Do we have a character sheet format to use, or should we just pull one from any other 5e game?

What about Elder Gods? ;) I’m digging the Aberrant Mind Sorcerer, but I could also play an Arcane Trickster if you need diversified skills.

DM isn't going to check them, so it doesn't matter which one you use.

DM, did you say no Goliaths?

Do we have motorcycles in this world?

Fair enough, I will put together the melee cyber street samurai build then, and see where that takes me.

I built out every character on D&DB as I came up with the concept, so mine's ready to go.

Hell yeah there’s motorcycles.

Elder gods are fine. Whatever you pick I’ll do research and play it but with a 2077 twist.

I said pbp races only. Which means no goliaths. But then someone asked if they could do custom lineage which now means you can do whatever you want. So...
I don’t care

I’m down to Aberrant Mind Sorcerer NetRunner, some sort of Arcane Trickster (NetRunner could also work), or an Amazon Biker Solo (Barbarian).

I just finished building out a barbarian solo, if you want it I can PM it to you and play something else.

Nope. If you built it first, you have dibs, that wouldn’t be fair to you. I’ll go with one of the first two.

(Unless you wanna say we ran with the same gang, and we’ll have two Barbarians! Lol)
This message was last edited by the player at 02:41, Sun 02 May 2021.

The same gang isn't a bad idea, but I don't think we want two barbarians.

Unless you feel like having shared abilities with someone else would somehow lessen your enjoyment, there's nothing wrong with having 2 barbs.

And as long as you're not taking the same subclass, you'll probably still feel unique enough that you aren't stepping on toes too much. Totally up to you two, though.

Barbarians are a fairly focused role, unless we really need a lot of melee attackers they are fairly low on versatility.

But if we want to roll that way I don't have any personal aversion to it, I have never found that I suffer from other similar characters, particularly not in a game where we have a good amount of cosmetic customization.

Overloading melee DPS is valid. I'm almost entirely melee focused at the moment, and will be until level 6. I can make a simple change to gain a good ranged option at the cost of a somewhat crappy AoE that I mostly took for flavor.

Overloading... melee... DPS?

Man, you folks are gonna make me WORK for my paycheck, aren't you?  XD

- your friendly neighborhood cleric

We have to earn ours by beating things up, you gotta earn yours by un-beating us up.

ok check out the factions, you can pick one that you want to be part of if you like. This game is fairly faction heavy.

You don't have to pick one.

Final thing, are you all meeting for the first time or have run jobs together before?

I like already known one another, it saves us a slow start. I'm not opposed to the alternative, though.

I tend to think knowing each other is a better way to start.  We may not have worked together as a complete group but having had positive encounters of some kind is probably for the best.

I agree - knowing each other, even in passing, makes the group mesh just that much more quickly.

EDIT: As for factions, I'm fine with pretty much any of them except the Harpers, especially since NotJun is considering a NetRunner.  Maybe start off with the History Hackers because of the connection with Gun5Dren, and branch out later on?
This message was last edited by the player at 22:45, Sun 02 May 2021.

yeah you have to ally with the history hackers, otherwise you would just be brainwashed like everyone else.

If the Harpers oppose the 1%, then I’m down for that and ditching NetRunner. Which hackers are their opposite number, would that be the Harpers?
This message was lightly edited by the player at 23:54, Sun 02 May 2021.

Change my name to Ember. I’m going with Aberrant Mind Sorcerer.