I've heard of:

A adept with an moderate allergy to ORICHALCUM! How mad can you get? There goes the weapon foci...
A sammie who took MONTY PYTHON as a Knowledge Skill. Pulled off the "Holy Hand Grenade" sketch on a team of corp hitmen. Left them confused long enough for the rest of the team to sneak around and slaughter them!

Tell me how mad your characters have gotten!

...I actually play pretty serious characters...Although I was considering for a while playing a Launch Weapons troll adept whose favorite weapon was an Ares Antioch.

Appropriately enough, I planned to name him St. Antioch.

I played a necromancer and Former Aztechnology Company Man recently. He was an adept with the Divination, Psychometry and Centering: Magic Skills metamagic techniques. His related skill was Necromancy and his only weapon skill was Edged Weapons: Scapels, of which he also had the Improved Ability adept power for. He was a pretty cool if wholly macabre character who could unlock all manner of secrets from a given corpse. He was also a pretty good field medic in a pinch, but not much of a fighter unless you got up in his face thanks to Pentjak-Silat 4 with Close Combat and Close Combat: Edged Weapons.

Needless to say, the secrets he would often unlock didn't leave him as the sanest fellow around. He was stable, but weird and standoffish. Helped his Intimidation skill, though.

I made Shippou from the anime "Inuyasha" as a fox shifter...

We've got a catgirl shaman...

There was one NPC mage who, through SURGE mutations, looks much like a vampire and even has a sunlight allergy...

I don't recall any others.

This wasn't in my group, but in a one-shot tourney game a mate of mine was running at GenCon I think it was. Player had decided on something a little different, the Dwarven Golfing Adept. She'd given him something like four levels of Improved Golfing on top of a maxed out skill, and had little mini-grenades shaped as golf balls. Fore!

An orc houngan/decker (allready a strange combination) with a serious phobia of astrally projecting, and astral space in general. Thank cajun accent, too.

Derek

Huh. All these years, and I had not, until now, connected the Ares Antioch with the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.

In a gag campaign my GM is going to run, I am planning on playing a troll with the elf poser flaw. Yes, I know that the flaw is only supposed to be used for humans, but just imagine it. A 9’ troll dressed in a cross between Santa’s elves and Peter-Pan. Needless to say, he also has the distinctive style flaw.

I GMed for a gal a while back. She made a former drugged out club kid who worked as a prostitute to get money for her drug/BTL addiction. Then she got semi-clean and when into shadowrunning. She was a BDSM type with intimidation and whips. Wore a latex dominatrix outfit on runs that didn't require a lot of stealth.

well, at least it was a chick playing one the archtypical chick characters.

i ran a character once who had, as a knowledge skill at rating 5, "Ways the Man is Keeping My People Down". i was amused.

One of my players had a transvestite who'd use her super-high charisma to seduce important men and get most of them not to care about her extra equipment. This was years before porn sites that proved such a thing is easy to do.

Briefly I got to run a PC called "Coffeemage" who used coffee spells, coffee-based centering, coffee mug fetishes, etc. He was always trying to summon a coffee elemental, but the game didn't last long enough for me to create one.

A gay, Belemic (spelling?) street sam/ decker. scrawny badly dressed in whatever trend was new that week. and he was a phsyco killing machine.

A troll drug dealer who knew nothing about drugs, had a thing for dwarves and cried in his sleep (Dont ask, i dont even know why)

A British dwarf that used a bad scotish accent constantly, called guards Gerries, and Krauts. Claimed he was related to Sean Conery (spelling once again?")

There are so many that are worse/funnier than this But I am in a hurry, got band practice, will post em later maybe.

I created The Sewer Mutant for a Shadowrun "superhero" game on the boards that didn't really take off - I was pleased with how the character turned out, though, and he would probably make a good NPC.

I also made Masquerade, an elven face/shaman specializing in infiltration and impersonation. She is the deadliest character I've ever played - all three of the games on the board that I played her in died.

Of course, Rat, my street lowlife character from the 40 BP game, is my favorite.

A'thank you
(in bad Austin Powers impersonation)

Easy . Befor Stumps joined up and left us mere mortals behind he played a Neo style guy that lasted the first round of combat when he waved his hand and said "No.".

One of my favorite characters had the flaw Compulsion (blowing stuff up) needless to say he wasn't always the most popular character to have on a run.

I also saw a decker with a matrix addiction flaw and a knowledge background: Everquest. It was so well roleplayed. What made it the best was that the player and I were the only two players in the group that didn't have the flaw IRL, and he constantly used it to make fun of them.

That's all I can think of for now

I did last night. But Explorer crashed when I posted and it didn't post. I was too tired to retype the whole explanation so I just gave up and went to bed.

A character that tried to do everything at once.

I've temporarily uploaded the archetype on my site:

http://www.elizar.com/fanworks/jat.htm

Chainsaw Willy, orc, nuttier than a squirrel. obvious cyber everything, cyber horns. i convinced the gm to allow me to modify forearm snap blades into forearm mini-chainsaws that slid out a little behind the wrist, and of course he dikoted his chainsaw blades. if someone wouldn't have the courtesy of coming closer to him so he could use his chainsaws on them he tossed around napalm and phosphorous nades. horrible, horrible man but hilarious to play.

in my game a friend of mine plays a troll bear shaman who always wears a white tux, and is impeccably(sp?) clean. plus, the guy who plays him is pretty odd, so he usually creeps out npcs.

Weird? *hmmm*

Not really weird but a bunch of Freaks:

The EGO-Crew

Death: Ghoul-Troll-Adept with a scythe and a white Harley Scorpion
Plague: Ghoul-Troll-Adept with Ranger-X with special arrow heads that contain his saliva (to spread the disease among those you survive an attack) and a rusty Harley Scorpion
Famine: Ghoul-Troll-Adept with advanced unarmed, specialzed on "taking a bite" and a greyish Harley
War: heavily cybered Ghoul-Troll with loads of weapons and a black Harley with flame insignia.

Favourite line of all four: "*growl*"

=> "The Apocalyptic Riders"

Abraham "I812" Pocalypse: Ghoul-Dwarf-Full-Magician. Specialized in Health and Mind Control. Leader of the EGO-Crew. Favourite line: "This room ain't big enough for me an my EGO". Method of transportation is a heavily modified Nissan Nightsky

Tank: heavily cybered Ork, immune to HMHVV[Krieger]. Combat gear includes gyro-set deluxe with Ingram Vialant and a whip. The latter not so much to do any fighting, but to keep the Riders under control. Favourite lines "Easy guys ..." and "Sit ... SIT!" Also functions as Abraham's driver and body guard

"Nameless": cybered Elf, immune to HMHVV[Krieger]. Second body guard of Abraham, equipped to opperate as gunner on board of Abraham's vehicle. Usually doesn't speak ... Some good skills in electronics, mechanics and explosives.

LIl Bunny.

Orc, super tough, super dumb... had a drone fake rabbit cause he kept crushing the real ones... his favorite techinique in combat was to shoot the grenade launcher at his own feet... wore heavy armour, and while almost always severly injured, seldom did the opponents survive....

an obviously short lived guy...

-MIke R.

Actually, given an autoinjector filled with antidote, unleashing aerosol-vector toxins at ground zero actually becomes feasible.

Of course, you'll be as sick as a barghest chewing on a ghoul, but it would work...

-Siege

Well, the group I play in has recently had:

- Fred, the paranoid covert ops specialist/gunbunny - he had no less than three different specializations of the knowledge skill "Conspiracy Theories", all of which he would use to explain even the most mundane events. Owner of a tremendous assortment of surveillance and countersurveillance gear. Tended to carry white noise generators and bug scanners at all times, and tested everything he ever ate or drank with a fingertip chemical analyzer. Despite being ethnic Japanese, he arrived in Seattle and picked the street name of "Fred" as being nicely inconspicuous.

- Bang, the Face - for a Face, he has a disturbing love of explosives, demolitions, fully automatic paintball guns, and his grenade launcher "Lucy". He's married, and thoroughly henpecked by his wife (also named Lucy), who only recently found out that he is a shadowrunner.

- Qi, the blind French knife-wielding amnesiac Night One adept - need I say more?

He's French? Say no more.

gawd, that reminds me of Ian MacBadass. (name originally taken from the GM's old D&D character, who was a like 2-charisma dwarf fighter-type. and the player is very good at being funny.)

one of them showed up in the game (a new player joined. used to be in GM's old D&D game, i think.) when he *somehow* summoned a "booze elemental" (read: drunken summoning -> demon) and it THREW him through astral space to seattle. (typically impossible, iirc.) so he signed on with us... for booze money, i think.

he had a vast love for tall tales, booze and very very violent magic. very violent.

so this one time, the Giant (Schweetums, after the muppet) Sammie was throwing vending machines in the air and Ian would yell "pull!" and fireball them. very bad PR, that got us.

A booze elemental, eh? So, would that be a specialized elemental from the plane of water? Man, I better never, ever let my group hear of that...they'll fight exclusively with them. -__-

My current Char.

Francis Xavier The quadrapelegic albino infirm elf.

As one of my other groupe members characters put it.

Player1- YOUR a shadowrunner?!? you dont look like you can run very fast.
Francis- Oh I might suprise you.

thought of another player I GM'd for.

Decker, had multiple personality disorder due to a bad trip to the matrix early in his life... he had 8 personalities, 4 of which had skills of there own, that the other personalities couldn't use... one was a "hitman" one a total pacifist, another a decker and another a corp suit... the pacifist kept hiding the guns from the hitman... it was very funny to watch... there were four USELESS personalities too... one who would vehemntly argue that he was actually a brick.

this was a surprisingly fun charechter to GM for... that is until he was driving the gettaway van and the high stress situation caused a personality shift (the results of which were random) and he ended up as the brick... I quote "Bricks don't drive trucks, it's in the Brick manual right here... " crunch.

-Mike R.

Here are some char's i played, might have mentioned em already.

Fred the stuffer shack clerk, won lotto, bought legal cyber ware looks like a bad ass, is a total moron. acctually saved the day on two runs by accident. (running away with breifcase stapped to arm thus not letting it get taken, and accidentally blowing up the target he was sopposed to kill, and the rest of the team couldn't find, smoking at a gas station.) My gm loved this guy.

My face elf, got his face blown off with a shotgun, team needed to get a cyber skull for him, so they did a run for the street dock. They hit a cyberware store house and stole the wrong skull. now he has an obvios cybersull, and they call him smiley. on other pc painted a smiley face on the back of his head.


This is for white wolf acctually. But I had an ex school teacher/ mechanic working for the tecnocrats. He was fired from being a teacher for sleeping with his more atractive female students. He is a comedian at heart. thus when shooting at Werewolves last session he kept shouting kibbles an bits an bits an bits, kibbles an bits an bits!!!

Followed by IT'S BACON!!!!!

of course he did this from the saftey of a helicopter.

"edited for horrible typing skills due to lack of sleep"

Mr G - Seattle's one and only (hopefully) Ghoul pimp. G maintains a stable of women from the true dredges of society. Despite being an ugly motherfragger he dresses in only the chicest of purple zoot suits and giant hats with feathers.

HAHAHAHAH!!!

My favorite character that I've gotten to actually play was a face-ish type with a 6 disguise skill, a 6 acting skill, and a disguise shop stored in a big black van. He had a compulsion to keep people from knowing his true identity. He took the van wherever he went, and between scenes he's change what kind of person he was. Went from street punk to corp to club junkie in the space of a day.