From:	Sheldon Rose <scrose@****.COM>
Subject:	Re: Freakdom & Shadowrun Players
Date:	Thu, 14 May 1998 16:34:29 -0500

Jessica Grota wrote:
>
> Danyel N Woods wrote:
>
> >
> > >On a more On-Topic note, just how far do people go in describing their
> > >characters? Do y'all include hairstyles/body-piercing/tattoos when you
> > >describe your character? Jewelry perhaps? (Non-mages...mages always
> > seem
> > >to have some sort of jewelry :)
>
> Hmm. Jett has a thing for dressing all in black leather and carrying a
> crossbow. She's about 5'8", muscular with some nice curves, and
> scary-looking. She's got a purple triangle tattooed point-down over her
> left eye, and a lot of scarring on her face, arms, and stomach. I think
> she'd have the distinctive style flaw if I'd known about edges and flaws
> when I first created her. But Jett is by far the character of mine that
> stands out the most.

I always go into great detail when describing both my PC's and NPC's
it's half the fun of playing the game.
I'm a firm believer in the come up with a concept fist make the numbers
up later... If I don't have at least 2 or three pages of background
before I start working with the numbers. I don't know where to start
working with the numbers. I know a have a valid concept if I role play
the character without numbers or dice and/or stats of any kind. Matter
of fact I once got no less than 3 characters out of a single background.
I started with a PsyAd Ork, started working on the background story and
suddenly I had a steetdoc (Her Father) A decker (Boyfriend) who ended up
being created later. I've used all of them as PC's the GM loves it and
lets me switch off not in a single game session but from session to
session. The shadows are not the big and most of the players in this
game have more than one character and the particular group for a given
run might change from run to run...
and assorted other