| From: | shadowrn@*********.com (Gurth) |
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| Subject: | PC's vs us (or normal people) |
| Date: | Sun Mar 10 04:30:10 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.
Unless things like artificial hips count as cyberware. (Not that I'm saying I
have one, but I guess it's the closest you can get to it now.)
> How many people see themselves as viable PC's?
Certainly not me, and I have a feeling most other listmembers wouldn't be up
to scratch as a shadowrunner, either.
> 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.
I haven't tried writing myself up using either the build-point or priority
systems, but I have a feeling I'd end up in a similar situation. Plus, if you
do manage to find an equivalent to most of your RL skills, I think you'll find
you've got far too many knowledge skills (see the remarks about fishing etc.
in the other thread) and too few useful active ones.
> 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?
Again, not me, and I have serious problems thinking of how to create one. I
suppose the closest I've seen is the (Too) Rich Kid that Martin Steffens and I
put together way back when -- which was really an exercise in how to make a
character spend a million nuyen starting money and not have anything useful to
show for it...
Trying to put an average person into A-E priorities or 123 points will most
likely give you a lot of low and medium-level skills, most of which will not
come in handy in the shadows. Which means you end up with a character who
likely won't be much fun to play, because everybody else needs to do the
important stuff for you.
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