QUOTE (Tymeaus Jalynsfein @ Sep 18 2012, 09:19 PM)
You know, some runners really prefer their time off for pursuing/doing things that they enjoy, rather than working. Like hanging with their friends, going to the clubs and hanging out, tinkering with their cool rides, or whatever. There is absolutely no reason to have to have a sideline making more money. Again, if You can make more money not running and pursuing other endeavors, why would you ever run? Personally, My character enjoys the Running, and the money is not all that bad. He works a few days a week, at most, and has all the remaining time to do whatever he pleases. My Character is not Clarence the Drug Chemist, he is a Shadowrunner.
Certainly.
But, presumably, some don't. It's perfectly fine to say "I don't build runners who would enjoy this." But saying "No runners would enjoy this" or "No runner would do this" is a bit of a stretch, innit?
Some might also enjoy the challenge of making drugs and selling drugs, or testing their skills, or whatever. Plus, you can only hang out with your friends for so long before you start get tired of them.
Or some might have flaws like "In Debt: 20,000 Nuyen" that means that, while other runners are partying after the run, they're muttering to themselves "Must be nice to be able to take a break, but *some* of us have bills to pay." Or they have dependants. Or an addiction to money. Or they use nuyen as a personal score keeping method. Or they just have a Cha of 1, and flat out don't like people. Or they're 10k short of upgrading their power focus, and really don't want to wait until after the next run to do it. Or any other of a hundred reasons.
I'm not suggesting that runners should retire from running and take up creating Jazz. I'm absolutely not saying "Your characters need to stop running and start doing this." But it's interesting (to me) and nice to know how much they could make brewing up Jazz for a couple weeks, both as a way to fill downtime, and as a comparison for "I can make 5k nuyen rolling drunks downtown - you're gonna need to offer me a little more to make this worth my while."
Consider this a version of the Day Job quality, if you'd like.
QUOTE (Tymeaus Jalynsfein @ Sep 18 2012, 09:19 PM)
Again, this is not what the character (or me as a player) is intertested in, even if he has the skills. He is a Shadowrunner, not a Lab Technician. If you cannot understand that, then I do not know what else to say to you.
Again - some characters, and players, might be interested in this. That's why I asked the question - *I* am interested in this, at least.
Plus, most Hackers I've seen played seem to spend an inordinate amount of time upgrading their gear, writing new programs, and the like. They *are* Code Monkeys a fair bit of the time, just not for a Corp. What if the team hacker spent a week writing a new Attack 5 program, and then decided he wanted to sell it to a few other people? Does he suddenly stop being a Runner? I'm gonna content that he doesn't....
But once again, to try to steer this back - if you can't conceive of any way your runners would ever work on something that wasn't either a party or a run, then this thread probably won't be of interest to you. But if you are thinking about that, or you just enjoy playing around with the ruleset to see how they would model certain activities, then perhaps chime in!