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Brol_The_Mighty
post Feb 3 2008, 04:22 AM
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Alright, so after being gone from gamine for 4 months (was on a work related trip) my gaming group is looking at going to 4e for SR. As I was reading the book, I found the Technomancer, and fell in love with the concept. A decker without a deck? A rigger with no VCR? That's freakin awesome! But then reading it, it started to sound a little too good to be true.

Can a REAL technomancer be done? I've read a couple threads on the forums about them, all pretty much stating they're gimped. This is what I wanna do essentially.

Be a GOOD hacker.
Be at least a FAIR rigger.

I'm looking to put the majority of my stat points into Logic, Intuition, Charisma, and Body. Putting into body for the extra boxes since we don't get Matrix Condition.

Skills would be the skill sets (is there ANY way to get these above 4 at chargen?) for all the good things they do....Cracking, Electronics, Tasking...are more needed.

Not really sure what to do for CF's. Was thinking about taking only a few at chargen, and then using sprites and threading for the rest. However threading the CF's that I do know to increase their rating.

Am I missing anything? Are there suggested Positive traits or whatever to help with this? Is burning a ponit of resonance for some cyber suggested? I'm not trying to min/max, but be good at what I do. The GM I've got can be fairly brutal (second run and my Body 18 (SR3 rules) sammy took 2 shots from panthers to the chest. And it wasn't because I was playing stupid.)
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- Brol_The_Mighty   Technomancers   Feb 3 2008, 04:22 AM
- - Whipstitch   Well, since you said you're aware that most of...   Feb 3 2008, 04:27 AM
- - Brol_The_Mighty   So if they ARE gimped in the hacking department (w...   Feb 3 2008, 06:02 AM
|- - The Monk   QUOTE (Brol_The_Mighty @ Feb 3 2008, 02:0...   Feb 7 2008, 04:54 AM
- - Nightwalker450   My GM allows me to thread complex forms as a free ...   Feb 3 2008, 06:14 AM
- - Jaid   actually, your goals are fairly achievable *if* yo...   Feb 3 2008, 06:34 AM
- - Kyoto Kid   ...my issue is they really suffer in the meat worl...   Feb 3 2008, 06:46 AM
- - Nightwalker450   Jaid is right in expense. My character is having ...   Feb 3 2008, 06:46 AM
- - Ryu   You have to make use of compiled sprite services f...   Feb 3 2008, 11:30 AM
- - Cardul   My feeling is: buff up your software skill, take a...   Feb 3 2008, 11:56 AM
- - Ravor   Bah, just use bio for your meat IPs like any sensi...   Feb 3 2008, 04:29 PM
- - Brol_The_Mighty   So for at least in chargen, would u suggest to jus...   Feb 3 2008, 04:48 PM
- - Ravor   Giving any one character more BPs then the others ...   Feb 3 2008, 05:04 PM
- - Whipstitch   TMs aren't terrible enough to require extra bp...   Feb 3 2008, 05:41 PM
- - Ryu   I would absolutely get the maximum number/rating o...   Feb 3 2008, 06:16 PM
- - Whipstitch   Stealing drones is a wonderful way to get killed. ...   Feb 3 2008, 06:30 PM
|- - Ryu   QUOTE (Whipstitch @ Feb 3 2008, 07:30 PM)...   Feb 3 2008, 07:01 PM
- - Whipstitch   The matrix isn't about winning combat though, ...   Feb 3 2008, 07:38 PM
- - Brol_The_Mighty   All of this sounds like good idea. I'll take ...   Feb 3 2008, 10:01 PM
- - Cthulhudreams   Because your short on BP as is, and the 6th point ...   Feb 3 2008, 10:08 PM
|- - Fortune   QUOTE (Cthulhudreams @ Feb 4 2008, 09:08 ...   Feb 3 2008, 11:09 PM
|- - Feshy   QUOTE (Fortune @ Feb 3 2008, 06:09 PM) Wh...   Feb 5 2008, 04:54 PM
|- - Ryu   QUOTE (Feshy @ Feb 5 2008, 05:54 PM) I th...   Feb 5 2008, 06:30 PM
- - Brol_The_Mighty   Okay, so I'm trying to actually build up a sta...   Feb 4 2008, 01:39 AM
|- - Fortune   QUOTE (Brol_The_Mighty @ Feb 4 2008, 12:3...   Feb 4 2008, 03:54 AM
|- - Sponge   QUOTE (Brol_The_Mighty @ Feb 3 2008, 08:3...   Feb 4 2008, 07:38 PM
- - Lionhearted   uh your build seem to lack a resonance score   Feb 4 2008, 01:44 AM
- - Ryu   Armor 5 (5 BP's) - Good Stealth 5 (5 BP's)...   Feb 4 2008, 01:55 AM
- - Brol_The_Mighty   On the CF's listed as a Sprite being good enou...   Feb 4 2008, 02:17 AM
- - Dashifen   I notice that you're missing Browse and Scan. ...   Feb 4 2008, 03:47 AM
- - Brol_The_Mighty   Alright, so I'll drop Defuse and Edit, and pic...   Feb 4 2008, 04:02 AM
- - Ryu   I meant that a Sprite service (giving you a rating...   Feb 4 2008, 12:03 PM
- - Magus   The setup looks good with the changes the Ryu ment...   Feb 4 2008, 05:56 PM
- - Brol_The_Mighty   The Orc? Interesting...will definately look into ...   Feb 4 2008, 06:48 PM
- - Brol_The_Mighty   aww crap, i musta completely read over that part. ...   Feb 4 2008, 08:44 PM
- - Ryu   I´ve got 20 more for you... Orcs have softcaps of...   Feb 5 2008, 01:18 AM
- - Brol_The_Mighty   Gotcha, meaning that if I were to put my Cha and L...   Feb 5 2008, 02:41 AM
- - Haxx   In my game, I allow TMs to get all Common Use CFs ...   Feb 5 2008, 04:40 PM
- - Brol_The_Mighty   So with 40 BP's left, I was thinking of going ...   Feb 5 2008, 05:43 PM
- - Brol_The_Mighty   Nope, hadn't caught that *edit: Looks like I...   Feb 5 2008, 08:41 PM
- - Whipstitch   Or you could just scale back your expectations a b...   Feb 5 2008, 09:01 PM
- - Riley37   Addiction to Alcohol is all to plausible for anyon...   Feb 5 2008, 09:12 PM
- - Whipstitch   Because TMs are terrible with old school commlink ...   Feb 5 2008, 09:24 PM
- - Brol_The_Mighty   Alright, I've been cleared to be given the Com...   Feb 5 2008, 11:37 PM
|- - Fortune   QUOTE (Brol_The_Mighty @ Feb 6 2008, 10:3...   Feb 6 2008, 12:33 AM
- - Brol_The_Mighty   aye   Feb 6 2008, 01:59 AM
- - Cthulhudreams   Is it just me, or could you make this character wi...   Feb 6 2008, 02:08 AM
|- - Jaid   QUOTE (Cthulhudreams @ Feb 5 2008, 09:08 ...   Feb 6 2008, 04:04 AM
|- - Cthulhudreams   QUOTE (Jaid @ Feb 5 2008, 11:04 PM) just ...   Feb 6 2008, 01:08 PM
- - Whipstitch   That's why I tend to advocate the lightly cybe...   Feb 6 2008, 05:00 AM
- - Ryu   Comments: Race: Dwarf (25 BP) - given your rebates...   Feb 6 2008, 02:55 PM
- - Brol_The_Mighty   Lol, just LOVE the commentary That's actuall...   Feb 6 2008, 03:40 PM
- - Ryu   I meant 20 more, as 4+skill does have a chance of ...   Feb 6 2008, 09:44 PM
- - Whipstitch   I just kinda hope there wasn't a hacker in the...   Feb 6 2008, 09:59 PM
- - Brol_The_Mighty   Nope, no hacker. Mage, PhysAd, Sammy, Face, and t...   Feb 6 2008, 10:54 PM
- - Ryu   Please post the final char up when you are done, I...   Feb 6 2008, 11:34 PM
- - Brol_The_Mighty   That's actually a fairly innovative and intere...   Feb 7 2008, 07:39 AM


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