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Message no. 1
From: bandwidthoracle@*********.net (Bandwidth Oracle)
Subject: Spirit PC's
Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 16:38:07 -0600
One of the people in my group wants to play a free Spirit,
are there rules for this in one of the books? or suggestions online for
this?
Thanks
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The duck raises an excellent point.
Message no. 2
From: annachie@********.com.au (Paul)
Subject: Spirit PC's
Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 08:58:50 +1000
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bandwidth Oracle" <bandwidthoracle@*********.net>
To: "Shadowrun Discussion" <shadowrn@*****.dumpshock.com>
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 8:38 AM
Subject: Spirit PC's


> One of the people in my group wants to play a free Spirit,
> are there rules for this in one of the books? or suggestions online for
> this?
> Thanks


This has cropped up several times over the years both here and on the
Dumpshock forums. Try doing a search of the archives.
Message no. 3
From: me@******.net (Hexren)
Subject: Spirit PC's
Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 01:07:03 +0200
P> ----- Original Message -----
P> From: "Bandwidth Oracle" <bandwidthoracle@*********.net>
P> To: "Shadowrun Discussion" <shadowrn@*****.dumpshock.com>
P> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 8:38 AM
P> Subject: Spirit PC's


>> One of the people in my group wants to play a free Spirit,
>> are there rules for this in one of the books? or suggestions online for
>> this?
>> Thanks


P> This has cropped up several times over the years both here and on the
P> Dumpshock forums. Try doing a search of the archives.


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if you don't feel like doing that i think there were rules for that in
the Second Edition Grimoire.
Message no. 4
From: gurth@******.nl (Gurth)
Subject: Spirit PC's
Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 10:47:19 +0200
According to Bandwidth Oracle, on Friday 09 May 2003 00:38 the word on the
street was...

> One of the people in my group wants to play a free Spirit,
> are there rules for this in one of the books? or suggestions online for
> this?

The only rules published for it are for NPC free spirits, not PCs. I think
it would be a bit difficult to do this right, though; the whole character
generation rules are geared toward playing metahumans, so you'd have to
give serious thought about such things as how to cater for the character's
attributes (since they're based off Force) and how the player buys the
spirit's powers.

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Message no. 5
From: tjlanza@************.com (Timothy J. Lanza)
Subject: Spirit PC's
Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 05:23:45 -0400
At 04:47 AM 5/9/2003, Gurth wrote:
>According to Bandwidth Oracle, on Friday 09 May 2003 00:38 the word on the
>street was...
>
> > One of the people in my group wants to play a free Spirit,
> > are there rules for this in one of the books? or suggestions online for
> > this?
>
>The only rules published for it are for NPC free spirits, not PCs. I think
>it would be a bit difficult to do this right, though; the whole character
>generation rules are geared toward playing metahumans, so you'd have to
>give serious thought about such things as how to cater for the character's
>attributes (since they're based off Force) and how the player buys the
>spirit's powers.

Not to mention the fact that it's explicitly stated that they don't receive
Karma for actions. They'd have to be donated Karma from the rest of the group.


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Timothy J. Lanza
"When we can't dream any longer, we die." - Emma Goldman
Message no. 6
From: barbie@********.de (Barbie LeVile)
Subject: Spirit PC's
Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 19:46:48 +0200
On Thu, 8 May 2003 16:38:07 -0600
Bandwidth Oracle <bandwidthoracle@*********.net> wrote:

> One of the people in my group wants to play a free Spirit,
> are there rules for this in one of the books? or suggestions online for
> this?
> Thanks


I have written some years ago rules for spirit PCs, they are still based on
SR2, if you want to take a look, i can email them to you offlist.

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Time to die.
Message no. 7
From: jzealey@***.edu.au (James Zealey)
Subject: Spirit PC's
Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 09:17:22 +1000
Bandwidth Oracle <bandwidthoracle@*********.net> wrote:


>One of the people in my group wants to play a free Spirit,
>are there rules for this in one of the books? or suggestions online for
>this?
>Thanks

If you were using BeCKs, you could simply use the rules for constructing
ally spirits. Not sure how you'd add free spirit powers (or even if
you'd want to - those powers are pretty darn heavy duty).

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