[andrew_980]

Im trying for a character that is as normal and legal looking as i can. Planning on going adept for unarmed skills and the missle mastery power to throw any odds and ends as a viable weapon. Not carrying any illegal gear and minimizing the restricted. Not sure about how hard it is to conceal grip feet/monkey paws but it would help with the parkour thing i plan do do. Any thoughts or advice on making a decent, not really optimised, character that doesn't stand out or decked with illegal gear?

[Ten-Hex]

I would recommend going the augmented route rather than being an adept. Magically active characters stand out like a sore thumb until they learn Masking metamagics.

If I were making a subtle close-range specialist like you described, I'd:

• focuse on Agi and Reac, with a decent Cha. Because of this, I'd go elf.
• use mostly bioware - false front 1, muscle toner, orthoskin 1 with electroshock, synaptic boosters
• take Genecrafted or Genetic Heritage quality, consider the bioware to be from genetics, and reduce the exhorbitant nuyen costs
• possibly take other qualities that help subtlety, like Blandness and Mystic Link.
• use minimally invasive and inexpensive augs for any cybers you want, so you can make them alpha... but try to avoid them. Even alpha cybers are easy to pick up on a cyberware scanner
• one exception would be the attention coprocesser... legal, ridiculously cheap and ridiculously useful.
• not worry about ranged abilities, since your mission roles should be focused on infiltration and using unarmed for close-range threat neutralization

[andrew_980]

I am going adept for facial sculpt and melenin control as well as killing hands, missle master and mystic armor for a mixture of hiding and combat. False front is illegal something i am trying to avoid. Once i can get masking i can hide the magic but cyber seams too easy to find, especially the illegal kind.

[Charybdis]

Quality:  Bland

Pure gold for inconspicuousnessness....