Human Male, 23 years old, caucasion. 6'4" tall, 164 pounds. "Lanky"
Metatype E Human (1): Attributes C 16: Magic A **Magic skill 6, 2 rating 5 magic skills (***Assensing, Astral Combat), 10 Spells (Acid Stream, Manabolt, Stunball, Heal, Improved Invisibility,

Control Action, Ice Sheet, Levitate, Mana Barrier, Physical Barrier): Skills B 36/5 (see below): Resources D 50,000 Y

Stat Beg Buy End
Body 1/6 3 4/6
Agi 1/6 1 2/6
Rea 1/6 1 2/6
Str 1/6 1 2/6
Wil 1/6 1 2/6
Log 1/6 2 3/6
Int 1/6 5 6/6
Cha 1/6 2 3/6
Edg 2/7 0 2/7
Mag 1/6 6** 7/7 *
ESS 6/6 0 6/6
Initiative: 8 + 1d6
Astral Initiative: 12 + 2d6
Composure: Wil+Cha = 5
Judge Intentions: Int+Cha = 9
Memory: Log+Wil = 5
Lift/Carry: Lift 15kg x Str = 30kg
If >30 then Str + Bod; Carry 10 x Str = 20kg
Movement: Walk 4, run 8, sprint + 2m per hit.

Physical Limit: ((Strx2)+Bod+Rea)/3 = 4
Mental Limit: ((Logx2)+Int+Wil)/3 = 5
Social Limit: ((Chax2)+Wil+ESS)/3 = 5

Qualities-Positive 25 Karma to start.

*Exceptional Attribute: Magic -14 Karma cost.
Mentor Spirit: Eagle - 5 Karma cost.
Quick Healer -3 Karma cost.
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3 Karma remaining.
Qualities-Negative
Corporate Born SINner 25 Karma given.
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28 Karma remaining. (Continued Below at karma Purchases)


Skills
Skill group Sorcery at 5 = Spellcasting 5 Counterspelling 5 Ritual Spellcasting 5
***Assensing 5
***Astral Combat 5
Banishing 6
Binding 6
Summoning 6
Summoning 6
Pistols 4
First Aid 4
Artificing 4
Swimming 2
Perception 4

Knowledge skills - Street: Gang Hideouts, Sprawl Life-Scavenging,
Sprawl Life-Street Docs, Sprawl Life-Drug Dens, Spral Life-Squats, Dance Club Bouncers,
Dance Club Bartenders, Cabbies.

Knowledge skills - Interest: Urban Tags, Matrix Games, Optical Illusions.
Language Skills: Cityspeak, Street, Wizards Cant.


Karma Purchases = 3 Bound Spirits, (Water, Man, Earth) 4 tasks each = 12 karma
Bonded Summoner Foci - Air Spirits - Force 6 = 12 karma
4 extra Connection/Loyalty pts for contacts = 4 karma
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28 Karma Spent
0 Karma remaining.

Free contact karma = Cha x 3 = 9
Contact Connection Loyalty
Herb Store guy(Street Doc) 3+1=4 4+1 =5
Street Musician-Sax 1+1=2 1+1 =2

Gear:
Ruger Super Hawk 400Y
Gas Vent system - Barrel - 3R 600Y
Speed Loader 25Y
Armor Piercing Rounds x 4 480Y
Bonded Spirit Foci 24000Y* Purchased this with karma do not know if I need to also pay credits or not.
Reagents 50 grams 1000Y
Armored Clothing 450Y
Lined Coat 900Y
Medkit (Rating 6) 1500Y
Medkit Supplies x 6 600Y
Antidote patch (rating 6) x 2 600Y
Stim patch (rating 6) x 2 600Y
Trauma patch x 3 1500Y
Standard Credstick 500 Y 520Y
Standard Credstick 2000Y 2020Y
Fake SIN R3 "Charlie" 7500Y
Fake SIN R1 "Stan the Man" 2500Y
Fake Gun License-Ruger R4-Charlie 800Y
Fake Spellcasting License R4-Charlie 800Y
Fake Concealed Carry R4 Charlie 800Y
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50000Y - 47595Y = 2405Y remaining.

Deathstrobe: stunball is the aoe, stunbolt is the direct

As mentoned, drain stats are important for all mages, I would guess you are going for an intuition tradition (also important to choose) whxixh means it will be int+wil for drain (8 dice) for drain tests. You also resist drain on summoning new spirits, keep that in mind as well.

1) Corporate SIN is a really nasty negative quality. Be sure to understand the implications before settling on it.

2) Knowledge skills need ratings. You appear to have picked them all at rating 1.

Eagle is kind of a harsh mentor. You have huge dice pools where it counts, I guess. Still, I would expect the GM to be using Eagle's disadvantage against you frequently.

You have an Astral Limit of 5. (For future reference, Astral Limit is equal to the higher of either your Mental or Social Limit.)

You're better off buying a Rating 4 Fake SIN instead of two lower rating ones. Also, buying your fake licenses at the same level as your fake SIN seems like a best practice (by my reading of how identity checks work).

In fact, I might recommend dropping your resource priority to E and your metatype up to D, so you can get more edge. The more edge you have, the better it gets. So if you want to use edge on a test, you add your entire edge pool to the test, and you can use that as many times as you have edge points. On top of that, it allows you to push the limit and create very powerful spells with little drain.

I also do not see the purchase of the 7th point of magic, exceptional attribute only allows you to get up to 7 at creation, you still need to buy the next step up.

When you say "Magical Tradition" you mean Hermetic or Shaman right? Other then lore text is there any functional difference to the way they work?

I didn't really understand why this was so bad. If you use fake Sins how would anyone else know you were a Corporate Born? How often do Fake Sins "break" in practice? Aside from the 10% income tax, and the need for Fake sins all the time (I assumed everyone needed Fake Sins all the time so that didn't seem like such a high cost) why is this one so bad?

Would it be worth it to drop Skills down and increase metatype?
In general which would you rate more important, higher stats or skills at the start?

Ahh ok I thought the magic 6 buy added the 6 pts to the initial 1 not just made it 6. Will fix.

Gonna take another day to read more then post a new version. Thanks again for all the help, this game seems much harder to learn then D&D.

As mentioned, SINs are biometrically coded, which means burning one SIN will get your Legal SIN noticed, once that happens they couldrun your biometrics to find other fake SINs you have.

The MegaCorps are very very nasty organisations at the best of times. They may look shiny but really they are not. With the 25pt flaw you were someone the Corp considered Important. Someone they considered Loyal. You were Corp. No one likes a traitor, least of all the biggest, most powerful and paranoid organisations in the world and with that flaw, that's Just what they will see you as if you flag on a Fake SIN.

Valid point TJN. Reading it deeper again yes, it's less a Corp issue and more a Shadows issue and of course, in the Sgadows that paranoia is even higher. Who's going to trust one of the corporate elite down in the streets?