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 Dec 14 2004, 06:03 AM
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Resident Legionnaire  Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,136 Joined: 8-August 04 From: Usually Work Member No.: 6,550  |
Recent one from our group:
Torch - hermetic mage dwarf, horribly disfigured while attempting initiation into the Halloweener's gang. Something about staying in the ring of fire about as long as Slash&Burn remembers being trapped in the burning hideout after the renraku attack. Got this name after we started playing. Used to be just Bill. edit: Whenever Ivan has a little too much to drink he starts referring to Torch as "Flamer". :talker: Ah the comedy! |
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Dec 14 2004, 07:52 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,379 Joined: 16-April 02 From: the LI shadows Member No.: 2,607 |
When I first started playing SR, I created my character, then based a self-designed archetype on him. I named my character Tangent, because he worked both a 'day-job' (a Contract Courier) and the shadows, and I looked in my thesaurus various names for someone who would work like that.
A street name can come from word-of-mouth reputation, a lifestyle, a cover profession, a childhood nickname, or just about anything. If it sounds fitting to you, use it. |
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Dec 14 2004, 12:07 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,095 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Seattle Wa, USA Member No.: 1,139 |
Tom Bombadil - Memorable NPC decker
Guppy - Infiltrator, looked as harmless as a guppy. |
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Dec 15 2004, 07:38 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 236 Joined: 14-March 04 From: Cal Poly: SLO Member No.: 6,155 |
We have a "Gardener" character, spanish elven physad, devote catholic, has a digging trowel weapon focus and a hooked metal pole. Did a lot of actual gardening as a day job. Let's see, some good names. Bullets - Orc ammunition specialist Charlotte - Spider shaman, hunts insect shamans Cripple - Creapy mage. Causes turnabout to those who pick on others. David - Physad Face. All his powers are geased that he has to be naked though. Very Scary to role play. :| Element - Drone Rigger, drones are set up to deliver all 4 types of elemental damage. Garbage Man - Rigger with a highly modified garbage truck Hanger - Physad Window Washer, with adhesion and meld. Skilled Chemist. J'mes - Rigger, flies a mechanical dragon Juggernaut - Troll Urban Brawl Player. Rolled 30 dice on a body check on first run, needed 4's, got 3 successes. :( Knockout - Physad initiate (magic rating 4). Former K-E, now shao-lin. Will not kill, ever again. Lagomorph - Combat Mage with a thing for rabbits Leine - decker. Created before watching the anime with the similar name. Ludite - mage, speciallizes in destroying anything techy. Nightfall - cyclops who has to sustain to not have force 6 shadow around him Odin - Storm Shaman Optic - Mage/drone rigger. Has fiber-optic cables to all his drones, special RC deck with lenses he can cast through. Pling - Troll armor maker (int 4). Auther of bestselling books "how to not get shot" and "How to get shot and not care" Rural - surged outdoorsman Shutdown - streetsam/rigger/decker. Shuts down systems by whatever means nesisary. Including the large emp device in the van. (Which works in our game, save that debate for elseware) Slider - Face, skunk shaman. Human with char of 8. :love: Smashbits - Troll Combat Decker Tinman - Street Sam with .02 essence Wolfpak - drone rigger with pack of walkers Zapper - Has a large electrical charge on him which he manipulates. Hard to turn off though. Timesplit - Planeswalker, chronomancer, electrician. Ok, not really a shadowrun character, but has made a few camios in our games. ;) |
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Dec 16 2004, 03:17 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 109 Joined: 29-March 03 From: Tir Tarngiere Member No.: 4,353 |
Torrent - Elven Decker
Kaine - Orc Physad Thatch - Human Rigger Oddball - also Human Rigger |
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Dec 16 2004, 06:30 PM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,664 Joined: 21-September 04 From: Arvada, CO Member No.: 6,686 |
Raptor - Kid stealth legs, balance tail, B&E "expert", also parachutist
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Dec 19 2004, 10:08 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 80 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 850 |
Lessee.
Hawk -- Jack Hawkings, Generic Mercenary. Hawk -- Ork bike-ganger. Hawk -- Salish Hawk Shaman Hawk -- Fixer with cheap, but shoddy, goods. (Was supposed to be 'Hock' but teh punks he worked with didn't catch that.) Hawk -- Knight errant officer The five Hawks were quite a bit of fun. The first was a PC, who kept running into other people with the name of Hawk. The perils of a common streetname. "Was that Hawk teh merc or Hawk the Ork?" "Hawk the cop. There's another Hawk?" "Oh frag, a cop-Hawk? Add him to the list!" Gazelle -- Dwarf who replaced her limbs with Elven cyberlimbs, to make herself tall and lithe. Sundown -- Makaw bounty hunter and tracker. No cybernetics, no magic, but he readiated badassoity. Mr Fuchi -- Decker that'd taken one too many hits from psychotropic IC ... he collected Fuchi products exclusive to any other. After tehcomapny collapsed, he got desperate and now has a MUCH harder time with his obsession. Works cheap for rare Fuchi products in barter. Riffraff -- Rat Shaman. Former corporate spellslinger who was defeated by 'Kid Up-and-coming' in a magician's duel. Wound up having his eyes blown out in addition to losing his job and getting kicked out. Had enough to buy dirt-cheap cyber-eyes that glowed red when it was dark. Also had Str 1 hand razors. Absolute bastard. The Dragon Lady -- Triad leader who might be a dragon, might be a magician, might just be Some Generic Asian Chick. Works the dragon motif, however. Olga Fafnirsdottir -- One of Seattle's only Giant women, former star of bad Norwegian TV (She herself is elevength generation American) where she played Sif. Wound up getting her own spinoff from the Thor TV show. Retired at thirty-five, now runs a store in Seattle that caters to Troll-sized clients (Clothes, furniture, etc) ... also runs a Nordic-themed eaterry, again sized extra-large. Seats humans at "The kid taables". Whitefish -- sleazy fixer, digs up fresh bands for clubs. Good at his job, master of the art of the deal, has the bad kind of fat. |
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Dec 20 2004, 10:42 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 45 Joined: 17-December 03 From: CAS, Houston Member No.: 5,913 |
I like the Gazelle character idea, Reb.
Here's some I have used: Exon and Intron - Decker and Face elven team. Romero - Ghoul fixer Renaissance Man - Burnt-out hermetic mage that turns to cyberware T.L.C - Troll ganger, usually just T.C for "Tender Care" We had a fellow in our group that would come up with a bunch of nicknames for his sim-pornstar-turned-runner, but they weren't so much good as just funny. "Mr. Johnson" -obviously "Lance Ares" "Ron J. of the Shadows" "Weapon of mass Destruction" "Elf Hunter" -don't ask "Frag-el Rock" "Richard Veneral" and others that I just can't put up here. |
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Dec 22 2004, 04:37 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 23 Joined: 24-September 03 Member No.: 5,647 |
i've got a couple that i've always liked. i've pretty much always been the obvious namer...nothing too fancy.
Blade: favorite PC. Spurs and finger razors. and guns. street sam with a heart. as a kid, got attacked by a dragon during the awakening and got really badly cut up, but not killed. scars all over his body. Edge: uses knives, go figure. Wheels: Permanent cyber rollerblades attached to his feet. rolls everywhere. Smoke: favorite NPC. decker. his icon is a figure made of smoke. when he hasn't been detected he appears as just a fog covering the system. DemonLover#69: favorite icon. a matrix user that the PC has run into in a chatroom. icon is a succubus (sp?). she's a lot of fun to play... |
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Dec 22 2004, 08:28 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: 15-November 04 From: Cleveland, Ohio Member No.: 6,830 |
Some of these names were from team members others were mine
Dried Apples - The Black Elf voodonista conjourer of Dambullah Diesel - Troll Rigger, think Jack from big trouble in little china but a troll Cassanova- Pretty boy Elf face and part time pimp Lolita - very young looking smoking hot Elf mage Mr. Cleanhands- Racoon shaminist, mind controler Schoc Muel - cybered super sammy nearly cyborg Dreams of Murder- Human phys adept who likes mantis, assassian Hines - troll phys adept, liked to gamble Burgandy -human burnt out conjour who did infiltration work Lame Duck- Human decker, who specialized in cowardness Johnny Gynohammer - Human shaman of the Horned man like troll thrash music |
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Dec 22 2004, 08:29 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: 15-November 04 From: Cleveland, Ohio Member No.: 6,830 |
double posted sorry bout that.
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Dec 22 2004, 09:29 PM
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Ain Soph Aur Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,477 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Montreal, Canada Member No.: 600 |
Here's an interesting bit: I was talking to a guy who works at a club. He was telling this story that involded a ex drug dealer called Blind Fury, so called because a few years back he got shot up pretty bad and lost his sight. It just struck me as an interesting example of a street name. I asked the guy if people really called him Blind Fury, and yeah they do, in fact he didn't even know his real name.
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Dec 23 2004, 03:12 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 20 Joined: 1-January 04 Member No.: 5,946 |
The Father - he's a street preacher/street sammy.
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Jan 1 2005, 11:17 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 355 Joined: 24-August 02 From: Magna, Ute Nation Member No.: 3,166 |
Static - Human Decker
Ebony - Night One Adept Stain - Street Sam Mouse Trap - Troll Ghoul Mage Raging Bull - Minotaur Street Sam Phreak - Human Sorcerer Zero - Human Street Sam Crazy Legs - Human Face Joe Public - Human Street Sam Sarcastic Jack - Human Street Sam Lotus - Night One Adept Numbers - Human Decker Liam the Tooth - Troll Street Sam Josiah - Ork Street Sam (he still lived with his parents) Night Hawk - Elf Adept CC - Human Ganger G-Dogg - Ork Ganger Snipe - Human Ganger He Who Walks With Rats - Ork Rat Shaman Ganger, the other players called him Rat Boy. |
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Jan 1 2005, 11:38 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: 1-January 05 From: El Lay, Sea-Ay Member No.: 6,921 |
Bricktop, in reference to the movie, "Snatch."
No, not a Troll, but... He was a hermetic, who wore Buddy Holly glasses, and he went through a wall once via his head. The emo hipster of the group, a jackass, and well...He deserved it. :twirl: |
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Jan 1 2005, 11:52 PM
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Resident Legionnaire Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,136 Joined: 8-August 04 From: Usually Work Member No.: 6,550 |
"Doctor Petrov"
Performed first aid on his teammates on so many occasions that this name came into use. |
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Jan 2 2005, 12:28 AM
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King of the Hobos Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,117 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 127 |
Bob the Destroyer - Borderline psychotic elven combat mage.
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Jan 4 2005, 11:01 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 278 Joined: 28-September 04 From: The Smoke Member No.: 6,709 |
Street Names I've used:
Slayer - human sammy with paired SMG's and spurs (Gun)Slinger - weapon specialist Solar - Sun shaman with a penchant for the Nova spell :o) Firestorm - Troll version of Slinger pretty much Blaze - Only ever character with cyber arms (they suck) Nexus - elven girl vehicle rigger (CHA 10 to boot) Raven - drop dead blonde hottie street sam/face (yes, she did combine those two effectively) who likes blowing stuff up Tex - weapon specialist with a Wild West theme Street Names in my current group: Wraith - cat shaman cat burgler with lots of illusions spells (tough challenge for a newbie GM) Pheonix - sniper/pistoleer who in the early days did rise from the ashes several times (earnt an 'edge' after 10+ runs of scar tissue buildup) Flex - elven street same/combat decker Canis - wolf shaman combat monster who doesn't have a problem with cyberware As a group, we try to steer away from cliche or obvious street names, and for a while it was 'pick a random paracritter' season, but now we just go with what works. We normally try to come up with our names as part of our histories. |
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Jan 4 2005, 03:51 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,453 Joined: 17-September 04 From: St. Paul Member No.: 6,675 |
Here is one of the worst I have heard of, but I love it:
Jimmy Nostrils: Mafia goon wannabe, B&E guy with lots of contacts and Mafia knowledge skills. |
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Jan 6 2005, 01:42 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 9 Joined: 3-January 05 Member No.: 6,927 |
My first character was named Wardancer, after a class in Imperian, an MUD.
Basically, Wardancer was this cold guy who was once a rich guy's son that kicked ass with a pistol. In my first six games, he never missed a shot. Seriously. Not that all of them killed with one shot, but he never missed. Situation where a couple guards were dead in guard quarters, more are coming. Another character in our party (forget the name): Whatever you do...don't....miss... Wardancer: I never miss. Four guards come in, he proceeds to kill three of them with headshots and one with a regular shot because he had no combat dice left. Ah, good times. Those were some damn lucky rolls. |
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Jan 6 2005, 08:53 PM
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Uncle Fisty Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928 |
Titan- Obviously ... massive troll
Shades - human face Gabriel _ gargoyle shaman Rollin'- Dwarf rigger Will E. Coyote (obviously pronounced Wily) - Elf Coyote shaman Gemini - elven face, Cha of around 12, uses pair of Predator 2's, female loWang- Ninja dragon shaman magical adept (mouthful) Kempi- Japanese Street sammy Ol' Zeek - Trool ex merc (picture of troll merc in SR3) Havoc - Human chaos mage, has 3 pet hellhounds w/ quickened armor and spell shield Pschyo (origianlly psycho mime, but then the player got tired of not talking) - elf rigger Bourbon- hum fem voodoun Mr. Grey - ghoul phys ad Priest- Catholic mage vigilante, complete w/ flaming sword weapon focus Marlboro man - street sam hitman, w/ stetson, longcoat, and a bad cough |
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Jan 6 2005, 09:08 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,453 Joined: 17-September 04 From: St. Paul Member No.: 6,675 |
Not a SR character, but fun to say
Shiva Bransford-Calister: Shiva the destroyer Bransford from the movie maverick (You did hold your breath Mrs. Bransford) Calister, I have no idea. |
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Jan 6 2005, 09:25 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 11 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,030 |
Bonecrusher Jones - Dwarven Street Sam with maxed strength.
Nikolas "Rockjaw" Rage - Also a 2nd Ed. maxed out Bio/cyber Combat Monster. |
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Jan 26 2005, 11:25 AM
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Free Spirit Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,950 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Bloomington, IN UCAS Member No.: 1,920 |
Cancer - Sam started out in a group taking names from zodiac signs. Sole survivor of that group. Always liked the look he'd give when someone would talk about some guy that had killed more guys than cancer.
Plague - character that got tagged with this name after falling from helicopter over targets home. "A plague upon your house!" Token - lone elf among a group of orks. |
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Jan 27 2005, 05:01 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 46 Joined: 27-January 05 Member No.: 7,022 |
Well,
We had a Street Sammy named Chapel A Decker name Violator. A Rigger named Sideshow (that's definitely my favorite, get in sideshow it's time for th getaway!) An adept named Jade. A decker named Swyx. cool old street name. Some character are just cool by name. |
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