is argent the guy with mbw4 delta and everything else delta who dual wields supermach? i swear dr.pain mentioned someone like that in one of the novels i never read.

Sounds about right.

Well if we're on to novels, what was the name of the main character from Tails You Lose? Fairly well modified and never had to sleep. Ever. Has to be a handy thing.

Worked for one of the north American uintelligence/covert operations groups, either the UCAS or CAS.

If we're looking for Most Deadly Cybered-Out Character Without Stats, I'd have to make it a tie between Argent and Kid Stealth.

Argent, Desert Wars Veteran, did indeed elect to have both fully functional arms amputated and replaced with souped-up cyber versions.

Kid Stealth, Organized Crime Veteran, blew off his own feet when given a pair of cement overshoes by his former comerades, then made it to shore and survived. He had his legs replaced by the backwards-facing pair that bears his name today, which incidentally have velociraptor-style claws on them. Oh, and he's basically a sociopath.

[/edit] Please note, this does not include cyberzombies, physads, or those genetically engineered to accept more implants than normal metahuman beings.

In light that vamps are now legal I vote Nemesis from an old module that I can't recall the name of. He's a canon vampire hitman with nearly 6 essence worth of cyber. Ubernasty.

TaComa. Isn't tahoma a font, or something?

I believe "tahoma" is an alternate translation of the indian word from which "tacoma" derives, and is also a local native name for Mt. Ranier (quite possibly there are multiple names for it as it is visible from 100 miles around). Though in this case it is most likely just a typo.

Ya know, Rev, looking at the little id bar to the left of the posts, it's a bit confusing when we post right after each other...given one letter difference in name, same sign-up date, similar location...

(now, if only I was running...)

Teachdaire holds the first place. With his skills and reflexes coupled with that ring he is just nasty...

Michael Dumont from Elven Fire a close second - a really nasty samurai with Firearms 10, Armed and Unarmed Combat 9, Gunnery 7 and stats of 6, 6(, 6(, 1, 5, 5. (An elf, if you can believe that charisma...) Shim Bright from the same adventure is among the better mages.

"Tuesday" Takemura(yakuza bad-ass), Jonty Glendenhuys(bounty hunter), Samuel Lamptey(hyper-cybered fullback for the Seattle Seahawks), Martin deVries(vampire vampire hunter) and Karl Heinz Zessler(Spike-baby Elf Mage - though not necessarily immortal) are all pretty high-powered too. Prime Runners.

Schreck in Two Solitudes from Shadows of the Underworld is one of my favorite nasties. Twisted Way Adept who thrives on the pain of others, and he works for S-K.

Dominic O'Brienin Celtic Double-cross is one of the better mages around - Druidic Initiate Grade 8. Though not a combat mage, he can hold his own pretty good using his Conjuring 9, Sorcery 9 and force 7 to 9 Illusion spells. Plus he has some powerful magical items to help him along...

Kandle - Humanis Goon in the Double Dipping adventure in Shadows of the Underworld is a bad-ass, with 6(, 12, 10 for (aug) physical stats, Firearms 8, MBW-2.


The Golden Gators for best ganger stats: B5, Q5, S6(, C6, I5, W4; sword 8, and swords that do [STR+2]S w/Reach 2. DarkAngel.

The Tir Ghost Fire Support and Demolitions Guy in Corporate Download is kinda nasty to (especially for a 'generic' unnamed npc), with 8 in most firearms, MBW 3 and some nice gear.

As for the aforementioned Nemesis (from Total Eclipse) - he had Boosted Reflexes 1 and Cybereyes, that was it for cyber. He did, however, have a Quickness of 30... probably the result of the author misreading the movement multiplier for vampires as an actual raise in attribute.

Anybody have the stats on Lofwyr by chance????

NO!

I hear his turn-ons are vulnerable European corporations, ancient Atlantean artifacts, and long walks on the beach.

ooh, eets my white knight!

Just for my understanding: what is the Shadows Of The Underworld-SB? Is it the "normal" Underworld-SB where all the major syndicates are described?

Lord Torgo is the gang leader of the Spikes, formerly the Spike Wheels. He's the one that made them wipe out the Silent Ps after he took charge. I've seen his stats, and you know, they weren't that impressive from a mechanical standpoint. But think about this... Since he took over, the Spikes went from an 'average' rated go-gang to a 'superior' rated go-gang. Compare and contrast:

The Ancients of Seattle:
# of Members: 100-150
Rating: Superior
At War With: Spikes

The Spikes:
# of Members: 20
Rating: Superior
At War With: The Ancients, the 405 Hellhounds, The Silent Ps (deceased).

The fact that a group of 20 can hold their own with two dangerous gangs and one superior gang, with a total number of about 300 people looking to kill them... that's impressive. It's not his stats you have to worry about. It's his tactics and psychology skill.

It's been mentioned a couple of times, but the Tir Ghosts in Corporate Punishment are vicious even if they don't have names. Those guys are badass.

2 posts for the price of one. Gah.

When the baddies are using APDS by default in their compensated SMG's at a high skill level, things are bound to get ugly.

Pay X nuyen, kill X elves.

~J

Tir Ghosts are certainly pretty badass, although not insurmountable. Apparently shadowrunners are one of their favourite enemies, which is handy cos Ghosts are one of mine!!

Now if only there were stats for Paladins...

[edit] Comment retracted because I don't know what I'm talking about.

You remember incorrectly.

Anybody have ballpark stats on Lofwyr?

"Bigger than Alamaise"

Um, ok. I don't even know how big Alamaise is...

That was a joke, son.

Okay, at bare minimum Lowfyr:

Body 25/20
Quickness 10(x4)
Strength 50
Charisma 13
Intelligence 13
Willpower 13
Essence 12Z
Magic 12
Reaction 10
Initative 10 + 3d6
Astral Initiative: 28 + 3d6
Attacks: 16D, +4 Reach

Powers: Astral Armor, Dragonspeech, Enhanced Senses (Enhanced Smell, Wide-Band Hearing, Low-Light vision, thermographic vision), Hardened Armor, Innate Spell(Flamethrower), Magical Skills, Metahuman Form, Twist Fate

Lofwyr is an initiate; he possesses the Possessing metamagic and is rumored to posses the Diving metamagic.

i think some of the npcs from celtic double cross are nasty. don't have that up here though.

Whoa, what is twist fate? I can't seem to find that in critters, is it from DotSW?

It's in Do6w and it's the reason you will never, EVER kill a great dragon with a PC with a sane GM. It allows dragons to really messed up things like force anyone in his LOS to reroll all of their sucesses and such things. It reflects that great dragons dont follow the normal rules of fate and karma, they're better than that.

Great dragons are forces of nature. The best way to deal with forces of nature like them are to be to small to be noticed or hve nukes. I bet a nuke would really cramp Lowyr's style.

Just remember this... Everytime a Great Dragon is knocked out(physical or stun Deadly), the dragon WILL lose a point of Magic. Since their Essense is 12, and assuming that their Magic matches that, any 2D6 roll to check for Magic loss will cause it to lose that Magic point. Heck, any dragon that gets knocked out will lose that Magic point.

Uh, no, actually, they won't automatically lose magic for that. They have another special rule about that.

If I were Lofwyr, I'd keep a few hundred Karma in my back pocket just to be able to insta-learn a new skill at a decent 2-digit rating if required. Then if some motherfucker managed to hit me with a barrage of SAMs and got me to Deadly +20 Over-Damage before 2 of my Quickened Force 20 Treats went off and healed me and I killed them all, I could just retreat to one of my impregnable underground fortresses for a few days and Initiate a few times again.

Anchored Treats.

Sphynx

Yeah whatever, it's not as if I actually have to know the rules to fudge that sort of thing.

As mentioned Those stats are the bare minimum, And considering he's the ultimate chess player/ Puppet master, i'd be putting his Int at, at least the 15+ mark, more so considering Hestaby is Int 13, and allthough he is lost the rite (more likely due to his borther playing to stop Lofwyr win then to make himself win) he is smarter then her.

IMHO

Aren't Torgo's stats in New Seattle?

Or was that some other troll ganger?