Homemade Negative Qualities, Yours, mine, ours? Options

[DTFarstar]

Well, to be honest, because I didn't think of it. I mean, I'll think of an in character reason now that you mentioned it, but that is the original first reason.

10 seems a little light for a -2 on basically everything physical, but I guess I can see it. My GM ruled it at 20, which I thought might be a bit too high since I can still kinda see.

For Distinctive Style I literally meant my eyes would be full of a misty glowing substance the whole time I am astrally active which since it's the only way to see will be most of the time. I'm talking about not coverable by sunglasses, nothing. I dunno.... something with it being acidic to non-organic substances. Not enough to be useful, but enough that he would have to buy a new eye covering or sunglasses EVERY day to deal with it. I don't know, I was just reading this thread and it seemed like that would go together well.



Chris

[Crusufix]

[lunchbox311]

Here is a new positive quality I worked out with my group.

Connected: (10/15/20) – You have all the wiz gear don’t you chummer?!? Whether through some corporate backing, underworld sponsors, or that sweet trust fund… you have the stuff. Each level grants the character +2 to the availability maximum for gear at character creation and +2 dice for negotiation tests for acquiring new toys. At 15 points the character can also start with betware. At 20 points the character can also start with deltaware. Cost multipliers still apply for beta and deltaware.




I think this one is cool and can really do well in a campaign that is scaled up or down.

[Kyoto Kid]

...we had a homemade edge in SR3 called SOTA. It had two levels and gave similar benefits as to availability and getting top of the line gear.

[djinni]

[lunchbox311]

[lunchbox311]

Well here is a list of all the "new" qualities our group uses. We modified some that were on the boards and made up a few of our own.

[ Spoiler ]

Positive

Connected: (10/15/20) – You have all the wiz gear don’t you chummer?!? Whether through some corporate backing, underworld sponsors, or that sweet trust fund… you have the stuff. Each level grants the character +2 to the availability maximum for gear at character creation and a 2% discount per level per net hit on negotiation tests and a critical success reduces the cost by one rating or grade. At 15 points the character can also start with betaware. At 20 points the character can also start with deltaware. Cost multipliers still apply for beta and deltaware.

Friends in low places: (5) – Your starting contacts all have an extra +1 loyalty at character creation.

Golden Boy: (10/20/30) - The world is your mollusck of choice. When everyone else's gun is jamming, yours is firing flawlessly. When the other mages can't remember the words to a simple manabolt, you're phrasing yours in Euclidian poetry. Whatever it is, you just don't mess up as often. Pick a particular category of rolls (Combat, Social, Magic, Hacking, etc). Your need one more 1 to glitch per point of this quality (it is effectively Gremlins in reverse).

Mechanically inclined: (15) - You have knack for working with machines and technology. +2 dice to all Build/Repair skill rolls.

Multilingual: (5/10) - Character has more than one Native Languages. One additional at 5 BP, two additional at 10 BP.

The Prodigy: (15/25) – You make it look easy, real easy. Choose a non-combat skill (15) or skill group (25) whenever the character makes a test with the chosen skill, the threshold is reduced by 1.

The Stare & The Voice: (10) - Maybe you're a parent, maybe you're tough as nails, but for whatever reason, you have the Stare and the Voice. You can intimidate people without even trying, making them pay attention to you out of a gut fear. Any time you make a social roll, roll Intimidation and add the number of net successes as bonus dice to the other social roll. This applies to Intimidation as well.

Negative

All Thumbs: (5/10) - You're just not good at B/R skills. Maybe you never took Shop class, maybe you just plain suck at it, but you're about as handy with your hands as a newborn kitten. As a 5-point flaw, you simply suffer a -2 dice penalty on all B/R skills; as a 10-point flaw, any time you are forced to roll a B/R skill, any result of 1 is an automatic Glitch, and any roll with more than two 1s is a Critical Glitch, no matter how many dice you throw.

Bad Karma: (20) – Who did you piss off? Seriously, you must have really messed up somewhere. Whenever something can go wrong with the group it hits you first. You are the first target in a firefight, first to be spotted by observing guards, and the guy who looks like a good punching bag to the troll in the bar. For some reason you just make a really good target. Every time the character glitches treat it as a critical glitch. If the critical glitch is rolled it is REALLY bad (GM discretion.) These characters should probably have some good friends… preferably with first aid.

Big Britches: (5) - You were born to be in charge, and it's only right - you ARE the best. Willpower+Charisma roll (3) to avoid giving orders and expecting them to be followed when there is conflict over the course of action.

Bloodthirsty: (20) - You don't like to make prisoners - after all, why leave a witness? Any time anyone is under your power whom you have wronged, make a Composure test (3) to avoid killing them. If you fail this test, you must kill them, though the methods thereof are entirely at your discretion.

Childlike Nature: (10) - The character comes off being much younger than they really are. She frequently is not taken seriously, picked on, and basically treated as someone who is underage. The character finds it difficult getting into usual runner haunts like clubs, bars, & the like (even with proper ID) and also has a hard time buying certain gear and items off the street (such as weapons, ammo, armour, drugs, smokes, beer etc.). For such purchases she usually has to go through her own fixer or a teammate who looks old enough. In addition, all Intimidation, Leadership, and Negotiation tests have a threshold of + 2 in addition to normal modifiers

The Collector: (5/10/15) – You are draconian in your possessions. “What’s mine is mine, and it is going to stay that way.� You cannot part ways with your stuff, no matter how frivolous. You must make a Willpower (3) test to part ways with something you own willingly. You also like to acquire new items all the time. Each level of this flaw adds 5% to your lifestyle costs as you continually purchase more stuff.

Curious: (15) - You're a cat, baby. You can never resist investigating something, even if it puts you at risk. Any time you come upon something interesting, interesting being defined as something interesting to you as defined by your background, or as related (even tangentially) to your job or the surroundings you find yourself in, you need to make a Composure test (3) or you find yourself investigating it, without even realizing it.

Dain Bramage: (15) - Whether you used too many BTL's, burned your brain out on Black IC, or just never quite kept up with the kids, you just aren't as quick as the average bear. You take a -1 penalty on all reaction based checks, and can never spend Edge to go first in a round, or gain extra init passes.

Day Job: (5/10/15/20) - The character has a "real" job besides shadowrunning, which burdens him with responsibilities and robs away a portion of his time. However, such a job also confers some advantages: the job earns the character some nuyen, it could serve as a cover for shadow-activity, it might be helpful for money-laundering, and it might give the character a good place to meet new contacts.

BP Value Monthly Salary Weekly Hours
5 1000 10
10 2000 20
15 5000 40
20 10000 60


Dependent: (5/10/15/20) - A character with the Dependent quality has a loved one who depends on her for support and/or aid. This could be a child, a parent, a spouse, a sibling, a pet, an old friend or even, in some extreme cases, an elderly or disabled. The character has to devote time and resources to the care of her dependent; the dependent might also serve as a point of leverage against the character by her enemies. Each level of this flaw increases the character’s lifestyle cost by 10%.

Distinctive Style: (5) - You just can't help it. Stay low, stay quiet, stay normal? Null that! You gotta be you, baby! Even in the larger-than-life underbelly, there's something about you that always sticks out, or gets stuck out, making you pretty well known. This can be good, this can be bad. The distinction can be something you can hide if you choose, such as gang or Yakuza tatoos, always wearing a Seattle Seahawks jersey no matter where you go, or being "That guy that always clicks his lighter open and closed all day." Whatever it is, people notice it and can use it to track you down. A character can try to hide this on occasion with an Intuition + Willpower (3) roll. Distinctive Style gives anyone searching for you, physically or socially, a +2 dice modifier. Characters with Blandness cannot take Distinctive Style.

Enemies: (variable) – You have made someone or some people mad in the past either through extreme failure or too much showboating. You now possess an enemy with a Hatred/Connection rating (same as contact rating.) You earn a number of points equal to the Hatred + Connection rating.





Gambling Freak: (5/10/15/20) - Each month, just before you pay your lifestyle costs, you must gamble 2000 Nuyen per rank of the quality. The character cannot hold money back if it has it available.
The character rolls his edge in dice. Count hits and count 1’s. The character then rolls 2 dice + hits. Add the total of the dice rolled. The character then rolls 1 die + 1’s. Add the total of the dice rolled. Finally subtract the total of 1’s from the total of hits and multiply by 10%. This is the amount of money earned back (yes the character may end up losing more money.) Edge may not be used on the rolls and rule of six does not apply.

If the character fails to bet the full amount required by the negative quality, all dice rolls, except damage resistance and drain, are reduced by 1 die per 2000 not bet. The character suffers this negative modifier until either you bet the full amount or the next bet comes around the following month.

Glass Jaw: (5) - If you take a number of boxes of damage (Stun or Physical) from a single attack that equals or exceeds half your Body (Rounded down), you are automatically knocked down.

Grandstander: (20) - The grandstander has to make a Willpower + Charisma (4) check to avoid taking center stage whenever there is a lot of people. It is recommended that the grandstander has a lot of charisma.

Greenhorn Hopeful: (5) - Every cloud has it silver lining, every person gets their fair share, every piece of drek gets fed into this character’s ears they take from anyone with a lick of experience compared to them they take like it's the fraggin' 16th Edition of the Bible in gold plating, and it gets irritating real quick. The Greenhorn Hopeful is new to the biz, and everyone knows it. Asking questions, and sticking by the character that mostly resembles their ideal of the word "hero" is what they're good at, and whoever is bound with the lovely task of dealing with this pecker wood gets the short straw. -3 to dice pool in social situations where the party is involved and they're present. On the other hand, fun times have been had at the expense of the newbie, especially if the "hero" is malevolent in teaching his would-be pupil. A Composure Test(4) can stay their hands and mouths for a little while... But it's only a matter of time.

Grim Servant O Death: (20) - Your teammates seem to wind up dead while you emerge smelling sweet as a rose. When you spend edge to enhance any defensive roll and it's successful the attack is instead directed at a nearby person who must defend as if it were targetted at them instead. (ignoring called shots). This flaw grants the character a point of Notoriety.






Groupies: (5/10/15/20) - You are easily recognizable to a certain group. Whether you're a well-known simsense star, a retired Urban Brawl star, or simply have the misfortune to look like the Biff and Buffy love interest of the week, people recognize you, and will actively seek you out, point you out to their friends, etc. This makes it particularly difficult to be subtle. If you take this quality, you may not take Blandness. The number of points for this flaw depends on the group of people that recognize you.

5 pts: Known to a small niche group (you look like the brother of an actor on a 2nd rate network) or a local area (you are the kid that faced down the Star when they came to arrest Tommy Two Tusks).
10 pts: Known to a reasonbly large group (Your Urban Brawl team never won the Crunch Bowl, but most people can name you as member) or a large area (You are the mayor of Seattle)
15 pts: Known to most of the population ("Hey! Aren't you the 'Can you hear me now' guy?") or to a significant amount of area ("Oh, sure, everyone in the UCAS knows Daniel Boone!")
20 pts: Known to almost everyone on the planet ("Look! Hitler!")

Heoic: (15) - You can't turn down a plea for help, even if the source may be suspect. You must make a Composure test (4) to turn your back on any cry for help from any source; a source that is already familiar to you as a liar or a betrayer gets no such consideration, however.

Human Throwback: (10) - This quality may only be taken by a metahuman. Choose a starting attribute that has a racial bonus, and reduce that attributes by one. Your augmented maximum for that attribute is now the same as your racial maximum. In certain circumstances, you may suffer a charisma penalty dealing with members of your own metatype.

Hunted: (10/15/20/25) – You pissed someone off and now they are gunning for you. Each level of this quality sends a different level prime runner after you (follow prime runner creation and advancement rules). At 10 points you have a 80% prime runner. At 15 points you have a 100% prime runner. At 20 points you have a 120% prime runner. You can also have groups after you. For 15 points you have a group (4-eight) of 50% prime runners. For 20 points you have a group (3-6) of 70% prime runners. For 25 points you have a group (2-4) of 90% prime runners.

The Lemon: (2/5) - Okay, so you decided you buy the cheap one... Big mistake! One important item the character bought was a bad buy and he doesn't know about it... yet. Whether it is Cybernetics he didn't know were hand-me-downs, a Focus that's got one too many cracks in it, or the sedan that doesn't cruise so well after a few miles on the odometer. The item in question won't be useful all the time and will cease to function on occasion at 2 BP; at 5 BP the item will actually break at a very inopportune moment. This must be placed on an item that will have significant set backs if it is broken. Never buy from street vendors, how many times have I told you!?

Tightwad/Miser: (10/20) – You are cheap… real cheap. Why should you have to upgrade your equipment? After all a gun is a gun! You will buy the cheapest of the cheap… even at character creation. You may only spend up to 25 points on resources at character creation and you cannot posses a lifestyle higher than middle. You must make a Composure (2) / (4) test to purchase “unnecessary things.� Who needs extra ammo? It is not all bad though, you get +1/+2 dice for negotiation tests and +1/+2 extra thresholds for build/repair tests.

Mean as a Rattler: (10) - Someone must have pissed in your cheerios when you were a kid. When your teammates zip tie a security guard they tasered you like to kick them a couple times for good measure. Around you interrogations always get physical. Charisma+Will (3) to avoid being mean and aggressive even when the situation doesn't call for it. This flaw grants the character a point of Notoriety.

Phobia: (varies) – Same rules as allergies.

Poverty: (15) - You can't get it with money. Any time you make money from any source, you must immediately give up half of it to pay for your debts, your loan sharks, your expensive habits or nights on the town, whatever. Should you be out of reach of civilization when you make money, the Poverty flaw comes into effect the moment you come into reach of civilization.

Stepped on Toes: (10) - A character who Stepped on Toes chooses a GM-approved organization, be it a megacorporation, a crime syndicate, or other organization (Such as Lone Star or the IRS) that he's gotten good and mad. Treat all interactions with this group as if the character had Spirit Bane and they were the Spirit type in question... they live to frag with the poor slot who stepped on their toes. Maybe you knocked up the Don's daughter, maybe you insulted the Oyban's honor, maybe you're a cop-killer, or maybe Ares knows about you and that one time with the thing and needs to make an example. Whatever it is, chummer, you've Stepped on Toes. This flaw grants the character a point of Notoriety.

Swimming with Sharks: (0) - Swimming with Sharks is a bit different than a typical negative quality. You've taken out a loan with someone or some organization and now you owe 'em, two for one. You may take out from one to ten markers of 5000Y each, but, it costs 10,000Y to buy a marker off. Most Sharks require one marker to be paid off every three months. If a marker due date is missed, treat it as if missing a lifestyle payment... if the check is passed, the character was able to pawn off enough stuff to cover it for now, but a failure can have dire consequences indeed. Unlike a normal negative quality, Swimming with Sharks must be paid off in Nuyen. Swimming with Sharks may also be gained in play with great ease.




Temper: (10) - When the going gets tough, you get smashing. Whenever you are insulted, provoked, or wounded, you must make a Willpower + Charisma
Test (3) (wound modifiers apply). If you fail, you must immediately attack your assailant (although non-lethal means are permitted). Note: The GM is free to request a Temper check whenever he feels it is appropriate. This flaw grants the character a point of Notoriety.

Tweaked: (5) - The character in question is not insane, not crazy, not odd in anyway... Until he decides something's worth shooting' and that's everything. Some call it trigger happy, some call it jumpy... But it's really just labeled Wired Reflexes without the benefit of aiming. Tweaked characters make cool diplomatic situations turn into heated bullet-filled debates. Any time there's a stand-off, a sound mistaken for a guard on a stealth mission etc the shoot-first-ask-questions-later interrogation method applies... The Tweaked character makes smooth situations turn into sandpaper and is almost always the first to pull for his gun, doesn't mean he shoots it off first though. Composure Test (4) will keep him from doing something TOO stupid. -3 to social dice pool when trying to calm tensions between parties and the character is present.

Whore Hound: (5) - Your passions not only rule you, they override your better judgement. You take a -2 penalty on seduction tests and negotiation tests involving your preferred gender, and must make a composure test (3) to avoid pursuing any sort of sexual gratification when it presents itself.

You Suck, I’m Great: (10) – Always trying to one up someone you can’t seem to avoid the limelight. Every time someone tries to do something, you try to do it better. You must make a Composure (3) test to avoid one-upping someone. If you are not given the opportunity you suffer a -1 dice pool modifier to any test as you sulk for (10 – Logic) hours (minimum 1 hour.)

[Konsaki]

Thread Necro! :cyber:

[lunchbox311]

[Konsaki]

[fool]

[fool]

Gambling Freak: (5/10/15/20) - Each month, just before you pay your lifestyle costs, you must gamble 2000 Nuyen per rank of the quality. The character cannot hold money back if it has it available.
The character rolls his edge in dice. Count hits and count 1’s. The character then rolls 2 dice + hits. Add the total of the dice rolled. The character then rolls 1 die + 1’s. Add the total of the dice rolled. Finally subtract the total of 1’s from the total of hits and multiply by 10%. This is the amount of money earned back (yes the character may end up losing more money.) Edge may not be used on the rolls and rule of six does not apply.

If the character fails to bet the full amount required by the negative quality, all dice rolls, except damage resistance and drain, are reduced by 1 die per 2000 not bet. The character suffers this negative modifier until either you bet the full amount or the next bet comes around the following month.
[QUOTE]
we tried a similar quality. Personally, I think you should make it so that the character is more likely to lose than win. After all The House always win.

[lunchbox311]

[Kyoto Kid]

[lunchbox311]

[Kyoto Kid]

...here it is copied from my original post:

[lunchbox311]

[hyzmarca]

[Kyoto Kid]

[djinni]

[Moon-Hawk]

[Kingmaker]

[bibliophile20]

Made for one of my players:

"Misplaced" Corporate Files
5 Point Flaw

While your SIN isn't in the public databases, you're not SIN-free just yet; your old home may have let you go, maybe after the Crash, and while your biometrics and everything else aren't on the global database, they're still tucked safely away in some desk drawer somewhere. So while you're not a company man anymore, they still have a leash on you; if you don't do as they say, those files will be "found" and published, probably with a nice little "detain on sight" order flag on it.

[Crusufix]

[bibliophile20]