 Hobbies..., Ain't just 'bout the Shadows... |
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 Apr 17 2008, 08:28 PM
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Shooting Target  Group: Members Posts: 1,930 Joined: 9-April 05 From: Scandinavian Union Member No.: 7,310  |
Wicked barbed Spikes..
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Apr 17 2008, 08:30 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,336 Joined: 24-February 08 From: Albuquerque, New Mexico Member No.: 15,706 |
QUOTE (Lionhearted @ Apr 17 2008, 01:28 PM)  Wicked barbed Spikes.. Nipple Spikes. Sorry, I just had to say it. |
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Apr 17 2008, 08:42 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,168 Joined: 15-April 05 From: Helsinki, Finland Member No.: 7,337 |
Sheesh, hobby turned dangerous. If he grappled someone, they'd be screwed. He's already got blades shooting out of his fingers, his wrists, and his feet.
He'd be, like, a walking Iron Maiden. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) |
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Apr 17 2008, 08:44 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,930 Joined: 9-April 05 From: Scandinavian Union Member No.: 7,310 |
QUOTE (ElFenrir @ Apr 17 2008, 03:42 PM) Sheesh, hobby turned dangerous. If he grappled someone, they'd be screwed. He's already got blades shooting out of his fingers, his wrists, and his feet. He'd be, like, a walking Iron Maiden. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) He'd better get into BDSM to.. I can't imagine his girl liking his barbed wicked nipple spikes of doom! |
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Apr 17 2008, 08:46 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 |
QUOTE (ElFenrir @ Apr 17 2008, 03:42 PM) He'd be, like, a walking Iron Maiden. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) IRON MAIDEN! *Plays Air Guitar* ... OK, I must never do that again. |
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Apr 17 2008, 08:56 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,168 Joined: 15-April 05 From: Helsinki, Finland Member No.: 7,337 |
QUOTE (Lionhearted @ Apr 17 2008, 04:44 PM) He'd better get into BDSM to.. I can't imagine his girl liking his barbed wicked nipple spikes of doom! Single, plays the field, prefers women but will occationaly bat for the same team, and hangs out in the industrial/metal clubs. Already into a bit of S&M. Won't be a problem. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif) ...and before you ask, yeah, this guy came from one too many cups of coffee, one to many manga, and generous helping of 'you know, i've played the same damn ice cold pro too many times. How can i spice this up?'' (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) And yeah, i was tempted to make a reference to a Ghoul named Eddie for a contact but i decided it might be a little TOO out there. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) |
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Apr 17 2008, 08:59 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,930 Joined: 9-April 05 From: Scandinavian Union Member No.: 7,310 |
QUOTE (ElFenrir @ Apr 17 2008, 10:56 PM) And yeah, i was tempted to make a reference to a Ghoul named Eddie for a contact but i decided it might be a little TOO out there. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) He is so STOLEN to be a NPC now (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) |
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Apr 17 2008, 09:09 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 158 Joined: 15-December 06 From: Rugby, England Member No.: 10,374 |
My current character is based on the stock answers of hundreds of beauty pageant contestants: she likes going to gym, keeping fit, going out with friends, diving and skydiving...
She also likes art, especially traditional Japanese art. She was an art thief before she joined the team. |
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Apr 17 2008, 11:57 PM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
QUOTE (CanRay @ Apr 17 2008, 01:46 PM) IRON MAIDEN! *Plays Air Guitar* ... OK, I must never do that again. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rotfl.gif) ...EXCELLENT!!!!!!!! |
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Apr 18 2008, 12:01 AM
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Immortal Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 |
QUOTE (Kyoto Kid @ Apr 17 2008, 06:57 PM) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rotfl.gif) ...EXCELLENT!!!!!!!! *Hangs head in shame* I couldn't help myself... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif) |
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Apr 18 2008, 12:05 AM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
QUOTE (john_doe @ Apr 16 2008, 09:00 PM) I had a guy that collected elvish simsense porn (but don't all runners do that?) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ic.gif) ...eeeeeyyuuuu! No way hombre'. |
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Apr 18 2008, 01:17 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 103 Joined: 15-August 06 From: The Barrens of Detroit Member No.: 9,120 |
QUOTE (Kyoto Kid @ Apr 17 2008, 07:05 PM) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ic.gif) ...eeeeeyyuuuu! No way hombre'. My apologies. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) "Most" Runners then? |
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Apr 18 2008, 01:21 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,168 Joined: 15-April 05 From: Helsinki, Finland Member No.: 7,337 |
I wouldn't be surprised if my cybered elf-dude got too drunk one night and ended up IN a cyberporn.
boy, i hope not. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif) |
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Apr 18 2008, 03:49 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 |
Just read about another Hobby that 'Runners could have, and WOULDN'T cost any extra points: Boosting Americars. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)
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Apr 21 2008, 09:58 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,026 Joined: 23-November 05 From: Seattle (Really!) Member No.: 7,996 |
QUOTE (CanRay @ Apr 18 2008, 07:49 AM) Just read about another Hobby that 'Runners could have, and WOULDN'T cost any extra points: Boosting Americars. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) That's not a hobby, that's a survival skill. It's how you pay the bills on a slow month |
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Apr 21 2008, 11:18 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 |
Fine then, "Knowledge: Car Security Systems". (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)
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Apr 22 2008, 12:27 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 350 Joined: 20-August 06 Member No.: 9,176 |
QUOTE (Spike @ Apr 16 2008, 04:57 PM) I start looking hard at a GM that 'insists' I make my character a certain way. I've had too many bad expirences with shit like that to look comfortably at that sort of meddling. Beyond an overview of the campaign and some basic open ended stuff (give me a background/don't give me a background... all characters must be from a Redmond street gang.... that sort of thing)... I don't want the GM making my character. Never mind that most of my characters are pretty well developed and rounded anyway, and MOST of the recent ones I've made have been barrens street rats grown up, more interested in their next meal than any 'time waster'. Of course, a certain level of professional is probably pretty into his job, his hobbies are in fact career skills and vice versa. Look at the spec ops guys who take up skydiving as a hobby (as most of them jump from planes, at least some of the time, for their 'work') or shooting. A HUGE number of soldiers hunt and sport shoot as hobbies, and any visit to a ISPC (sp?) event will find a huge percentage of the attendees are off duty cops, there for the fun of shooting. In other words, if I feel a character needs a hobby to round the out, I'll give them one on my own. The GM forcing me to have one will get me to start looking around for a new GM. And because this post isn't long enough to meet union minimums: I view this much as I'd vew a GM strongly suggesting that a Colt Manhunter is not the right pistol for my Shadowrunner, and I'd be better off with a Predator. Its none o' his damn business. See, I do much the same thing with my group. I want "some" fluff. It doesn't have to be anything special... it can even use the same skills you use on you job, but let me know what he does on his downtime. Everyone has downtime. Hell, it might just be surfin' the net and collecting LOLCat memes. No skills needed if you already have Computer 1. It's background; it's character. I think you misunderstand what the original poster was saying. He wasn't saying he picked a "hobby" for hte player, jsut that he wanted the players to round out their characters. It really helps the GM to build up his world if he knows who the characters are. Maybe you collect antique boxes. Some nice fluff and flavor if your regular vendor (a freebie contact you've earned over some time) has a job for you. Or is getting hassled by a local street gang. Etc. Hell, maybe you are doing a B&E on some rich dude and you see a very special box you know is worth 30K jsut sitting on the frikkin endtable. You could pocket it for your own collection or maybe swipe it and fence it. A hobby CAN be profitable. One of my regular players was an adept that sculpted as part of his meditation. He had an art appreciation Knowledge skill of 2. He regularly suplemented his income by swiping pieces of art from B&Es. Nothing super special.. jsut stuff that might be worth 500Y, 1000Y, etc. It added something to the character that would have otherwise jsut been another sneaky elf adept with killing hands and "no cyber, please." It earned him quite a few "good roleplaying" awards as well. Vlad |
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Apr 22 2008, 12:30 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 588 Joined: 27-February 06 Member No.: 8,316 |
my favorite know skill of all time.... esoteric trivia
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Apr 22 2008, 12:35 AM
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Immortal Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 |
QUOTE (vladski @ Apr 21 2008, 07:27 PM) I think you misunderstand what the original poster was saying. He wasn't saying he picked a "hobby" for hte player, jsut that he wanted the players to round out their characters. It really helps the GM to build up his world if he knows who the characters are. Vlad Got it in one! And I get to be a total jerk and have the Johnson phone five minutes before the big Urban Brawl Grunge Match between the Ares Predators and the Saeder-Krupp Dragons. |
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Apr 22 2008, 01:01 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 350 Joined: 20-August 06 Member No.: 9,176 |
QUOTE (CanRay @ Apr 21 2008, 07:35 PM) Got it in one! And I get to be a total jerk and have the Johnson phone five minutes before the big Urban Brawl Grunge Match between the Ares Predators and the Saeder-Krupp Dragons. One of my players, a rigger, had a low level mafioso contact(a distant cousin) that LOVED football and would always insist everytime the player called him for info or to make a deal: "Heya, youz wanna come over and watch the Giants game? We'll order a pizza from Del Rosa's. Or, you know, I can come over there. The wife, she's onna one of her tears. Fraggin bitch. If it wasn't for Rocky, Jr, I woulda dumped her hoop years ago. And don't let me get started on duh little fruit. She's got him takin' ballet. Fraggin ballet!! Waddya gonna do? So, waddaya say? We'll have a good time. I'll bring some beers. Oh, you got work? You mean that things goin' down tonight? Well, frag... okay, how about Sunday? I hears duh Broncs and the Cowboys matchup's gonna kick some hoop! We could get together. I could get ahold of Little Tommy... " The guy wouldn't relent until the player agreed. So, the player basically developed a hobby by proxy, so as not to tick his contact off. Vlad |
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Apr 22 2008, 01:07 AM
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Immortal Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 |
Vlad, man, I so wish I could get you into my game! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
I'm stealing that, BTW! |
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Apr 22 2008, 01:39 AM
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Immoral Elf Group: Members Posts: 15,247 Joined: 29-March 02 From: Grimy Pete's Bar & Laundromat Member No.: 2,486 |
QUOTE (fool @ Apr 22 2008, 10:30 AM) my favorite know skill of all time.... esoteric trivia ... or Pop Culture. ... or Current Events. ... or Rumormill. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) |
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Apr 22 2008, 04:27 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 19 Joined: 21-February 08 Member No.: 15,696 |
My current character, a British magician , is a soccer hooligan who also likes goblin rock and searching for real Guinness and scotch.
My previous character,a cyberninja, enjoyed 20th century action movies and ancient Japanese history. |
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Apr 22 2008, 05:07 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,629 Joined: 14-December 06 Member No.: 10,361 |
Honestly, all of my Sr4 contacts have had drugs as their hobbies.
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Apr 22 2008, 06:40 AM
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Illuminate of the New Dawn Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 317 Joined: 9-June 03 From: Seattle 'Plex, UCAS Member No.: 4,700 |
I've had a couple of characters have following business trends/keeping up on the markets, reading management books, etc as hobbies. One of them, (an SR3 conjuror) because he used to own a (fairly sleazy) magical security firm before he started running (he also had a taste for elven wine - being an elf himself it made sense - and was quite a womanizer).
The other character followed business because he had been raised/schooled in a corp and never managed to kick the ingrained habit (he's a stealth/throwing/social adept and also 'collects' various cons he's helped run/learned about and also has an interest in stage magic (that plaming skill in his stealth skill group has to be put to *some* use). |
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