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Fenrir

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« on: <10-08-14/0838:50> »
Hello I am new to the forum and I want to share my own take on a elf decker/rigger.

Priorities

A: 46 Skills/10 skill groups
B: 275,000 nuyen
C: 16 Attributes.
D: Elf
E: Mundane.

Attributes

BOD: 3
AGI: 4
REA: 3
STR: 3
CHA: 3
INT: 4
LOG: 4
WIL: 3
EDG: 1 (Well she's elvish)

Qualities:
Low light vision
Codeslinger (Brute Force)
College Education
Juryrigger
SINner (National) (Tir-a-Nog)
Social Stress

Limits:
Physical 4
Mental 5
Social 5

Skill Groups
Biotech 2
Cracking 3
Electronics 3
Engineering 2

Active Skills
Armorer 10
Blades 10
Forgery 10
Navigation 7
Negotiation 9
Perception 10
Pistols 10 (12 for Semi-Automatics)
Running 9

Knowledge Skills
Data Havens 6 (8 for Matrix)
Engineering 6 (8 for Electrical)
English N
Serenthiel N
Photography 7
Shadow community 10(12 for Safe Houses)

Cyberware
Datajack 1000 nuyen
Imagelink 1000 nuyen
Smartlink (Alphaware) 4800 nuyen

Lifestyle
Low for 3 months 2600 nuyen per month + 30% for Extra secure and Obscure/Difficult to find = 7800 nuyen

Armor
Armor clothing 450 nuyen
Lined Coat w/ 2 quick-draw holster and  chemical protection (rating 1) 1500 nuyen

Weapons
Vibro Knife 1000 nuyen
Ares Predator V w/ Internal smart-gun system and personalized grip 731 nuyen
Ares Predator III w/ External smart-gun system and personalized grip 806 nuyen

gear
10 spare Ares Predator V clips (W/150 regular ammo) 3050 nuyen
10 spare Ares Predator III clips (W/150 regular ammo) 3050 nuyen
Microdeck Summit (W/ all common programs and Amor, Demolition, Hammer, Exploit and Decrypt programs) 59,810 nuyen
Rating 6 Camera (W/ Rating 3 Vision Enhancement, Vision Magnification and Flare compensation) 2600 nuyen
Radioshack Remote Controller (W/ Simrig and Satellite Link) 9500 nuyen
Rating 6 Headphones 300 nuyen
Fake licenses for Cyberware, Cyberdeck, Matrix Software, Pistol, Small Blades and Drone 1200 nuyen total
Rating 6 fake SIN 15000 nuyen

Drone
Shiwase Kanmushi w/ sensor array (Rating 3), Camera (Rating 6 with rating 3 Vision enhancement and vision magnification), Satellite Link and Omni-Directional Microphone (Rating 6 w/ spatial recognizer, rating 2 audio enhancement and rating 2 select sound filter) 6650 nuyen

Remaining Karma: 16
Remaining nuyen: 154,753

Alias: Hunter

If you have any advice on what should I do to improve, feel free to say so. I'm open to comments as this is my first time making a character in the sixth world and I never done pnp RPGS before (nobody's perfect).
« Last Edit: <10-08-14/0915:12> by Fenrir »

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« Reply #1 on: <10-08-14/0953:00> »
Well some things spring out. You seem to have a decker here with a drone on the side (which is fine, though not much of a rigger).

Your character is surprisingly averagely statted. While I appreciate wanting a highish strength and agility, from the point of a decker you should really try to increase your logic, since pretty much everything you do depends on that. A higher Intuition and Willpower wouldn't be bad either (that pretty much covers anything Logic doesn't).

Skillwise, your core skills of electronics and cracking are low. With 7 dice you're not going to hack anything (and even 9, if you get Logic up, isn't going to cut it). I'd suggest at least getting Cracking up to 6 (either as a group or skills). Electronics isn't as important but I'd suggest getting Computer at least up to 6 sooner or later as well (Software and Hardware aren't nearly as useful, so you might consider breaking those up). Biotech and Engineering are nice and flavorful, but not worth nerfing your main skills for (especially at level 2 - might as well pay karma for them at that point).
On another note, elves with swords are cool, but dumping 6 skill points on blades isn't going to help you much. There's practically no reason to ever use a blade over a gun in your case (melee can be quite decent with higher str, but you don't have that). In general, I'd consider taking some skill points from secondary skills, and using them to boost your primaries more (like Computer and such). You can then buy the secondary skills relatively cheaply with karma.

Speaking of, you shouldn't start with Karma leftover. You have plenty to spend it on - skills mentioned above, or buying Str from 1 to 2 (thus freeing up ability points for Logic and the like), or buying up edge to 2 (you're going to want more edge). In fact, I'd look into more NQ's to get more karma.

Same goes for money - why start with 150000 nuyen? Buy a better deck to start with, and buy any program you might use (they're cheap anyway). You might look into some proper ware too - there's bioware to boost your logic, for one. If you want to be decent in combat, buying a cyberarm or agi boosters would help too (the cyberarm is the better option for you, but then you lose an arm). Speaking of ware, if you have a DNI (which a Datajack provides) you don't need an Image Link.
As for other gear - get a rating 6 medkit and a respirator or gasmask. Cheap and likely to save someone's life someday. Also, don't be a drag and make sure you have at least some sort of transportation for yourself. Camera with vision enhancement is nice, but you should probably give yourself some too (with glasses, contacts of cyberware). Same for audio enhancements (perhaps in those spiffy R6 headphones you have there).
You don't have a whatchamaface that makes you jump in and only a single drone, so an RCC isn't really needed (you can use a cyberdeck to control a drone - the RCC has some nifty features but they won't really apply to you). You can't run both at once anyway.
If you intend on shooting stuff, some alternative ammo would be nice. APDS for hard targets, Gel Round for stuff you don't want to die (killing stuff draws attention).

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« Reply #2 on: <10-08-14/1002:05> »
A drone can run Virtual Machine and 3 Autosofts even without an RCC to feed it programs, and slaving it to a Deck means it can use the Sleaze attribute of the Deck when running silent. So if you're not jumping in, you indeed don't need an RCC either.
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« Reply #3 on: <10-08-14/1019:06> »
Wiz.

Making the changes now....

BTW, which Deck should I  spend on since I want to use more hacking programs and which Electronic Accessories should I use for this PC?

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« Reply #4 on: <10-08-14/1032:57> »
Wiz.

Making the changes now....

BTW, which Deck should I  spend on since I want to use more hacking programs and which Electronic Accessories should I use for this PC?
Without the book at hand right now I'm going to say "the one with the highest numbers you can afford". You can rearrange the stats on them. Hacking program amount depends on device rating.

With a DNI I feel most electronic accessories are bonuses more then necessities since you can send and receive information via that.

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« Reply #5 on: <10-08-14/1040:15> »
You can also 86 the image link. You've got a datajack, which provides a DNI, which eliminates the need for image or audio link.
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« Reply #6 on: <10-08-14/1214:14> »
Recommend the Renraku Tsurugi deck. Second best you can get at character creation and it is significantly cheaper than a Sony CIY-720.

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« Reply #7 on: <10-08-14/1313:51> »
Recommend the Renraku Tsurugi deck. Second best you can get at character creation and it is significantly cheaper than a Sony CIY-720.
I'm inclined to agree. You should have the money to pay for it still (and can't afford the Sony).

Now that I'm not bookless I can look at electronic gear and... I stand by my point. DNI replaces pretty much all of the useful stuff. Maybe some Electronic Paper to show stuff to the stone age people in your group? Biometric reader for security? Still, luxuries, not essentials. Since you wanted one on your RCC, maybe a sattelite uplink, might come in handy.

One thing I didn't pick up on before: at chargen you're limited to availability 12 gear. Your Fake SIN (at rating 6) would be availability 18F and thus isn't available at chargen; you're limited to rating 4. And while we're on the subject, your licenses: they need to be the same rating as your fake SIN IIRC. Your drone is legal, so you don't need a license for it. But since you have fake licenses for your gun, might as well get one for your smartlink (it requires an additional license).

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« Reply #8 on: <10-08-14/1342:53> »
One thing I didn't pick up on before: at chargen you're limited to availability 12 gear. Your Fake SIN (at rating 6) would be availability 18F and thus isn't available at chargen; you're limited to rating 4. And while we're on the subject, your licenses: they need to be the same rating as your fake SIN IIRC.

Actually, they don't need to be the same ratings. If a license gets burned, a SIN gets burned, so usually people try to get them both as high as possible. A high fake license isn't that useful on a low fake SIN, but a high fake SIN is also not going to hold up under scrutiny if you have low fake Licenses. For convenience and to minimize SINs getting burned, people try to keep them at the same level, but it's not actually required.

I may actually be wrong, but just quickly looking through the book I don't see anything specifically mentioning they need to be the same rating.

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« Reply #9 on: <10-08-14/1437:30> »
i would suggest flipping skills and money around. Money A will allow you to buy a nice deck, some reaction enhancers and maybe wired 1, along with a few ranks of cerebral enhancers for extra logic. Not to mention other quality of life cyber like sleep regulators, platelet factories, Mnemonic enhancer, str/agi upgrades, ext

I will also mirror the other comments and say that shadowrun is a game of specialists. You will want to be slightly more focused on the hacking roll. Most of the systems you will come up against will be throwing 8-12 dice and you want to be able to win against those odds consistently.
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« Reply #10 on: <10-08-14/1440:34> »
Decking is especially important because people focus on never getting caught. And in the current system, you WILL get caught sooner or later. So that means you can either spend a lot of Edge to avoid that, or you can go in with an Agent, a good deck and good cybercombat, then beat down IC if needed if you screw up. Remember, the IC launches at 1 per Combat Turn so if you can take them down faster than that, you can afford to finish the job with the alarms blaring.
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« Reply #11 on: <10-08-14/1508:45> »
Also, a minor issue but if you can get a middle lifestyle that gets you access to the local grid without having to hack your way in.  And that -2 dice to all matrix actions while on the public grid is going to hurt more than usual if you aren't maximizing your dice pools.

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« Reply #12 on: <10-09-14/2138:03> »
Another thing about the deck....

The last thing I should worry about when using this character is getting the deck bricked due to too much programs in the system.

Am I wrong on something?

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« Reply #13 on: <10-10-14/0200:58> »
You can't brick a deck by using too many programs. Your deck has a program limit, and that's how many it can run - period. It can't run more. (You can store as much as you want and switch them out though).

There is a program that lets you run one additional program, while making it easier for others to brick your deck. But that still requires them to do it.

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« Reply #14 on: <10-10-14/0722:02> »
Wiz!

I'll think about it...