Chara Critique: Hiratsu Takanashi, Agility Maxed Elven Sniper Options

[quentra]

This is an experiment I wanted to try. See how well an agil maxed elf (12 agil/exceptional attribute) does. And for kicks, make him a sniper. His background is an ex-Tir Ghost, just so his badassery makes sense. Since technically, they're badass, or something. He's Japanese for kicks. Or an immigrant. One of the two. I was running out of names.

Hiratsu Takanashi

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Metatype: Elf - 30 BP
Special: Adept - 5 BP

Attributes: 195 BP

Body: 2
Agility: 8 (12)
Reaction: 4 (6)
Strength: 2
Charisma: 3
Intuition: 3
Logic: 4
Willpower: 3

Special Attributes: 50 BP

Edge: 2
Magic:  5 (3)
Essence: 4.6

Init: 9
IP: 3

Skills: 84 BP

Longarms (Sniper Rifles): 6 (8) [8 (10)]
Pistols: 1        
Athletics (Group): 2        
Perception: 3        
Stealth (Group): 1        
Pilot Ground Craft: 1        
Dodge: 1        
Blades: 1

Qualities: -10 BP

Positive:
Exceptional Attribute (Agility): 20 BP
Adept: 5 BP

Negative:

SINner (Standard): -5 BP                    
Spirit Bane (Air): -10 BP                    
Addiction (Moderate, Simsense): -10 BP                     
Allergy (Common, Mild. Soy): -10 BP

Adept Powers:

Imp. Phys. Attribute, Agility: 2        
Improved Combat Ability [Longarms]: 2        
                    
Gear: 46 BP

Bio:
Muscle Toner 2
Synaptic Booster 2

Weapons:
Ares Predator 4
Mods:
Hidden Gun Arm Slide
Silencer
10x Spare Clips (Loaded with EX-Ex)
Skinlinked

Walther MA-2100
Mods:
Imaging Scope w/ Vision Magnification (electronic)
Silencer
Bipod
10x Spare Clips (Loaded with EX-Ex)
Skinlinked

Ruger Super Warhawk
Mods:
Quick Draw Holster
10x Spare Clips (loaded with EX-Ex)
Integral Smartlink
Speed Loader
Skinlinked

Armor:
FFBA
Leather Jacket
Auctioneer Business Clothes

Commlink: Transys Avalon
OS: Iris Orb w/ Firewall 6
Skinlinked

Accessories:
AR Gloves
Nanopaste Trodes
Subvocal Mic, Skinlinked
Earbuds with Spatial Recognizer

Equipment:
Rating 4 Area Jammer
Tag Eraser
10x Cert Cred
Plasteel Manacles x3
Rating 6 Autopicker
Rating 3 Cellular Glove Molder
Rating 4 Maglock Passkey
Wire Clippers
Gecko Tape Gloves
Survival Kit
Nanopaste Disguise, Small
Rating 4 Maglock Sequencer

SINs:
Legal: Hiratsu Takanashi, Tir Tairngire
Fake SIN Rating 3: Alex Cujo, Calfree

Vehicles:
Suzuki Mirage

Lifestyle:
Middle, 1 Month

Contact:
Fixer, L2 C3

Well, there you have it. No arsenal stuff besides the FFBA, which I know that stats for. Suggestions, comments?

[DTFarstar]

I would suggest the Ares Desert Strike or HK PSG Enforcer from Arsenal. I would also recommend buying Arsenal. Desert Strike is DV+1 from the Walther and no internal smartlink but it carries more bullets and uses a clip which is always nice. The Enforcer has the same stats, also no smartlink, also cheaper, and has two seperate clips of 12© ammo, simple action to switch between. Also, with Genetic Optimization you can get your agility to 13 instead of 12.

Chris

[Malicant]

Because what makes a good sniper is high agility (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

[wanderer_king]

I personally would up stealth and drop the FFBA and other armor for chameleon armor.... and you are encumbered by that business suit. Max without a dice pool mod for armor is 2x bod, and that is armor 5 on the auctioneers business suit.

[quentra]

I want Arsenal. I put 3 points in perception, damnnit! If that doesn't make me a good sniper, I don't know what will (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

[quentra]

I personally would up stealth and drop the FFBA and other armor for chameleon armor.... and you are encumbered by that business suit. Max without a dice pool mod for armor is 2x bod, and that is armor 5 on the auctioneers business suit.

You take encumbrance for every two points ove 2xbod, I think.

[wanderer_king]

Nope, its 2 points or part there of... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Malicant]

I want Arsenal. I put 3 points in perception, damnnit! If that doesn't make me a good sniper, I don't know what will (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

Training in procedures that result in people dropping dead from long distances. You don't need a high agility to do that. What you have build is essentially a gun bunny that will drop dead if anyone so much as sneezes in his general direction.

[Cthulhudreams]

Why do you have athletics and dodge?

[Tobias]

You take encumbrance for every two points ove 2xbod, I think.

You can take 2*bod armour before getting a penalty then you take a penalty = (armor-bod)/2 round up so wearing 5 armour gives you -2 to most physical rolls.

[Cabral]

If you were to drop Agi down to 6 and drop the Exceptional Attribute, you would free up 55 pts. You could, if so inclined, take Type-O System (Arsenal) Raise your Body and Will and have 5 pts left over. Plus, you'd have less Essence lost and thus one more point into adept powers. Others have stated that Type-O is not a good buy. It's not, you can eventually buy delta bio and use the BP to improves something you would spend karma on instead.

If you read up enough on anatomy and biology, you can pass the time discussing the frailty of metahuman organs and whether a metahuman could survive long enough to receive medical care ... maybe get some bonus karma for creeping out the GM. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[quentra]

Yeah, but one of the purposes of the build was an exercise in DP values, ie. How many skills can I default to better than a slightly trained individual with a maxed out Agility. Answer: A good damn amount. Any suggestions equipment-wise, or skill wise? I wanna twink him out, but keep the maxed Agi.

[cndblank]

He needs at least one level of Outdoors if he was special forces.

Armorer, Electronics, Diving, Parachuting would all make sense.

[Glyph]

I would still move a point from Logic (you are hardly crippled with a Logic of 3, and you don't even have any Logic-based skills), and move it to Body. This would let you wear the leather jacket/FFBA combo without penalty.

If you are getting Firewall: 6 already, why bother with ISIS Orb OS? Just get System: 3 and save 400 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nuyen.gif)

Too bad you don't have Arsenal yet - a short-barreled Defiance T-250 would let you use your longarms skill for what is essentially a heavy pistol, concealability-wise.

[NativeRigger]

Two errors in your build.

1. Max AGL is 11 for an elf with Exceptional AGL not 12

[My bad, missed a buried line in BBB -NR]

2. The improved Physical attribute adept power requires you spend 2 power points for every attribute point above the natural max. So, that two points of AGL would cost 4 power points. Withthe power point your spent raising Longarms by +2, that puts you at magic 5. Given that you're losing two magic levels to essence loss, you'd need Magic 6 + Initation to pull this build off.


I wanted to see if I could come close to what you had going a slightly different route. This is what I came up with:

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Metatype: Elf 30 BP

Attributes: 195 BP

Body: 4
Agility: 9
Reaction: 5 (7)
Strength: 5
Charisma: 3
Intuition: 3
Logic: 3
Willpower: 3

Special Attributes: 10 BP

Edge: 2
Essence: 1.85

Init: 8 (10)
IP: 1 (3)

Skills: 130 BP

Automatics: 3
Longarms (Sniper Rifles): 8 / 10
Pistols: 3
[Athletics]: 5
Perception: 2
[Stealth]: 2
[Outdoors]: 2
Negotiations (Bargaining): 1 / 3
Electronics (Security Systems): 1 / 3

Qualities: - 25 BP

Positive:
Aptitude/Long Arms: 10 BP

Negative:

Spirit Bane (Air): -10 BP
Orc Poser: -5 BP
Biosystem Overstress: -10 BP
Sensitive Neural Ssytem: -5 BP
Nano Intolerance: -5 BP

Contacts: 10 BP

Fixer (2/1)
Arms Dealer (3/4)

Gear: 50 BP

Bio:
Muscle Augmentation 2
Muscle Toner 2
Platelet Factories
Reflex Recorder/Firearms
Synthcardium 3

Cyber:
(Alpha) R3 Cybereyes w/ Protective Covers, Flare, LL, Smart, Thermo, Mag and Vis 2
(Alpha) Datajack
(Alpha) Wired Reflexes 2
Reaction Enhancers 2

1 Month High Lifestyle

Ares Desert Strike w/ Integral Smart System, Skinlink, Bipod and chameleon coating
Ares Alpha w/ Skinlink & Airburst link
Ares Predator 4 w/ Skinlink

Chameleon Suit w/ Thermal Dampening 4

Hermes Ikon w/ Iris Orb

Suzuki Mirage

800 Nuyen for ammo and misc. gear (actual $2K, but transferred $1200 to starting cash)

Starting Cash:
$13,000 Nuyen (7,000 rolled + max of 6,000 from unspent gear funds)

-NR

[Fortune]

1. Max AGL is 11 for an elf with Exceptional AGL not 12

This is not correct. Normal maximum Agility for an elf is 7 ... with Exceptional Attribute this goes up to 8. 150% of 8 is 12, which is the Augmented Maximum..

[Ears]

As the character still has .6 Essence left to spend why not install Cerebral Boosters and move points from Logic into attributes where they actually do some good?

[NativeRigger]

This is not correct. Normal maximum Agility for an elf is 7 ... with Exceptional Attribute this goes up to 8. 150% of 8 is 12, which is the Augmented Maximum..

Grrr,

My bad. I just found that line buried deep in a text block. I am really starting to dislike how relevant critical info in the BBB is neither grouped together nor highlighted.

Regardless, point 2 is still valid. If takes exceptional attribute and then buys his AGL up to the unagumented max then every point of Increased Attribute costs two power points.

-NR

[Larme]

What do we want?

No more snipers!

When do we want it?

Now!


Not trying to be mean, I just think the sniper is a waaay overused, and not very colorful archtype. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

[b1ffov3rfl0w]

Really.

When I played SR1, actually, there was a sniper in the group. He was also the face, before people used the term "face" outside of The A-Team, and sort of the Hannibal too come to think of it. I think he had no cyber, and the player was just a really smart guy who had played a lot of RPGs -- like the fat guy in Dork Tower. Those were fun games, although most of us had no idea what we were doing.