![]() They are just going to be very limited in what they can do. A mage or shaman could get by with one of the lower priorities, but any other character is really going to struggle with only having 17 or 20 skill points. The other thing to keep in mind is that once the game starts skills are more expensive to raise then attributes, so the more you can get at character creation the better. That’s a whole bunch, but easily spent nonetheless. ![]() On the other end of the spectrum, A gets you 40 skill points. An E priority in Skills gets you a paltry 17 points, there is not much that you can do with that. It’s shooting guns, driving cars, using computers, tricking people, just about anything that your character wants to do there is a skill connected to it. Skills are pretty much the lifeblood of a character and really define what they are more than anything. If you are a non-magical human this is the choice you have to make. All this being said, I think that metahumans are way awesome and everyone should try playing one at some point.įor most characters the real decision comes down to Skills, Attributes and Resources for their A, B and C priorities. The other bonus features can usually be recreated by cyberware. Most of the races wind up with a net bonus in attributes, so it’s not a killer to have to move your Attributes priority down a little. A troll bruiser with a big mono-axe? Yes, that’s a serious character. Yeah, it can work but they are probably going to start weaker than the rest of the party. The problem is that after spending A and B to be the troll shaman, they are going to wind up very deficient in one area. I love the idea of a troll shaman, but the truth is that they are absolutely wretched in that role. The thing is they are each sort of railroaded into a particular type of character. That being said, it’s usually not a great deal to spend your highest priority to enter the metahuman club. There are humanist poli-clubs, metahuman terrorists and all sorts of great character hooks that come from being a nonhuman. ![]() Metahumans are very interesting in the world of 2050 (or wherever you choose to set this) and a party of all humans is sort of dull. It’s cool to be an orc, troll, elf or dwarf but is it a good move in a character building sense? If that’s who you want to be, then absolutely. Metahumans require an A, if not you can dump it. Race is the other easy priority to figure out. It has it’s limits, but the power that it makes available is a fair trade for your highest priority. Magic is actually really powerful in Shadowrun. The only exception to this is a metahuman wielder of magic, in which case you can put priority B here, as long as you use A for your race. If you don’t want to be one of them, you can dump it to E. If you want to be a mage or a shaman it gets priority A. We will start with Magic, because it’s the easiest priority to assign. So you don’t need a great character to succeed. For starters, Shadowrun is definitely a game that rewards smart play. It can be tricky to figure out what is going to work. The priorities are A,B,C,D and E A gets the most out of that category, while E provides the least. Players assign a ranking to each of the five categories Magic, Race, Resources, Skills and Attributes. Second edition Shadowrun uses a priority system to create runners. So you want to be a shadowrunner? More specifically, you want to be a Shadowrunner using the character creation rules from the early 90’s? Awesome.
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