Right, I've been playing a stealth adept for most of the year, and have got crap all idea what to spend the bit of cash I've got saved up on, since the equipment and everything is so damned convoluted and hard to understand.

So, Stealth Adept, specialises in unarmed combat, pistols and security systems. I have 57,500 to spend. What the heck should I buy?

I currently have assorted firearms, a tazer, armour, a rating 4 fake ID, datapad, survival kit, phone, radio etc.

Spy gear (SOTA:64), custom pistols (CC), camouflage outfits (CC), lifestyle options (SSG).

Save up for a Ruthenium Polymer suit with Thermal Dampening. Your GM will hate you forever.

By specialized in Security Systems, do you mean he has Electronics and Electronics B/R skills, or just the Knowledge Skill? Because quite frankly the latter is just fluff, and if the former is the case you're horribly under-equipped and will need a few hundred thousand more to get all the electronic toys you're missing.

You don't need a full body suit for Rue to be effective. Need to peek around a corner? Pull on your Rue ski-mask and look around the corner!

Get a Rue-coated gun, and a Rue arm/glove setup, and there you go, and invisible gun wielded by an invisible arm.

Don't forget to get Rue-coated surveilenece gear. Audio bugs, videocameras, motion sensors ... land mines. You know, anything that you need to hide.

Also, Get a 'trode net, an external version of that piece of cyber that translates thoughts to words for broadcast, and a DNI-modified radio. Never underestimate the power of silent communication.

80k? jesus. i paid 80k for mine, but mine's got 10 scanners, rating 4 thermal dampening, and rating 4 chemseal. to start out with, just get a ruthenium-coated poncho, man. that shouldn't run you more than ~50k.

I would suggest spending some of it in another area: Contacts.

Having the plans of any building you want can be very handy. (Make sure to also ask for HVAC and electrical)

Also you could ask to pay for some courses in various usefull disciplines, such as chemistry, martial arts, gymnastics...

Remember, Knowing is half the battle!

/GI JOE!!!

If that's all the money you've made, and you aren't in a ganger campaign, then I'd humbly recommend you jump up onto the table at the next game and do pelvic thrusts in the faces of the sammies, deckers, and riggers while jeering them.

Not that you have a rigger, he would have quit the first time he lost a drone if it would take him five years of running to replace it.

Once you're done celebrating your choice of a non-nuyen dependent character, invest in some of the toys straight out of SR3: a Scanner with some built-in Decryption and maybe ECCM, one of the microphones (Laser, Shotgun, etc.), maybe a Signal Locator and some Tracking Signals, a Bug Scanner, a Dataline Scanner, maybe a Jammer...

A Chem Sniffer wouldn't be a bad idea if no one in your group has the cyber versions. A Gas Detection System and an Ultrasound Detector/Emitter are also good buys.

If you're reaching out to sourcebooks, consider some Thermite and such. You can never have enough Thermite.

You probably won't be able to afford a fraction of this stuff, and you can survive without most of it, though you'd be surprised how helpful a lot of these toys can be when you know how to use them. A Scanner and Laser Mic give you a whole new method of doing legwork, and you can't call yourself a True Paranoid Freak ™ without a Bug Scanner and Dataline Scanner.

Good microtransceiver with appropriate encryption. Good scanner with appropriate decryption. Shotgun and laser microphones can work wonders if you're creative with them. Consider a few cheap video cameras and a transmitters along with enough bugs to make your ears bleed (dataline taps are also nice that way).

Ruthy suits are all well and good, but they make the GM's life hard which can in turn make yours absolutely miserable.

Microtronics toolkit - necessary for picking maglocks and sabotaging electronic devices.

-Siege

Camouflage condoms - so they won't see you coming!

Unless they have warded boltholes, that is.

“This is your spy cam.”

“THIS is Carlos’ spy cam and THIS is my spy cam? Look at the size of this thing! Size matters, but in the spy world, it’s reverse. You want people to say ‘Look how small, sexy, and sleek this is’…not ‘HOW HUGE THIS IS, look what I just pulled out of his pants, it’s huge.’ People will laugh at me if they pull this out. Is that his escape module?”

“Yes, it is. I know, everyone wants to be like Carlos.”

“Well, I don’t want to BE like Carlos, but I can’t help noticing that my stuff looks like you can get it at Radio Shack in 1972.”