First Character, Military Gun Bunny Options

[Gamble]

Been messing around with the character generator and tossing and moving things around and I think I've settled down on something but not quite sure if it could be improved on. Appreciate any advice or constructive critcism you guys can think of. Here goes:

Race: Human
B:3 (4)
A:5 (6)
R:5 (7)
S:3 (4)
C:2
I:4
L:2
W:4
Edge: 4

Skills:
Dodge: 3
Unarmed combat: 2
Armorer: 5
Perception:2
Etiquette: Military: 2
Pilot Ground craft:2
Firearms group:4

Knowledges:
Firearms Design:5
Firearms History: 5
Security Procedures: Military: 4
Merc Hangouts: 2
Miliary: 5

Qualities:
Ambidextrous
Quick Healer

Addiction: Mild: (Stim)
SINner
Mild Allergy

Cyber:
Alpha Grade Cybereye 4 with:
+flare comp
+slink
+low-light
+therm
+vision enhancement 3
+visual magnification
+protective covers
Damper
Spatial Recognizer
Spur
Bio:
Superthyroid Gland
Synpatic Booster 2

3.88 Essence left and other BPs spent on gear, contacts and other stuff. Mostly looking for attributes that could use tweaking or cyber/bio that could be tweaked, etc. Threw some BPs in knowledges to round the character out as the group I play with is RP intensive. Again, thanks for any info or advice you can throw my way.

[Drace]

My advice, drop the dodge, and add some of the points to your unarmed skill, and then maybe a language (always good for RPing to have more than one, so you can communicate with team mates easier).

Also don't have SINner, unless you know your GM isn't going to overly use that agaisnt you.
EDIT: also another good quality if you have the room is Will to live if your planning on having a viscous campaign

EDIT: I would also recommend Muscle toner, to increase your agility giving you more dice for shooting, and if your planning on taking the brunt of the damage, some bone lacing, to give you more dice to resist damage

Thnx for that RunnerPual, my last guy died, so my new one won't have to pay for those

[RunnerPaul]

[Fortune]

The Spur uses the Blades skill, which your character doesn't seem to possess.

I echo the suggestion to get rid of Dodge in favor of a higher Unarmed skill.

I suggest a point or two in the Athletics and Stealth groups.

If it were me, I'd pick up a point of the Influence group instead of the two points of Etiquette (and Specialization?). It's just as easy to raise them individually later on, but the four skills in that group are used often enough to be worth the small investment.

On the topic of Specializations, you'd be better off picking them up in-game. 2 points of Karma are easier to come by than 2 BP (which is the equivalent of a 1/1 Contact).

I also suggest picking up Reaction Enhancers at level 2. Interestingly enough, in order to eventually take full advantage of the maximum levels of both Synaptic/Wired and Reaction Enhancers, your starting natural Reaction should be 3. I'd throw 2 points from your Reaction into your Body.

[Oracle]

[Grinder]

Lower Armorer to 2 and get some points in Stealth & Athlethic, as well as Blades (for the spurs).

[Oracle]

Grinder is right.

[wavydavy]

Seems reasonable character overall

[6thDragon]

I personally think it's impossible to have a military background and not have the first aid skill. That's just from my own personal experience. Also, the survival skill would be important if you plan on spending any amount of time outdoors, unless your character had some type of desk or warehouse job. There are also other skills to consider: heavy weapons, leadership, athletics skill group, and parachuting. Dodge would be helpful, maybe consider specializing it out to ranged attacks later unless you find yourself jumping into too many melee encounters that you find yourself overwhelmed.
To be in a military I would think you would have to have a SIN, or at least the military would give you one when you entered. So that is very reasonable.

[Gambitt]

Superthyroid is avail 20, so is way above starting gear but i suppose it depends on your GM.
I just made a Sammy with a lot of help with the forum, so i will just throw in a couple of things they suggested.
Muscle toner/augmentation are both great.
I noticed your char didnt have much by way of athletics skills, so if hes more of a toe to toe/fight in the trenches type i reckon some of the cyber/bio that lets him take a beating would be good for him. Dermal plating or orthoskin both offer added armour to soak up bullets. Bone density offers extra dice to absorb physical damage and dish more out in unarmed combat, and the bone lacing set offers all three in some way.
The quality pain tolerance means that you can ignore some modifers when you are injured, and platelet factorys also mean you take less damage when hit.
Anyway most of that is only relevant if you want to stand in the front line and are prepared to take some hits for the party... hope that helps.

Edit: wow didnt see you had no gear that gave you extra initiative passes. wired reflexes or synaptic boosters means extra shots in a combat round.

[Grinder]

[Gamble]

Excellent advice given all around and I still have some time to switch things around. And like others have said, there are so many skills that you want or need but don't have enough BPs to toss into them because you've sacrificed them to purchase cyberware or other things.

There are, of course, things like muscle toner and the like that I would like to purchase but still have to keep things within the 250k limit of spending and bioware and cyber adds up really quick.

[Fortune]

[Gothic Rose]

My suggestions: I rebuilt your character to be a bit more focused in combat, since it's a street samurai. You have spurs! YOU DONT NEED UNARMED. You need Blades, instead. Also, never bother getting knowledge skills with BP, it's kind of a waste.

All the stuff you had in the eyes you can get in contacts, glasses, goggles, etc. The ear things you can get in earbuds.


With the following build, please keep something in mind: He's built to EXACTLY 400BP, which means that you have no contacts. I would suggest either dropping fast healing, or getting another 5bp flaw and using those points for some contacts.

Human
B:5
A:5 (7)
R:3 (7)
S:3 (5)
C:2
I:4
L:2
W:4
Edge: 4

Skills:
Blades 6
Dodge: 3
Armorer: 4
Perception: 2
Influence Group 1
Firearms group:4
Stealth Group 1
Athletics Group 1

Knowledges:
Background: Firearms 5
Security Procedures: Military: 4
Merc Hangouts: 2
Miliary: 4
Language: Japanese: 3

Qualities:
Ambidextrous
Quick Healer

Addiction: Mild: (Stim)
SINner
Mild Allergy

Cyberware
Reaction Enhancer (2) .6 / 20,000
Skillwires (r3) .6 / 6,000
Cyberhand .25 / 5,000
w/Cyberspur [3] / 1,800
w/Strength Enhancement 1 [1] / 250
Plastic Bone Lacing .5 / 5,000
Cyberware Essence Cost: 1.95
Cyberware NuYen Cost: 43,050

Bioware
Synaptic Booster (2) 1 / 160,000
Muscle Toner (2) .4 / 16,000
Muscle Augmentation (2) .4 / 14,000
Bioware Essence Total Cost: 1.8 (0.9)
Bioware NuYen Total Cost: 190,000

Combined Essence Cost: 2.85
Combined NuYen Cost: 228,050

[Fortune]

If you plan on using this as a long-term character in a campaign-type game, you might think about getting Wired Reflexes instead of the Synaptic Booster at chargen, and replace the Wires with Boosters in-game.

[Grinder]

I would lower Blades by 2 and raise Athlethic and Stealth both by 1. But wait, could become too expensive, as the latter are groups. So raise at least one skill group by 1.

[Squinky]

I'm amazed at blades six in the first place, not the route I would go. And if I did, I would pump up his strength and drop the firearms skills....

[Gamble]

I guess I should have clarified that he was more of a gun bunny and the blades was a last ditch effort part and the reasoning for the spur. If he has no guns, he's not completely disarmed. He's more of a Gunnery Sergeant than anything. An all around type grunt.

[Fortune]

If you are going to get both Unarmed (or another Melee skill) and Gymnastics (or better yet, the Athletics group), you will never really need the actual Dodge skill at all.

[Gothic Rose]

[Squinky]