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[Solidcobra]

Well, who's it gonna be? and you are free to post the reason for your love for the race as well.....

[TinkerGnome]

I didn't see dikoted albino gnome rigger/decker/mages listed, so I'm not sure what to pick.

[edit]With mnemonic enhancers and enhanced articulation and dikoted AVSs, as well. Almost forgot about that :D [/edit]

[booklord]

I in particular have always been impressed by players who want to play a high charisma troll. ( Possibly of that one meta-type [brain-memory name allocation failure] that lives around Ireland and doesn't have the penalty )

[Abstruse]

I'm still waiting for December 11th, 2011...I want a pair of pointy ears damnit. And don't you people tell me any of this "You have to be born an elf" crap. I could be a spike baby! And if the IEs had normal ears during the downcycle, so could I!!

The Abstruse One

[Sphynx]

Dwarf of course.... +4 to Attributes, and not stuck with spending one out of every 10 karma on a dumb pool. :P

Oh... roleplay reasons... Bah, nothin says roll-playing like an "Argh! Where'z my gun?!?" in the mornin. :P

I ain't gonna play anything Fugly looking, that cuts out Trolls and Orcs, Tired of all those damn treehugger types, that cuts out elves. And I can't handle the Karma Pool of a Human, that leaves Dwarf, and they're, IMHO, alot more fun to roleplay.

Sphynx

[FlakJacket]

[Omer Joel]

Orks, and not for the typical (physical attribute bonouses) reasons. They are the 'underdog' metarace; Most numerous (except for breeders, that is), yet overshadowed by the elven 'coolness effect' and the trollish size. They also fit the gritty Shadowrun atmosphere pretty well. And not all of them are the ugly brutes the everage (Humanis) joe thinks they are.

My last character was a female Hobgoblin combat/stealth (with more of the latter than the former) decker, who had that 'dark beauty'; Not too pretty, mind you, and definitely not a sex kitten, but not the stereotypical ugly Trog either - quite symmetrical and well-built, but with two 'devilish' black horns, fangs and long, smooth dark hair, with large, dark eyes and a pale green skin. Her racial -1 to Charisma came from scaring people rather than being ugly - she had quite a demonish appearance. Good for the club scene, though, for exoticism reasons. Had a she-devil Matrix icon for a good reason ;)

[kenny26]

elves all the way! :D
i dunno why, but i've always loved elves (in any RPG) and in SR, they're even cooler ('cause SR, to my knoledge is the first ever RPG to make a significant difference between the elves and humans while most other RPGs try to balance them with humans...).

and also, elves in SR don't always have to be tree-huggin', fragile arrogant people. they can be tough too. take an example:

my fave char is an elven combat mage from japan. he has long white hair and a complete-matrix-rip-off coat (no, actually it's just a secure longcoat made of black leather).
he always wears sunglasses (and it doesn't bother him; astral perception negates all visibility modifiers since life give off light and earth is life) and wields a katana when his manabolts and guns won't do the job.
he never shows any emotions in combat, and he kills in cold blood.

that's one kick-@ss elf! :D

[Solidcobra]

no changers or ghouls? i'm NOT surprised.....
keep it up! (pretty please?)

[kevyn668]

call me boring but I like humans...In my munchkin phase (before the crysilis) I was fond of Phys Ad or Combat Mage Elves w/ a few points worth of essence thrown over to the cyber. :cyber:

[Kagetenshi]

Humans. Humans, humans, humans. Two words: karma pool. Another few words: extra build points. Another pair of words: numerical superiority.

~J

[last_of_the_grea...]

Orks :] Orks :] Orks :] Orks :] Orks :] Orks :] Orks :] Orks :] Orks :] Orks :]

Orks are the living Nerps™ of Shadowrun! What's not to love? C'mon, adopt an ork today. You know ya wanna!

[Connor]

I have to say, I've always been a sucker for Elves, call me a stereotypical sap if you will. Although my two favorite and longest running Shadowrun characters are a Human Merc and a Dwarf Rigger/Decker, so go figure.

[Adarael]

I'm tied. I love Humans, I love Dwarves, and I love Orks.

But I swore my next PC would be a Ghoul, and I'm gonna hold to that. <G>

[Lucyfersam]

Humans, dwarves, orks, trolls, whatever, anything but elves. Pretty much since I first glanced at the SR2 basic book that had the scientific name for elves of Homo Sapiens Nobilis I've hated them. Fragging superiority complex the size of the planet, but a bullet kills them just as dead.

I did vote for human though, as while I will occasionally play another race for role playing reasons, the extra karma pool is hard to pass up.

[Reth]

Elves ofcourse!!!!! Hermetic mage ofcourse!!!!!!

Why does people feel the need for apologizing for the fact that they like elves???

Seriously though, why elves? Well firstly i have always loved elves, but why. Well because elves have a potential for taking the long view, that exeeds the other races by far, in a way they are the closest you can come to a dragon in SR in that aspect. Mystery - Me? Yes, Magic - Me? OOOHHH YES.

Omer Joel - Kudos on a cool character concept.

[Buzzed]

When an elf tries to use their pomposity to make fun of my troll body, I run after them to smack them into the seventh world. They of course have confidence when they make fun of me because they think they can run faster. However, they quickly learn that my cyberlegs have a quickness of 10.

[Ronin Soul]

My favourite race is... whatever is appropriate. Seriously, I have no particular favourite in terms of race. I just look at a character concept and think "If I made her human what plot hooks would I be adding? What would they be if the character was an elf or ork?". I look at race as a larger part of the character. I don't think "I'll make an Elven pistol adept", I think "I'll make a former bodyguard for a high up in the Salish Shidhe who failed hi boss, got arrested, got freed by the Triads in exchange for certain "services" and who is working as a shadowrunner because he doesn't have any real other option available to him. Oh yeah, and he's an adept too.". I then look at which race would suit the character best, what each option would add to the character, until I find one that best fits, thus adding to the character further.

I will admit I tend to favour elves slightly in part because a lot of people hate them. I love making elves that do not fit the stereotype at all, lacking a superiority complex or indeed thinking themselves inherently "better" than anyone else. The most noble character (in the humble, martyr type sense) was an elf.
I love breaking stereotypes and as elves have so many negative ones I inevitably play more because I have to break more stereotypes (just as an aside, I always imagined Goemon from Castle of Cagliostro to be a great "elf" type character. Don't know why though)

And the good looking trolls from Ireland are the Fomori. One of my favourite characters was a Fomori troll. She proved to the world that even trolls were capable of being cute! :D

[Tziluthi]

I chose humans, but I'm surprised that neither Otaku nor metavariants got were available options.

[hp_warcraft]

T'skrang, T'skrang, T'SKRANG!!

And for those of you who have been speculating that we have been killed off or that the mana level is not yet high enough for us to express:

We are here and we are UNDERWATER! *head-bob* *tail-swish*

[Namer18]

Ghoul with a ruthenium dermal sheath. He's jsut one of the crowd.

[Dark Scrier]

Troll. Well educated trolls who can spot cool skills like etiquette, and a million or so knowledge skills, but can still out armwrestle a puny human without blinking.

Yeah, not to mention the "I'm big and ugly" factor.

[Playing Games]

Humans, damnit!I meanrealyI love making humans who can walk up to a troll and make that poor bag of flesh prey for mercy.

But really their greatest power is that they blend into crowds.Isn't there like 50% humans....

[DV8]

I like humans the best, simply because they're versatile, and in my world of Shadowrun, being a metahuman actually means you're special. However, even though I like playing humans the best, it has to be said that there's a special place in my heart for the race that can claim to have the muscle density of aligators; Dwarves. :)

[Fygg Nuuton]

i chose elves becuase middle aged means 250 :)

"happy birthday joe, your over the hill. hows it feel to be pushin 40?"
"yea joe, hows it feel to know im gonna be dating your granddaughter?"