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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 446 Joined: 16-May 03 Member No.: 4,598 ![]() |
We all have them, character ideas that we know the gm will throw things at us for considering.. here are a couple form me to get it started
Coyote shaman that has a sustaining focus... and only walks around in animal form and uses his ally spirit as his 'master' to get around leash laws... Surged mage with bear features that has a geas that requires him to show his belly and scream "carebear stare" while casting ranged combat spells... that appear to come from the tattoo on his belly |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 687 Joined: 22-October 09 Member No.: 17,783 ![]() |
Sociopathic elf social adept/mage. I've got a long history of getting in to character and scaring the piss out of some of the less mentally agile players. I should note that when me and my friends statted eachother out (not as standard 400bp characters) everyone had me as some form of social adept splashed with other stuff.
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Shooting Target ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,598 Joined: 24-May 03 Member No.: 4,629 ![]() |
A decker.
Any decker, really. Every Shadowrun GM, ever, just kicks them to the curb and says "You have an NPC Decker. Do something else." SR4 was a big move against this, but we need to go a wee bit further, methinks. |
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Immortal Elf ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 ![]() |
A borderline-sociopathic Troll Physical Firearms Adept with a cyberarm who names all his firearms and sleeps with them in rotation like his own personal harem.
I can rattle that off in one breath, and everyone who has offered to GM for me has just stared in horror after I said it. Note, this is after I make a few other, more credible suggestions first. But I keep hoping. |
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Runner ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 3,009 Joined: 25-September 06 From: Paris, France Member No.: 9,466 ![]() |
A character with Fame and Evil Twin. He's famous, supposed to be rich but actually has to run to meet ends. So when clues lead to him, he explains that it can't be him (why would he do that, a famous and rich guy?), it must be someone trying to frame him. And when the police starts investigating that possibility, they'll get to the evil twin.
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Runner ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 2,925 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 948 ![]() |
The TerrorTubby
Huge troll in a pink latex teletubby suit armed with a 6 foot dildo bat...and lube...and duct tape. |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 772 Joined: 12-December 07 From: Fort Worth, Texas Member No.: 14,589 ![]() |
A decker. Any decker, really. Every Shadowrun GM, ever, just kicks them to the curb and says "You have an NPC Decker. Do something else." SR4 was a big move against this, but we need to go a wee bit further, methinks. The first rule of Shadowrun: The Decker Always Dies! |
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Running Target ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,290 Joined: 23-January 07 From: Seattle, USA Member No.: 10,749 ![]() |
A bisexual social adept elf who has a completely indeterminate gender that not even the party members know.
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 271 Joined: 1-September 09 From: Denmark Member No.: 17,583 ![]() |
A bisexual social adept elf who has a completely indeterminate gender that not even the party members know. Tell me it would be named "Vaarsuvius"... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 604 Joined: 1-December 08 From: Sacramento, California Member No.: 16,646 ![]() |
Tell me it would be named "Vaarsuvius"... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) With Raven for mentor spirit? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/spin.gif) |
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Runner ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 2,782 Joined: 28-August 09 Member No.: 17,566 ![]() |
A bisexual social adept elf who has a completely indeterminate gender that not even the party members know. We have one of these in our games. We have taken to referring to their gender as 'elf' or alternating between he's and she's. The elf is also a rocker/musician adept face. But hey, its an LA game. Due to some shenanigans in the metaplanes and overarching plot for the campaign, the totem/mentor spirit of Radiation has taken an interest in them... and to make matters worse, the elf not only has the idea that Radiation could be redeemed from the Twisted path(because its a fairly recent development, and stars weren't always so), but has convinced the party of this as well. We are the slotting nicest group of runners around. As for my concept, I always wanted to play a dwarf ghoul mystic adept from japan(gaki,koborokuru, casual racism towards gaijin, the whole nine yards) that, despite the stat spread, happens to be an art-punk, with spells designed around that theme(divination mages are surprisingly nifty, and being able to handsketch out blueprints of places the team needs to go on the fly is just nifty), but keeps it on the down-low. Lose a point of essence to pay for all the fitting-in ware possible, and play up the tiny but friendly asian lady(remember, dwarves are short) to the maximum. And maybe see how long it takes the face to notice that when she tells him he smells good enough to eat, she's not talking about his cologne(or her perfume, i guess, depending on the group). Doing everything you can to blend in and pretend to be normal, but slipping comments like that under the radar until the party goes OH GOD later. |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 138 Joined: 1-October 11 Member No.: 39,548 ![]() |
A Pornomancer Face Adept with a penile Implant and a chemical gland in his ball-sack that produces Narcojet ...
"Bend over and have a nice nap!" |
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Running Target ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,416 Joined: 4-March 06 From: Albuquerque Member No.: 8,334 ![]() |
Strangely, I never create any off the wall ideas, so I don't get any rejected... It may be a side effect of having to counter one of fellow player's insanities. He, however, has a list of characters we won't allow.
One is a person he calls "The Reverend", who is an obvious psychopath wielding monofilimant chainsaws and dismembering anyone who he thinks crosses him. He recently tried to play a character modeled after Deadpool who ignored the 4th wall. Our characters realized he was nuts and failed to hire him. He can be a little out there, but we love him, our own little powergamer. |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 572 Joined: 6-February 09 From: London Uk Member No.: 16,848 ![]() |
My surged dwarf adept ninja squirrel called Nutkin
apparently he went just abit to far what with the compulsions to steal things and the ability to hurt people with well thrown acorns plus the fluffy tail thing worried people I think |
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Immortal Elf ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 ![]() |
My surged dwarf adept ninja squirrel called Nutkin Bah, Squirrel-Girl will just show up and he'd be her slave. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
apparently he went just abit to far what with the compulsions to steal things and the ability to hurt people with well thrown acorns plus the fluffy tail thing worried people I think |
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Shooting Target ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,911 Joined: 26-February 02 From: near Stuttgart Member No.: 1,749 ![]() |
Hmm...i already played an unplayable char., but only as long as it took the GM to realize how crazy he was. It was a surged fomori-ghoul with Raptor-legs, bone-spikes, fangs and claws, red skin and yellow glowing eyes as well as a thagomizer. Of course he also was a mystic adept of a possession tradition, so it took the GM several automatic rounds with a vigorous autocannot to "remove" him from our round. I like to annoy the GM.^^
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Immortal Elf ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 ![]() |
I want a GM. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/frown.gif)
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 881 Joined: 13-November 11 From: Vienna, Austria Member No.: 43,494 ![]() |
Hmm...i already played an unplayable char., but only as long as it took the GM to realize how crazy he was. It was a surged fomori-ghoul with Raptor-legs, bone-spikes, fangs and claws, red skin and yellow glowing eyes as well as a thagomizer. Of course he also was a mystic adept of a possession tradition, so it took the GM several automatic rounds with a vigorous autocannot to "remove" him from our round. I like to annoy the GM.^^ A Dzoo-No-Qua on K-10 would have been more fun XD |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 102 Joined: 26-April 11 Member No.: 28,868 ![]() |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 664 Joined: 26-September 11 Member No.: 39,030 ![]() |
I have been told that I cannot play any character who in anyway is based upon a kender. I wanted to name him Twitch, have him always jazzed up and make him a demolitions expert who happened to find other people's things in his pockets and would frequently lose track of little things like hand grenades and plastic explosives when he stopped being interested in them.
I also want to co play a character who has two personalities and so two sets of skills and mental stats. Then alternate playing that character with someone else, so that each of us would only know what had happened while we were in control of that character. And of course to be hiding this from the rest of the group, so that regardless of which personality the character tried to act like they knew what was going on. A vampire with the glamour surge quality and an obsession with a random high school girl and a loup garou as an enemy. (though I mostly wanted to play this character so that someone would shoot him in the face) |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 963 Joined: 15-February 11 From: Tir Tairngire Member No.: 21,972 ![]() |
As a joke I statted Yugi Moto from Yu-Gi-Oh. I'm pretty sure he's the reason why the Egyption tradition is a possession tradition. Anyway, all his spells are fluffed as a Children's Card Game and he is nearly incompetent without his ally spirit. He also has 6 in Knowledge: Children's Card Games.
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 187 Joined: 3-May 11 Member No.: 29,372 ![]() |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 963 Joined: 15-February 11 From: Tir Tairngire Member No.: 21,972 ![]() |
I have been told that I cannot play any character who in anyway is based upon a kender. I wanted to name him Twitch, have him always jazzed up and make him a demolitions expert who happened to find other people's things in his pockets and would frequently lose track of little things like hand grenades and plastic explosives when he stopped being interested in them. I also want to co play a character who has two personalities and so two sets of skills and mental stats. Then alternate playing that character with someone else, so that each of us would only know what had happened while we were in control of that character. And of course to be hiding this from the rest of the group, so that regardless of which personality the character tried to act like they knew what was going on. A vampire with the glamour surge quality and an obsession with a random high school girl and a loup garou as an enemy. (though I mostly wanted to play this character so that someone would shoot him in the face) I think you'd get ate by the Loup Garou. Those buggers are scary. |
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Running Target ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,424 Joined: 7-December 09 From: Freedonia Member No.: 17,952 ![]() |
I'm not allowed to play a tiger shapeshifter anymore. Something about the GM can't get things in a serious mood when I play that character, I had one smeg of a good time playing that char too.
Similarly, I'm not allowed to play a drake anymore, and ghouls are right out... Along with, dragons (especially in SR) and anything related to a lizard, even if it is a normal pc race that is listed, nor any character with a bite attack, even if it is a human and the bite attack is from core rules... At this point I think what I'm allowed to play is shorter... |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 446 Joined: 16-May 03 Member No.: 4,598 ![]() |
*clobbers a player that wanted him to GM again...
I will as a GM drop a thor round on anyone playing a elf physad surged to look like a drow with ambidexterity and specializing in blades - scimitars So in his honor I post his character rip.. err idea |
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Running Target ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,479 Joined: 6-May 05 From: Idaho Member No.: 7,377 ![]() |
Pretty much anything from Runner's companion.
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 963 Joined: 15-February 11 From: Tir Tairngire Member No.: 21,972 ![]() |
Your DM sounds like me.
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Running Target ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,424 Joined: 7-December 09 From: Freedonia Member No.: 17,952 ![]() |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 673 Joined: 9-May 08 Member No.: 15,965 ![]() |
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Immortal Elf ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 ![]() |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 213 Joined: 19-August 10 Member No.: 18,949 ![]() |
*clobbers a player that wanted him to GM again... I will as a GM drop a thor round on anyone playing a elf physad surged to look like a drow with ambidexterity and specializing in blades - scimitars So in his honor I post his character rip.. err idea Drop a Thor shot on the player? That's harsh. Understandable, but harsh. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif) |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 673 Joined: 9-May 08 Member No.: 15,965 ![]() |
Drop a Thor shot on the player? That's harsh. Understandable, but harsh. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif) Would have to be the player. The character would probably dodge. |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 963 Joined: 15-February 11 From: Tir Tairngire Member No.: 21,972 ![]() |
What's wrong with Oni? Or Night Ones? Nothing, but all my players see SURGE as MORE STUFF TO POWERGAME! Instead of interesting character choices. This makes Oni a disadvantage because it's 5 points for a drawback, and Night Ones nobody bothered to look at because no one's yet thought to try to immitate Night Crawler but me, and transportation is one thing SR magic can't do. |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 673 Joined: 9-May 08 Member No.: 15,965 ![]() |
Nothing, but all my players see SURGE as MORE STUFF TO POWERGAME! Instead of interesting character choices. This makes Oni a disadvantage because it's 5 points for a drawback, and Night Ones nobody bothered to look at because no one's yet thought to try to immitate Night Crawler but me, and transportation is one thing SR magic can't do. Just wait till tech gets there. Unless you can hop into a metaplane and then hop out elsewhere. But that isn't really worth the effort. |
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Shooting Target ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,911 Joined: 26-February 02 From: near Stuttgart Member No.: 1,749 ![]() |
Can you do that? I thought a metaplanar quest is just an advanced version of astral projection. Your body should stay on the same place.
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Prime Runner Ascendant ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 17,568 Joined: 26-March 09 From: Aurora, Colorado Member No.: 17,022 ![]() |
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Immortal Elf ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 ![]() |
Nothing. I absolutely love the Oni I am playing. What about this Oni? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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Prime Runner Ascendant ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 17,568 Joined: 26-March 09 From: Aurora, Colorado Member No.: 17,022 ![]() |
Can you do that? I thought a metaplanar quest is just an advanced version of astral projection. Your body should stay on the same place. No, You can't do that (Unless you are Harlequin)... The mana level is far too low for that currently. Yes, your body stays where you started the Quest., and you return to your body when it is done. However, You will find (if you look hard enough) at least several opinions here on Dumnpshock that says that you should be able to do that with an Endowed power (or two), or maybe even a Metamagic ability. But I call Shenanigans on such craziness. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) |
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Prime Runner Ascendant ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 17,568 Joined: 26-March 09 From: Aurora, Colorado Member No.: 17,022 ![]() |
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The ShadowComedian ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,538 Joined: 3-October 07 From: Hamburg, AGS Member No.: 13,525 ![]() |
Forbidden:
DeSync: All voice and ear-work done to him that cyber can do. Including built in speakers which he uses to talk with. And his voice/words are NEVER in sync with his lips movements. Also, he is chinese and does Kung Fu. Has a Fu Man Chu beard and long white hair too. Yes, i basically made him the old man from every old time eastern movie ever . . Blurr: complete camo gear including full ruthenium polymere suit, coat and built into his dermal sheath. cybernetic eyes covered with ruthenium polymere too. NEVER EVER TALKS. Basically uses his whole body as an area to display emoticons and smileys and lol-speak. like a huge question mark where his head should by, while the rest of the head is actually invisible at the moment. Also uses his camo stuff to allways be blurry and hard to look at in general. or if you blink he vanishes/re-appears. |
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Prime Runner ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 3,507 Joined: 11-November 08 Member No.: 16,582 ![]() |
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Running Target ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,424 Joined: 7-December 09 From: Freedonia Member No.: 17,952 ![]() |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 673 Joined: 9-May 08 Member No.: 15,965 ![]() |
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Prime Runner ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 3,507 Joined: 11-November 08 Member No.: 16,582 ![]() |
Nope, PC Free Spirits are nerfed that way.
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Prime Runner Ascendant ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 17,568 Joined: 26-March 09 From: Aurora, Colorado Member No.: 17,022 ![]() |
Nope, PC Free Spirits are nerfed that way. Why? PC Free spirits do not need the ability. They dematerialize in one spot, Astrally zoom to where they want to go, and then Re-Materialize. Astral Gateway is only for taking someone else. And I am sure that you could work out a price for such an ability. If you really wanted to add it. I would cost it at about 3 (It is not as good as Regeneration, in my opinion, which is a 5, IIRC). |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 673 Joined: 9-May 08 Member No.: 15,965 ![]() |
Why? PC Free spirits do not need the ability. They dematerialize in one spot, Astrally zoom to where they want to go, and then Re-Materialize. Astral Gateway is only for taking someone else. And I am sure that you could work out a price for such an ability. If you really wanted to add it. I would cost it at about 3 (It is not as good as Regeneration, in my opinion, which is a 5, IIRC). Is there a speed for astral travel? A nice average MPH or something? |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 167 Joined: 29-April 10 Member No.: 18,522 ![]() |
I don't have a regular play group where I live now, but I was in the process of getting together with a group where I lived before. They (the group as a whole) trashed both ideas before I could fully stat them out.
The first was a Skateboarding Adept. He had excellent balance, and was good at most "action/extreme" athletics, like skydiving and free climbing. He just really liked skateboarding and used it for quick escapes. I wanted to use him as an infiltration kind of guy, just with very different approaches. The group said that there was nothing a character could possibly skateboard on anywhere in the SR universe. The second character was a cybered up Freerunning Courier. (I still love this idea) He'd been doing minor runs for a while, with the motto "I get it where it goes." He had minor hacking skills, but specialized in getting in and out without being seen (for planting evidence of any kind). They wouldn't let me play him because he didn't kill people. The one time a Johnson managed to get a bomb into the package, my character delivered it to the Johnson's boss, instead of where it was supposed to go (it was defused). |
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Prime Runner Ascendant ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 17,568 Joined: 26-March 09 From: Aurora, Colorado Member No.: 17,022 ![]() |
Is there a speed for astral travel? A nice average MPH or something? Here is the Data... QUOTE (Street Magic, Page 94) Astral Movement
Unless otherwise stated, spirits in astral form can move at the same speeds as an astrally projecting magician: 100 meters per Combat Turn while “walking,” 5 kilometers per Combat Turn while “running.” An astral spirit can reach any part of the world in no more than 3 hours and 21 minutes. |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 673 Joined: 9-May 08 Member No.: 15,965 ![]() |
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Prime Runner Ascendant ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 17,568 Joined: 26-March 09 From: Aurora, Colorado Member No.: 17,022 ![]() |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 215 Joined: 16-October 11 Member No.: 40,831 ![]() |
Pixie with a vendetta and an expertise in poisons. Captured and sold to a rich family in Europe as a "Pet" she escapes and starts running to get vengeance on anyone she feels would wrong her. Yeah. Never going to get away with that one.
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Shooting Target ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,911 Joined: 26-February 02 From: near Stuttgart Member No.: 1,749 ![]() |
Yeah, but i will....character idead...stolen...NOW.^^
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 583 Joined: 1-October 09 From: France Member No.: 17,693 ![]() |
A PC can't do it, but if you have an NPC Free Spirit with the Astral Gateway power at your disposal... It won't work that way. Astral Gateway allow you to force anyone to become dual-natured and astrally project, but their body stays behind. IIRC that kind of "astral teleportation" of physical entities through a metaplanar shortcut was possible in Earthdawn, but only as an advanced technique for a pretty specific (and rather uncommon) magical school. |
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Running Target ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,424 Joined: 7-December 09 From: Freedonia Member No.: 17,952 ![]() |
I can't play a mage that searches out free spirits, binds them to an object and trains them to fight battles.
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Running Target ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,424 Joined: 7-December 09 From: Freedonia Member No.: 17,952 ![]() |
I also can't play a young adept in a pact with a fox spirit...
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Immortal Elf ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 ![]() |
I'm apparently not allowed to play, period. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/frown.gif)
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The ShadowComedian ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,538 Joined: 3-October 07 From: Hamburg, AGS Member No.: 13,525 ![]() |
I'm apparently not allowed to play, period. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/frown.gif) move to germany, we'll play with you . . (why does that sound creepy? <,<) |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 673 Joined: 9-May 08 Member No.: 15,965 ![]() |
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Immortal Elf ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 ![]() |
move to germany, we'll play with you . . I'm going to end up in some strange heavy fetish web-film, aren't I?(why does that sound creepy? <,<) It would be less creepy if it wasn't Germany. I move to the USA and find out I have a purty mouth?
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Immortal Elf ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 ![]() |
I'd like to say it doesn't happen in Canada either, but I remember Summer Camp. (At least by that time I had learned to fight. Dirty, but still fight.).
My family finally got that I don't like Not-City after that. |
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Family motto: If you're not fighting dirty then you're not fighting to win.
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Running Target ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,424 Joined: 7-December 09 From: Freedonia Member No.: 17,952 ![]() |
I'd like to say it doesn't happen in Canada either, but I remember Summer Camp. (At least by that time I had learned to fight. Dirty, but still fight.). My family finally got that I don't like Not-City after that. Just what kind of summer camp did you go to!? Rapist Acres? |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 673 Joined: 9-May 08 Member No.: 15,965 ![]() |
lmfao
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Runner ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 2,782 Joined: 28-August 09 Member No.: 17,566 ![]() |
Nope, PC Free Spirits are nerfed that way. I'm fairly certain that PC Free spirits can still make use of Astral Shortcuts, like every other spirit. This doesn't let them teleport anywhere at will, but it does cover places that they have already been. Also astral gateway doesn't let you teleport through the metaplanes. It does let you Project, whether or not you are able to do that normally. The main upside to it is that you can bypass The Dweller On The Threshold with it. |
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Prime Runner ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 3,507 Joined: 11-November 08 Member No.: 16,582 ![]() |
I'm fairly certain that PC Free spirits can still make use of Astral Shortcuts, like every other spirit. This doesn't let them teleport anywhere at will, but it does cover places that they have already been. Right. I thought we were talking about getting a character with a physical body from A to B very quickly.Also astral gateway doesn't let you teleport through the metaplanes. It does let you Project, whether or not you are able to do that normally. The main upside to it is that you can bypass The Dweller On The Threshold with it. Of course it does.QUOTE ('Street Magic p. 98') The spirit can open an astral rift (p. 116), forcing all physical objects within the area to be dual natured, as well as allowing even mundanes to astrally project. The astral rift can connect to any metaplane the spirit can visit itself (so while a fire elemental can probably open a rift to the Plane of Fire, it probably can’t open a rift to The Hive). |
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Prime Runner Ascendant ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 17,568 Joined: 26-March 09 From: Aurora, Colorado Member No.: 17,022 ![]() |
Right. I thought we were talking about getting a character with a physical body from A to B very quickly. Of course it does. Of course it does not... Read it again. It forces Physical Objects within the Area to be Dual Natured. Your Physical Body does not travel along, however. It allows Mundanes to ASTRALLY PROJECT. That is all. Says so, right there in the quote you used from the book. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) |
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Running Target ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,424 Joined: 7-December 09 From: Freedonia Member No.: 17,952 ![]() |
Of course it does not... Read it again. It forces Physical Objects within the Area to be Dual Natured. Your Physical Body does not travel along, however. It allows Mundanes to ASTRALLY PROJECT. That is all. Says so, right there in the quote you used from the book. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) So which is it? are mundanes dual natured or astrally projected? |
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Man In The Machine ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,264 Joined: 26-February 02 From: I-495 S Member No.: 1,105 ![]() |
I did have a Troll once whos claim to fame was being able to survive a fight with a Main Battle Tank.
The only problem was he had to roll well to damage it with his Dikote axe (which meant either he scrapped it in one round, or he couldn't scratch the paint). |
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Great Dragon ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 7,116 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,449 ![]() |
The damage codes break down, period, when you have high ratings of hardened armor. If a tank has 40 hardened armor, it will typically completely ignore a 39 DV attack, and be completely destroyed by a 41 DV attack.
Bad character ideas... I would love to combine two of the most infamous self-insertions of all time, and make the spellslinging pirate captain, Ebony Darkness Dementia Amber Flores Picard. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 251 Joined: 7-September 10 Member No.: 19,020 ![]() |
Bad character ideas... I would love to combine two of the most infamous self-insertions of all time, and make the spellslinging pirate captain, Ebony Darkness Dementia Amber Flores Picard. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) You are a horrible, horrible person for reminding me of those fanfics. Horrible. ...Should have thrown a 'Bella' in there somewhere... |
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Running Target ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 1,003 Joined: 3-May 11 From: Brisbane Australia Member No.: 29,391 ![]() |
Wangdancer the Bold - Streaker of the Apocalypse.
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 583 Joined: 1-October 09 From: France Member No.: 17,693 ![]() |
So which is it? are mundanes dual natured or astrally projected? A mundane becomes dual-natured (and has no choice in the matter), and he can astrally project (if he chose to do so), detaching his astral presence from his physical body - the same way a shapeshifter mage is permanently dual-natured but can astrally project, leaving his meat behind. |
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Immortal Elf ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 ![]() |
Mossad-Trained Pixie Adept with Throwing Stars of David.
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Prime Runner Ascendant ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 17,568 Joined: 26-March 09 From: Aurora, Colorado Member No.: 17,022 ![]() |
So which is it? are mundanes dual natured or astrally projected? Physical OBJECTS become Dual Natured (Not sure howe that works, and I am pretty sure that includes living creatures) and MUNDANES can become Astrally Projected. Again, it is right in the quote you provided... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) |
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Running Target ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,424 Joined: 7-December 09 From: Freedonia Member No.: 17,952 ![]() |
OBJECTS become Dual Natured (Not sure howe that works) and MUNDANES become Astrally Projected. Again, it is right in the quote you provided... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I'm not much of a fan of most SR sentence structure, too fancy for rules. |
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Prime Runner Ascendant ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 17,568 Joined: 26-March 09 From: Aurora, Colorado Member No.: 17,022 ![]() |
I'm not much of a fan of most SR sentence structure, too fancy for rules. No worries... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 673 Joined: 9-May 08 Member No.: 15,965 ![]() |
Physical OBJECTS become Dual Natured (Not sure howe that works, and I am pretty sure that includes living creatures) and MUNDANES can become Astrally Projected. Again, it is right in the quote you provided... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Reminds me of the part about trying to make a nuke go astral. Now you can have spirits fly a dual-natured bomb anywhere. Barring physical and astral barriers. |
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Running Target ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,424 Joined: 7-December 09 From: Freedonia Member No.: 17,952 ![]() |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 673 Joined: 9-May 08 Member No.: 15,965 ![]() |
Probably what happened at Bug City. I remember reading that the ori bomb didn't work cause when it exploded it dropped out of the astral cause the projecting magician couldn't hold it anymore. The question is would the blast from a gateway bomb be dual-natured? And would it still fall under immune to normal weapons? |
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Prime Runner Ascendant ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 17,568 Joined: 26-March 09 From: Aurora, Colorado Member No.: 17,022 ![]() |
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Immortal Elf ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 ![]() |
Nukes are powerful enough to affect everything. If it doesn't kill them, it makes them Toxic.
... Radioactive Toxic Cockroach Spirits. Lovely. |
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Running Target ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,424 Joined: 7-December 09 From: Freedonia Member No.: 17,952 ![]() |
I remember reading that the ori bomb didn't work cause when it exploded it dropped out of the astral cause the projecting magician couldn't hold it anymore. The question is would the blast from a gateway bomb be dual-natured? And would it still fall under immune to normal weapons? Last I read immune to normal weapons doesn't mean shit when the damage from them is ridiculously higher than the critter's force rating. |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 673 Joined: 9-May 08 Member No.: 15,965 ![]() |
Last I read immune to normal weapons doesn't mean shit when the damage from them is ridiculously higher than the critter's force rating. So we need a suicide bomber. With all the radical causes you should be able to find one. Or just do the "Do this and your family will be taken care of" route. |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 251 Joined: 7-September 10 Member No.: 19,020 ![]() |
Pixies. Any pixies. After:
1: A Korrigan agent betrayed his team of five years to them when they started up for their big pay off because they had interests in the megacorp they were running against. 2: The Magician with 25 initiations under his belt dueled and killed Ghostcrawler in the skies above Denver. 3: The sadistic pixie assassin who had a penchant for flaying anyone taken captive, and then skinning them after they gave up the information. 4: The Pixie Sticks/Red Mescaline speedball incident. 5: The last one was into big women. After getting a harem of troll girls and the copious amount of brain bleach involved after everyone really thought about that, coupled with the previous pixies, any further pixie characters will have a THOR shot dropped on them in their backstory, free of charge. |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 448 Joined: 20-July 09 From: Detroit Member No.: 17,413 ![]() |
I always wanted to play a born rich billionaire complete mundane who is a master investigator/ninja and has three hundred points into the enemy negative quality even though he only gets 25 build worth.
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 664 Joined: 26-September 11 Member No.: 39,030 ![]() |
I always wanted to play a born rich billionaire complete mundane who is a master investigator/ninja and has three hundred points into the enemy negative quality even though he only gets 25 build worth. Let me guess. His back story is that his parents were killed tragically in front of him when he was a child. Does he also have science expertise and make all of his own equipment? And does he have such enemies as: a red haired female magician that focuses upon plant control and growth? A crazed junkie that wears purple suits and laughs as he commits crimes? A former face that was scarred and now suffers from a split personality? A mind control mage that likes to terrify people? And a brilliant hacker that always leaves behind green question marks and riddles in computer systems after he's stolen the pay data? And an immortal elf adept who runs a secret society? |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 448 Joined: 20-July 09 From: Detroit Member No.: 17,413 ![]() |
Let me guess. His back story is that his parents were killed tragically in front of him when he was a child. Does he also have science expertise and make all of his own equipment? And does he have such enemies as: a red haired female magician that focuses upon plant control and growth? A crazed junkie that wears purple suits and laughs as he commits crimes? A former face that was scarred and now suffers from a split personality? A mind control mage that likes to terrify people? And a brilliant hacker that always leaves behind green question marks and riddles in computer systems after he's stolen the pay data? And an immortal elf adept who runs a secret society? Shhhh.... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rotfl.gif) |
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Running Target ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,424 Joined: 7-December 09 From: Freedonia Member No.: 17,952 ![]() |
I always wanted to play a born rich billionaire complete mundane who is a master investigator/ninja and has three hundred points into the enemy negative quality even though he only gets 25 build worth. Might as well play a character of physical and mental perfection, who is as powerful as he is moral; who's physical and mental perfection comes from training he received from a team of scientists. Has a secret fortress of soliltude in the arctic, yet keeps a healthy bronze tan and an office in the 86th floor of a skyscraper in New York City. |
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Prime Runner Ascendant ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 17,568 Joined: 26-March 09 From: Aurora, Colorado Member No.: 17,022 ![]() |
Might as well play a character of physical and mental perfection, who is as powerful as he is moral; who's physical and mental perfection comes from training he received from a team of scientists. Has a secret fortress of soliltude in the arctic, yet keeps a healthy bronze tan and an office in the 86th floor of a skyscraper in New York City. Lets not forget his five Aides (Ally Spirits?) |
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Immortal Elf ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 ![]() |
One of three Lesbian Elf Stripper Ninjas that get all their jobs from a speakerbox on a desk from a Fixer named Charlie. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)
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Running Target ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,424 Joined: 7-December 09 From: Freedonia Member No.: 17,952 ![]() |
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Running Target ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,424 Joined: 7-December 09 From: Freedonia Member No.: 17,952 ![]() |
One of three Lesbian Elf Stripper Ninjas that get all their jobs from a speakerbox on a desk from a Fixer named Charlie. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) What GM would say no to that!? |
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Immortal Elf ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 ![]() |
What GM would say no to that!? One that doesn't want us to make "Charlie's Angels" the Shadowrun Group. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)
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Running Target ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,424 Joined: 7-December 09 From: Freedonia Member No.: 17,952 ![]() |
One that doesn't want us to make "Charlie's Angels" the Shadowrun Group. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) Nonexistent. |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 673 Joined: 9-May 08 Member No.: 15,965 ![]() |
One that is easily distracted by "Charlie's Angels" the Shadowrun Group. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) Fixed it for ya. |
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