Typically he ran one shots.

But they were the best one-shots ever.

The only campaign I know that he did was for Scion, and that was an over-the-top game. Hero to God in 11 weeks (like 250 exp a session, which is like giving a shadow runner 250 karma, except that there are things to spend it on that cost 50, 100, 150 karma easy*)

*And aren't Initiation and Magic

5063: I will not forget that Alice Cooper is scary to most people.
5063a: And a free spirit that looks like Alice Cooper is even worse for most people!

5063b: As an adjunct to the above, no player will ever describe their character, or any magical NPC as, "90's Alice Cooper with Elton John's 70's wardrobe"

-Tir

5064. Tasering a squatter in an abandoned building instead of shooting him is not an apology. And you can't add him as a contact simply because you left him a pizza.
5065. The fertilizer in a "fertilizer bomb" does not refer to mixing manure with plastic explosives.
5066. 100 kg of explosives is not the fastest way through a chain link fence.

5067: The phrases "minimum collateral damage" and "entire metroplex" do not belong in the same sentence.

5067a: Unless you're Ares. And the metroplex in question is Chicago.

This post has been edited by Grinchy McScrooge: May 16 2012, 05:25 PM

No, takes too long to set up. Rocket Launchers or driving a truck through it is quite a bit faster.

Nah, still to slow, Hire "Bear Who Walks Through Walls"


Edit: P.S. Tell him there is a full icebox on the other side!

I'm determined to make him a legend.

I still can't find his sheet on dumpshock <.<

Not sure it is. You'd have to ask Bobson for it.

I'm working on it, he will be showing up in one of my campaigns, probably just walking through the building the runners are having a firefight in.

One of those moments when all action pauses for just a second as a huge lumbering bearthing kinda wanders through the room as walls disintegrate out from in front of him at the bat of a paw

Now to work on the Blood Lord...

He would have been immortalized in the Advanced Magic book with the new Ascension metamagic.

Do Tell...

Ya know...you said that and for some reason my first thought was of a character from a game called LoL (League of Legends) named Vladimir the Crimson Reaper...and then I immagioned him following the Bear through, but the action starting back up, bullets flying, and he Sanguine Pools through it unscathed.

....by the gods of all things geeky i am a nerd.. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

5068) no telling a dwarf to HIGH FIVE when playing anything else but another dorf . .

Nosferatu black magician that uses an Ally Spirit (or free spirit) to inhabit himself. My Ally/Inhabitation Spirit Thread first breached the subject. The whole thing has been further refined and can be done with a 400 BP character and only about 40 karma (and, of course, the proper metamagic techniques and metaplanar quests).

The Ascension metamagic that Ancient History was adding into the Advanced Magic Book before he left was obviously based on my work on the Ally/Inhabitation Spirit thread.

I'm actually playing a 450BP version of this character in a game that's held every other Saturday - he has 25 dice for Suggestion and Compulsion and a 10 magic standing in his own Astral Hazing. The character concept is a blend of Prince Arthas/Lich King and a Sith Lord and I discovered it because I wanted to know if I could make Prince Arthas becoming the Lich King in SR... and you can. Deathknights are also really easy, and they can use battle rifles now too.

Well, I have been asked, so here he is, in all his reconstructed glory: Bear Who Walks Through Walls, also called Mato (which means bear in Sioux, of course). I couldn't find the character sheet I actually played from, but I had the spreadsheet I'd used to create him in the first place.

I'll freely admit the character was built to be good at two things: Beating things up, and surviving things beating on him. He's not well rounded by any means, and is kindof a pushover against anything mental (provided that whatever's attacking him isn't in reach so that it can survive long enough). That being said, he was still quite fun to play, and he definitely developed into a memorable character.

There are some notes worth discussing, from what I've included at the bottom of that sheet:



Technically, Bear is a 410 BP character with a too-rare item. It's also a bit of a stretch to apply the weapon focus bonus to the claws while in bear form. Take all these under advisement if you intend on playing someone based on Bear. Taking the weapon focus down to force 2 saves 6 BP worth of bonding and nuyen, so you'd just have to shave off 4 more points somewhere to be legal.





Bear isn't the deadliest character I've seen. Possibly the deadliest in melee, but I remember it being quite possible to get better numbers with guns. That being said, for a while we had a house rule where melee attacks were simple actions instead of complex, and that just made his damage go through the roof. Even after reverting that, there was practically nothing that could stand up to him. Guns crumpled in his fists. The beefiest trolls still have a good chance to fall over when he connects with them. I think at one point he faced down a tank and just ripped it open with his bare claws (no pun intended).



As I mentioned, he's ridiculously vulerable to mental assaults and stunning magic. That also happens to be the kind of thing he can't regenerate from. By the end of the game I'd picked up 3 ranks of the Spell Resistence power, so he wasn't quite as pathetic, but it still wasn't a good defense. On the other hand, it takes a lot to be able to hurt him with standard weapons. Assuming no AP, you have to hit him with a weapon that does at least 5P (after adding your net attack hits) to scratch him. And he heals 4-5 boxes per combat turn, so simply scratching him isn't sufficient. (Especially while he can reach you and break your weapon.) Obviously, many things have AP and do more than 5P damage, but you have to be talking on the scale of "full auto tight burst from an assault rifle" (assuming you hit) or "Panther XXL to the face" to really threaten him. And then you're either far enough way that he can just get behind cover and heal it all back up, or you're close enough that he can close with you (@50m/turn) and render you unable to shoot.



And this is where the "walks through walls" part comes from. Originally, the character was just named Mato. He lived in the Sioux nation, spent most of his time being a bear in the woods, and occasionally had some contact with metahumans, trading manual labor for whatever he needed. He didn't have much use for technology, and technology didn't have much use for him (Gremlins 3). Then he got abducted for "research", and woke up in Seattle. I think originally, the plan was that he'd be rescued by the rest of the team, but then we looked at the barrier rules and realized that there really isn't a cell that can hold him. So instead (IIRC) the team met up with him as he was walking through the (sealed!) door of the research lab. They promised to help get him back out of the arcology, so he followed them. After a few more instances of "Wall? What wall?", he got renamed by his team.

It's worth reminding everyone that shapeshifters are primarily the animal, they just can look metahuman. So Bear thought like a bear. Most of the time he was pretty placid, didn't move very fast, and was willing to go along with whatever his team wanted, trusting them to eventually get him out of the bewildering city. He was always interested in food, and didn't have much regard for whatever happened to his clothes after shifting into bear form and back. (The party robbed a clothing store and started carrying spare pants for him. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif) ) He wasn't technically a pacifist, although most of the time he did avoid needless violence. But when he got angry, things started getting torn apart...

Overall, he was a really fun character to play. One of my favorites.

Edit: Fixed link

Bears are pretty good folk for the most part. Until you piss one off.

Those Berserk rules that keep referencing "Bear" are spot on for a reason.

5069- I'm not allowed to accidentally overlook the "kilo" part of kilometer under the Quake spirit power.
5069a- Seriously, it was an accident guys.
5069b- I am also to never use said spirit power on an eight lane stretch of Interstate highway. Again.

5070: Just because Video Games have the "Bad Guy Vendo-Mat", does not mean I should include one in planning games.
5070a: Honestly, what do these guys get paid to go after a one-man mortuary employment program?

5071: Apparently it is not advised to use your pop-up turret in the middle of rush hour Seattle traffic.
5071a: When Lone Star shows up, because of your previous actions, don't try and crush them into a guard rail or knock them off a bridge...
5071b: Once you have briefly eluded Lone Star, it is also not advisable to drive your GMC 4201 like a battering ram into the gang slum house you are supposed to be "raiding" in the essence of saving time and hiding your vehicle...
5071c: It is also frowned upon to detonate all 30 KG of Compound XII in your vehicle in an attempt to "jump start" your clearing of the gang house, since you figure your vehicle is also too hot to handle anymore

Hey, if Mr. Johnson wanted the house to be left in tact, he should have been more specific. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smokin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

However, our 2057 team of Shadowrunners probably didn't get much work from anybody who knew them for quite some time after that...

5072: I am not allowed to base my socially inept Hacker character on my GM's personality back in college unless I make sure he doesn't figure it out until the game is over,
5072a: if I do base the character on my GM, I must not have the character recreate embarassing scenes from the GM's life back in college.
5072b: Particularly when the GM's wife is in the room and has never heard these stories about her husband.
5072c: When the GM eventually figures out that my character is loosely based on him, I must not object when the new group contact turns out to be my great grandson.
5072d: And this contact is a BTL addicted gay prostitute with a venereal disease.
5073: I am not allowed to notice that the GM's current adventure plot closely matches one he used in a 1st edition D&D game back in 1984.

5074: I am not allowed to "get a wild hair up my ass" and "streamline" the teams carefully plotted snatch'n'grab.
5074a: No it doesnt matter if it WOULD be more fun my way
5074b: Just because its more fun doesnt mean the team will like it
5075: I am not allowed to be indignant when my team blames me for the death of others for the sake of more fun. (honest, you shoulda seen his face, the troll popped out with the Panther and he was all like "WTF" LOL)

Chainsaws are fun...but bad..too much noise!

ATZ

What about a gnome? Or a neotenous elf/human/orc?




I trust that he paid you, at least. After all, he was not specific as to how the job got done, only that it got done.





5076: I am not allowed to make an NPC hacker who hacks under the name Rainbow Dash.
5076a: Nor Twilight Sparkle, Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy or Pinkie Pie.
5076b: These are reserved for the future possible use of the players.
5077: I am not allowed to steal the players' thunder by making an NPC who's cooler or otherwise more thematically interesting than they are.