I was flipping through my forth edition last night and my four-year-old twins jumped in my lap to "read" with me. At that time I was looking over some of the sample characters and I found the responses interesting:

Bounty Hunter: Monster with knife

Combat Mage: Monster with boo-boo (pointing at the magic)

Covert Ops Specialist: "I don't know what that is."

Drone Rigger: Monster

Enforcer: Monster

Face: "That's a mommy!"

Gunslinger Adept: "That's a mommy!"

Hacker: Monster

Occult Investigator: "That's you, Daddy!" (I look nothing like this guy.)

Radical Eco-Shamman: "That's a mommy!"

Smuggler: "That's a mommy!"

Sprawl Ganger: "That's a baseball Monster with a bat! Look, Daddy, that will give you a boo-boo." (pointing at the spikes on the bat)

Street Samurai: Monster

Street Shaman: Scary Monster

Technomancer: "That's a mommy!"

Weapons Specialist: "That's a mommy!"

Just thought that you would all get a kick out of that.

I made my TM by taking the sample TM and making some very small changes. I'm a mommy and I didn't even know it!

Finally, someone else thinks single moms who run the shadows to suport their kids make good characters, too.

but for optimum appeal to the target audience and considering the demographics of the select audience members it's more preferable to have hot young ladies with killer skills either in magic, combat, or at computers. The appeal degrades when they have a kid because it means that the female is... ok, I'll quit with the joke now since some of y'all probably think I was serious.

Easy? that's good too.

ah, that part of VR2.0 is just incredibly fun to read

given the time stamp on what AH posted, and assuming a relative newborn when she made the post, and assuming you are running an SR4 game, then yes, a 15-17 year old is like the age of the child

The posters in the SBs are really what makes the SR universe work for me.

From the tidbits of information, to the flamewars, to the hints of SOMETHING BIG (usually involving Dunkelzahn or Harlequin) going on, to the quirks of folks like Laughing Bandit, those posts just bring the world to life.

Kids are so cute at that age. Then they become moody, obnoxious a-hole teenagers.

That happens way before 15-18. At least in my family.

its the net, it exposes them to how badly messed up the world is...

still, i think its better to expose them to it then shelter them from it. atleast the former will hopefully prepare them for living it in on their own, unless the idea makes them open up a vein or something.

hmm, given that dunks gone, whats the matrix-name for ghostwalker? or does he not care for the new tech?

Ghostwalker / Ghost in the Machine, Glitterfrost (Neither are confirmed) / Icewing, Doll-Maker

either he has some issues just settling on one name (darn picky dragons) or some freelancers jsut don't agree (or read each other's stuff, although I doubt that's it)

cute. looking forward to reading the sourcebooks.

I asked my 5 year old son the same questions, here are his answers:

Bounty Hunter: Werewolf with a thing

Combat Mage: An Alien

Covert ops: Girl

Drone Rigger: Soldier

Enforcer: Soldier with bones

Face: Girl

Gunslinger: Girl with a shotgun and guns

Hacker: A guy

Occult investigator: A guy with fire and a thing

Eco-shaman: Girl

Smuggler: Girl with a bike

Ganger: a dead guy

Street Samurai: Undead guy with a sword

Street Shaman: Zombie guy

Technomancer: Girl

Weapons Specialist: Girl with guns

so, there you go.

hehe, maybe you should have him checked for early hormone development? looks like he cant get past the girl think on most of the female archtypes.

still, i like his interpetation of the street shaman and samurai, oh and the ganger :rofl:

"Dead guy?"

Dude, Fistandantilus, we must be getting old.

Kids, these days...

no kidding. Hell, I'm only 25. And I'm from California and wondering why no one says 'dude' anymore. 'Course, living in Utah might be part of it....

thanks for the empathy..dude

That's hilarious. Remember that old Jeff Foxworthy joke about the uncut grass and the motor hanging form a tree? "That's a house where a gun lives."

"That's a house where a roleplayer lives."

Thats really funny I´m eager to hear more kid´s descriptions of archetypes

I guess for 4 or 5yo boy´s it´s not unusual, to simply describe every female as 'female' (whether they use the descriptor Mommy or Girl or whatever), though, so I wouldn´tbe bothered about the hormones

My 4 1/2 year old daughter (who thinks, by the way, that in any game, if you roll a 6, you automatically win... which makes most of our board games go very very quickly), said the following:

Troll Bounty Hunter: "It's tall, so it might be a horse"
Combat Mage: "A bad guy"
Covert Ops: "A good guy"
Drone Rigger: "A bad guy"
Enforcer: "A lion"
Face: "A girl"
Gunslinger Adept: "A princess"
Hacker: "A bad guy"
Occult Investigator: "A good girl" (the jewelry... really, it's the jewelry )
Eco-shaman: "A girl. Look, mama, she has a friend!"
Smuggler: "A super-hero girl"
Sprawl Ganger: "A tall piggy that stands up"
Street Sam: "Super-hero boy"
Street Shaman: "A very naughty boy"
Technomancer: "It's a cute little girl!"
Weapon's specialist: "Oh, there's her mommy!"

And then... "Now can I have your dice, mama?"

(I said no, not after yesterday's incident with my dice, elmer's glue, and her 1 year old brother).