Jan 16 2007, 09:13 AM
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When you're playing a gameof Shadowrun, you need characters for your PC's to interract with and come up against. Cops, Security, Other Shadowrunners, etc. And you pretty much need some combat grunts, Specialists deckers, riggers, mages, shamans, gangers, etc. Not to mention the other 95% of the population, the civilians, accountants and fried noodle vendors. Punching up stats, skills, then calculating pools and assigning cyberware and gear takes a while, and so often it's a case of, "ok, you arrive at the compound, a security guard sees you, roll initiative... oh shit, what's the guards initiative?" and then the game is halted by you figuring out stats.
Some of the sourcebooks have some archetypes in them, and the PC runner archetypes in the front of the BBB are ok at a stretch too. I was wondering what you guys do for archetypes? Do you keep filed archetypes you've created? Do you just use the book stats over and over? Which books are the best for it? Is there a big helpful database of NPC Archetypes somewhere? Also, I was thinking, if the responses go a certain way, we Dumpshockers could start up and share a database of archetypes that would eventually grow to be very handy and centralized, and with more variations of characters than we'd ever need. What do you think? |
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Sir_Psycho NPC Archetypes. Jan 16 2007, 09:13 AM
Trigger I use the ones in the BBB but I have begun to make... Jan 16 2007, 09:28 AM
eidolon My games tend to focus on character-contact and ch... Jan 16 2007, 03:11 PM
Rajaat99 Any NPC's my players encounter are normally ma... Jan 16 2007, 05:12 PM
Kyoto Kid ...I tend to follow the route that Eidelon mention... Jan 16 2007, 06:01 PM
James McMurray Anything that's part of a prepared run will be... Jan 16 2007, 06:10 PM
tisoz I have the NPCs from about a dozen and a half adve... Jan 17 2007, 02:51 AM
Kagetenshi I've gotten to the point where I'm pretty ... Jan 17 2007, 02:59 AM
Fortune Names have always been a bigger problem for me tha... Jan 17 2007, 03:07 AM
Wounded Ronin There is only one NPC archetype which you need and... Jan 17 2007, 03:17 AM
Sir_Psycho So who's up for the creation of an NPC archive... Jan 17 2007, 05:54 AM
killifish Someone at some point created an NPC wiki. It may ... Jan 17 2007, 11:01 AM
tisoz LOL
I just tried entering a single NPC into the w... Jan 17 2007, 08:40 PM
Wounded Ronin I don't know how to work the wiki. How can I ... Jan 18 2007, 01:53 AM
Sir_Psycho Tisoz, use the "goon" template. It's... Jan 18 2007, 02:05 AM![]() ![]() |
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