Alright. Since I'm playing around with a lil' cat shaman, I need to consider purchases mostly on style. So... I need a nice pistol for him. Something stylish, maybe pearl handled... effectiveness isn't really the main thing, though it should be a quality gun, the sort of thing where people might look at it and say "hey, that's a nice gun!"

Any idea about what sort of pistol I should be getting for him, and what the appropriate shadowrun rules for it would be? It should be able to be easily concealable in a nice European handbag (this character is a heck of a lot of fun to make, by the way... using a personal mirror as a fetish).

JaronK

Custom make it at character creation. Then you can make it whatever you want. Or, if it's too late, buy one off the shelf then pay to have it finished. You can get something nickel-plated then filigree it or dikote it or coat it in orichalcum or something. THAT would raise some eyebrows.

Either that, or the Walther PB-120. Or the Morissery Elite.

Morrissey Élan, Tiffani Needler, Tiffani Self-Defender, Hammerli Model 610S, and Morrissey Alta all specifically note their stylishness.

~J

Well, he is a shaman... an orichalcum coated pistol would make one heck of an interesting gun, and would double as a nice focus too... hmm. I'll look in to those brandnames though. That's the main thing I was looking for, a brandname pistol that would be the Delorian of the pistol world, as it were.

JaronK

Make sure you chrome it. A chrome beretta would be pretty snazzy.

When it comes to style, nothing says "panash" quite like a Big Frickin' Gun. I even like the color....

Conversely, you may want more style..

Nothing says classy like a revolver. Face it, even the snazziest Walther just says "I ain't shooting' long rifle," if you know what I mean.

And if cost = style, there's the Korth revolvers. The Anno Domini deluxe with a deeply engraved acorn motif and high polish gold plasma finish has a suggested retail price of $11,000, and most of the price still comes from quality instead of decoration.

And if your idea of style is a weapon that will kill anything short of a tank...

http://matrix.dumpshock.com/raygun/firearm...tol/sw_500.html

A bit big. But nice, shiny, and more than a little lethal, at least.

The Mexican

This one looks pretty.

I would almost go with something like a gun cane though. Stylish and retractable...

On a game note, the Savalette Guardian is kind of nice looking, from the picture in FoF. It's normally chrome, but I think it'd make a pretty damn attractive gun if you did the blue steel effect and a dark grip. Then do an etching of some sort on the sides to finish off the effect.

Of course, it might also look like crap, hard to tell from imagination

Hmm... considering this is a cat shaman, I think I'll have to go with the Plasma Coated Korth Semiautomatic, with a Personalized grip. I don't have the Cannon Compendium so I don't have much to work with, but I guess I'll use the rules for a Browning Max-Power, but of course a good bit more costly, and with the -1 recoil for the grip.

Then, if I get hurt in combat, I'm thinking the Smith and Wesson Model 500 as the "no more play time" weapon, with personalized grip, and maybe a little gold plating.

Ahhhh... this character is such a break from the ones I'm used too... they're all far too much about efficiency!

JaronK

Purchase any gun that suits your fancy, name it whatever you like, then pay for a Custom Finish and Engraving/Embossing (ie, increase its costs by 200 nuyen). There's your very pretty gun.

What he said.

I have a mage whose image is everything and he only has a pair of silver plated Manhunters.

Colt Manhunters, 425
Chrome finish, 125
Can of expensive polish, 25

Getting your ass wasted because you made a grand entrance on a shadowrun, priceless.

Although to be perfectly fair, in any other circumstance, the GM should offer a -1 bonus to appropriate social interactions in which a character who has put that much effort into their appearance can show it off properly.

-Siege

Or a +1 penalty to any situations in which a character who has put that much effort into their appearence is seen as a total fop. "Only a pimp from a cheap New Orleans whorehouse would carry a pearl-handled
pistol." etc.

Well, the SIG P210 is well known for it's reliability and accuracy, has been adopted by the Swiss and Danish militaries (although it was replaced by the P220 in Switzerland in 75) and several agencies especially in Europe. It's one of those pistols that may well still be around in 60 years. More than anything else, it would provoke envy in the mercenaries, because of the hefty price tag.

Unless, of course, you customize it to a nice neon green/red motif with furry grips.

It takes either a creative GM or a creative player to suggest any of the above --

Player: "Hey GM, I have wardrobe/fashion as a knowledge skill. Could I make...say...Bluff roll to make an 'entrance' and use wardrobe/fashion as a comp bonus because of my stunning outfit?"

GM: "I'm sorry, in a biker bar?"

Player: "Oh, wait...I have wardrobe/fashion (gangs) as a specialization."

GM: "Bull&%$^@*%! Lemme see that character sheet!"

-Siege

You want a stylish shooter? Go here - gotta say, "Helena" is my personal favourite!

http://www.poseidon.co.jp/2F/2f.html
http://www.poseidon.co.jp/3F/3f.html

Airsoft guns, yes, but nothing says yours can't shoot the real deal.

Doing a bit of anthropomorphisation(?!? ), I can't imagine any of my cats using something as clumsy as a revolver. Besides, they're loud.

Something more like a customised AVS might work, although that might be too deadly...

Whatever it is, needs to scream "Don't run, I can kill you whenever I want and you're only alive because you entertain me"

Ugh. That "Helen" thing was rediculus... I can't believe people actually do that. My Shaman (his name is Antonio Adriano Domencio Shadowpaw, a half Italian half Amerindian, by the way) is not tacky! I did, however, take Knowledge: Fasion and Knowledge: Feng Shui, though we'll see if there's any way I can work that in somehow. I was actually thinking about infiltrating an area by getting the head of the target facility to let me fix his office to make it more Feng Shui, then hide a dataline tap while arranging the place. It's so much easier to sneak in when they invite you in... plus, I could get paid by the head of the place, and by the Johnson who wants him taken down! More salmon for the shaman!

JaronK

Or Hi-C in a Puzzler!

It's not a very good picture, but this is the gun that the Prince of Cats uses...

Gun.zip

Arethusa: My bad, I don't read Japanese and that's what I was told. I just thought they looked neat.

You want a dart gun and rather than narcoject, you want something that hurts the opponent. Cat shamans like to play with their targets.

Actually, what about a local anaesthetic? Shoot them in the leg and watch them lose sensation and start to limp. That might fit in with 'cat' while still actually being somewhat useful. Paralyse the victim bit by bit until they cannot run any more. Then you can wander off, bored, and let the sam clean up the mess.

Alternatively, large doses of some kind of warfarin or heparin kinda drug. Small wound that just keeps bleeding...