 Ethics, Anyone ever see a character with them? |
 Jun 28 2004, 06:28 PM
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Coming from a (years ago) Cyberpunk 2020 background, I always felt that canon Shadowrun was designed to make the characters heroes. Or at least better people than the street-scum that they deal with. Most of the characters in the novels seem to be relatively...good guys.
I've been playing a character with the "Pacifist -1" flaw. Basically means he uses gell rounds whenever possible, will even stabilise the odd bad-guy if possible, and won't kill in cold blood. Also won't harm innocents and will stay away from outright crimes like kidnapping, extortion (ok, there has been an exception to that one, but they bloody deserved it damnit :| ) and other 'darker' practices. Basically cause I got sick of the "I'm-an-orphan-got screwed-over-by-everyone-Samurai, and I can do what I want cause I was a nice guy, but I have to survive, and everyone was bad to me so now I don't care anymore and am a bloodthirsty slot who will sell his team-mates for cash" Got bored with the stereotype and wanted something fresh. It just seems that EVERYONE's game mentioned contains runners who will murder, rape, extort, deal in BTL/drugs and use Micros0ft products on a regular basis. So what's the deal, anyone else play "ethical" groups or characters? Do people feel the game was intended to be played as bloodthirsty mercenaries? Whatever "type" of character you play, WHY do you play them? |
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Plastic Rat Ethics Jun 28 2004, 06:28 PM
Cray74 Lately, my PCs, and those of my group, seem to:
*... Jun 28 2004, 06:47 PM Siege QUOTE (Cray74)
*Try to minimize random violence w... Jun 28 2004, 06:54 PM Cray74 QUOTE (Siege @ Jun 28 2004, 06:54 PM) Insert ... Jun 28 2004, 07:37 PM Wounded Ronin I see "ethical" characters all the time.... Jun 28 2004, 07:57 PM Cirenya Lately I'm playing a relativ moral-concerned c... Jun 28 2004, 07:58 PM Nikoli I remember playing my first ex wage-slave decker, ... Jun 28 2004, 08:15 PM kevyn668 QUOTE Cirenya Posted on Jun 28 2004, 03:58 PM
... Jun 28 2004, 08:20 PM OurTeam Over 4+ years of play, our team has had several mo... Jun 28 2004, 09:12 PM Phaeton My previous group was an interesting mix...
The C... Jun 28 2004, 09:41 PM PBTHHHHT My group just played the DNA/DOA module and we man... Jun 28 2004, 10:08 PM Raife One of my characters was playing an Elven Paladin.... Jun 28 2004, 11:07 PM mfb our group is on an island full of shedim. i'm ... Jun 29 2004, 02:46 AM FlakJacket Depends on how quickly they realise that feeding p... Jun 29 2004, 02:58 AM Person 404 Not if they're master shedim. Jun 29 2004, 03:02 AM Herald of Verjigorm A shedim can regenerate a host up to the condition... Jun 29 2004, 03:10 AM Plastic Rat QUOTE (Cirenya) 1. Her weapons are a savalette gua... Jun 29 2004, 05:51 AM Kagetenshi QUOTE (Cray74) *Try not to kill cops, for professi... Jun 29 2004, 06:41 AM tjn It's kinda odd for me to read this thread, bec... Jun 29 2004, 07:58 AM MrSandman666 Hm, seems like I have a somewhat peculiar view on ... Jun 29 2004, 09:58 AM Cray74 QUOTE (Kagetenshi) Psht. All it takes is a fair am... Jun 29 2004, 10:15 AM Vharn After all the years of killing every single enemy ... Jun 29 2004, 11:51 AM Plastic Rat Sandman666, awesome post man, I guess you've j... Jun 29 2004, 12:44 PM toturi I had a friend whose PC looked on ethics as a form... Jun 29 2004, 12:50 PM MrSandman666 QUOTE (Plastic Rat) Sandman666, awesome post man, ... Jun 29 2004, 01:09 PM theartthief Ethics?
Depends on my character. I normally choo... Jun 30 2004, 04:47 AM chunky04 All characters should have their own code of ethic... Jun 30 2004, 11:20 AM Sepherim Sepherim was a decker who wouldn't kill anyone... Jul 1 2004, 03:19 AM Kagetenshi Er, even after it's confirmed on the street, m... Jul 1 2004, 04:02 AM Sahandrian QUOTE (Phaeton @ Jun 28 2004, 05:41 PM) My pr... Jul 1 2004, 06:43 AM Smiley I've always tried to play characters with at l... Jul 1 2004, 09:24 AM Plastic Rat *Sigh* I sooo feel your pain... Jul 1 2004, 02:56 PM Backgammon QUOTE (chunky04) Any character who says they have ... Jul 1 2004, 04:48 PM Skeptical Clown I used to prefer running games where the players w... Jul 1 2004, 06:51 PM Smiley It's more fun when the players are forced to d... Jul 2 2004, 12:29 AM MrSandman666 QUOTE (Skeptical Clown) I used to prefer running g... Jul 2 2004, 07:45 AM Hunter I don't know if anyone has brought this up, bu... Jul 2 2004, 10:56 AM
Kagetenshi As long as they're intelligent amoral killers ... Jul 2 2004, 11:59 AM  |
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