Recruitment: African Righteousness, Cleaning the streets never felt so good Options

[budoka05]

BIG EDIT

This thread is not the OOC for the African Righteousness game. If you interested in joining, I am recruiting on a rolling basis.


Lagos teems with the corrupt, the ruthless, and the helpless. Corporations and warlords trade blood tainted commodities on the backs of indentured labor. Scientists use the population as a petri dish for the most dangerous medical experiments. Thugs extort money from the downtrodden.

All that is about to frakked to hell.

Rumors begin swirling about people and spirits of incredible and unique magical powers enacting justice in the worst parts of the city. Spectral forms made of pure lightning running down professional enforcers. People who seeming teleport through walls, escaping from flesh traders.

These people are hiring. Realizing the nature of the Sixth world, they now pursue covert activities. Unfortunately, their few actions have received more notice than their naïve preconceptions predicted. They need people with experience. Although preferring the altruistic and idealistic, they need true professionals, even if they don’t share the same goals.

You’re welcome aboard, if you’ve got the skills.

I’m recruiting for an experimental game of SR4A. The main goals are to provide an experience of righteous bad-ass action. You’ll have the opportunity to gain and use abilities and equipment that dazzle, amaze, and overwhelm. Most of the new stuff will not be in the sourcebooks.

Of course, be prepared for an appropriate opposition (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Although I’m running the game with a lot of power, I do not tolerate munchkinning. I reserve the right to knock someone off for wantonly increasing their own power without regard to the other players, the plot, or me the GM. I like the cooperative and action-orientated uniqueness of role playing, and I will provide an environment for that. I will give fair warning and will suggest better behavior before resorting to booting anyone from the game.

Char-Gen:

1. 600 BP
2. Martial arts are not counted toward Qualities
3. No initial active skill cap. (i.e. you are not isolated to having only one 6 level skills or two 5 level skill.)
4. No restrictions on gear or equipment.
5. Must provide 20 questions and some backstory.

20 Questions:

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BACKGROUND

1) Where is your character from?

2) Does your character have a family?

3) Does your character have an ethnic background?

APPEARANCE

4) What does your character look like?

5) What does your character dress like?

6) Does your character have physical quirks?

SKILLS, ATTRIBUTES, AND RESOURCES

7) Where did your character learn their Active Skills?

8 ) Where did your character learn their Knowledge Skills?

9) Where did your character get his goodies?

10) Where does your character live?

11) Who are your character's contacts?

12) Who are your character's enemies?

13) How did your character learn magic?

PERSONALITY

14) What are your character's likes and dislikes?

15) What is your character's moral code?

16) Does your character have goals?

17) Does your character have personal beliefs?

18) Does your character have personality quirks?

RUNNING THE SHADOWS

19) Why does your character run the shadows?

20) How does your character view his/her role as a shadowrunner?

Note: For mundane characters, I usually replace question 13) with "What is your character's attitude towards Magic?"

I will note that I am considering not allowing any possession magical traditions in the mix, but stay tuned for my decision.

Please let me know if you'd like to join!

[Crank]

I'm interested... I'll come up with a rough concept this weekend.

[pbangarth]

Alright! The A-team goes postal! Count me in! I'm writing my dissertation, but if play doesn't get off the ground for two or three weeks then I can give fair attention.

I've toyed with the concept of a Zoroastrian Tradition magician who believes himself to be an angel, fallen from the service of Ahura Mazda as a smiter of evil and desperate to win his way back into the heavenly fray. This would be right up his alley.

[pbangarth]

On the other hand, this is Lagos. Background count everywhere. Hmmm.... no limit on stuff. Delta grade Move-by-Wire?

EDIT: OK, OK! Move-by-Wire 3 with the Biocompatibility Quality.

[budoka05]

Alright! The A-team goes postal! Count me in! I'm writing my dissertation, but if play doesn't get off the ground for two or three weeks then I can give fair attention.

I've toyed with the concept of a Zoroastrian Tradition magician who believes himself to be an angel, fallen from the service of Ahura Mazda as a smiter of evil and desperate to win his way back into the heavenly fray. This would be right up his alley.

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/cool.gif) That would fit incredibly well with the campaign.

While the background count could pose a challenge, there might be eventual rewards that would help with the background count...

[ravensoracle]

I can't start anything till after the weekend but I'll come up with something soon. I'll see what other positions get filled. Got a few characters on the back burner.

EDIT: Come to think of it, I've got a TM that might be fun to play in a game like this.

[Darquewing]

Sweetness! This looks like a game I would love to play in.

Not sure what type of character, but I was thinking of a weapons specialist/gunslinger type. I'll work on something tomorrow morning and post it.

Ohhh... I hope I get in, I hope I get in...

[Digital Heroin]

Back only a few days and already a brain crunching game comes along... do you allow initiation/emergence on build? (That could help deal with the background count, with Cleansing, neh?).

...dangit brain, seriously... stop coming up with ideas for freerunning martial arts nutjobs...

[Faraday]

Hmm, be a badass hired on as a "good guy"? I like it. Character concept will follow but consider me interested.

Quick question: What is your stance on infected and metatype variants?

[budoka05]

Back only a few days and already a brain crunching game comes along... do you allow initiation/emergence on build? (That could help deal with the background count, with Cleansing, neh?).

You bet

Quick question: What is your stance on infected and metatype variants?

Good to go, but there will be, shall we say, special considerations that will happen in game.

[budoka05]

Excellent, your posts sound good so far, and I look forward to the char concepts and builds. As long as the build is legal and meets my conditions, you will be in. I'm going to allow 3 more after this post.

Regarding Possession: They're in. After preponderance of the opinion and evidence, I will allow them.

[crizh]

Hey, this sounds like fun.

How would you adjudicate Initiation costs?

I think I have a bad habit of going a bit OTT so you might have to answer some questions about stuff like long term binding and stuff.


Afrika

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Name: Afrika
Race: Pixie
Gender: Male


Background

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1) Where is your character from?

Afrika's tribe of tiny mahogany skinned fey hail from the jungle shrouded shores of Lake Victoria in The Kobikela.

2) Does your character have a family?

Afrika is unmarried but his extended family still lives in the tribe's traditional jungle haunts.

3) Does your character have an ethnic background?

Not as such. The form of the Kobikela Pixies mirrors the form of the surrounding human tribes to some extent.

APPEARANCE

4) What does your character look like?

In his native form Afrika is a one foot tall mahogany skinned elfin creature with irridescent dragonfly wings.

5) What does your character dress like?

A simple loincloth is usually all he bothers with in his native form. If he has taken a human form using Shapechange he attempts to dress appropriately to social circumstances. Not often particularly successfully.

6) Does your character have physical quirks?

Apart from wings?

His face and body have been ritually scarified in patterns that have cultural and arcane significance in his tradition.

SKILLS, ATTRIBUTES, AND RESOURCES

7) Where did your character learn their Active Skills?

Decades of study in the depths of the jungle and the metaplanes. Afrika has only very recently ventured out into the human world and knows virtually nothing about the modern world.

8 ) Where did your character learn their Knowledge Skills?

Afrika has no knowledge skills other than languages. His natural talent for communication has allowed him to soak up the primitive dialects of almost every human group he has had any contact with but his sheltered upbringing has left him almost completely ignorant of every subject normal people take for granted.

9) Where did your character get his goodies?

He has very little in the way of possesions that he did not create himself or create with the help of his anscestor spirits. He has managed to acquire a few human made objects from a Lagos fixer and has learned enough about money to open an account with a Hawala.

10) Where does your character live?

In the trunks and root systems of a grove of massive Baobabs in the forest of northern Ifako-ijaya. He has used his magics to carve a home in the living wood of the ancient trees and into the living earth beneath them.

11) Who are your character's contacts?

Two-face, a Yoruba fixer, allied to the Daughters of Yemaja, who operates out of the Amulet Market.

12) Who are your character's enemies?

Anyone who would despoil the jungle for short term gain.

13) How did your character learn magic?

From the elders of his tribe and his ancestor spirits. He has spent much time deep in the metaplanes.

PERSONALITY

14) What are your character's likes and dislikes?

Afrika likes words. They are the original Artifice of the sentient mind. They are crafted into poetry and song, the written word recording the thoughts and experiences of those long dead.

He also loves manufactured objects, tools and machines. The more elegant and efficient the better. He has little understanding of how or why most devices work but they fascinate him nonetheless.

Afrika hates inefficiency, pollution and entropy. Clumsy, selfish or just outright stupid waste of natural resources angers him beyond belief.

15) What is your character's moral code?

An' it harm none, do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

When he sees others causing harm he is relentless and unforgiving in preventing re-offending. Everything dies, it's just a question of when. For those doing deliberate harm to others the answer would be now.

16) Does your character have goals?

Afrika wants to learn about humanity and all of their words and inventions. His curiosity could not be satisfied in the jungle so he came to Kinshasa where he learned a great many words but discovered that if he wanted to see much of humanities invention he would have to go somewhere less insular.

Lagos, unfortunately, was his best choice.

While a festering cess-pool of hatred and suffering it is also the gateway to Africa and full of the fruits of human ingenuity. Afrika loves taking such devices apart to find out how they work.

Maybe one day he might start to comprehend enough to start putting them back together.

17) Does your character have personal beliefs?

He believes in a form of Karma. What goes around comes around.

He is strongly of the opinion that if humanity all had the ability to perceive the Astral they would be a lot more careful about the way that they behaved. If they could see the ebb and flow of mana and the way that hatred and suffering polluted it they would be a lot nicer to each other.

18) Does your character have personality quirks?

Someone that is possessed by spirits much of the time is by his very nature a bit quirky.

He is very naive. In his first few weeks in Lagos he got into all sorts of trouble, found himself borrowing large quantities of a metaphor called 'money' but which looked remarkably like sea shells from a variety of what turned out to be untrustworthy people.

He eventually made more trustworthy friends who are helping him trade his unique skills for more of this metaphor.

RUNNING THE SHADOWS

19) Why does your character run the shadows?

He has to. Trying to fit in with human society in a place as corrupt as Lagos swiftly left him massively in debt to many unpleasant people.

He sells his services as a mage, talismonger and mystic healer through Two-face to service those debts.

20) How does your character view his/her role as a shadowrunner?

He views himself as very much in a support role. He prefers to remain quietly in the background providing healing and spell-defence to humans who know what they are doing.

BREAKDOWN (600BP)

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Core Attributes: 80 BP
Special Attributes: 50 BP
Race: 35 BP
Active Skills: 176 BP
Positive Qualities: 35 BP
Negative Qualities: 35 BP
Contacts: 4 BP
Resources 50 BP
Spells: 18 BP
Foci: 16 BP
Karma: 171 BP

=Attributes=

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Body: 2
Agility: 3
Reaction: 3
Strength: 2
Charisma: 5
Intuition: 3
Logic: 3
Willpower: 5
Magic: 6
Edge: 2

Essence: 6
Initiative: 6
Initiative Passes: 1
Physical Damage Track: 9
Stun Track: 11

Current Karma: 9(3)
Total Karma: 342
Street Cred: 0
Noteriety: 0
Public Awareness: 0

=Qualities=

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Magician
Mentor Spirit: Artificer (+2 Enchanting, +2 Manipulation)
Homeground
Linguist
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In Debt - 30
Allergy, Minor (Soy)

=Active Skills=

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Spellcasting (Manipulation): 6(+2)
Counterspelling (Combat) : 6(+2)
Ritual Spellcasting: 2
Binding (Invoking): 6(+2)
Summoning (Guardian): 4(+2)
Banishing (Possession): 2(+2)
Enchanting (Alchemy): 4(+2)
Assensing: 4
Perception: 4
Dodge: 4
Arcana: 2

=Knowledge Skills=

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Sperethiel: N
English: 1(3)
French: 1(3)
Spanish: 1(3)
Arabic: 1(3)

Lagos Pidgin Cityspeak: 1(3)
Creole: 1(3)
Or'zet: 1(3)
Yoruba: 1(3)
Igbo: 1(3)
Awori: 1(3)
Hausa: 1(3)
Egun: 1(3)
Edo: 1(3)
Lingala: 1(3)
Fanti: 1(3)
Ijaw: 1(3)
Ibibio-efik: 1(3)
Tiv: 1(3)

=Tradition=

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Vodun

One of the root religions that spawned Voodoo. Vodun is very similar but does not contain any Christian influence

Combat: Guardian
Detection: Guidance
Health: Man
Illusion: Water
Manipulation: Task
Note: Vodun is a possession tradition.

=Initiation=

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Grade: 6

Metamagics Known: Ally Conjuration, Centering, Channelling, Shielding, Cleansing, Filtering, Masking, Extended Masking, Invoking

=Spells=

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Combat Sense
Astral Armour
Increase - Charisma
Increase - Willpower
Increase - Reflexes
Deflection

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Powerbolt
Stunbolt
Slaughter (Infected)
Shape (Wood)
Shape (Earth)
Shape (Concrete)
Shape (Metal)
Fix
Heal

=Foci=

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Power Focus (5) - [Stealth Security RFID tag implanted beneath his sternum]
Centering Focus (6) - [Stealth Security RFID tag implanted beneath his sternum]
Shielding Focus (6) - [Stealth Security RFID tag implanted beneath his sternum]

=Gear=

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Conjuring Materials, Force 6 x 2
Conjuring Materials, Force 1 x 12
Assaying Kit
Magical Lodge, Force 12
Raw Sap x 150
Refined Sap x 12
Radical Sap x 1
FAB II Rating 12 10 m^3
FAB nutrients 100 m^3

Lifestyle - Middle (15LP) - 1 Month

=Lifestyle=

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The Grove

Middle Lifestyle (15 LP)

Hidden in the jungle on the Northern edge of Ifako-ijaye a grove of ancient Baobabs has been converted into a makeshift clinic and shelter for abused women. Afrika has sculpted the living wood of the ancient trees and the earth beneath them to create a secure place for women to hide, heal and grow strong again. Four members of the Daughters of Yemaja are in permanent residence, two physicians and two amazon types tasked with physical protection. Up to a dozen patients might be being cared for at any one time. Between the basic medical care and Afrika's herbal ministrations few need stay for more than a few days.

Comforts: Squatter
Entertainment: Squatter
Necessities: Low
Neighbourhood: Squatter
Security: High

Aspected Domain
Escape Tunnel
Work Place
Easy going Landlord
Concerned Neighbours
Perfect Roommate

Black Hole I
Green Plan
Defective CHN
Crash Pad
Living by Committee
Rough Neighbourhood

With 5 sharing: 1400 pcm.

=Contacts=

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Two Face

Arcane Fixer

Two-Face is a specialist Fixer that works with the Magical community. Her business is not restricted to one particular African city but spread all over the continent. Her base of operations in the Amulet Market in Lagos.

Her services are varied but all profitable. She trades arcane materials and services, she supplies mages to a network of fixers and work to a network of mages, she supplies mundane gear to her mages and can arrange discrete delivery almost anywhere.

Two-Face is allied to the Daughters of Yemaja. It was the Daughters that saved her when her husband tried to burn her to death with the traditional tyre around the neck. She carries the burns that define her as a badge of honour.

Loyalty 1
Connection 1



Hawala

Loyalty 1
Connection 1

=Ally Spirit=

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Izoduwa

Izoduwa is a fragment of Afrika's own soul, torn free and given substance that it might act as his Spirit Guide. He alone sees Afrika's true heart and the path that he must take through this life.

Izoduwa is as naturally curious as Afrika about how things work but is fiercely protective of his charge.

Force: 9

Powers: Astral Form, Banishing Resistance, Realistic Form, Sapience, Sense Link, Concealment, Elemental Attack (Blast), Divining, Guard, Movement, Magical Guard, Influence, Skill (Exotic Ranged Weapon, First Aid)

Skills: Assensing, Astral Combat, Dodge, Perception, Unarmed Combat, Spellcasting, Counterspelling, Enchanting, Arcana

Spells: Heal, Detect Enemies (Extended), Detect Life (Extended), TriD Phantasm, Manascape, Sterilize, Shapechange

[Faraday]

Good to go, but there will be, shall we say, special considerations that will happen in game.

Noted. What about attributes, what are the limitations on those?

[budoka05]

How would you adjudicate Initiation costs?

I think I have a bad habit of going a bit OTT so you might have to answer some questions about stuff like long term binding and stuff.

For Initation costs, I'm going with the RC conversion for BP to Kharma: roundup ( BP × 2 ) = Karma. Any Kharma Left over will be carried over.

Yeah, go ahead with the binding questions and stuff.

Noted. What about attributes, what are the limitations on those?

Standard Race limits and Augment limits.

For convenience, please use the spreadsheet the DamienKnight has provided. http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?s=&a...st&p=902567 Although there are a few bugs with it, it is for the most part alright. When you make the conversion of BP to Karma, make a note of it on the Karma log on the Spreadsheet. Once done with it, please post a link in which I can download the spreadsheet. Megaupload.com, rapidshare, sharebee.com are all good places to upload it to.

[Faraday]

Standard Race limits and Augment limits.

Actually, I was referring to the BP limits of two 5s or one 6. Kinda like the skill caps.

And I usually use Damien's spreadsheet, so that makes it pretty easy for me. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Current idea: Fomori Bioadept. Deserted a mercenary outfit while on a campaign when they started killing civies (especially kids) and is hiding from the bounty on his head in Lagos.

[Crank]

Since this is my chance to go crazy with character builds, I've got a couple ideas that come to mind. The one I'm leaning towards most is a Ghoul(Orc) physical adept that used to be a member of tamanous. For reasons yet to be determined he had a falling out and now seeks to undermine the organization.

[pbangarth]

For a 400 BP character, the limit for BP for Core Attributes is 200. For this campaign is the limit up to 300, or are we still at 200 out of the box?

[pbangarth]

20 questions for Yazata:

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Yazata - BACKGROUND

1) Where is your character from?
[NOTE: Origin questions are based on the character's belief, as he has the Amnesia (-10) Quality. Whether his belief is the truth or not is up to the GM.]

Yazata is fallen from the hosts that serve Ahura Mazda, the one true God. He appeared on this Earthly plane, in the Middle East, some three years ago, with no memory of how he got here. He believes that for some reason he has fallen from favour in the eyes of Ahura Mazda, and must earn his way back into his real life.

His name here is Yazata, which in the ancient Avestan language of Persia means 'angel'.

2) Does your character have a family?
Yes, the hosts of angels are his siblings. Ahura Mazda is his Creator and Father.

3) Does your character have an ethnic background?
The nearest modern Earthly equivalent is Persian.

APPEARANCE

4) What does your character look like?
Typical dwarf stature, dark Caucasian skin colour, black hair that curls naturally, a goatee of black, curly hair. Dark, mysterious eyes. Approximately 30 years old.

5) What does your character dress like?
He tends to wear natural fibres, wool, silk, or linen, and some cotton. He looks sort of outdoorsy, with lots of pockets.

6) Does your character have physical quirks?
Yazata has extremely intense eyes. Many people, especially women, have trouble enduring his gaze.

SKILLS, ATTRIBUTES, AND RESOURCES

7) Where did your character learn their Active Skills?
Most were a gift from time immemorial from Ahura Mazda. Others he gained during his travels on Earth, following an inner call to travel westwards. So for example, Survival (desert) came to him this way.

8 ) Where did your character learn their Knowledge Skills?
Some were present when he appeared on Earth. Others, such as many of the languages, etc. were gained as he traveled westwards from his place of appearance.

9) Where did your character get his goodies?
Three magical items were in his possession at the time of his appearance. Each is inscribed with its own name in Avestan, the ancient language of Persia. The Word of Dāmōish is an amulet that is a F6 Banishing Focus, divided F2 for Shedim, F2 for Nomads and F2 for Yama Kings, all wild spirit forms found in Asia and considered by Yazata's Tradition to be Demons. The Will of Mithra is a F3 Centering Focus ring. Anathema is a F1 Weapon Focus knife.

The rest of his possessions have been acquired mostly from the proceeds of work he has done in the last three years. Evil exists everywhere, and many good people call for a saviour. At first Yazata was hesitant to take payment for destroying evil, but this realm has different requirements from that whence he came, and he must survive here until he finds his way home.

10) Where does your character live?
Yazata is itinerant, following a vague feeling that he has to travel westwards. Currently he resides in Lagos, a hell-hole full of things and people requiring smiting. Yazata is happy to oblige.

11) Who are your character's contacts?
One fixer in Lagos is the only current contact. [details to follow]

12) Who are your character's enemies?
All members of the Demonic host. In particular, during his travels Yazata has discovered that Shedim have a severe hatred for him personally, and attack him first and with great élan. Yazata is pleased by this. They know! Otherwise, all those who prey on the good and decent are his sworn enemies, whether they know it yet or not. They shall learn.

13) How did your character learn magic?
God created him complete with magical power. His form here on Earth appears to be a reduced form of his true self. Sometimes he believes he may be an avatar of Dāmōish Upamana, an archangel of Ahura Mazda, but Yazata fears this may be hubris, perhaps the very thing that got him banished form his true realm.

In any case, the function of Dāmōish Upamana, to ride at the side of Mithra and speak anathema on the demonic enemies of all that is good is the role Yazata feels is right for him here on Earth. Banishing, Attacks of Will, speaking words of power when using magic, these are the trademarks of Yazata's magical practice.

PERSONALITY

14) What are your character's likes and dislikes?
Yazata likes juicy, sloppy fruit. He can never get enough of it. Of course, natural fruit is expensive, but it is a luxury he allows himself whenever he can. He likes to learn about this world, as his purpose here may yet reveal itself to him. He likes to spend time with little children. Somehow, they like him, too. Perhaps they can see some glimmer of his true nature. He likes to think so.

Rudeness, crudeness, and insensitivity are behaviours that particularly bother Yazata. He has come to accommodate such behaviour among runners, as long as their goals are in line with his: smite evil. Nevertheless, he tries to gently turn his accomplices to a more genteel habit. This has not always worked out for him.

He likes the Napalm spell. He calls it the Fire of God. It cleanses as well as destroys evil. Excellent economy of effort, that.

15) What is your character's moral code?
Destroy evil in all its forms. Good must be promoted and protected, at any cost. The sanctity of a human life is qualified by the choice that human has made between good and evil.

16) Does your character have goals?
Get back into the heavenly realm. Whatever it takes.

17) Does your character have personal beliefs?
Yazata believes completely in the Zoroastrian religion. He believes himself to be an Earthly manifestation of an integral part of that religion.

18) Does your character have personality quirks?
Yazata deals with spirits a lot. These spirits speak to him as agents of the heavenly conflict. Sometimes they encourage him in his quest. Other times they subtly and vilely try to pervert Yazata from his course. Yazata wishes he could control the source of the spirits he summons, but he cannot. He must continually be on his guard when dealing with spirits. His very soul depends on it. He usually speaks to these beings in ancient Avestan, sometimes in places where it is inappropriate.

RUNNING THE SHADOWS

19) Why does your character run the shadows?
To find the way home. To survive while here on Earth. To destroy evil and protect good.

20) How does your character view his/her role as a shadowrunner?
Spirit hunter, general magician, healer, protector, generator of spirit allies.
Hammer of God.

[budoka05]

Actually, I was referring to the BP limits of two 5s or one 6. Kinda like the skill caps.

For a 400 BP character, the limit for BP for Core Attributes is 200. For this campaign is the limit up to 300, or are we still at 200 out of the box?

Answering both questions, 200BP BUT no limits of two 5's or one 6. If you really want extra BP limit for attributes, I encourage you to convince me based on the backstory. However, I am intentionally encouraging more skills, because there will be need for flexibility for a variety of mission types.

Current idea: Fomori Bioadept. Deserted a mercenary outfit while on a campaign when they started killing civies (especially kids) and is hiding from the bounty on his head in Lagos.

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) It has my approval. You'll also have some unique opportunities in the campaign. When you get your background donw, please give me some concept about the merc outfit.

Ghoul(Orc) physical adept that used to be a member of tamanous. For reasons yet to be determined he had a falling out and now seeks to undermine the organization

Excellent, go ahead with it. He/she is going to have satisfaction.

[AzureusJake]

I know I'm new to the board but I've been reading and playing Shadowrun for a little while now and I'd like to get in on this game. I have a character idea or two I'd like throw down.

[budoka05]

By all means, throw those ideas down!

[Rasumichin]

This sounds interesting.
Is there still a spot left?

[crizh]

Oh gods, I have just had a real good look at the build guide-lines and I think I may have had an evil-gasm.

On the subject of long-term binding (or linking for TM's) it is quite easy to use this to acquire, effectively, permanent buffs without the expense and complication of quickening or sustaining foci.

This often presents a problem because Mages have a great many fantastic buffs that are only really balanced by the system being designed to prevent their use. Once you start using them all at the same time without restriction things often get out of hand.

If you're concerned about abuse I might go with a phys-ad concept which isn't so bad, being more inherently balanced.

How do you feel about meta-types like Pixie or Shapeshifter?

[pbangarth]

Yeah, crizh, I saw some possibilities, too. But budoka05 did say he would veto anything that looked particularly egregious. So, he may take exception to a spirit of Man bound long-term maintaining something like an Increase Reflexes spell on your magician. On the other hand, he may just remind you that he would need just one successful counterspell to bring down that house of cards.

EDIT: Although I suppose the wording of the command could be helpful: "Keep me sped up with Increase Reflexes for the duration of your Binding." That might work.

[budoka05]

Oh gods, I have just had a real good look at the build guide-lines and I think I may have had an evil-gasm.

On the subject of long-term binding (or linking for TM's) it is quite easy to use this to acquire, effectively, permanent buffs without the expense and complication of quickening or sustaining foci.

This often presents a problem because Mages have a great many fantastic buffs that are only really balanced by the system being designed to prevent their use. Once you start using them all at the same time without restriction things often get out of hand.

If you're concerned about abuse I might go with a phys-ad concept which isn't so bad, being more inherently balanced.

How do you feel about meta-types like Pixie or Shapeshifter?

Yeah, crizh, I saw some possibilities, too. But budoka05 did say he would veto anything that looked particularly egregious. So, he may take exception to a spirit of Man bound long-term maintaining something like an Increase Reflexes spell on your magician. On the other hand, he may just remind you that he would need just one successful counterspell to bring down that house of cards.

EDIT: Although I suppose the wording of the command could be helpful: "Keep me sped up with Increase Reflexes for the duration of your Binding." That might work.

Having binded spirits maintaining Increased Attributes or Reflexes are fine. That goes for quickened spells too. However, just as crizh says, there are means in which those may go away in situations. Since Lagos is a no-man's land of magical danger, keep that in mind.

Also, bear in mind there will be many different types of missions. While magical users will obviously be powerful, they won't be the best in all situations nor succeed in all situations.