Well the subject says it all, what do you like to play most?

We know nothing of your filthy "classes" here.

I just played my first magician and it was pretty fun. Although it's hard as mentioned above to really generalize a character. By saying I played I magician I mean i'm playing a pacifist, who specializes in Manipulation spells and not combat or physical spells. So one magician and another can differ vastly. But yeah this character is much more fun than my gunbunny, which was basically point and shoot.

Well the Archtype I like is the human face with little to no cyberware or anything like that, just good at blending in and chatting it up. Its a rather limited character now that there are skill caps. One of my old 2e characters had a negotiation skill of 22 started at 6 and just bought up with karma With the skill caps its much more a contact monkey and less focus on just making a good impression.

i play mages about always in some shape or form. one thing i keep coming back to is manipulating one specific element for support or combat purposes. ive taken a liking to manipulating metal.

Hight Class Jonhson ...

My inability to stop running my mouth has meant that I'm most comfortable playing characters who are reasonably proficient socially. What else they do varies tremendously from person to person.

I like adepts or augmented characters who are combat-oriented, but with a secondary specialty of face. Mages are okay, but I don't like them as much.

In SR3, my favorite type was a sorcerer, because you could give them a lot of other skills (since they only needed the sorcery skill for their "specialty", they had lots of extra skill points even at the lowest allotment of them), and they got a lot of spell points, too. They could be real Swiss army knife characters.

I'm a fan of faces, with some kind of skill on the side.

Only the Sith deal in classes.

Tech based characters. Usually a infiltrator/hacker or face/hacker mix. I love being able to turn enemy tech against them. My TM was my favorite because I could turn him into a great hacker pretty early on, grab a few useful echos like overclock and skinlink, and then I started getting into other skills mainly stuff to help break into places when attacking the network from a distance wasn't an option.

I think I'm falling in love with the stealth types. I used to be a combat monkey, but was constantly finding myself bored and my attention would inevitably wander to my laptop and its glorious internet connection.

I like the classic gumshoe myself.

Walker, are you trying to put together a group? lol

*twitches*

*grits teeth*

nope.. just seeing what is out there... realized after posting the error of my speech

Multiclass ninja/ninja/ninja/ninja of the crescent moon.

Auuuuugh! We need chemo, stat!

You'd need full biohazard gear. Classes are a cancer causing biohazard.

I know this all too well. I used to build 3.5 characters as a hobby, along with Shadowrun characters. I gradually transitioned more and more towards Shadowrun, and now create Shadowrun toons almost exclusively.

A Elven Sorcerer/Dragon Descendant Lvl 6/3
but that is in Dragonlance with D&D3.5

here in Shadowrun.... there are so many Possibilities and Kombinations . I've got 25 different Chars (even Hobbits) and I love 'em All

with a lot of loveable Dances
Medicineman

BARBARIAN! For 4e D&D, that is. However, in SR....I'm not sure yet. There are some I don't have a particular interest in, but there are other concepts that I am fascinated with. My mage that I was previously preparing for play fell by the wayside for an ex-LS cop (with Heavy Weapons skill. who'da thunk it?) since one of the lads is preparing to join the group, and wants to play a Theurge (son of a pastor, just got out of a christian college. Not surprising, but for a first character, it's prolly a good idea). I think that Weapons Specialist is the one that most draws my eye....

I love my Strongman.
Either i'll play the Cyber/Bio Combat-Monster Troll, or an Ork or a Dwarf. Of course, both Cyber/Bio Combat-Monsters too ^^
Ironically, my FACE-Character is my most played, even though i loathe to be the pretty boy face <.<

Testify, brother, testify!

I can't stand it if the "Face" is incompetent (stupid RP), and I don't have the skills to do it myself, so I'll generally invest in that myself. And I do like the flexibility of being a magician. I'm gonna try a hacker now; I might like that too.

Wrong question...the real question in SR is what role and flavor do you enjoy most:

Magical support:Conjuror, COunterspeller, Sorcerer (Long range fire support, mental manipulation, illusionist, clairvoyaint), banishing specialist)
Combat support: Close quarters combat, sniper, heavy weapons, grenadier
Hacking support: Technomancer, hacker, data specialist, infiltration expert
Vehicle support: Drone, vehicle, fire support
Face (everybody PC should learn to be a face IMHO!! )

RC has a good listing of these roles, and as they state a PC can have multiple roles.

Me, I like to play magical support. Especially the illusionist/mind controlling sort, with a bit of conjuration.

I've always had a soft spot for techie/ infiltration experts, my current character is a TM with biowire and skinlink. he is good at stealth, has a few high end registered sprites (nearly passed out compiling, registering and reregistering them because he is too stubborn to understand "point of diminishing returns") and a good handgun...

While I agree with Warlordtheft, I sadly fall into the category that Ascalaphus mentions. And having seen someone play a face well (to the point of falling to Dogs in the Vinyard Rule#0: "GM says yes or rolls dice," rather than the player initiating the roll) I've watched Jim sweet talk, fast talk, and beat around the bush with NPCs so expertly that the GM decided that no roll was needed (Jim's characters always had the skills for it anyway). And I have no hope of ever being that good.

A friend of mine is like that too. We agreed that it was okay as long as his PCs had the stats to be as good as he played them.

I like to play a combination of face and combatant. I also tend to play generalists more.

My Favorite class is the Character class.

I love playing Characters.

QFT

Agreed

I am pretty partial to the Tech Geeks myself (Hacker/Riggers), but I do enjoy a Mage from time to time (Adept or Full)...

Keep the Faith

Middle. I just have no experience of being any other class.

Although I'm fascinated with the technological aspects of SR, I've always loved playing a mage. It stems from my first exposure to SR back in 1990 and when I read that mages suffered Drain when they cast.
(mind you, at the time, I was so thoroughly burned out on a certain medieval-fantasy RPG, that I will NOT deign to mention here, and I was re-embracing my love of science-fiction with Gibson's Neuromancer.)

Neuromancer, what a great book... currently re-reading it now...

Keep the Faith

Just reread the Sprawl Trilogy and now I started on the Budayeen books. Marid Audran would make a very interesting character to play.

Hey Starglyte... Just noticed that you are from San Antonio... Are you (were you) a member of GMSA (Not sure if it still survives)...

Keep the Faith

Someday, people will shut up about that book long enough that I'll be able to read it. I'm not saying it's a bad book (as I've never read it), but I get so sick of hearing about it.

Orc Marines! of the Fighting Agaku

Same here.

low class, usually.

I made a skill monkey/hacker type that lived out of a duffle bag, but man he could improv some explosives!

as to the "what do i like to play" question, I like funny, quirky characters. I had an Oni ninja/spellcaster (aspected)he spoke very little english(n:japanese)and new nothing about computers, now i'm playing a short, fat, old , redneck. did i mention he's a rigger?

No sorry. Never been a member of GMSA.

Very hard not to mention the book that jumpstarted the Cyberpunk Genre (if such a thing exists).

Not only that, it has the many character concepts that are perfect for Shadowrun. The Hacker/Decker, Street Samurai (dosen't have to be cybered all the way up. Check out the orc samurai from the Street Samurai Catalog), and the Techie (the Finn). Hell, you can make a argument for mage as well...

Anti-paladin?

Anything with Technomancer added in to it. Usually the Hacker/Drone Rigger type, sometimes the face/hacker/drone rigger type and occasionally the B&E/Hacker/Drone Rigger/Face. I'm so completely in love with TMs that I am actually beginning to have a hard time trying to design anything else. I just spent a week trying to come up with a good street samurai idea and I'm still not happy with it.

Isn't learning Echoes independant of submersion nice?

Oh God yes. I think submerging up to 3 is keen, after that work on those echoes independently.

It does tend to make the cost of progressing as a tm look like a bell curve, early on you have to pay for submerging, raising resonance and skills and those costs grow, then when you've gotten them close to the max the costs begin diminishing again as gaining echoes provides significantly better benefits than normal methods of progressing.