "Less then
> >>Twenty Questions" entitled "Slightly More then Twenty
Questions". It
> forces
> >>a character to create a backstory, while I fill in the blanks on the
> >>character sheet. If something doesn't jive (ie, discarded Yakuza-built
> >>death machine), stamp the form REJECTED and give them another copy.
> >>
> >>So has anyone tried something like this before?
> >>Did it worked?
>
>
>is this like the 20 questions section of the core rulebook?

Yeah. I took the 20 questions from the Compainion and
added/modified/condensed some of the questions.
Message no. 4
From: ValeuJ@*************.navy.mil (Valeu John EMFA)
Subject: [shadowrun] New character creation idea
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 03:38:44 -0800
>> >I think I finally figured out how to do character creation.
>> >
>> >I made a questionare based off the Harlequinn's Back handout "Less then
>> >Twenty Questions" entitled "Slightly More then Twenty
Questions". It
> forces
>> >a character to create a backstory, while I fill in the blanks on the
>> >character sheet. If something doesn't jive (ie, discarded Yakuza-built
>> >death machine), stamp the form REJECTED and give them another copy.
>> >
>> >So has anyone tried something like this before?
>> >Did it worked?
>>
> >> is this like the 20 questions section of the core rulebook?
> >>
> >>
>
>Or how about the 50 Questions taken from Bull's Place on the web:

sorry, no web access. Otherwise I would have used that.

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