Nothing really to post here, except this.

dirty dirty boy.

Gah...in SR centaurs are born to be targets...I would think the only place a centaur would have a chance of surviving is in deep forests or on uninhabited plains. WAY to big a target, definately a pain for manuevering in tight corners...

But what am I saying? Dirty dirty boy....

Unicorns, on the other hand...are great for the glue factory. (ducks and covers)

You know, I thought that the price mods for Troll and Dwarf gear, although I'd pay hella good nuyen to see a centaur adapted motorcycle.

Nah, i don't see them becoming anything other than a novelty anywhere outside of the Tir's. Their signature would be on par if not slightly worse than a troll, and that's before you add cyber. The only benefit is you'd have one hechuva heavy weapons platform in a character like that, which would drastically shorten their lifespan, even given the lack of stealth and the propensity to be mistaken for walking steak in certain parts of the sprawl.

I'd definitely play a centaur, but only with cyber replacement hoof skates and a sidecar.

Oh yeah, I was reading the DotSW and saw that one of the board members for the Draco Foundation is a centaur. I was profoundly disturbed.

In D&D I'd play a centaur, but in shadowrun you'd be cutting your own throat. You can't go into most buildings, and if you can go in, you can't really turn corners fast enough to take part in a chase. Sure, you're strong as hell and twice as fast, but good luck climbing a rope to the roof of a building so you can go in the quiet way.

A large portion of the time you pretty much have to walk up to the front door and ask the security gaurd if he'll let you in, pretty please?

If the campaign were not a standard one (perhaps mercs in the rural parts of the world) then I'd think about it.

Why the binary poll? Never heard of 'depends on if I can make a cool char concept'? :o)

I might consider it, if I could be bothered.

I'd make an argument for a Centaur drone rigger or decker. They don't need to be in the heat of the action physically, and if they are made who is going to believe that a horse can deck?

And while he shakes his head, I'll mule-kick him into orbit.

And, imagine all the off line storage you can carry as a centaur decker

I like the idea of a full cybertorso with a field hospital inside.

How many hardpoints could you get on a Centaur? I think a troll modified bike can get 1 or 2.

eh. who wants to play a half-chimp?

Which half?


Seriously.

if you're playing a centaur, the top half. in SR, as i recall, centaurs are half-horse, half-monkey.

In the Animals of Eruope is states that they resemble primates.

And so do Formorian Trolls.

indeed. primate generally = monkey. or ape, or gorilla, or whatnot. as i recall, the pic in PAoE resembled an ape or monkey more than it did a human.

I've always been happy with Prescott's vision of them over anykind of half monkey.

heh. that guy looks like a half horse, half kobold. i don't think kobolds are technically primates, though, being more lizard-like than monkey-like.

I thought it looked like a horse with a donkey head and burrly arms.

Personally I'm not sure I would want to play a Centaur, I'd have to see the stats on it. But I would like to have the option. In fact I think the rules should allow players to be every single intelligent race including Free Spirits, Centaurs, Vampires, Blackberry cats, and even Dragons assuming the Player wants to spend 90 of his build points for the race slot. More options cannot help but improve gameplay.

Finally, a stable heavy weapons platform as a character. Armor mods would be painful, that's for sure, but hand me that HMG and let's roll!

check out the DiTerlizzi version of kobolds, from the AD&D 2e MM. prescott's centaur head looks just like that kobold's. (what's really hilarious is, tony d looks like someone tony d would draw. seriously, give him a sword and a crazy hat, and he could pose for Planescape 3.5e.)

i disagree that more options will improve gameplay. more options means more stuff that you have to try and balance against the rest of the stuff, which gets exponentially harder the more options you have. games that constantly add more options very often fall into the "latest and greatest" trap, where each new option is more kewl and powerful than the last.

That didn't happen to Shapeshifters and Ghouls, if anything they're the very weakest type of character in the game. And Otaku aren't miracle workers either. Nor are the Metavariants, who are frequently much weaker than the base types. Historically in Shadowrun there isn't any latest and greatest, there's just new more overwhelming powers for the people already there.

Besides, Shadowrun isn't all that balanced anyway, Dumpshock's arguments about the power of magic and price of elves tends to show that.