I decided to try something a little different; my previous main was a sniper built around cyberware who dabbled in Face skills because we didn't have one.
Now I'm trying at least a bit of magic, and have been playing around with Adept, Mystic Adept, Cyber/Bioware, and where the Face skills were primary and sometimes secondary.
I wanted to be useful in situations where there was little "Face" time as well, so I wondered what could make me useful with a low Initiative. Something where a single attack can still be useful.
Here's what I've got so far:
Race: Elf (Dryad)
Body 3, AGI 6(7), REA 3, STR 4, CHA 8, INT 3, LOG 4, WIL 4, EDG 1, MAG 4, Mystic Adept Power Points 4
Positive Qualities:
Common Sense
Sharpshooter
Too Pretty to Hit
Trust Fund III
Negative Qualities:
Creature of Comfort (High)
SINner (National)
Social Appearance Anxiety
Skills: Blades[1] 8, Longarms[1] 8 (Sniper Rifles 10), Pistols[1] 8, Sneaking[1] 8 (Urban 10), Con[5] 16 (Seduction 18), Etiquette[1] 12, Impersonation[1] 12, Leadership [1] 12, Negotiation [1] 12 (Bargaining 14), Binding[4] 8, Ritual Spellcasting[4] 8, Pilot Ground Craft[1] 4
Spells: Combat Sense, Translate, Heal, Increase Attribute [CHA], Entertainment, Improved Invisibility, Physical Mask
Powers: Cool Resolve 2, Improved Physical Attribute (AGI), Eidetic Sense Memory, Three-Dimensional Memory
Armor: Amante Dress, Mortimer of London: Argentum Coat, Zoe: Executive Suite, Chameleon Suit
Weapons: Ares Desert Strike with Chameleon Coating, Tripod and external Smartgun System \ Browning Ghost \ Sapphire Knife with Weapon Foci RAT 1
Vehicles: Suzuki Mirage
After buying a lot of gear, I still have 37k to spend. Not sure if I'm just stretching myself too much here. I know going the skills and bioware route is usually the easiest (Metatype goes into D, Magic goes into E), and I'm not OPPOSED to it, but I wanted to see if using magic could be fun.
Any thoughts? Do characters this spread out not work so well? Also, being really new to magic, wasn't sure about spells