Shadowrun
Shadowrun Missions Living Campaign => Living Campaign Discussion => Topic started by: KraakenDazs on <03-12-16/1606:00>
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Simple enough question, i'm just curious to see what the general population tends to run.Purely out of curiosity, or perhaps to also help point out what archetypes feel less useful, and where challenge could be upped so those members feel like they could shine more.
Or what have you seen over-represented or under-represented at your tables?
Guess i'll take first swing:
Face (Negociation/Leadership), MysAd Shaman. Basically the "I'll do any job we need well enough, but if we have some dedicated folks with us, i'll make sure they do theirs tremedously better than usual instead"-concept
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...currently am playing
1, A Gunslinger adept with 1 Essence/Magic burned out for bio/geneware. (my primary character)
2. A Demolitions Expert and former freedom fighter (sort of my "Pink Mohawk" character as she's rather eccentric).
Oddly, we seem to have an abundance of snipers for some reason. Last week, on one table alone there were two.
Technos seem to be the least played, probably because Deckers can do more "out of the box" and they tend to not fare very well in the meat world when the lead and mana start flying.
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Primary is a Cyber-mage that seems to have an addiction to getting new ware, but she refuses to burn out.
Secondary is a former Swat Dwarf
One I'm working on now is a Troll Cyber Adept with a love of Karaoke.
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The two I had were a Decker/Rigger and a Mage/Face. Unfortunately I've had severe computer problems the last couple of days, culminating in a complete loss of all data on that drive. I may be able to recover it, but I'm not going to hold my breath on that; previous experience with Microsoft products has taught me to not be optimistic. Along with all the other data I lost, I lost the copy of Hero Lab and thus the Missions characters I had made.
I could rebuild both of them from the posts I made in the Character Creation forum here, as well as the Missions sheets I have, but I am considering just starting from scratch and going with the Technomancer/Reporter (Face) I posted here recently. That one will eventually branch out into Rigger as well (after a couple of submersions).
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...backup, backup, backup.
USB sticks are great. I keep a copy of Chummer and my characters on one.
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I have something like 1-2 dozen characters, so I'm just going to list the ones I play regularly. Otherwise I'd be writing a dissertation instead of working on my finals.
1) Sniper/Face - I like to call her a Face Sniper. She has 20 dice in Negotiation and Con as well as in Longarms (9 Ranks!). Other social skills are high, just not as specialized. Typically rolls with a Barrett 122, but has a whole arsenal in her Americar's smuggling compartment if she needs to change it up. Elf.
2) Face/Cyber-Adept - This started with me just playing with an idea when I was bored. They have four cyberlimbs (2 arms, 2 legs), Cyber Singularity Seeker and Redliner, specializes in Swords and Assault Rifles, and still has 16-18 dice for Negotiation/Con. Human.
Faces and Deckers (Techno or Mundane) come in at the lowest percentage at the shop where I play, so I try to make each character I make fit into one of those roles. I just haven't found a Decker that really called to me yet, so that's still floating around.
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...backup, backup, backup.
USB sticks are great. I keep a copy of Chummer and my characters on one.
Show me a USB stick that can handle .5 TB, and I will gladly back up the data! ;D
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...is the Hero Labs generator that bloody big? I can get Chummer Generator and ten character files easy loaded on even a 1 GB USB stick.
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I have something like 1-2 dozen characters, so I'm just going to list the ones I play regularly. Otherwise I'd be writing a dissertation instead of working on my finals.
1) Sniper/Face - I like to call her a Face Sniper. She has 20 dice in Negotiation and Con as well as in Longarms (9 Ranks!). Other social skills are high, just not as specialized. Typically rolls with a Barrett 122, but has a whole arsenal in her Americar's smuggling compartment if she needs to change it up. Elf.
2) Face/Cyber-Adept - This started with me just playing with an idea when I was bored. They have four cyberlimbs (2 arms, 2 legs), Cyber Singularity Seeker and Redliner, specializes in Swords and Assault Rifles, and still has 16-18 dice for Negotiation/Con. Human.
Faces and Deckers (Techno or Mundane) come in at the lowest percentage at the shop where I play, so I try to make each character I make fit into one of those roles. I just haven't found a Decker that really called to me yet, so that's still floating around.
...one of our snipers named "Charlie" is also a face (and has a Barrett 122). Had a face character myself but retired her as she was pretty ineffective when the lead started flying. It basically came down to negotiate the deal then go to a coffee shop and let the rest of the characters do their thing.
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A mundane spy/Jack of All Trades guy. In terms of roles, generally it breaks down to sniper/face, but he's got a ton of secondary abilities--his loadouts have gotten pretty complex. Going into Missions, my golden rule as "Don't Be Bored," which meant I wanted try to always have some way to contribute to whatever was going on at the table. I didn't want to be the guy stacking is dice out of boredom. I also wanted to make a guy who was fun to play with--Missions is, among other things, an outreach program for new players and I want the game to attract new players. My character is a fantastic teamwork/Leadership guy who can help make other people better at whatever it is they find interesting. He's rarely the most optimized guy at the table, but he's a blast to play.
I also have a ton of secondary characters if I end up at running something for the second time. I can pretty much fill whatever archetype the table needs, which is pretty often a decker.
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My character is a fantastic teamwork/Leadership guy who can help make other people better at whatever it is they find interesting. He's rarely the most optimized guy at the table, but he's a blast to play.
...that's pretty much the same with my demolitionist. character. as she's also good on supporting others in teamwork efforts. Her highest DP is Demolitions (Commercial Explosives), but she also has other useful skills like Disguise, Performance and Con.
She is also quite a trip to play as well since she has the Juryrigging quality (never know what kind of oddball one shot item she'll whip up) and expresses herself like a young girl..
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I've been playing my ork street sam for the past year (178 TKE right now), but also made a decker who I've played for a single mission so far. I feel like I need to play different characters to learn the other aspects (rules) of the game.
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I only have 9 missions (61 TKE) completed with my character since the campaign fell apart & hasn't started up again
I played an Elf Combat Shaman (Mystic Adept) that was decent as a Face eventually, but not great.
He did 2 things really well. Dodge & Negotiate (Started with pools of 14 & 18 respectively & by the end was up to 23 & 30)
His other main skills were in Automatics, Spellcasting, Summoning, & Binding.
Each of which he was solid in with 12+ dice but not spectacular.
He didn't have the dice pools of some of our team specialists (Tank, Pistoleer, Nuker) or the diversity of our generalist, but he was very efficient in the areas he was trained in & could support or fill in for all but the Decker in a pinch.
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My main is a mundane Combat Specialist / Generalist. He's a disgruntled Japanese national who is in the top 1% of martial artists in the world and holds a record of 4-1 against Matt Wrath in the cages. Unknown to him, he was secretly enhanced bio-genetically by his family back in Japan when they found out he was in a near fatal commercial flight accident and landed in the hospital in a coma. He has no idea that he has beta grade bioware and geneware in his body.
My alternate is a Techno Rigger who takes advantage of his connection to the Resonance and his "friends" to work the matrix and provide fire support for his teammates.
A 3rd alternate is a typical Drone Rigger who will take full advantage of the Rigger 5 rules when they become mission legal.
...backup, backup, backup.
USB sticks are great. I keep a copy of Chummer and my characters on one.
Show me a USB stick that can handle .5 TB, and I will gladly back up the data! ;D
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007960%20600564984%208000&IsNodeId=1&bop=And&page=1
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...backup, backup, backup.
USB sticks are great. I keep a copy of Chummer and my characters on one.
Show me a USB stick that can handle .5 TB, and I will gladly back up the data! ;D
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007960%20600564984%208000&IsNodeId=1&bop=And&page=1 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007960%20600564984%208000&IsNodeId=1&bop=And&page=1)
I was quite happily surprised to see that link, up until the point where I had the price tag induced heart attack! That's as much money as I have spent on my newest machine, including taxes and upgrading to a 650w power supply! :o
Really though, like I stated in my original post, I can always rebuild the previous character if I really wanted to; I do have all the actual handouts, Missions rewards sheets, and calendars showing my expenditures. It's just that I now have the the necessary kick in the pants to drop the others and get around to changing to the Technomancer (and pick up Rigging later). I needed to redo the Decker/Rigger I had anyway, as I wasn't understanding the RCC and autosoft rules as well as I thought I did, and I was going to need to redo purchases anyway.
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There's always Google Drive to back up those HeroLab files.
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...again, are character files really that huge?
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Ok, something is getting lost in translation here. I do not care about losing the hero lab files. I can rebuild the hero lab files, if I wished; it's really not that hard. I lost half of a TB of data, programs, videos, and pictures. The hero lab files aren't a priority, at all. I can remake those with minimal effort, so backing them up is not a priority.
As of right now, the hero lab files don't exist anymore, and I'm not worried about it. Do. Not. Care. When I do get to do Shadowrun Missions again, I'm just going with a Technomancer. I should have done that quite some time ago, so that I could get some submersions out of the way, such as getting skinlink, being able to emulate a RCC, etc.
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When I can play again, my character is Pockets, the cybercentaur with many smuggling compartments, and a large longarms dice pool. She has low initiative though. Her job is to bring the gear for everyone else.
Also comic relief indoors. Lots of agility and etiquette rolls.
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....my character Leela is good for comic relief as well.
Last session she was at the wheel of another character's Roadmaster which she parked a couple blocks from where the job was being done when a Lonestar beat officer came up and knocked on the window (the other character was more well suited to performing infiltration). Now if seeing a very young girl seated at the controls of an obviously suspicious looking vehicle wasn't enough to confuse him, she played the part of an innocent teenager, using her fast talk skill and performance, finally getting him to leave (shaking his head as he walked away).
Good thing too as there were the team's three mages in the back, two in Astral Space doing overwatch and one sustaining several spells.
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I play a Triad Made Man Decker (my main, prime runner now). Professionalism is his watchword on the job, and his defending rankings worldwide in the StarCraft 7 tournaments are his favorite downtime activity. He also gets stuck facing regularly, so he keeps those skills up
My mage, Maatun, is a Egyptologist Magician. A tall, thin albino in an Anubis Mask.
My last character is a 'rigger'. A ogre who drives a Roadmaster loaded with DOT AR signs and several barrels of 'you really don't want to know' n the back. Move by wire for all his social skills and a 4 charisma has let him con his way passed a lot of cops with all sorts of stuff hidden in his vehicle. 'Oops, forgot to clean that.' he says as he squeegies some sort of noxious green slime off the floor of the cargo compartment. "You want me to open that? You sure?' Tightens up seals on hazmat suit...
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...I love that last character. Been on a couple runs with him.
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Hopefully some of you will be at Origins and I would be able to maybe team with some of these characters.
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Hopefully some of you will be at Origins and I would be able to maybe team with some of these characters.
That's the plan. They haven't posted game slots yet, have they?
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....sadly it involves travelling almost across the country from where I live which I cannot afford so I won't be able to make it.
Don't fly anymore for health reasons so it would take nearly 4 days each way by train, and then a bus from Cleveland as Amtrak doesn't serve Columbus.
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I am currently playing a Hermetic Mage.
Not much time for gaming, so it is simply the one character at this point.
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Hopefully some of you will be at Origins and I would be able to maybe team with some of these characters.
That's the plan. They haven't posted game slots yet, have they?
Here is it is in condensed and in order by date and time from the confusing Origins event grid.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2v0rjfnzpxfmtur/Shadowrun%20at%20Origins%20Schedule.xlsx?dl=0
Bow down to a true pimp, omae.
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After quite a bit of refreshing, I finally managed to register for games. See you there, chummers!
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The CMPs on Monday were sold out, yet the others throughout the week were not. And I jumped on it late.
Hopefully I can generic into CMP 2016-05 and 06. I'm actually very interested in that series since I never played on the African continent in Shadowrun (period).
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I am currently playing:
Viktor, mystic hammer adept with a splash of cyberware. Demolitionist. Also, big Ukrainian man. Is to be very sexy. They keep making him be the Face. It is mistake.
Bob the Hobo. Shaman. Chicago Q Zone native. Slightly insane. Possibly human under all that beard. Was only recently introduced to the concept of hygiene.
Not played yet:
Old Man Jones. Legendary Prime Runner. Mage. Old. Cranky. Tends to have a plan for everything. Yes, even if a dragon randomly shows up. What, you don't sneak in the night before the run to plant explosives everywhere? It's only a sensible precaution. Resemblance to an elderly version of a certain bat-themed vigilante neither confirmed or denied.
Jack Cross. Face extraordinaire and rigger god. Also Prime Runner. Has a secret. (P.S. it's that she's a pixie in a human suit, don't tell anyone.) Sometimes looks like an old 2D movie actor with the initials RDJ.
I'll be at Origins. Hopefully I'll see some of ya'll there. Playing the PM missions Saturday, I think.
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I am currently playing:
Viktor, mystic hammer adept with a splash of cyberware. Demolitionist. Also, big Ukrainian man. Is to be very sexy. They keep making him be the Face. It is mistake.
Bob the Hobo. Shaman. Chicago Q Zone native. Slightly insane. Possibly human under all that beard. Was only recently introduced to the concept of hygiene.
Not played yet:
Old Man Jones. Legendary Prime Runner. Mage. Old. Cranky. Tends to have a plan for everything. Yes, even if a dragon randomly shows up. What, you don't sneak in the night before the run to plant explosives everywhere? It's only a sensible precaution. Resemblance to an elderly version of a certain bat-themed vigilante neither confirmed or denied.
Jack Cross. Face extraordinaire and rigger god. Also Prime Runner. Has a secret. (P.S. it's that she's a pixie in a human suit, don't tell anyone.) Sometimes looks like an old 2D movie actor with the initials RDJ.
I'll be at Origins. Hopefully I'll see some of ya'll there. Playing the PM missions Saturday, I think.
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just curious, but how can you have two Prime Runners that you have not played yet?
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Both are converted characters from earlier editions, using the Prime Runner rules. Old Man Jones is somewhere north of 260 karma, Jack is about 170.
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ok, so you have played them just not in the current edition ... that's cool
I was asking mainly because we have had showed up "primes" that have never been used
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Yeah, I have the conversion paperwork ready to be signed off on at Origins. Have no idea yet which I'll play in the two PM events.
I was originally going to play Jones in PM-01 last Origins but none of the scheduled slots went off due to lack of players, I think they got a table of all GMs at some point but that's it.
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They got a table of GMs for Opti.
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I've got a pair
Prophet - a human B&E forger patterned loosely on Neal Caffrey from White Collar
Benz - an ork physad who swaps between lightning fists & a combat axe
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I don't know what you're talking about KarmaInferno, Viktor is an amazing face.
There weren't that many that played the prime mission at Gen Con last year either. Which reminds me, to the three that ran with Wick, thanks again for finishing the hit. Sorry I tripped the alarm that got you all arrested/killed. While I wasn't in the building. *cough*
So for my characters I have Wick, my chageling elf face/decker that I updated from 4th edition, and Brick House my troll decker.
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Freshly back from Origins and chugging caffeine to speed my recovery. Had a blast playing Bishop and meeting some of you guys. The demo agents I had did a great job, even when circumstances conspired to make things difficult for them.
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I played with some of you. I was playing Kato, World's Greatest Martial Artist and alleged Yakuza.
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I confess, when I first sat down with Kato and heard the "world's greatest martial artist" line, I couldn't help but think of the various kids playing sub-50 karma characters who had been making the same claim all weekend. Then I realized Kato was actually telling the truth.
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Viktor is to be giving Kato two of the thumbs up. Leetle man hit very good.
As for archetypes, oh gods so many mystic adepts at Origins...
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....worked up a Mystic Adept based loosely off the Adult Wednesday Addams character. Both charming and creepy. Will be testing her out in a Welcome to the Shadows mission this Tuesday.
Also recreated a new version of my old Face character that included giving her a better combat skill (Automatics) as well as the Linguist Quality and the Synaptic Acceleration Genemod. Came out much better. In one of the London Missions she actually ended up as the team's defacto sammy taking several of the oppos out.
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Adept- I made an Adept with Bioware enhancements! He is a combat monster, primarily a rifleman who is really hard to hit with a few tricks up his sleeve.
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My first character is a JOAT gnome Decker..
Haven't played the second one yet, but it looks like he'll be a Pizza Delivery Adept.
You only THINK I'm joking...
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....hey we have an ogre who's a hazmat handler and transporter.
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Adept- I made an Adept with Bioware enhancements! He is a combat monster, primarily a rifleman who is really hard to hit with a few tricks up his sleeve.
...My adept Kyoto Kid burned out a point of MAG for some minor Bio and Geneware at chargen. Started with an Alpha Smartlink, Orthoskin 2 Tetrachromatic Vision and Synch. After getting Dr Tate as a contact she first upgraded her Orthoskin 2 to Beta which gave her enough of an essence hole to get two levels of Beta Muscle Toner with the favour he gave for one of the missions.
I've been playing her for just over a year pretty regularly and she's become a total combat monster, both with blades and firearms, as well as is also tough to hit (love that combat sense power). With Adept Centring BGC is an annoying distraction unless it's high enough to cancel out her WF (F5). When that happens, it's time for the drum fed burst fire Shotgun loaded with EXEX handload (DV bonus) which she appropriately calls "Pink Cloud". She's also one heck of a sharpshooter and can take most scallywags down with one shot from her trusty Remington 950 (APDS handload with bonus to AP). As I mentioned much earlier thread thread, she's a colourful example of when East meets West.