We all have them, character ideas that we know the gm will throw things at us for considering.. here are a couple form me to get it started


Coyote shaman that has a sustaining focus... and only walks around in animal form and uses his ally spirit as his 'master' to get around leash laws...


Surged mage with bear features that has a geas that requires him to show his belly and scream "carebear stare" while casting ranged combat spells... that appear to come from the tattoo on his belly

Sociopathic elf social adept/mage. I've got a long history of getting in to character and scaring the piss out of some of the less mentally agile players. I should note that when me and my friends statted eachother out (not as standard 400bp characters) everyone had me as some form of social adept splashed with other stuff.

A decker.

Any decker, really.

Every Shadowrun GM, ever, just kicks them to the curb and says "You have an NPC Decker. Do something else."

SR4 was a big move against this, but we need to go a wee bit further, methinks.

A borderline-sociopathic Troll Physical Firearms Adept with a cyberarm who names all his firearms and sleeps with them in rotation like his own personal harem.

I can rattle that off in one breath, and everyone who has offered to GM for me has just stared in horror after I said it. Note, this is after I make a few other, more credible suggestions first. But I keep hoping.

A character with Fame and Evil Twin. He's famous, supposed to be rich but actually has to run to meet ends. So when clues lead to him, he explains that it can't be him (why would he do that, a famous and rich guy?), it must be someone trying to frame him. And when the police starts investigating that possibility, they'll get to the evil twin.

The TerrorTubby
Huge troll in a pink latex teletubby suit armed with a 6 foot dildo bat...and lube...and duct tape.

The first rule of Shadowrun: The Decker Always Dies!

A bisexual social adept elf who has a completely indeterminate gender that not even the party members know.

Tell me it would be named "Vaarsuvius"...

With Raven for mentor spirit?

We have one of these in our games. We have taken to referring to their gender as 'elf' or alternating between he's and she's. The elf is also a rocker/musician adept face. But hey, its an LA game.

Due to some shenanigans in the metaplanes and overarching plot for the campaign, the totem/mentor spirit of Radiation has taken an interest in them... and to make matters worse, the elf not only has the idea that Radiation could be redeemed from the Twisted path(because its a fairly recent development, and stars weren't always so), but has convinced the party of this as well.

We are the slotting nicest group of runners around.



As for my concept, I always wanted to play a dwarf ghoul mystic adept from japan(gaki,koborokuru, casual racism towards gaijin, the whole nine yards) that, despite the stat spread, happens to be an art-punk, with spells designed around that theme(divination mages are surprisingly nifty, and being able to handsketch out blueprints of places the team needs to go on the fly is just nifty), but keeps it on the down-low. Lose a point of essence to pay for all the fitting-in ware possible, and play up the tiny but friendly asian lady(remember, dwarves are short) to the maximum. And maybe see how long it takes the face to notice that when she tells him he smells good enough to eat, she's not talking about his cologne(or her perfume, i guess, depending on the group). Doing everything you can to blend in and pretend to be normal, but slipping comments like that under the radar until the party goes OH GOD later.

A Pornomancer Face Adept with a penile Implant and a chemical gland in his ball-sack that produces Narcojet ...

"Bend over and have a nice nap!"

Strangely, I never create any off the wall ideas, so I don't get any rejected... It may be a side effect of having to counter one of fellow player's insanities. He, however, has a list of characters we won't allow.

One is a person he calls "The Reverend", who is an obvious psychopath wielding monofilimant chainsaws and dismembering anyone who he thinks crosses him.
He recently tried to play a character modeled after Deadpool who ignored the 4th wall. Our characters realized he was nuts and failed to hire him.

He can be a little out there, but we love him, our own little powergamer.

My surged dwarf adept ninja squirrel called Nutkin

apparently he went just abit to far what with the compulsions to steal things and the ability to hurt people with well thrown acorns plus the fluffy tail thing worried people I think

Bah, Squirrel-Girl will just show up and he'd be her slave.

Hmm...i already played an unplayable char., but only as long as it took the GM to realize how crazy he was. It was a surged fomori-ghoul with Raptor-legs, bone-spikes, fangs and claws, red skin and yellow glowing eyes as well as a thagomizer. Of course he also was a mystic adept of a possession tradition, so it took the GM several automatic rounds with a vigorous autocannot to "remove" him from our round. I like to annoy the GM.^^

I want a GM.

A Dzoo-No-Qua on K-10 would have been more fun XD

This has happened not once, but twice in our group.

I have been told that I cannot play any character who in anyway is based upon a kender. I wanted to name him Twitch, have him always jazzed up and make him a demolitions expert who happened to find other people's things in his pockets and would frequently lose track of little things like hand grenades and plastic explosives when he stopped being interested in them.

I also want to co play a character who has two personalities and so two sets of skills and mental stats. Then alternate playing that character with someone else, so that each of us would only know what had happened while we were in control of that character. And of course to be hiding this from the rest of the group, so that regardless of which personality the character tried to act like they knew what was going on.

A vampire with the glamour surge quality and an obsession with a random high school girl and a loup garou as an enemy. (though I mostly wanted to play this character so that someone would shoot him in the face)

As a joke I statted Yugi Moto from Yu-Gi-Oh. I'm pretty sure he's the reason why the Egyption tradition is a possession tradition. Anyway, all his spells are fluffed as a Children's Card Game and he is nearly incompetent without his ally spirit. He also has 6 in Knowledge: Children's Card Games.

Along with about 75% of the other ideas in this thread. This is explains our party disfunction

I think you'd get ate by the Loup Garou. Those buggers are scary.

I'm not allowed to play a tiger shapeshifter anymore. Something about the GM can't get things in a serious mood when I play that character, I had one smeg of a good time playing that char too.
Similarly, I'm not allowed to play a drake anymore, and ghouls are right out...

Along with, dragons (especially in SR) and anything related to a lizard, even if it is a normal pc race that is listed, nor any character with a bite attack, even if it is a human and the bite attack is from core rules...

At this point I think what I'm allowed to play is shorter...

*clobbers a player that wanted him to GM again...

I will as a GM drop a thor round on anyone playing a elf physad surged to look like a drow with ambidexterity and specializing in blades - scimitars

So in his honor I post his character rip.. err idea

Pretty much anything from Runner's companion.

Your DM sounds like me.

Harsh!

Agreed.

What's wrong with Oni? Or Night Ones?

Drop a Thor shot on the player? That's harsh. Understandable, but harsh.

Would have to be the player. The character would probably dodge.

Nothing, but all my players see SURGE as MORE STUFF TO POWERGAME! Instead of interesting character choices. This makes Oni a disadvantage because it's 5 points for a drawback, and Night Ones nobody bothered to look at because no one's yet thought to try to immitate Night Crawler but me, and transportation is one thing SR magic can't do.

Just wait till tech gets there. Unless you can hop into a metaplane and then hop out elsewhere. But that isn't really worth the effort.

Can you do that? I thought a metaplanar quest is just an advanced version of astral projection. Your body should stay on the same place.

Nothing. I absolutely love the Oni I am playing.

What about this Oni?

No, You can't do that (Unless you are Harlequin)... The mana level is far too low for that currently. Yes, your body stays where you started the Quest., and you return to your body when it is done. However, You will find (if you look hard enough) at least several opinions here on Dumnpshock that says that you should be able to do that with an Endowed power (or two), or maybe even a Metamagic ability. But I call Shenanigans on such craziness.

I like her. Too bad she already has a player.

Forbidden:
DeSync: All voice and ear-work done to him that cyber can do. Including built in speakers which he uses to talk with. And his voice/words are NEVER in sync with his lips movements.
Also, he is chinese and does Kung Fu. Has a Fu Man Chu beard and long white hair too. Yes, i basically made him the old man from every old time eastern movie ever . .

Blurr: complete camo gear including full ruthenium polymere suit, coat and built into his dermal sheath. cybernetic eyes covered with ruthenium polymere too.
NEVER EVER TALKS. Basically uses his whole body as an area to display emoticons and smileys and lol-speak. like a huge question mark where his head should by, while the rest of the head is actually invisible at the moment.
Also uses his camo stuff to allways be blurry and hard to look at in general. or if you blink he vanishes/re-appears.

A PC can't do it, but if you have an NPC Free Spirit with the Astral Gateway power at your disposal...

I'm sure someone from R'lyeh knows how.

I thought PC Free Spirits could do it too. Stupid memory...

Nope, PC Free Spirits are nerfed that way.

Why? PC Free spirits do not need the ability. They dematerialize in one spot, Astrally zoom to where they want to go, and then Re-Materialize.
Astral Gateway is only for taking someone else. And I am sure that you could work out a price for such an ability. If you really wanted to add it. I would cost it at about 3 (It is not as good as Regeneration, in my opinion, which is a 5, IIRC).

Is there a speed for astral travel? A nice average MPH or something?

I don't have a regular play group where I live now, but I was in the process of getting together with a group where I lived before. They (the group as a whole) trashed both ideas before I could fully stat them out.

The first was a Skateboarding Adept. He had excellent balance, and was good at most "action/extreme" athletics, like skydiving and free climbing. He just really liked skateboarding and used it for quick escapes. I wanted to use him as an infiltration kind of guy, just with very different approaches. The group said that there was nothing a character could possibly skateboard on anywhere in the SR universe.

The second character was a cybered up Freerunning Courier. (I still love this idea) He'd been doing minor runs for a while, with the motto "I get it where it goes." He had minor hacking skills, but specialized in getting in and out without being seen (for planting evidence of any kind). They wouldn't let me play him because he didn't kill people. The one time a Johnson managed to get a bomb into the package, my character delivered it to the Johnson's boss, instead of where it was supposed to go (it was defused).

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