[thalandar]

Yeah, what Fastjack said....   

[theKernel]

personally in my games we never go over the names because we are assuming(depending on rating) that they're believable names. Such as mike hunt or jack mehoffski 

[inca1980]

Depends on your GM.  I would assume you can just tuck that into Life-style costs....but maybe a glitch on some test that pertains to your SIN or your daily life would force you to pay up some taxes.
 
"You're at the shop with your Colt Manhunter all broken apart and you're trying to install an internal smartgun system to it.  All of a sudden it dawns on you....you forgot to turn in your taxes!!  That's almost 500 freakin nuyen!!....guess you're gonna have to reconsider doing that snatch'n'grab run you just turned down!".   

That might be the result of some critical glitch you made on an Amorer roll.  I know i know, it's supposed to just reset the accumulated hits....but GM can has the right...nay!....duty!... to throw in some extra adversity...especially if you CG'd on a decent sized DP!

[theKernel]

Depends on your GM.  I would assume you can just tuck that into Life-style costs....but maybe a glitch on some test that pertains to your SIN or your daily life would force you to pay up some taxes.
 
"You're at the shop with your Colt Manhunter all broken apart and you're trying to install an internal smartgun system to it.  All of a sudden it dawns on you....you forgot to turn in your taxes!!  That's almost 500 freakin nuyen!!....guess you're gonna have to reconsider doing that snatch'n'grab run you just turned down!".   

That might be the result of some critical glitch you made on an Amorer roll.  I know i know, it's supposed to just reset the accumulated hits....but GM can has the right to throw in some extra adversity...especially if you CG'd on a decent sized DP!

Not to be rude but isn't that kind of a lame way to make a player do a run? "Sorry dude but your taxes are messed up and the IRS is coming at you for back taxes" "OK OK I'll do the run!" I mean theres got to be better consequences on SINs and stuff.

[inca1980]

Or you just pay up 500 nuyen....there's still always choices.  Or don't pay....now you're SIN is flagged.  The point is that players should always be guessing at what the consequences of their actions or their rolls are gonna be.  Otherwise they can just metagame their way through everything.

[Ultra Violet]

Not to be rude but isn't that kind of a lame way to make a player do a run? "Sorry dude but your taxes are messed up and the IRS is coming at you for back taxes" "OK OK I'll do the run!" I mean theres got to be better consequences on SINs and stuff.

Actually it is a brilliant idea for rich and lazy Endgame-Runners. Always better as "Your Mr. J. called, come and meet him..."

[theKernel]

I get what you're saying now, I thought of it as a begining player, not a runner that has been around for a while. I'm sorry

[Raventrickster]

My current runner Cale 'Black Cat' Kuroneko is half Japanese and half mixed culture white Californian.  He has 2 sins at the moment (just starting out) his primary day to day sin which he uses pretty much purely for lifestyle is Sam Fisher (I couldn't resist, he's a stealth/samurai cross and the name just fit).  His other other sin which he mostly uses en route to and from runs is John Honda (most people in North America can't tell Japanese from Chinese anyways and he's mixed race which will make it that much harder).  Both are perfectly reasonable names to go with mid rating SINs.  What will make life interesting is if I ever get around to getting a DocWagon contract for him, since then I'll need to decide which SIN to tie it to.

Other Characters and their SINs

Name                                     SIN                   Description
James 'Tank' Abrams              James Brown  - Black Troll Weapons specialist
John Johnson 'Wheels'           Greg Taylor    - Caucasian Human paraplegic rigger

[Charybdis]

I always like to use Remington Steele.

I can't believe nobody picked up on this reference ! It was Pierce's best work  !

[Charybdis]

I'm a big proponent of seperate names for SINs.

However, I can't use just a generic John Doe, due to personal history. A friend of mine and I were picked up for, errr, loitering shall we say? After hours, juvenile, him very drunk, no ID on us...

Cop: What's your name:
Him: Charles Brown
Cop: Really. Charlie Brown?Your name is Charlie Brown? You think I'm a peanut?!
Him: No...shherioushly offisher...I'm Charles Brown
Cop: Don't be a smart-a$$. What's your real name?!
Him: I promishe! I"m Charlie Brown.. I mean..Charlesh...I mean...
Cop: That's it. You two, in the van....

So, while generic names like Richard Hamilton, Helen Taylor, Bob Simpson etc certainly make the grade... I just can't bring myself to either extreme of highly memorable (and thus, ridiculous) like Gannon von Nachtor to overly anonymous like Jim Smith.

I prefer a happy medium*

*Preferably Brunette, tall, and predicting nocturnal activities in the future. *ba-doom*CHING*

[LonePaladin]

I've got a little booklet full of names floating around here somewhere, one of those "what to name your baby" things. If I can find it, I'm going to hand it out to my players to give them something to pick first names from for their IDs.

This thing has some oddities in it, I can remember that. It was a list of all the names given to kids in this state in '09, and includes things like "Yunalesca" and "Iamunique".

[Charybdis]

This thing has some oddities in it, I can remember that. It was a list of all the names given to kids in this state in '09, and includes things like "Yunalesca" and "Iamunique".

Why do I think that kids with these names should have been more accurately labelled like:
- Trailerpark McBogan
- Mimom Zasmoker
- Udad Heebroke

Seriously, these kids have cause for justifiable homicide and emancipation rights. Parents handing out these names have been smoking wayyyyy to much weed and drinking more than their fair share of shoe-polish-moonshine.....

[Rockopolis]

I'm reminded of H Beam Piper; in the future, after all the racial intermixing, there's red headed filing characters named Oscar Fujisawa.  Do you suppose Shadowrun naming conventions have changed to that extent?  Are there people with 1337 names?

[LonePaladin]

I know that ethnic intermingling has expanded to such an extent that there are people with really weird mixes, things like "Pedro Nguyen", or "Pyotr Nwakaego". (That last one is Nigerian.)

As for people getting names in leet, I'm not so sure. Yes, it's prevalent enough that it warrants its own dialect specialization in the language skills, but names? Someone may make his shadow-alias something like "DeathKnight13", but I really don't see someone's legal name going this route.

[Rockopolis]

Now I'm picturing People VS. 1337 0n3, landmark Supreme Court case...