What's your Story?, PC backgrounds Options

[Xavroc]

Making past the troll bouncer suffering from gaintism you enter the Wastelands. The club, like usual, is blaring some new sounds. Neon lights are all around but somehow the club is still dark enough for some privacy. You approach the bar. An ork dressed as an obvious shaman approaches you. "What's your story, chummer?"

After my poor attempt at a generic introduction, you are probally wander what i'm getting at. Well. I'm just wondering about character backgrounds. How shadowrunners start? When do they start? When is the GM supposed to let you start? When does the character become the character? How did you aquire those quirks about your character? Starting the game do you want your characters new to shadowrunning? I have started many a game without coming up with elaborate stories for my characters. Most the time I have played, people just wanted to say their new shadow runners were shadowrunners before the game starts. Well I'm finding that really isn't that good enough. It's hard to build a plot based on the characters if the players don't even come up with a past.

ME: If yall character were a shadowrunners before, why not start the game at an earlier time when you didn't have all that junk...I mean equipment.
PCs: Why?
ME: Explain to me why not? Their is a story behind all that equipment besides "just a couple jobs". Plots and conspiracies that could be unraveled before your character can even get a good name on the streets. Born on the Streets? All of yall. Okay We'll play a game were yall are like in yall's teens trying to make a name for yourself. 70bp max 5000 :nuyen: Not better then availiblity 4 equipment. Stat and skill max at 4.
PCs: Why not start from the MJLBB low power game?
ME: Well, it's not early enough and yall are just going to min/max still.




"Chummer?....you there Flesh Bag?"

"Oh sorry...I have no story...you scanning me?"