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[Anythingforenoug...]

In one of the games I ran I had a player who was an Elven PhysAd assassin, and I allowed him to have a very high rating weapon focus, said weapon focus being a DiKote enhanced mono-whip concealed in a fingertip compartment.

So, I was wondering-

Are their any Players or GM's out there who have stories about characters who, shall we say, might be considered to go slightly beyond what would be generally considered reasonable for a PC in the Shadowrun setting that they would like to share with the group?

[Mr.Platinum]

Not that my monitered ass can recall, but you have to remeber in Shadowrun no one has Hitpoint and we all can be extinguished by any one, it's one of those things i love about this game.

Acccually now that i think about it I did let a player have the apptitute edge for brawling, and damn it made a difference , especially with multi strike, so now as a house rule the Aptitude edge is only used for certain skills now.

[Grimtooth]

And risk the ridicule of the holier than thou canon gm's?

Are you insane? :eek:

[toturi]

Why is canon holier than thou?

If the PC can bond the weapon focus, then I won't mind. However if the force of the focus is higher than 6 at chargen, then the game balance in your campaign might need some help.

[Ryu]

I would mind the combination of monowire and surface treatments, especially of this kind, but thats just common sense + knowledge of material sciences.

I encountered an active member of the order of sun, moon and stars once. The player of said character was enough reason to leave the group. Some styles don´t mix at all.

[stevebugge]

[Nyxll]

Wow, that monowhip focus is on par with someone allowing a fully automatic heavy pistol or explosive flechette.

I think the most uncannon thing I have experienced, was my GM having a vampire spirit possess my char for a few sessions, so I had the benefit of regeneration, and an essence of 6. Because it possessed me, it didn't tap the 1 point of essence I had left.

[Backgammon]

Our very first campaing... One of the players was a Shapeshifter Adept who became a Vampire. Yeah...

[Dog]

A few years back, we made an extremely liberal interpretation of the rules regarding hydraulic jacks that had my "cyb-orc" leaping from building to building and over twelve lanes of traffic.

There were a few other times like that, but that's the only one I'll admit to right now.

[Calvin Hobbes]

I let a team start with a Citymaster once, because I liked their A-Teaminess so much...

[Grimtooth]

Stevebugge: that's kinda what i meant. I was also referring to the GM's that like to punish their runners for having a tool/gun/widget that might give them an advantage in a particular situation.

Since there are a few brave souls out there willing to divulge their dark, slightly munchy secrets, I can divulge one of ours.

Becuase it allowed for some AWESOME roleplaying, and becuase I liked the idea, I allowed one of my players (elf physad, with mental issues) to embrace his unknown, unmentioned drake side.

/GASP

How un-canon! :eek:

[The Stainless St...]

I have:

• Allowed Sacrificing Metamagic
• Changed the Available Design Options By Frame in the CC (to be more broken than ever)
• Allowed the Aptitude Edge for Magical and Comabt skills
• Regretted it in almost every case

[Kyoto Kid]

In the last campaign, I let the team sell off an Antonov 335 heavy transport they "acquired". Even at the standard 1/3 value it still came out to a lot of :nuyen: .

Thought it might make some of the characters consider retirement (particularly the pesky mage with the Mind Probe spell)

Thought wrong.

[Guest_MK Ultra_*]

Well, "a friend of mine" had his very first shadowrun champaign escalate into some kind of bad "starsherifs"-rippoff. To my def.., ehr, my "friends" defense, it was an alternating gm round, his very first sr round and the other guys starded throwing Mecha and UFO´s, was allso only 13 or 14 by than. "he" never ever participated in any alternating gm round afterwards! (which tragically means allmost always being gm and nearly never playing, since most of m.. "his" buddys won´t play something other then sr anymore)... Oh, man, feals so dirty thinking about this first champaign :oops:

[Brahm]

[eidolon]

I'm currently "allowing" the Aptitude edge for magic and combat.

"Allowing" meaning they took it and we got a full session into the game before it came up. If I take it, they'll whine about it, so I let them keep it.

Never again, I believe is the proper expression.

[fistandantilus4....]

how about an ally spirit going free after 5+ years when the summoner is vivisected (becuase he was a drake), then returning later to free it's former master and making him a hidden life receptacle? :D

[Kremlin KOA]

I remember a munchy windfall in a game once

early 3rd ed

the GM had us attacked by a 12 man squad where they wee all BBB street samurai

one player had a contact foor laundering second hand cvyber

the GM immediately went inti damage control by showing the rigger the private jet section... so e could do his preplanned international runs and we lost all our cash in one go.

[DeadNeon]

I allowed a PC to be a twisted path adept. It lead to some great roleplay between he and the other players.

[Critias]

[Sahandrian]

I've always allowed Aptitude for specializations instead of skills, but left it open to any skill. And after about 3 years of having that rule, I've only seen one character take it.

As for horrible characters, there's always this (which I'm sure some of you still remember and have mental trauma associated with). But I immediately took the sheet away from the player, put it in my pocket, and told him he could never have it back, so it doesn't really count.

Anyway. In my current game, I'm making the shapeshifter a Hidden Life receptacle. But the spirit is rather evil (it was originally going to be a Horror), and will be able to influence his actions and sometimes possess him. So this should be fun.


Edit: Oh yeah. The player who made that awful munchkin thing? He later ran his own game and used that character as a major NPC. When we decided we didn't want to meet the guy for a job offer, we were teleported to the meet and held in place through some unnamed magic/technological force. And upon refusing to take the run, we were teleported to where he wanted us anyway.

This post has been edited by Sahandrian: Jan 28 2006, 04:50 PM

[Brahm]

[MrMiracle]

I allowed a player to name his character "Neil the Ork Barbarian" after an obscure reference to the voice mask cyberware in the first Street Samurai guide. His real name was Neil, so we all found it quite funny.

[Quix]

First time I ran SR2 in college I allowed a PC to be a baby dragon. (Duck and cover) We cut his mental and physical stats to shreds, didn't start with anything higher then a 4. Unfortunately a few points of hardened armor made him a B#@$ in combat. Plus since dragons were listed with an essence of 2d6 I let hjim roll for it, essence of 11 and by our understanding a magic rating of 11. That was a small problem[sarcasm]

Running and hiding

[Mortax]

Let's see, as a player:

Played a magically active vampire
Bandersnatch DJ (one of the other pc's, my lighting desighener, was a firefly shaman)
A troll sammy that got turned into a Dzoo-no-qua then possesed by a force 10 greater form fire elemental.
Spider shamen named Recluse


Things I've allowed as a gm:
A char to be duel natured
Banshee

I'm sure there are others, I'll have to think of it.