From:	shadowrn@*********.com (Sebastian Wiers)
Subject:	PC's vs us (or normal people)
Date:	Sat Mar 9 20:50:01 2002

The "yourself as a contact" thread is progressing rapidly towards people
posting fully detailed PC length descriptions complete with cyberware and
magic- which I assume nobody has. How many people see themselves as viable
PC's? Personally, it would take a LOT to motivate me into shadowrunngin,
and barring extodinary circumstance, I'd be a very sub-average PC. I think
people posted PC descriptions of themselves a while ago. I didn't bother,
because the only way I could do a half-reasonable 123 point version of
myself was to make myself a physical mage with no magical skills, no spells,
some bioware, some cyber, and really pointless adept abilities. I was still
a pretty excellent athelete, which isn't quite the truth (by a long shot).
As a mundane, there was just no good way to spend all the points, even on
knowledge skills. Sad, really.

Which raises the question- just how extra-ordinary ARE pcs? Begining
shadowrunners can be almost like super-hero's compared to other game
systems, but can they also be (more or less) normal people? Has anybody
played a "joe normal" character who was actually made using the character
creation rules?

-Seb