Help with houserules?, Also, hi everyone! Options

[Kazuhiro]

Hi, everyone- As you can clearly see, this is my first post here. I have people call me Kazu, online and off.

I was introduced to Shadowrun a few months ago and something about it sparked my interest, such that I started reading the rules of my own volition and ultimately invited the friends I keep in touch with online to play with me. I usually run the missions, which obviously means I have unique problems to overcome, but it offers some advantages too. For example, the nature of my players is that they love to do things without each other, the mastermind-ish technomancer in particular.

However, we may not be great at Shadowrun but we're all gamers at heart and that means that we want our characters to 1) have interesting archetypes and 2) kick major ass, usually in that order but not always. And some of us have found ways.

I'm looking for solutions to a few things:

- The wonky nature of your options on spending Edge points. Currently I'm removing the ability to reroll all non-hits because that sort of makes it useless to declare an Edge before you roll.

- A way to punish street-sams for how damn inexpensive it is to crank up the stats on their cyberlimbs

- Speaking of which, this guy can fire a burst of 12 and take no recoil from it. That seems wrong to me.

- A way to cockblock the technomancer aside from throwing unwinnable cyberwarfare fights at him

- Nobody's gone Pornomancer on us yet, but when they do, I intend to be ready.

- Sonic Elemental Punches, oh my god

- We don't really understand Assensing, what you have to roll, what you learn from it, etc.

- We're using a nifty character generator thing that we found on the internet, but I just realized that the 20th edition book, which we are using PDFs of, has some balancing tweaks in it. I no longer have any idea what was done with what rules. I'm thinking about banning use of the character generator except that when making new characters it calculates BP for you. Or maybe there's a 4.5 generator floating out there.

I'm glad to have found this active (I think?) community as a go-to for help with my first Shadowrun experience!

This post has been edited by Kazuhiro: Mar 6 2010, 09:17 PM