One of my players is starting with a 6L/6C Mr Johnson Contact.
I was thinking of having Mr Johnson be a Drake, but there are no rules in SR4 for drakes. I was hoping people hear might be able to come of with good house rules for Drakes in SR4.
I'd also like ideas for BP costs for a Drake, mainly because I normally use PC Char Gen rules to make NPCs. Plus if drakes are in the game as NPCs I have a player that will bug me to allow him to play a drake. I'm not saying that I would let him, I'd just like so ideas for rules.
BTW I have a migraine, making it hard to think, speak and write.
Thyme
Full Version: NPC/PC Drake
for stats, it's pretty easy. Just look up the old attributes from SR3, apply them in SR4 just like converting a character. For racial adjustments, subtract 3 (the average) from the listed attribute, and that's the modifier (probably all positive with drakes). Then go over the powers. Remember that there is a Flight skill, and dragon breath requires Exotic Ranged weapons skill (see Critters:Dragons in SR4). I'd apply Mystic armor as well, since dragons have it.
BP cost... I have no idea. Trolls are 40, so ... 50-60? Up to you I suppose.
BTW, you're typing, so you should be fine. Just make sure you don't speak, think or write. Take two shots of Schmirnoff and blog me in the morning.
BP cost... I have no idea. Trolls are 40, so ... 50-60? Up to you I suppose.
BTW, you're typing, so you should be fine. Just make sure you don't speak, think or write. Take two shots of Schmirnoff and blog me in the morning.
| QUOTE (Thyme Lost @ Mar 4 2006, 02:23 AM) |
| I'd also like ideas for BP costs for a Drake, mainly because I normally use PC Char Gen rules to make NPCs. Plus if drakes are in the game as NPCs I have a player that will bug me to allow him to play a drake. I'm not saying that I would let him, I'd just like so ideas for rules. |
If you play Mr. J well your PCs should never know he is a Drake. He is going to actively avoid telling even his closest friends. A secret is only as secret until two people know, and Drakes most definately want to keep their status a secret.
EDIT Also make sure to read the Contacts sections very closely. Of special importance for dealing with a Connections 6 Contact are the Availability, page 279, and Favor for a Friend, page 281.
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| In general, as a contact becomes more valuable and helpful, he is more likely to ask the player character to do him a favor in return for previous help. Naturally, the more useful the contact, the more dangerous and troublesome that favor should be. |
As for your player he can have his fun drafting up the Drake character. Don't worry about BP, just tell him to make up whatever he wants. Then slap him in a mage mask, just for fun, in the most secure prision imaginable. Within 3 sessions of sitting in the corner watching everyone else play his urge to play a Drake should be gone.
Or there is always the LDS.
Or is your game high end enough to justify and handle a Drake? Because it is doubtful at the start of a normal 400BP or 450BP game.
I'm very curious to see what they have done to drakes in SR4, they may just change something.
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