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Raiderjoseph

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« Reply #45 on: <09-03-16/2310:15> »
Biocompatibility. Striking calluses are on the to do list. And Id prefer the Dermal Plate for the reasons that are simply... They look cooler on him. And isn't that what really matters?
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« Reply #46 on: <09-04-16/0026:53> »
quick question.  Does the background count effect magic bonuses to initiative?  like would the adept power that gives +2d6 initiative  have -2 dice to the pool?
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« Reply #47 on: <09-04-16/0112:23> »
No, background counts only effect skill tests that are linked in some manner to magic (so your driving skills are diminished).

Raiderjoseph

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« Reply #48 on: <09-04-16/1552:42> »
How much would a pair of Striking Calluses cost again? In essence as well?

Edit: Nevermind. Found my chrome flesh.
« Last Edit: <09-04-16/1635:01> by Raiderjoseph »
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« Reply #49 on: <09-04-16/1641:53> »
In case you haven't used it yet: Chummer 5 is a really good character generator with all relevant sources.  ;)
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« Reply #50 on: <09-04-16/1644:37> »
-- Priorities --
Metatype B
Attributes B
Magic E
Skills E
Resources A

-- Karma Expenditure --
25 Starting Karma
-5 for Biocompatibility: Bioware
-10 for Restricted Gear: Muscle Toner Rating 4
-10 for Restricted Gear: Muscle Augmentation Rating 4
+10 for Insomnia Rating 1
+10 for Wanted (Saeder-Krupp)
+5 for Distinctive Style: BIG FRAGGING TROLL!!!
-10 For 20000 nuyen
-7 for Smuggler Dan
-6 for Knowledge Skill: architecture rating 3
Remaining
2
-- Attributes --
Body 8 (11)
Agility 4 (8)
Reaction 5 (7)
Strength 10 (14)
Willpower 3
Logic 2
Intuition 2
Charisma 2
Edge 1
Essence 1.34

Initiative - 3d6+9
Physical Condition Monitor - 14
Stun Condition Monitor - 10
Overflow Boxes - 8
Physical Limit - 11
Mental Limit - 3
Social Limit - 3

-- Qualities --
Thermographic Vision
Born Rich
Restricted Gear x2
Insomnia Rating 1
Tough and Targeted
Distinctive Style: BIG FRAGGING TROLL!!!

-- Skills --
Unarmed Combat 6
Pistols 1
Automatics 1
Longarms 1
Heavy Weapons 1
Blades 1
Thrown Weapons 1
Intimidation (Physical) 2 (4)
Perception 1
Gymnastics 1
Running 1
-- Skill Groups --


-- Knowledge/Language Skills --
German: N
English: 3
Street:
Alcoholic Beverages 3
Fixers 2
Professional:
Architecture 3

-- Augmentations/Magic/Adept Powers --
Muscle Augmentation rating 4
Muscle Toner rating 4
Bone Density Rating 3
Dermal Plating rating 3
Synaptic Boosters rating 2
2 Striking Calluses

-- Gear --
450000
-124000 for Muscle Augmentation rating 4
-128000 for Muscle Toner Rating 4
-15000 for Bone Density Rating 3
-9000 for Dermal Plating rating 3
-190000 for Synaptic Boosters rating 2
-1000 for Armor Jacket
-100 for Metalink
-1000 for Squatter Lifestyle 1 month
-5 for Credstick
-500 for striking calluses (fists)
Remaining Money -  + ()
1395
-- Contacts –
Mr Mouse: Infobroker, Fixer
Loyalty: 2 Connection: 4
Smuggler Dan: Smuggler
Loyalty: 2 Connection: 5

When it comes out for Android let me know. Thanks anyway. Ive tried it sadly. Omae seems more my speed since its browser based.
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« Reply #51 on: <09-04-16/1705:07> »
I'll do, but in the mean time I have to tell you, your chara is illegal:
Restricted Gear can only be taken once in chara gen

Also, born rich doesn't do anything for you if you aren't converting more than 10 Karma into money.
Dermal Plating doesn't stack with your normal Troll armor. You have essence left, so instead of dermal plating and bone density  you could have good results with used titanium bones.

I can also tell you, that your Metalink won't cut it with the noise levels throughout the city. Mobility will be a real issue since public transport has some real issues during the zombiecalypse.

Wanted and Distinctive Style could get you into trouble really fast especially in combination with your non-existent stealth (which also isn't healthy for an unarmed combatant)

Finally, your skill selection is a bit redundant (an amazing feat considering how few skill points you have). 5 Karma would give you the Firearms Group (Pistols, Automatics, Longarms)

That's all I see for the moment. Have to look again when I'm not sleep deprived.
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Kuirem

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« Reply #52 on: <09-04-16/1824:27> »
Restricted Gear can be taken twice at chargen but the second one will have to be used after chargen.

Anyway I think there is ways to improve it : First take Prototype Transhuman instead of the second Restricted Gear (drop the Muscle Augmentation one), given your character super focus on one thing he probably came out of a tube. Honestly I would probably even drop the other Restricted Gear and just get Muscle Toner Used at Rating 3.

If you want to stay on Bone Density might as well take it to Rating 4 Used. But getting Bone Lacing (Titanium) Used is even better for even more dice to soak.

Drop that Synaptic Boosters for Synaptic Acceleration. Synaptic Boosters is not compatible with Drugs while Synaptic Acceleration is so you will get more or less the same result if you add Cram. You can even add Reaction Enhancers on top of Synaptic Acceleration.

With your current build you have 1.34 essence, you hit at 18P and soak 15 damage (not counting the jacket) all that for 466000 Nuyen. Here is what I propose :

Bone Lacing (Titanium) (Used), Dermal Plating (Rating 3), Reaction Enhancers (Rating 2) (Alphaware), Muscle Augmentation (Rating 3) (Used), Muscle Toner (Rating 3) (Used), Striking Callus (x2) (Alphaware), Synaptic Acceleration

With Prototype Transhuman we get 1.32 essence, 17P unarmed, 17 soak for 282750 Nuyen. You also lose 1 AGI.

If you don't know what to do with these extra Nuyen and want to use the Restricted Gear get yourself a Suprathyroid Gland and drop the Reaction Enhancers. It will get you to +4 in both STR and AGI combined with the Muscle Toner/Augmentation and you will get +1 BOD/REA as well. It drops you to 58450 Nuyen without couting those you get with Karma.

On a final note it's a shame not to get a Smartlink on such a heavy wared chum. +2 dice with guns is good when you can't be in melee.
« Last Edit: <09-04-16/1826:31> by Kuirem »

Stuttrboy

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« Reply #53 on: <09-04-16/1935:48> »
Another question.  Does prototype transhuman ignore restrictions on gear?  For instance will prototype transhuman be enough to get muscle toner 4 or would I need to use restricted gear as well?
Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous. --H. P. Lovecraft

Raiderjoseph

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« Reply #54 on: <09-04-16/2250:06> »
Where is the info on synaptic acceleration? And yeah I am doing an overhaul.
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« Reply #55 on: <09-04-16/2312:03> »
prototype transhuman gives you 1 essence for bioware, you still need restricted gear if you want t o put something exceptional there.

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« Reply #56 on: <09-05-16/0140:59> »
Synaptic Acceleration is a Transgenic in Chrome Flesh. It provides +1 Initiative, +1 Initiative Dice and +1 melee/ranged defense dice. Incompatible with augmentation that raise initiative but compatible with Magic, Drugs and augmentation that raise Reaction.

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« Reply #57 on: <09-05-16/0221:54> »
OK, here is my first stab at a character.  Please look at it and give me some ideas on how I went wrong and what I can do to fix it.

Simone Hastings, AKA Rocky Love, is an "Exotic Dancer and Escort" at the "All You Want" strip club and brothel in the Auburn Center Mall.  The work is not hard and the income is steady.  She is not the best=looking whore in the club, but she can dance and is energetic in her skills at entertaining clients.  The small wage and large tips allow her to pursue her real love - rigging.  She loves being the machine, whether it is her modified van or one of her drones.  She cares for her drones like they were her children.  Her birth name is Jana Varlock and she came to the Renton District strip club by a roundabout way that started when she was in the service and was assigned as part of a machinegun team.  The team was left assigned as part of a military operation against a rogue NAN tribal militia, but was left stranded when the higher command made a last minute treaty, sacrificing the team.  Jana and her teammates conducted a classical retreat by combat operation and almost made it out.....almost.  UCAS forces had to watch from their side of the border as the team was surrounded and exterminated less that 500m from safety.  Jana was evacuated to the UCAS after seven months of captivity, then court-martialed for crimes against a friendly nation.  Cashiered, she went home, but no one would have anything to do with her.  Broke and near starving, she was offered a job as a stripper and prostitute. 

She changed her name to Simone Hastings and started working several nights a week, using the rest of her time taking odd jobs for various crime lords.  Her implants are courtesy of the UCAS military, as is most of her skill training.  Always a good linguist, she has learned the languages of the larger syndicates so that she could know what what was being said behind her back.  The Blood Mountain Boys is a Renton Go-Gang that is making a comeback after being decimated when KE moved into Seattle and wanted to prove a point.  Simone has undergone the skill test to become a member and proudly wears their brown and red colors.


-- Priorities --
Metatype E
Attributes B
Magic E
Skills B
Resources A

-- Karma Expenditure --
25 Starting Karma
-4 Linguist
-5 Perfect Time
+15 Code of Honor – Thug Life, Code of the Streets
+10 Day Job – Exotic Dancer
-10 Body
-10 Willpower
-15 Strength
-2 First Aid


-- Attributes --
Body 2
Agility 5
Reaction 4
Strength 3
Willpower 2
Logic 6
Intuition 5
Charisma 4
Edge 3
Essence 1.45

Initiative – 9 + 1d6
Physical Condition Monitor - 9
Stun Condition Monitor - 9
Overflow Boxes -
Physical Limit - 4
Mental Limit - 7
Social Limit - 4

-- Qualities --
Linguist
Perfect Time
Code of Honor – Thug Life, Code of the Streets (50% income to gang)
Day Job – Exotic Dancer



-- Skills --
Armorer 2
First Aid 1
Gunnery 5
Heavy Weapons 6 (Machineguns Spec 8 )
Navigation 1
Perception 5
Performance 2 (Presentation Spec 4 )
Pilot Aircraft 4
Pilot Ground Craft 2
Pistols 6 (Semi-Automatics Spec 8 )
-- Skill Groups --
Engineering Group 5


-- Knowledge/Language Skills --
English: N
Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Russian: All 3 (Speaking Spec 5)
Dance:4 (Exotic Dance Spec 6) Professional
Drone Construction: 3 Interest
Sex Techniques: 3 Professional
Seattle Black Market: 3 Street


-- Augmentations --
Bone Lacing (Aluminum)
Control Rig R2
Cyber Eyes R3 (Eye Light, Flare Comp, Image Link, Low Light Vision, Smartlink, Thermo Vision)
Orientation System
Orthoskin R3
Reflex Recorder x 2 (Heavy Weapons, Pistols)

-- Gear --

- Weapon: Ares Predator V (Gas-Vent System R3, Gecko Grip, Personal Grip, Smartgun, Extended Clip, Imaging Scope, Imp Range Finder, 4 x Spare Clip 120 x APDS)
- Weapon: Stoner-Ares M202 (Gas-Vent System R3, Extended Clip R2, Gyro Mount, Hip Pad Bracing System, Imp Range Finder, Sling, Ext Smartgun, 100 x APDS)
- Armor Jacket (Chem R4, Fire R4, Gel Packs, Non-Conductivity R4, Thermal Dampening R3, YNT Softweave)
- Ballistic Mask (Gas Mask, Image Link, Meta Link, Vision Enhancement R2)
- Vulcan Liegelord ( Firewall 6/7, Data Processing 5, Noise Reduction 2, Sharing 5, Module – Signal Filter, Clearsight 6, EW 6, Encryption, Maneuvering – FB Bumblebee, Targeting – FB Bumblebee, Virtual Machine, Wrapper)
- Festo Pigeon x 2 (Speed + 2)
- MCT Fly-Spy x 5
- F-B Bumblebee (Maneuvering 4, Pilot 4, Targetting M202 4, Accel +2, Handling +1, Sensors +2, Speed +2, M202 Machinegun - Extended Belt, 200 x APDS,  Holographic Sight, Imaging Scope (Low Light Vision, Thermo Vision, Vision Magnification)
- GMC Bulldog (High Ammenities, Medium Drone Rack – Landing x 2, Mini Drone Rack – Landing x 4, Increased Seating, Metahuman Adjustment – Dwarf, Metahuman Adjustment – Troll, Rigger Cocoon, Rigger Interface, Run Flat Tires, Smuggling Compartment x 2, Valkyrie Module, Enhanced Winch, Workshop – Drone Mechanic, Containment Manacles, Magemask, Medkit R6, Medkit Supplies x 6)
- Silver Credstick
- Clothes (Dance Costumes, Street Clothes)
- Simone Hastings, AKA Rocky Love, Fake SIN R4, Licenses (Driving, Implants, Predator V), Medium Lifestyle 1 Month (Renton, Garage – Van, Local Bar Patron – "All You Want", Local Grid Subscription)
- Remaining Money – 3250 (Credstick)

-- Contacts –
CXD: Blood Mountain Boys Lieutenant  C2, L1
Vanessa Owens: Owner, Club “All You Want” (Auburn Center Mall Strip Club) C2, L2
Dorothy “Mama Dot” Simms: Owner, BBC Weapon Works C3, L2

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« Reply #58 on: <09-05-16/0232:13> »
Restricted Gear can be taken twice at chargen but the second one will have to be used after chargen.

That's factual wrong:
RF p.149
RESTRICTED GEAR
COST: 10 KARMA PER ITEM
Right place, right time, right friend, or the stars aligned. No matter the reason, the character has managed to acquire or get a line on one piece of really hard-to find gear she absolutely had to have. The character can take this quality up to three times; only one of those times can occur at character creation. Selecting it at character creation allows the character to buy a piece of gear with an Availability of up to 24 (circumventing the normal Availability limit at character creation). After character creation, taking this quality lets the character purchase one piece of gear with an Availability up to 18 during play with just a single commcall. They do, however, have to pay an extra thirty percent for the item.


After generation the quality usually isn't worth it since you can't take much money from generation to play, it's usually not worth it for expensive augmentations (with time and a good face you can get most ware delivered sooner than you could get the money for it)

@Mercy
You might want to think about that Code of Honor again. Being a rigger means needing loads of cash to replace broken gear. Giving away 50% income will be a real pain - especially with the kinds of payouts we had so far (which weren't particularly small, but not especially big either and its a long time between paydays)
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« Reply #59 on: <09-05-16/0240:49> »
Thanks for the look-over, Jack.  I had thought of that as well, but was stumbling at taking 15 negative qualities that made any more sense.  Any ideas?
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