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_Pax_
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Join Date: Apr 2012
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Old September 10th, 2012, 03:23 PM
Sure, I'm bored; I'll share a few of the characters I've made.

First up is Jack, a.k.a. "Frost" - built with Karmagen, at 1,000K.

He's just a kid, only fourteen ... give or take. He's not quite sure, you see - he has no memory before being found wandering the barrens by the members of a gang. Luckily, "found" really means "wandered by and saved their asses in a display of Adept-enabled badassery", so his story didn't end quite as swiftly and sadly as one might expect.

That was a couple years ago; sine then, he's become quite an asset to the gang, though he's been encouraged to step into the shadows by oneof his contacts (who is, unsurprisingly, an occasional 'runner with an eye for Awakened talent and a willingness to ignore Jack's youth - the C2/L3 Paramed Shaman, in the HL portfolio).

The concept I was trying to explore with this build is: an extremely young character (potentially as young as 13), who nonetheless could work as a shadowrunner, alongside adult characters, and be believable as such.

He's a bit of Infiltration, and a bit of hand-to-hand combat. And he's reasonably effective in combat, despite being a kid and having a Strength of only 2. Yayy, Critical Strike. Also, yayy Elemental Strike (Cold) ... from whence he derives his handle. The end result of everything together is 17 dice to attack, dealing 6P(cold) ... and cold goes against half Impact armor. So, no, 5P isn't superhigh. Give the boy a few years to grow and fill out a bit, get that strength up to a 4 or 5 ... initiate a time or two for mroe Critical Strike ... and, yeah. Scary potential. And not half-bad in the interim.

On the metagame level, his youth is as much advantage as disadvantage. Most people should underestimate someone that young, and in some places, not even notice him (e.g. shadowing someone through a shopping mall). OTOH, there's places he can't legally go; I wouldn't try to pull off a character this young in a Missions setting, for example, because some scenarios assume everyone goes to X or Y major nightclub, and ... whoops, no fake ID in the universe is going to pass a ninth-grader off as being 21.

Personality-wise? Smart-assed punk gang brat ... who actually CAN back up his bravado in a lot of situations. Even against an adult Ork or Troll.
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