[Michael Chandra]

The background count is only that much of a pain inside the CCZ, but chances are you'll go there frequently. However, that's what you'll eventually get Adept Centering for anyway.

[Shrazkil]

The background count is only that much of a pain inside the CCZ, but chances are you'll go there frequently. However, that's what you'll eventually get Adept Centering for anyway.

Absolutely, looking like quickening, then adept centering as first 2 initiations (practically first 2 expendatures karma wise, aside from a level of arcana.)

[Shrazkil]

Ugh i do not think Adept centering is going to help afterall. Seems it only works on physical or combat skills, unless decking skills could be considered combat, i would be hosed.

[Fenrir]

Fleshing out the final build for a street level game, needed a hacker, but couldn't make it work with A priority to buy the cheapest deck, and still have a character i would want to play. So will have to work towards one after creation.

Priorities:
Skills A
Attributes B
Magic C (mysad)
Meta D (human)
Resources E

B 3
A 2
R 4 (6)
S 1
W 5
L 6
I 5
C 2

Edge 2
Magic 6

INIT:
11 + 3d6

Limits:
P 4
M 8
S 5

Qualities and expendatures:
Power points 25K
1 K for 2000 nuyen
Biased, ganger +3K
Moderate Allergy, Gold +10K

Powers:
Improved Reflexes 2
Improved Cybercombat 3
Combat sense 1
Missle parry 1
Attribute boost : Agility 1

Spells:
Physical Barrier
Improve Logic
Heal
Lightning Bolt
Mana Static

Skills:
Cracking group 6
Stealth group 4

First Aid 4 (gunshot)
Counterspelling 6 (combat)
Spellcasting 6 (manipulation)
Con 5 (fast talk)
Perception 5 (hearing)

Computers 6 (matrix perception)
Software 1
Hardware 1

Gear (or lack there of):
rating 3 Medkit
Med supplies
Rating 2 fake sin and license for mysad
armor jacket
helmet with trodes
meta-link commlink
3 standard credsticks
Cramped Squatter lifestyle (will upgrade asap)

Knowledge skills TBD

Contacts:
4/2 Matrix Guru
(free fixer contact from group)

Thoughts or suggestions to optimize?

I would not suggest having priority E for resources unless you are willing to spend 10 karma on funds and even then you won't be able to get even an Erika MCD-1/

[Shrazkil]

Street level works off of a different money scale Fenrir, Priority A is only 75k nuyen. Plus at maximim you can only trade in 5 karma to 10k nuyen.

[Fenrir]

Street level works off of a different money scale Fenrir, Priority A is only 75k nuyen. Plus at maximim you can only trade in 5 karma to 10k nuyen.

Okay but still you don't have enough nuyen to by a deck, unless you are planning to use your commlink instead

[Poindexter]

Street level works off of a different money scale Fenrir, Priority A is only 75k nuyen. Plus at maximim you can only trade in 5 karma to 10k nuyen.

Okay but still you don't have enough nuyen to by a deck, unless you are planning to use your commlink instead

I'm pretty sure he/she plans on obtaining a deck during play.

[Tarislar]

Wouldn't a Technomancer be a better option for a Street Level + Chicago campaign ?

I've never played them so I don't know their rules well, but it seems like that would be the perfect solution for cash strapped in a Background count area.

Some Mix of Attributes, Resonance, & Skills at A/B/C with Human-D & Cash-E?

Seems like it would be a workable alternative to the very long development your looking into now & all w/o having a Cyberdeck.

[DigitalZombie]

I dont know how you have ruled it at your table, but an alternative to a real deck could be an RCC.
We play it as having attack 0 sleaze 0 DP X and firewall X
Then by using programs you could buff the attack and sleaze rating from zero to bad
scratchbuild junk is only 1400 nuyen, it can hold 1 program. With virtual machine you could run exploit and stealth for a whooping 3 sleaze rating when hacking on the fly- enough to hack cheap ass gear on lousy gangers.

[Whiskeyjack]

I think commlinks and RCCs have effectively Attack/Sleaze N/A, not zero (there is a difference). Commlinks/RCCs don't even have the stats that would allow a Limit, thus I read it as N/A not "0 but can be raised." Hence you cannot attempt the test at all, not that you could attempt it but can keep no more than 0 hits (again, an important distinction.

Unless the GM says you can use Edge to remove the non-applicable Limit for one test, you probably shouldn't be allowed to roll. My GM doesn't like the idea of ever being able to hack via a commlink with the 5e rules and fluff for the Matrix, hence that'd be a no-go for me. YMMV; even a shitty deck can do pretty well if you focus on AR hacking and plugging directly into cameras to backdoor into a host instead of going into VR.

[Michael Chandra]

Aaron stated that you can use Edge to remove the limit, but while I will follow his statements for Missions, I disagree with enough of a significant amount of them that I cannot in good conscience suggest to blindly follow what he says.

[Shrazkil]

Wouldn't a Technomancer be a better option for a Street Level + Chicago campaign ?

I've never played them so I don't know their rules well, but it seems like that would be the perfect solution for cash strapped in a Background count area.

Some Mix of Attributes, Resonance, & Skills at A/B/C with Human-D & Cash-E?

Seems like it would be a workable alternative to the very long development your looking into now & all w/o having a Cyberdeck.

I looked at building one, i just couldn't handle being near worthless in combat, and i don't do the drug thing. It would be the easier answer, but i'll roll my dice.

[ZeldaBravo]

Wouldn't a Technomancer be a better option for a Street Level + Chicago campaign ?

I've never played them so I don't know their rules well, but it seems like that would be the perfect solution for cash strapped in a Background count area.

Some Mix of Attributes, Resonance, & Skills at A/B/C with Human-D & Cash-E?

Seems like it would be a workable alternative to the very long development your looking into now & all w/o having a Cyberdeck.

I looked at building one, i just couldn't handle being near worthless in combat, and i don't do the drug thing. It would be the easier answer, but i'll roll my dice.

How about using some drones for combat?
EDIT: Forget about what I said, too expensive for the street level.

[Tarislar]

I looked at building one, i just couldn't handle being near worthless in combat, and i don't do the drug thing. It would be the easier answer, but i'll roll my dice.

Meh, using 6-7 skill points for Automatics means your really never useless in combat.
Most anyone can be hit when you toss a burst of 6 bullets at them.

[Imveros]

I looked at building one, i just couldn't handle being near worthless in combat, and i don't do the drug thing. It would be the easier answer, but i'll roll my dice.

Meh, using 6-7 skill points for Automatics means your really never useless in combat.
Most anyone can be hit when you toss a burst of 6 bullets at them.

but without drugs there is really no way of reliably upping initiative as a techno. All of the reaction enhancements are all magic, technical, or pharmaceutical. I guess you could always blitz, but that's a lame way out. You need that edge for sprite making