Hello from the South! Since Seattle seems to get all the love, I thought that it was time for a game based in the South. Ergo, I am planning a SR4 game based out of the CAS; most likely New Orleans or Atlanta but maybe something a little smaller.

A note about me: I started RPGs with everyone's favorite d20 game. Then I played SR2 and have been hooked ever since. I'm still very new to the GM business as my experience is limited a DnD one shot and a short lived SR3 tabletop campaign.

If that sits well with you then feel free to send a character idea to me via PM or to wmj007@hotmail.com. (Keep to MS Word / Excell or a text format) Right now I am looking for backgrounds only. Finished sheets can wait until the final bell on Saturday 20-MAY-2006 at 00:00 MST. (That's Friday, May 19th at midnight Mountain Standard Time if you prefer a different time notation.)

Theme is B&E, Corp Extradition, Heists, etc. with low (preferrably zero) body counts. (i.e. If you have a Face a la Templeton Peck from the A-Team who you were worried wouldn't do very well in a huge firefight, he will most likely fit into this game.)

Looking for 4-6 characters using the standard 400 BP with a few exceptions:

Gear
Hold-outs, Light and Heavy Pistols have an availability one less than that listed in the Gear section.

Sport Rifles have an availability two less than that listed in the Gear section.

I recognize that this won't affect CharGen but will have an effect later in the game.

Magic
Feel free to create your own magical tradition, mentor spirit or unique spell - just run them by me first.

Note to Hacker/TM/Rigger type people
I am still new to the thought of letting Hackers (Deckers) into my game so...

No rampant Agent Smiths!
One Agent can not independently give commands to another Agent. You are limited to as many Agents as you can load off your comm. If it gets out of hand ... just remember that there may be someone else with more time on their hands (and more Agents) than you.

'ware
Standard and Alpha Cyberware is available at CharGen per the BBB.
Only Standard Bioware is available at CharGen.
Cultured Bioware is a class unto itself; however, it is still available at CharGen.

Contacts
You are limited to 8 Bp per contact. No starting contact may have a Connection higher than 4 - See Darren O'Mally for the only exception.

You are encouraged but not required to take Darren O'Mally as a contact. He is - among other things - the owner of O'Mally's Bar and Grill, a location that will come up in the campaign. He has a Connection of 5; however, you are still limited to 8 BP with him.

Are you looking for someone fresh off the boat, so to speak, or a more hardened runner...

He can be a seasoned deck hand or a greenie that's up to you.

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I should probably mention that this is NOT a sea-based campaign.
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I have an Idea for a Southern belle (well sorta) smuggler. Probably doing a mostly AR hacking thing with some guns and drones. This may mutate into full on weapons spec guy, depends how the points look

Ooo Ooo! I'd love to try my hand at a mage in the new system. (only played TM thus far) No combat, all stealthy, illusiony type.

A Southern Belle who uses firearms? Sounds good. I'm interested to see how she turns out.

Your welcome to have a mage Blitz and a

Well by southern belle I mean poor slum girl from the barrens turned bank robbing smuggler... but she'll play the role a bit I think.

I'd like to have a go with a B+E type, I'll try to get a background written up.

How soon are you wanting the backgrounds submitted, is Monday ok? Or is it first come, first served?

My background should be in your inbox

I'm interested. I have a few ideas, and I few rehashes of old ideas... nothing conrete. Damn sea hand comment. Now all I can think of is this ctrl-alt-del comic.
The Comic


A character I am very interested in playing was inspired by the SR novels Preying for Keeps and Headhunters. These novels deal with a vetren runner team, lead by one Jack Skater (if I recall the last name exactly) Now, through the long and complicated course of the novels Jack ends up with a daughter who he decides to keep, and ends of more or less being raised by the entire team (but especially the chromed troll, who happens to love children). Now the novels never really extend past the first year or so of the character's life, but I always wondered what she would grow up to be like.

I thought it would be a lot of fun to play a character who grew up in the shadows, have a close knit runner team as a family. Never have to learn the shadow biz cause he was raised in the shadows. Well outfitted, with tools and wear, a natural leader and denizen of the shadows. A well rounded character, he would be a compitent Face and stratagist, a good skill base as well as being the kind of man you wouldn't want to mess with in a fight, thought not a complete vat job. Sorta like Mal (Firely, if you haven't seen it, watch it!). Not as baddass as Jayne or Zoe (or Book when he wants to be ), but still is very capable and useful.


There has been a face character I've been wanting to play forever.... but he really isn't an action man.

Fixer/face
A man in his mid 50s, this retired soldier served in every major conflict since he was eigteen (back in 2033). He lost an arm and suffered chest damage in the Night of Rage; he was one of the few humans who risked his life to help the orks and troll. When the Renraku Archology shut down he was amoung the men to go in, and recived a feild commission for his work, then served as a Zoney untill the crash of 64 erased his SIN. Well connected with seemingly everyone, he strikes those he meets as profoundly authentic. He has a gentle smile and loves to tell tall tales, and RARELY mentions his time in the army. Despire his peaceful ways he is a crack shot with a pistol, However it is virtually always loaded with gel rounds, and virtually never shoots to kill. In fact, amoung smugglers the turf he guarded as a Zoney became known as the "Jelly Zone," because of his non'leathal pratises. and I hate to mention Firefly again, but I see him in present time a lot like Book is personality wise. Minus the religon.

Unfortunatly he him to be done properly I would have to ask you to bend the rules a little as far as availabilities goes, but I have a good reason for it.


here is another idea I think would be fun
Blade Adept
This ancient man has spent half a century searching for the answer to the Awakening, but not in academic halls or mage labs, but in amoung the very heart of the people and the earth. His travels have changed him. Never activly seeking violence or skill with blades it itstead grew into him over decades. Now his sudden bursts of speed or sword prowess are second nature, yet a side of him he rarely likes to use, usually only in the most dire of circumstances. A gentle man and scholarly, and if you did not know he was deadly you would never guess it. He still hates killing though, and has utmost respect for life. Inspired by Yupa Miralda from Naussicaa of the Valley of the Wind.


And because I allways have to have a slightly cheese idea:

Gun Adept (mostly)
I have two characters, inspired by the movie "THe Matrix." This is the first one of said two. He honestly beleives that we are all trapped in a ultraviolet node. THe anceint Dee Vee Dee" of "The Matrix" is a message inserted by hackers to try to inspire people to escape. All his Adept powers he attributes to weakening of the Ultraviolet node's hold on him. His Adept abilities would parallel those demonstraighted by Freed Minds in the movie. (note, I am not submitting the second matrix character idea. thats a premade blurb I didn't want to edit.)

Thoughts and preferences on these ideas? and note that these are NOT listed by my preference. And that includes feeback from other players.

I could really see your gun adept and my ex-Tir Ghost getting into a pretty serious shoting competition, though you'd win out, lol. Even with a Firearm skill group 4 and a reflex recorder for that group I don't think I'd be much competition, though if I took a particular skill like pistols(at 6) took aptitude, a sepecialization in a particular gun, and the reflex recorder, I'd be rolling 10 dice just on the skill side of the pool, that'd be plus whatever agility I gave him. But that's a bit too munchkin for my blood, plus that'd be all he could do.

What's the best possible with a gun adept, I'm too lazy to look it up.

well, if you went total munchin....
Agility (7) plus firearms (7) plus Agility boost 1 (agility up to 9), Improved attribute 4 (or 6, if you ignore the errata)+Specializtion (2).

So that comes out to be 22 dice. So really you are only gaining 4 dice on what can by done by a non adept as far as gun-fu goes.

Okay, I sent my character to your Email Alex. Please...send it back. I had computer problems and could not save it!

"Hail to the king, baby!"

hehehe, good old Army of Darkness

holy crap on a pita, that's alot of dice

I'll be tossing my hat into the ring, just need to decide which of my extensive (read 99+ current) concepts/characters to use... oh, that and I'm at sea until the morning of the 19th, so my access is sketchy... but I do have the book with me!

As for non-lethal... heck, I have a whole team I'm using for some fiction I'm writing that's less than lethal... unless they need to be otherwise.

Any room for a decker/face? An idea I have had for a guy who is completely useless in combat but is an expert at bluff and social engineering. Kind of like Maverick...

Well...my character's just lucky. Did you know that humans are the only race capable of having an attribute higher than a great dragon's?

lol, I never looked at it that way

damn hit reply in the wrong window
sorry

EDIT: wait this was the right topic

actually canon rules the best starting gunner is this

elf
exceptonal attribute agil
adept
gun skill 6
agil 8
2 levels improved agil stat
2 levels muscle toner
smartgun link
specialization (say in semi auto pistols)
3 levels in IA pistols
12+6+2+2+3=25 dice
he can get one more dice from bying aptitude with pistols and buying it up to 7 with karma

btw I might have something a LOT more reasonable than that for ya in a few days

Sorry...some things came up and it doesn't look like I'll have enough time to put together a character this weekend afterall...

Was gonna go with my Texan gunslinger adept, but there seems to be an abundance of planning in that realm...

Might go with Rawhide, my drone rigger with a beat up old Winnebego...

So again, I am about equal in all these ideas, what do you guys think about them?

was thinking face adept or rigger/hacker

Hmm....could always toss in my Hacker/Electronics Spec. She's an old school decker who was on the top of her field in the old days, but finally hit some IC that hit back. So she was in a coma at the time of the Crash. When she finally recovered, she found that she was back to square one, all her savings going to playing catchup with the new kids.

Char sheet sent.

Any room left in this?
I have an idea for a PhysAd Survivalist

I won't close posting or select the final slate of charaters until Friday, May 19th at midnight, Mountain Time.

Right now you have plenty of leeway on character sheets. I am looking for solid, well through out backgrounds right now. I don't consider them posted until I get a PM or an email to wmj007@hotmail.com with SR4 Character in the subject line.

Alex, I would really appeaciate some feedback on the four character concepts I posted...

@ Divine Virus

Ok, I like all of the ideas, so it's not going to be easy for me to give feedback, but here goes:

I really like your fixer/face however, I have gotten two face types already. Focus on the kid raised in the shadows and your Blade Adept.

When you get some downtime, I'd love to see the "Matrix" adept as well. He won't fit into the game but I'm curious.

@ Everyone

Darren O'Mally: a little history

I don't want to give away too much as he will play a roll in the game but this spoiler should be enough to get you started if you take him as a contact. If you don't take him then ... don't read the spoiler (or at least roleplay that your PC knows nothing about him.

Alex,

Just sent an email with a background.

Let me know if you have any ?'s.

Thanks

JDragon

Updated info on who has turned in what:

CS = Character Sheet
BG - Background

last_..._mikeys: Human; Jack Mardell; infiltration / B&E Specialist - CS / BG

Kiedo: Elf; Wes "Ghost" Spire; Detective / Face - BG

Nikoli: ?; "Rooster"; Good ole Country Boy w/ attitude - BG

Whizbang: Human; Zelda; hacker - CS

Jdragon: Troll; Hack; Combat Mage - BG


@ Nikoli
I am assuming that "Rooster" is human. Is that correct?

@ Whizbang
I guess the spite decided to give up your email after all.

@Jdragon
The only question: You have a sentence in the opening paragraph that seems to start "He has ..." but you either didn't finish it or only erased part of it.



Reminder:
Backgrounds count a lot for character selection. If I have two riggers and one has a background for the last 5+ years while the other is "just a rigger" then the rigger with a background wins. Take the time needed to give your PC some history and flesh them out. Feel free to submit updated backgrounds if you have already submitted a character.

Cool, I'll have a sheet and a BG to you in the next couple of days.

Alex,

Sorry about that. Was typing up the back ground the last few days at work, got distracted and then missed that when I proof read it. Just ignore that start of a sentence.

Do you have a specific format you want used for the character sheets?

I'll get that emailed in the next few days, I left the most recent version on my computer at work.

BTW - his nick name is Hack'ed, Word just cut it off for naming the file.

Thanks

JDragon

Yes, he's human. You ready for a CS?

If you have a character sheet ready you are welcome to submit it with the background; however, backgrounds are what count for selection, so if you are still working out the bugs in the PC just send the backgroudnd.

@ JDragon
Word, Excel, or a text file is fine for the character sheet. Of those three, my preferrence is Excel; however, send what you have. I don't have any of the character generators so those are out.

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I recieved "Caz" from Smilin Jack.
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Ya know, we got 3 humans, an elf and a troll. No shadowrun team is complete without an ork in it though. We need more ork submissions!

I don't know about that ork thing... it always seemed like a half hearted troll to me. Now a dwarf, that would be good.

sorry, I ain't an ork player. Nothing agienst them mind, I'm just sticking to humans till I get a much better feel of the game

Hrmm that gives me an idea for some character angst. Change rooster to an ork, from human parents (goblinized)

I should have the initial CS tomorrow.

I have an excel sheet already built if anyone wants it.
send me a note if you need one.

Are you still taking applications for this game?

I have an elven mage bodyguard that I converted (well recreated) from 3rd Edition that I'd love to play. I could provide you the sheet by Wednesday in Excel format if that's ok....

Hey Alex, I just finished my sheet, you want me to send it to you or hold onto it for now?

Info received so far:

last_..._mikeys: Human; Jack Mardell; infiltration / B&E Specialist - CS / BG

Kiedo: Elf; Wes "Ghost" Spire; Detective / Face - BG

Nikoli: Ork; "Rooster"; Good ole Country Boy w/ attitude - BG

Whizbang: Human; "Zelda"; hacker - CS

Jdragon: Troll; "Hack'ed"; Combat Mage - BG

Smilin_Jack: Elf; "Caz" Davies; Covert Ops/Weapons Spec - BG


@Dranem
Yes, until Friday, May 19th.

@Kiedo, et al
If the character sheet is finished, send it on.