 Highest initiate grade PC, what have you seen? |
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 Jan 27 2005, 04:05 PM
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Genuine Artificial Intelligence  Group: Members Posts: 4,019 Joined: 12-June 03 Member No.: 4,715  |
A bit lighter and more frivilous than my usual questions, but...
What's the highest initiate grade you've played, GMed, or seen played? Also, what are the quoted ranges of IEs & GDs? (for those of you with these numbers at your mental fingertips) Thanks. |
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Jan 27 2005, 04:07 PM
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Mr. Johnson Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,587 Joined: 25-January 05 From: Berkeley, CA Member No.: 7,014 |
Grade 6. The mage only had a magic rating of 8, though, losing 4 points of magic total from various sources (all non-cyber/non-bioware). Oh, and that same mage HOGged as well.
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Jan 27 2005, 04:07 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,840 Joined: 24-July 02 From: Lubbock, TX Member No.: 3,024 |
Um, like Grade 3 in my games. Any more then that and things get a little more powerful then I like to run/play.
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Jan 27 2005, 04:13 PM
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Chrome to the Core Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,152 Joined: 14-October 03 From: ::1 Member No.: 5,715 |
At the moment we have a Grade 5 Adept, but we haven't played with that group of PCs for a while.
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Jan 27 2005, 04:19 PM
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Genuine Artificial Intelligence Group: Members Posts: 4,019 Joined: 12-June 03 Member No.: 4,715 |
The highest I've had is an adept who was Grade 6, but I misread a but of the book and let him mix the initiation with the 20karma/Power point rule. (the book mentions that initiation & that rule shouldn't be mixed) So he also bought three extra power points from that, so he was kinda like a Grade 9.
No cyberware or bio, he actually had 15 points worth of adept powers. Second highest would be a grade 5 shaman. (these are both with me as GM) Highest I've played as a PC is, I think, 4. |
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Jan 27 2005, 04:26 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,006 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Grade 1.
~J |
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Jan 27 2005, 04:45 PM
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Immoral Elf Group: Members Posts: 15,247 Joined: 29-March 02 From: Grimy Pete's Bar & Laundromat Member No.: 2,486 |
Grade 11 Racoon Shaman, but he gave up a few points of Magic due to Bioware.
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Jan 27 2005, 04:57 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 172 Joined: 16-September 04 From: UK Member No.: 6,671 |
We have a grade 6 or 7 Cat shamen in our group.
Harliquin or Ellian the Scribe havent technichally appeared in our game yet but theyre like grade 80 - 100 odd. |
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Jan 27 2005, 05:00 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 401 Joined: 7-June 02 From: Living with the straw sheep. Member No.: 2,850 |
I had a grade 6 physad wandering around at one point (all enhanced senses and detective-type stuff out the wazoo).
Somehow, even with the huge initiate grade, she wasn't all that game breaking... |
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Jan 27 2005, 05:33 PM
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Traumatizing players since 1992 Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,282 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Las Vegas, NV Member No.: 220 |
Grade 6 in my games in one campaign. other than that campaign, grade 3.
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Jan 27 2005, 05:40 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 527 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,118 |
My longest-played PC, who's completed several(probably two dozen) full campaigns in addition to dozens of one-shots, cameos, and other such roles, has an initiate grade in the low-to-mid double-digits.
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Jan 27 2005, 05:41 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 614 Joined: 17-June 03 From: A safehouse about to be compromised by ninjas Member No.: 4,754 |
Our highest was grade 5 or 6, its been awhile. Weve had a few characters make it up that high. The limit isnt due to power or advancement constraints, just that by the time we get that high we tend to get bored with the group and start a new one. If we ever managed to run a longer continuous party Im sure it would get higher.
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Jan 27 2005, 05:47 PM
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Traumatizing players since 1992 Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,282 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Las Vegas, NV Member No.: 220 |
up to mid double digits? wow. multiple thousand karma. How old is the character? I don;t see how he could live long enough to spend it with times to increase skills and all..... |
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Jan 27 2005, 05:50 PM
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Genuine Artificial Intelligence Group: Members Posts: 4,019 Joined: 12-June 03 Member No.: 4,715 |
Not everyone uses training time rules. I would like to hear the exact grade on this beast, though. Low to mid double digits is a pretty big range.
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Jan 27 2005, 05:50 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 527 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,118 |
Games-wise, I've played him for... over ten years. Jesus, I (and Shadowrun) am old. The character himself is in his early fourties.
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Jan 27 2005, 05:58 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 84 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Toronto, Canada Member No.: 2,067 |
I've seen a Grade 13 Initiate in one of our games.
I refuse to offer any comments beyond that as invoking said character's name might draw the player's attention and I never want to see that character again. TBO |
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Jan 27 2005, 06:03 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,326 Joined: 15-April 02 Member No.: 2,600 |
PC: Grade 4, though it was only for one session. The highest I've seen played up is 3. Our campigns usually run about a year, so characters tend to cap out around there.
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Jan 27 2005, 06:15 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 361 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Oshawa, ON Member No.: 163 |
I'm seriously considering an Initiate Grade cap in our group at this point. Pass this point and you can start considering retirement... SR13 |
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Jan 27 2005, 06:22 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 611 Joined: 21-October 03 From: Yorkshire Toxic Zone Member No.: 5,752 |
Grade 12, but we NPC'd him at Grade 10 (at the point he became an immortal elf - yes its a house rule, no i don't care how cheesy it is, it worked in the campaign at the time!).
The character concept was Emperor Palpatine (I SAID I didn't care how cheesy it was. Pipe down at the back!). Yes, he did earn the karma, no he didn't have any real skills beyond his magical ones. Since he's Eeeeevil and an NPC he also has a potency rating, which will be going up soon now he's located the whereabouts of a trapped shadow spirit he can bargain with (which took a rating 12 metaplane quest - which very nearly killed him. That was a fun day for me as the GM!). The player gets to play ON HIS OWN every now and again to further his evil ends, and then I let the results feed back into the current campaigns I'm involved in. Works for us! Typical max grade now amongst our players tends to be around 3-4. |
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Jan 27 2005, 06:25 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 403 Joined: 27-August 02 From: Scotland Member No.: 3,175 |
My Physical Adept got up to 13 in a previous campaign (under SR2 rules) and when we left it the group was on the metaplanes, so I'd imagine he'd have gone higher after that.
In the current campaign one character (Magician's Way Adept) has got up to 13 so far as well, and looks like going further. 8-10 is more typical. |
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Jan 27 2005, 06:43 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 586 Joined: 22-November 02 From: Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A. (or C.A.S.) Member No.: 3,630 |
Sahandrian will probably kill me for posting this, but:
As you all know, we play a Play-By-AOL-Instant-Messenger/Play-By-IRC version of SR3 in our campaign. My character, "The Foreigner", is an Adept of the Magician's Way (Hermetic), and a follower of the Invisible Way as far as his Adept powers are concerned (as if you didn't already know :wobble: ). However, he hasn't yet initiated--he doesn't have enough Karma Points. The highest-level characters of which I am aware in our campaign are Ceres, a Grade 1 initiated Physical Adept/Cat Shaman, and Malkav, a Grade 3 Physical Adept/Coyote Shaman. AFAIK, both are currently inactive. (My first and only 'run--so far--was in July and August of 2003, but I'm not certain whether or not the other players continued without me. :) ) --Foreigner |
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Jan 27 2005, 07:01 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,088 Joined: 8-October 04 From: Dallas, TX Member No.: 6,734 |
Currently in my game the highest is a level 3 Raccoon Shaman (wave hi, Lina!)
Highest when I was a player - 0. The GM kept killing us off or letting us kill ourselves. I managed to get my fox shaman enough karma to initiate - and failed to bond. He then died in the next mission. *doh* |
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Jan 27 2005, 07:32 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,129 Joined: 11-June 03 From: Tir Tairngire Member No.: 4,712 |
My group has a grade 4 phys/ad and a grade 7 mage, and the toughest they've gone up against is a grade 9 initiate.
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Jan 27 2005, 09:20 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 292 Joined: 24-September 04 Member No.: 6,701 |
Currently a lvl 3 Initiate. Now need to start broadening my spell arsenal, then Foci next.
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Jan 27 2005, 09:35 PM
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Freelance Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 7,324 Joined: 30-September 04 From: Texas Member No.: 6,714 |
It'll just give you nightmares. |
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