I’d love to see everyone else’s characters, if you’ve got them done, as well. I won’t be finalizing approval until I see everyone’s characters.
I don’t like matrix campaigns, fer’instance, so if everyone turns out to be a decker, I’m going to have to put the kibosh on some. My campaigns require some mindless gun toters and wizardy guys in addition to the more Gibson-y types.
Just so we’re all on the same page, which edition rules are we using? If it’s the most recent, I’ll have to reach out and see if I can get my hands on them.
Upon response from a friend, I now -have- the books. Yay friends!
Looking through them… Hrm. I know the idea of a ‘face’ sometimes works in a game, and sometimes doesn’t. Some games have social sessions, and some get down to the down-and-dirty of the infiltration and combat. So, mister GM, will a ‘face’ have a place in this game or no? Either way, I’m probably going adept. Power choice comes down to the viability of a mainly ‘social’ character.
I need to get my hands on a PHB before I can make a character. I tried to do that today, but Game Towne was closed. What the hell kind of gaming store closes on Mondays–only on Mondays–every week? And I walked a long way to get there, too!
Anyway, I’ll try to do it tomorrow. If my character ends up being a little too Gibson, I’m willing to change it to a regular street sam. Probably not a mage, since I don’t intend to buy a PHB, a magic handbook, etc…
I don’t know if it helps anyone, but I found an excel character sheet here, about halfway down the page, labeled SR4Chargen.xls. It doesn’t have any nifty macros for calculating scores, but it does keep track of BP and contain a list of all the default skills. 
Faces have a place. If you can’t get a book tomorrow, email me and I can -ahem- arrange for you to borrow mine.
All righty then. Working on my face / warrior adept. Will send out preliminaries tonight, as today looks to be a busy one.
I have some electronic gimmicks to hand out to the party… should I just list what I’m giving out here to save time, or would it be better to wait until the formal game and do it IC?
I’ll be the mage. I’ll have my character done by Wednesday. I’m thinking a Sicilian native who emigrated to Seattle only a few years ago. Some European experience, but fairly new to the Seattle scene.
That character sheet is awesome. Now I just need my book. I’m going to the store in a few hours to try and grab a copy.
BTW, I’m glad somebody decided to play a mage!
Hmm, actually, scratch the electronics thing; I just discovered a somewhat gigantic hole in my fiendish plan, so I’ll have to scrap it for party safety. :smack:
Just checking in to say that I got my book and I’ll be doing chargen later tonight. Thanks for the offer anyways, Diomedes.
Hey Diomedes, quick GM question: do you consider PC blood that gets spilled during the course of ordinary combat to be a reasonable ritual component?
And it looks like I forgot to add dice to my starting nuyen roll, so I just spent the last of my nuyen on nondescript clothing. Gah!
Wait, what is this about dice? I just multiplied the number of BP I’d invested by 5,000…
No, I meant the nuyen your character starts with. After chargen. You know, in the game itself.
Ohhh, I didn’t even roll for that. My poor character is starting with something like 400 nuyen to her name.
You don’t keep the nuyen left over from chargen. Let me find the relevant table in the book.
Ah, yes, page 86:
STARTING MONEY TABLE
Lifestyle Dice Rolled Money Multiplier
Street 1D6 x 10
Squatter 2D6 x 20
Low 3D6 x 50
Middle 4D6 x 100
High 4D6 x 500
Luxury 4D6 x 1,000
Page 49:
So if you have 400 nuyen left over at the end of chargen and a Low lifestyle, you would start with (3D6+4) * 50 nuyen. Or with a High lifestyle, (4D6+4) * 500 nuyen, etc.
I see… thanks! I guess I’d better go and find 400 nuyen worth of goodies to buy. 
Hmm… we don’t have a party healer, do we? If nobody is going to take any of the Medicine stuff, I might be able to find a spare BP and buy us an Autodoc.