So, Long story short, I'm making a troll who by all accounts is an idiot. Adopted at a young age by a now dead from natural causes Fixer. The troll has always played dumb to survive, depsite being very smart. Following his adopted mother's death, he inherited her front "Ms. Justen's Para-critter Rescue", along with the sizable debt it took to scrub the books. I'd like him to be a bit of combat monster to play to type, but give him other actual skills. At the moment He's running with Bod 9, Agi 6, Rea 9 (with wired on) and Str of 11. I'd like him to be able to sorta hack for a bit of a WTF moment from the rest of the group. What are your thoughts? What can I cut, what can I up? What bat-shit crazy stuff can I add?

Troll
Bod 9/10
Agi 4/6 6
Rea 5/6 7/9
Str 9/10 11
Cha 2/10
Int 4/5
Log 4/5
Wil 3/5
Edg 1/6

Skill Rating Cost
Close Combat group 2 20 310
Cracking (logic)
Cyber-Combat3 08 328
Hacking 3 08 336
Firearms 2 20 356
Electronics 2 20 376
Dodge 1 04 380
Perception 1 04 384


Qualities
Mild addiction to Cyberware - 5
Weak Immune System - 5
Sinner -5
Dependents/dayjob (Ms. Justine's
paracriter rescue) - 5
Enemy (Giermo the Mexican mystic minotaur Gun-bunny)
Connection 2, incidence 3 - 5
In Debt (to Ms. Justine) - 10
Cover ("just a dumb troll" GM cleared)+5 354



Wear Name Rating Capac Essence Cost
Cyberwear
Reaction enhancers R2 0.6 20,000
Cyber Ears r3 [12] 0.5 ( 1,000
Audio enhancement r3 3 ( 4,500
Balance Augmenter 4 ( 5,000
Damper 1 ( 750
Spacial recognizer 1 ( 750
Select Sound Filter r3 3 ( 3,000
Sound link ( 250
Increased Sensitivity 1 ( 1,000
16,250
cyber Eyes r4 [16] 0.5 ( 1,500
Flare Comp 1 ( 750
image Link ( 500
Smartlink 3 ( 1,000
Vision Enhancement r3 3 ( 4,500
Thermographic vision 2 ( 1,000
Low light 2 ( 1,000
Vision mag 2 ( 1,000
11,250
Wired Refexes r1 2 11,000


Biowear
Platelet Factories 0.2 25,000
Enhanced Articulation 0.3 40,000
Muscle Replacement/toner R2 0.8 30,000
Echolocation 0.1 15,000
Gecko Hands 0.1 12,000
Cerebral Booster r2 0.4 20,000

Total
4.55


Gear Page cost
Combat Axe 600
Yamaha Pulsar Core 307 150
Laser Sight core 311 100
Ares Predator V Core 308 350
Smartgun System
Skinlink Ars 152 50
Melee Hardened Ars 151 300
Personalized Grip ars 152 100
Parasheild Dart Rifle SR4A 1,700
Laser sight core 307 150
Melee Hardend Ars 151 300
Personalized Grip ars 152 100

Narcoject x59* Core 244 500
*Additional rounds given at GM discretion
Form Fitting Body Armor Ars 48 4/1 900
Armor Jacket Core 315 8/6 900


Erika Elite Core 318 R3S4 2500
novatech Navi core318 F3S4 1500
Skinlink 50
Comlink EMP hardening r3 75
lazerlink 50
AR gloves 250
FTL Matrixware Power Suite 1240
Unw 127
Analyze 3
Browse 4
Command 2
Edit 4
Purge 4
Scan 2
Attack program 3 1500
Stealth 3 1500
Armor 3 1500
Spoof 3 1500 17290

Fake Sin 4 4000
License (paracritter) 4 400
License net security 4 400 22090
Fake Sin 1 1 1000 23540
940
certified credstick 25
Conc. carry permit for actual SIN 150
Quick draw holster 100
Concelable holster 75
quickdraw holster Rifle 100
Spareclips (5)
Amunition Pistol (50
Ammunition Taser (20
Flashbang gernade (1
Smoke gernade (2
Survival knife
Metahuman restaints metal
Paracritter hobble metal

Contacts loyalty Conection bp
Free beastSpirit "Shep" 4 2 392
Docwagon Cybersurgen 2 3 397
Accountant 2 1 400

instead of actually Hacking yourself, at this level a tricked out agent can do the same. It'll cost some money instead of karma, but is probably cheaper in the end. You can then, while your agent is working, use an appropriate knowledge skill and explain what you pretend to be doing. All that tech-talk will get you the WTF moment.

I would suggest specialization.

Spoofing and interception can be useful for spoofing drones and commlinks - and your lifestyle.

Hacking - Spoof [1+2] (get higher if you want to)
Electronic Warfare - Communications [1+2] (get higher if you want to)

Spoof Program at 6 and Optimized +2
Stealth Program at 6 and Optimized +2

Get a hermes Icon and upgrade it to 5/5

Get the basic 8 common programs at 4 and have them Ergonomic so that the ones you have running take up no space.
Analyze
Scan
Purge
Encrypt
Reality Filter
Command
Edit

Other programs at 3 but get NUKE with TARGETING +2 (useful)

Optimize your Commlink for Spoof tests (+1D6)

That's 10D6 for spoof tests with no assistance from any cybernetics or edges with a logic 1 troll.

You have free living (spoof) and can hack small vehicles and less impressive security measures by tracing wireless signals and spoofing them. Wireless interception can be your job too.

You might also want to look into a mnemonic enhancer. That and a decent logic means you can get by with 1 rank in a lot of knowledge skills. School of hard knocks, technical school education, etc. can also add to this if you have a lot of 1 type of knowledge.

Depending on how inportant knowledge skills are in your game, the "idiot" could save the team a lot of trouble with useful knowledge.

I'd also suggest the skill Con (Impersonation) so the character actually has some skill in lying and to reflect the "just a dumb troll" aspect, especially when you might happen to say something rather smart so you can deflect the fact that your character is a lot smarter than he lets on.

Maybe also a rating or two in Etiquette, not only so the character can have a grasp of not when to say something, but also to maybe know right when to say something [not too] stupid to help play up the "just a dumb troll" part a little more. Also, it'll make it a lot easier to avoid a case of "athletes tongue".

And for the hacking angle, I'd strongly suggest having more than one commlink. It's Hacking 101, a low grade commlink for your day-to-day stuff, and a higher end commlink (with Spoof Chip, Arsenal page 105; they're not limited to just cars) for all of your black hat duties.

4 out of 5 Shadowrunners heartily approve a Spoof Chip on a Comlink...

4 out of 5 Shadowrunners heartily approve of a Spoof Chip on everything you own.
(Cyberlimbs, anyone? No more "activate wireless" nanite problems! )

Nanites can't "Activate" wireless if you didn't install wireless options originally. Just pay for the non-wireless stuff in the first place.

It's to counter dickish GMs (or dickish players, if it comes to it).

I actually took a minor variant of the "Cover" trait for that. Cleared it with the GM as a hyper specialized bluff skill. As long as I play dumb troll, I'm good.

I'll drop another 5k on gear And pic up a second commlink, and a fist full of spoof chips; but I think I'll save the Mnemonic enhancer for during the game. Maybe up my programs a bit more as well.