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As for the munchkinism, i still think adjusting stats to match the character concept is a lot more important. Even if you have a real lean, mean killing-machine, it has no soul. It's even not like playing a cyberzombie - they have souls. Tattered, yeah, but still. I've played some min-maxed charact...

Honestly, you're probably better off without the cyber arm, as cool as it is. That sort of thing will get you searched at security checkpoints, and the grappling gun will raise alarms regardless of how legal it is. Just carrying around batman gear would probably be less suspicious, and at least you...

Ok, so I've taken in all the advice, gave in and added some cyber, and I think I've got a much better character. Please let me know what you think... Covert-Ops Adept, version 3.0 Metatype: Ork [20] Attributes: [170] B: 4 (0) A: 5 (40) R: 4 (30) S: 5 (20) C: 2 (10) I: 4 (30) L: 3 (20) W: 3 (20) Ess:...

Honestly guys, thanks for all the good advice. I've got a new build in the works that takes much of it into consideration. Yes, I sucked it up and got some cyber- it just took being hit with that stick a few times to knock some sense into me. Mainly I'm just annoyed that it's so hard to make a comba...

You could be a cybered mage ;-) :rofl: :sigh: I guess Adept really isn't a viable option anymore. That seems sad somehow- that the only way to be competitive is to add cyberware. It's more a failing of the Adept rules than anything. Their power point costs should be more in line with the essence co...

As for your specific Adept, you have four levels of Power Throw and a Strength of 3. You're seriously throwing playing cards for 6P. That's like knowing Power Bolt - and Power Bolt isn't even a super great spell. Instead, you could drop all the Adept bullshit, drop your Magic by 1 point, buy an att...

So is there any point to playing anything besides a cybered-up gun monkey or a spells-blazing mage then? That seems to be the gist of all the advice so far. Edit: Sorry about the snark there. But we already have a street-sam, rigger, and a mage in the party. You all seem to be telling me I'd be bett...

In general, you would be better off being an actual Magician who happens to take some spells that are buffs rather than trying to be a Mystic Adept. Mystic Adepts really get the short end of the stick in a lot of ways, and they don't ever catch up at high karma values. -Username17 Could you maybe g...

So I did some rethinking on my character (taking in the advice so far) and realized a couple of things. 1) I really want to avoid the cyber route for this. For one thing, we've already got enough metal in the group between the street-sam and the rigger with his headware and tank/command center. For ...

Yeah, these are the kinds of problems I starting seeing after we played a bit. While I thought I had an interesting character it turns out it's not a very effective character- because I didn't really understand how the game is played. My character concept is a thief. Someone who can sneak in, steal ...

Long time lurker here but first time posting. Unfortunately, I mostly ignored any Shadowrun threads in the past. Now I'm starting in a game and, after reading a few posts now, I think I done frakked up my char-gen. I tried SR back in the 2E days but the game fizzled after just two sessions. This gro...