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[bull30548]

I would request not dying but this me so that is out...
I would rather it not just be Bull's day out though and make sure that those who are with me on it have playing too.  Like me sitting on the astral for three days negotiating with a spirit would probably be pretty dull for Bullet.

[kv]

The really depends on his character choice, actually. He had mentioned a dwarf mage as one of his possibilities.


Bullet, care to weigh in here?


  - kv

[bull30548]

Okay so I am coming up with what I look at as a really amusing concept for back up.  It is a mystic adept that is more adept than mystic but he doesn't really realize the difference.  Now the kicker is it's a troll that goes by his gaming handle Chrys Bliss and he 'awakened' while playing the game World of Shadowrun.  So a teenage troll with delusions of being a mage (which he is just not as bad ass as he thinks he is) and that the power was a reward for being such a loyal customer (who also works as a moderator for said game).   Thoughts? Aneurysms?

Just had a thought occur to me while making dinner.  So I was watching anime and thought one of the characters would make agreat adept.  This led me to the train of thought of the Get Backers anime.  Bon Midou and Ginji Yameno would be some great mystic adepts.  As I said just a thought....

[Ruski]

Insert: bull market stock joke / +in a china shop -bulldrek

[bull30548]

Hey Mythbusters disproved the bull in a china shop myth.  So I am going to disbelieve your reality and substitute my own.
 
Though I will request that if this next mini test run ends up with me going brain pop that that is it for Kinsey especially if we are going to have a dwarf mage of awesome.

[Bullet Sponge]

Sorry, folks, I've been out of pocket (and out of town) for the last few days and just got caught up.
The concept I was looking @ to replace Galbraith was a Troll adept with a fondness for heavy weapons (both ranged and melee). I was trying to make him not so completely Terminator by giving him a day job as a janitor at a local elementary school (it's hard to be tough cleaning up kindergartener pee). My 2 biggest problems are 1) I tend to get bored and bounce my brain between various concepts for various games at any given time with no rhyme, reason, or warning so I'm not the most reliable; and 2) Having played RPGs for over 25 years I tend to OCD over trying to make sure that the groups are as balanced as possible and will keep changing concepts to fill in gaps in the group's abilities until everybody is absolutely certain of what they are going to play. If I pick first I tend to try to live up to MY handle here.
All that said, if you want me to run a mage I can do that (though I'll need that warm up sesh). I've got concepts for (as KV calls him) a Dwarfomancer (dwarf mage) and an elf semi-face mage.
Responses?

[bull30548]

I think that we covered this a bit earlier in the thread.  Play what you like so you are more likely to stick with it.  I built Kinsey (and rebuilt him) to try and make him like Doc a previous character I enjoyed playing.  However, I now see that it was an error to do that because of multiple things a)group (I could predict what my friends would do because I knew them longer) b) luck (I had far more luck with dice with Doc than I do with Kinsey.) and c) basically I had done it before.  Now I like heavy weapons they cool they make a big hole or a big boom.  However, they also make a lot of noise and they are a pain to conceal.  If we were in Seattle I wouldn't see an issue but Denver is one big security nightmare.  So instead I would recommend going another route a bit more expensive BP wise.  Go with exotic weapons like Gyrojet Pistol and Laser Pistol.  They can hit hard and are easier to conceal after they are used.  Now Ruski and Ingo seem pretty locked in with their characters I am actually the only floater still.  It is mainly because of the points I listed above.  Another possible character if you wanted to go with the adept I recommend a melee specialist.  I know they don't get all the attacks that a person with firearms.  However, you can never truly be disarmed if someone took all your firearms.  These are just my responses to your inquiries.  To be honest I think if you really want to play a new character and Kid is okay with it why don't we both play new characters that way we get familiar with each other?  My new Troll Mystic Adept and your Adept or your Dwarf Mage introduced through a mutual acquaintance.  These are just my responses, so what about Kid's question Bullet what type of scenario would you like?

[kv]

These concepts don't have to be tied hard and fast to the main group, either. This is just a side exercise to allow you to test concepts (like the one we're doing, only in a smaller side group so each one can progress at its own pace and address its own questions).


If you both want to play troll potato shamans (I believe they're called Formori), I'll be okay with that, but there will be some overlap.


Bulletsponge, if you want to keep playing your character in the main game and test out your other concept ideas in the side thread, that was what I was suggesting.


Bull, I will warn you that mystic adepts are not all that mystical, and not all that adept. I've built a few, and they can be fun to play, but they're not as good as physads and not as powerful as mages or shamans, so they're great in a game that's mojo-light but they'll be a lot less fun to play in anything else.


  - kv

[bull30548]

Well mine was going to be a straight up Troll no metavariant.  Now I get that mystic adepts aren't that mystical or physical but I still stand by a previous argument.  I noticed in Artifacts Unbound and Magical Societies that maybe mystic adepts have more growth potential than regular magic users.  Some of the mystic adepts listed had the ability to exceed the 12 mark standard.  Not saying even if the rainmaker karma comes I doubt I be able to come close to that.  Now my split right now is 2/4 (mage/adept) so I do plan on going up to 2 on the mage which will put at 4.  I also plan on being Illusion focused spellcaster which is humorous because even at max and overcast (top end my drain would only be 2 if not lower.  Going for crowd control for either escape, disable, or coup de grace opportunities.

So I posed the question of what I was seeing in Artifacts Unbound and got surprisingly a reasonable explanation on the forums.  So apparently my initial concept of magic capping out at 12 was wrong.  Apparently you can keep initiating up beyond 6 so that is sweet.  However, something I did not notice was that initiation does not work in 4th like it does in 3rd.  When you initiate your magic rating does not go up automatically.  You have to spend karma to increase the magic as well. So 13 for initiate and 35 to go from Magic 6 to 7 for a total of 48 Karma.

[kv]

I'll admit, I'm not a fan of the kid who got his magic powers from a video game, but if that's the concept that you want to run with, I'll bite my tongue.


Better the magic video gamer than anime characters I'm not familiar with.


Bulletsponge is working up a character concept, but I can more forward without knowing what specifically he's planning (he's big on surprises for GMs).


For Bull, I have a short scenario planned out that I'll call 'Long Night,' and while it was initially an idea to pitch for Kinsey, I can adapt it for new characters.


For Ingo, I have a pretty simple scene I'll call 'Paydirt', where Eric gets to wander through the node for a company looking to expand into Denver, and hopefully get something worth taking.


For Ruski (and anyone else who wants to accompany him), called Pest Control. No prize for guessing what it's about.


 Do those sound intriguing at all?


  - kv

[Ruski]

Ahhh ghouls... thank goodness they don't regen from laser fire
...

[Bullet Sponge]

Sounds good.

Surprise.

[Ingo Monk]

Hey guys just chiming in after a couple of busy weeks.  I think I'm going to pull resources from the rigger part of Eric and put them towards the hacker part.  Once I have time I'll do everything up in Chummer and see how it looks.

KV: maybe a hacking scenario might be beneficial?  Nothing too involved, I'd rather just test stats and better learn the rules than go all out role playing

-Ingo

[kv]

Ingo: Sounds good to me, I'd like to figure out how many dice you can throw at things, and what I need to do to challenge you. Deckers/hackers are the hardest characters for me to gauge like that.

Bull: Were you planning on running with Kinsey the III, or the troll mystic adept, or something else?

Bulletsponge: Post your alt-character concept already!

Ruski: Any hints as to something that would actually be difficult for Sly to work around?


I apologize for my frequent absences, it's been a busy couple of weeks. Happy Chaunnakah!


  - Logain

[bull30548]

Kinsey the III