In reply to Papa Bear (msg # 129):

I can have my char ready later today.

Carver has been helping me with my character, and I think we are almost done.  Should be ready for review soon.

Was waiting for a final list of who's doing what before I did mine.  Where did everyone land?

I guess I would call my guy a physically powerful troll street samurai?

I stuck with face/decker/social Engineering

Oh yeah, I knew there was some step I was skipping. I have my character ready, I just didn't put my character sheet up. At present I've been working off my hard drive, and my current rpol character sheet says I am a terse Japanese elf sniper who is, in the words of Legolas, "still the prettiest".

I should be ready to review as soon as I get that up. Cloudbreaker should be done by this afternoon by the latest.

Cloudbreaker is a Troll street sam with some pretty clever knowledge skills. Also, he is heavy weapons guy (AND THIS is his weapon). I'm Dwarven ripperdoc (sounds familiar) with knives, LeSneak, pistols and a Knowsoft. We got our Decker-Face. I assume our orange-afro-otaku us a Mage of some sort.

Breaking in and entering specialist.  Standard issue grifter.

Ya know, maybe I'll stick with this name after all.  You can go ahead and change it.

Good grief I finally got a character submitted.  Physad SMG user.

Hmm.  So we're short on magic and rigging.  Not things that go together terribly well.  Of the two, mage is probably the most important, so I'll go that route.

We can always grab vehicle skills as karma rolls in. I think Velveteen or Snow may have to get extra money thrown their way, since they are the ones we can afford to make Riggers. I can plug in, but VCRs hurt like a bad mutha.

ummm no.  Snow is not getting a VCR installed.

Twitch is a street racer but not a rigger.

Rigging is easy to forego, especially in 2050. Riggers tend to sit out more than deckers right now.

Too bad they never came up with magic riggers like they did for deckers.

My experience with our last rigger is that having drones around is *nice*.  But agree that it's less essential.  We can re-evaluate when one of us dies ;>

Skill boost can be used to make Physads pretty good getaway drivers (assuming a helpful application of GM Handwavium), but VCRs have wonderful little bits like reducing driving TNs to insanely low levels. I once tried to make the Transporter (Jason Statham one, not the Star Trek wibbly one) a Physad. I got pretty close, but I ran out of points and money because it's hard to make a good character with priorities A & B for cash and magic, resp.

Hey, Twitch, if you have it a datajack can be used to add +1 to your Reaction when you plug it into a car. Just remember, jackpoint good, cigarette lighter bad.

I have a data jack because I got a smartlink....:)  Figured that if I already lost the magic point I might as well use it up.

Actually, that's Firefox's build, so it's certainly possible to make it work.

Trying to decide whether to go the same route this time.  Nice thing about money as A is you can start out with some sweet foci which really boosts effectiveness.  Downside is you loose astral projection and are more limited in spell repertoire.  That wasn't much of an issue when we had two mages, but might be more of an issue when I'm the only one.

Opinions?

Preferences on hermetic vs. shamanic?

Ma Thump redefined my understanding of 'rigger'. Although really, she redefined a lot of things.

I believe that shamans being able to summon on the fly is very useful (I also think they are more interesting than mages so i might be biased....lol).

Riggers without the black book are about as pointless as a magic user with a magic rating of 0 however.  :)

In reply to Firefox (msg # 148):

If you are going full caster then I would go for Shaman.  I have found that summoning nature spirits to be more useful (and cheaper) than elementals.

if you are going Aspected with just sorcery then it depends on what flavor you want for the character.

As a quick note, I'm not going to ask people to actually figure out how to pay the bill. Remember, nothing bad will follow you out of this adventure! That includes restaurant bills.

I wish life was so kind ;)

Shieeeet. I aint payin for NUTHIN! :)

"DINE AND DASH."  lol