That's just flavor. I paid the full price for all of them.

You can't be a technomancer/magician Resonance and Magic are mutually exclusive. Even if it was allowed, however, I just think this idea is cooler

Well the rules let you be a mage/social adept/street sam

Hehe, that's the truth!

And you can be terrible at all 3. That would require that you be a heavily cybered mystic adept.

Calypso

Yeah yeah yeah. I know that's weak for a metahuman. Whatever a weak edge means.

I'm not sure exactly what it means either. Maybe they don't let you into hip clubs because you aren't 'edgie' enough? But i do know it's a minimum, and that Body(6) is a maximum.

On the contrary, the ork body max is 9. He has average body for an ork.

You're probably right about the clubs though.

No he sounds like fun. Nice to see a mage that isn't computer illiterate. I get tried of them storing the librarys in wherehouse space.

Now blakkie, didn't you see that he picked the 'Bad Luck' negative quality? That SURELY justifies an Edge of 1 (or is that min-maxing to make the least of a bad quality...I forget)



good one, man

Yes, I have something negative - shouldn't contacts be 13 BPs, or is there something I missed in the rules?

Otherwise I really like the character - especially the part of a 'Loki-esqe' mage/hacker with one of Odin's ravens as his Mentor I loved that part! (got me thinking of mr. Gaiman's novel American Gods...)

Cool concept; balanced stats.

Missed that you went with the munchkin Orc play.

Seriously though, Orc is a good choice for this type of character inspite of some of the drawbacks (mostly the limited Int). But i'm not sure putting those 14BP or so into Specializations is the best spent. You can aquire those for only 2 Karma each after character creation, which the best BP to Karma. It does depend somewhat on how your GM handles character improvement (see Learning Time, page 263), how many karma you gain between adventures, and what you are looking to improve first. If you want to save up for that first Initiation and Magic point anyway (31 karma i think?) you'll have time to learn a handful of Specializations even at the slowest suggested rate.

Yeah, sorry, it's 13BP on contacts. It adds up right, I just put the wrong number. (If you add up the numbers I listed you get 447 BP).

Yeah, I too love American Gods. The character has a mentor spirit named Memory, and a Virtual Pet/agent program named Thought Kinda silly, but I liked it.

Hmm.... didn't know specializations were so cheap during play. Namely I was using them to try to make up for not enough points to get skills to where I want them.

If I did cut back on specializations, where would the points be better spent?

Each session? Well that's not too bad. Then there are some other places you could drop it in. Have you considered the extra 4 BP to have Binding(2)? You'll thank your lucky stars for that spare spirit to tap when your GM finishes System Failure and decides that the remanents of Winternight wants to talk to you about your Mentor.

Another possibility is another Focus. They are dirt cheap to bind during chargen, i believe only 1BP/Force. So if you can afford the Power Foci 2 that's an OK deal (2BP to bind, 10BP to purchase). Counterspelling(3) Focus is nice too (only 3BP to bind, 3BP to purchase) and the rest of the team will worship you from the first time a mage opponent tries to drop a Stunball on them.

EDIT: Incidentally i predict that by the 3rd session you'll be experiencing serious Edge-envy if anyone else on your team has 5 or more in Edge.

It is a collection of nutjobs. Apparently somewhat capable nutjobs, but nutjobs none-the-less. You'll find them listed towards the end of the History section in the SR4 BBB, as they were a main player in crashing the Matrix in 2065. The System Failure book that just came out in PDF to wrap up the end of SR3 fiction has more details on this, but the gist of it is that their top 2 pet peeves are Loki and the Matrix.

Not to worry, they'll come to meet you.

P.S. Did i mention their nukes? You might want to invest in some SPF 10,000 sunblock.

You halve the essence loss from the lower of your bioware or cyberware essence loss.
So it's .55+.5*.2 = .65. So yeah, I made a mistake.

Sleep regulators make it so you only need 3 hours of sleep per night. Good for an overtaxed mage/wannabe hacker.

2 datajacks because 1 will always be used for his commlink. That leaves 1 free for other things.

Awakened people don't take negatives for using the matrix, they just lose magical ability if they have cyber/bioware installed. So, there are very few awakened hackers.

And lastly, thanks

Calypso

I expect something very different to occur than you do then.

With SR4 trodes being the equal of datajacks there really is a lot less reason for hackers to get cut. I don't think the question is why 2 datajacks, it is more why any datajacks at all. You have no other Cyberware, so it cheats you of the one of few powerplay negative qualities, Sensitive System. That is one thing about the SR4 negative qualities, besides the very poorly designed Incompetent quality, they are generally less abusable than SR3 Flaws.

Cerebral Booster is really the only thing that a Hacker needs to get cut for, unless you want to be a "jump in" rigger where a Control Rig is nice. Coincidentally Cerebral Boosters are actually the one piece of 'ware that is helpful to a [hermetic] magician. But even with the extra Drain dice it gives hermetics, taking that, or any piece of 'ware forges the nature and destiny of the character to be hacker first, mage second. Trying to fight that chosen destiny later will only ultimately weaken the character....though she'll quite possibily still be fun to play.

The biggest barrier i see to a mage/hacker is skill set requirements. There is nearly no overlap there, the only big synergy is the spell Analyze Device and the Logic Attribute (for hermetics) for mechanic/electronics focused riggers/hackers.

They most certainly do. Check out page 318. You can get a trode net, or trode paint. Under previous editions of Shadowrun, using a trode rig stopped you from using hot sim, but SR4 makes no mention of such a limitation, and in fact doesn't even hint at it. You can run hot sim using a trode net just fine

There is the cost of it.... which is remarkably missing from the book (unless I missed it somewhere).

Ding!

Although if you really wanted conductive metal and optical fibres in his head, then ya he's different that way.

Just a slight nit-pick, but they might be better the other way around.

Thought (more active) as the Mentor, and Memory as the 'collector of information' VR Agent...

There is that, but then you could also say that you have an Addiction to caviar, or champagne fermented in Zero-G. As far as I see, the addiction rules don't really take expense into account.

Oh, and nope, there's no price listed. I'm using 500¥ pre dose, which I think is the SR3 cost.

Personally, I think tobacco, alcohol, caffeine, etc should all be viable options for the Addiction Quality.