This is a character I wrote for a friend's upcoming SR game. The idea is that it's a retro low powered game. Characters are limited to 85 build points, and the game is set in 2052. I wrote up this character, who I thought was kind of funny, and so I hoped that I could be somewhat entertaining by posting the character here.
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Clyde Norris
Clyde Norris is an elf who wears leathers and has a blond mullet. He used to work in a small UCASian auto firm as a mechanic, but he was laid off when some Japanacorps acquired the company he worked for. "Garbage in, garbage out," is the saying, and while Clyde still had a job he enriched himself with a steady diet of beer, action flicks, and pro wrestling.
Once he was fired he became so depressed and angry that he spent all of his time learning anti-Zaibatsu propaganda. Since he failed to get his life in gear he quickly became destitute and homeless. He hit rock bottom when he was forced to use his last issue of Soldier of Fortune magazine to wipe his arse. He realized that he needed income, that he needed a positive change in life. And so, inspired by his earlier steady diet of action movies, he realized that he needed to become a shadowrunner. After all, now he was all tough from living on the street. And furthermore, he used to spend lots of time at an urban range firing pistols; it was one of his favorite hobbies. He's still got his Streetline Special, so it should be enough for some deadly freelance special operations...
As of the start of the story, Clyde is desparately huddled in his coffin motel staring at his cellphone. It's his last month of service, and he's hoping that someone will call him with a job like his contact promised...
85 Build Points
Elf - 10 points
Attributes- 60 pts
BOD 5
QUI 5 (6, race bonus)
STR 5
INT 5
WIL 5
CHA 5 (7, race bonus)
REA 5
INIT 5 + 1d6
Karma Pool 1
Total Karma 0
Combat Pool 8
Low light vision, yadda yadda yadda, elf bonuses
Skills - 22 pts
Unarmed Combat 3
Stealth 3
Pistols 6
Car B/R 2
Car 5
Athletics 3
Knowledge Skills
Automobile manufacturing 5
Cheap beers of UCAS 5
Seattle Sprawl 5
Japanacorps 2
Bad Action Flicks 4
Rock Music 2
Pro Wrestling 2
Languages:
English 5
Spanish 2
Resources 500 (-5 pts)
Synthetic Leathers (0/1)
Streetline Special (6c, 4L, holdout)
2 Streetline Special magazines
30 rounds for Streetline Special
Handset Unit Cellphone
24 hours of coffin motel time
Starting Cash: Rolled 120 nuyen
Flaw: (-2)
Uncouth
Contacts:
Rohn Jambo (level 1 contact; Desert Wars vet laid off autoworker who became a military fixer. Rohn Jambo is a former co-worker but is only a level 1 contact because he feels a deep contempt for anyone who slinks around in synthetic leathers with a hold out pistol and pretends to be a Shadowrunner.)
Phil Elmore (level 1 contact; Phil Elmore is a journalist contact; he writes for Soldier of Fortune magazine. Who else would be the target of the misguided and overblown admiration of a man who sneaks around in fake leathers with a small pistol than someone who writes for Soldier of Fortune?)