New Year, 31 New You...s?
As indicated in yesterday's post, I intend to participate in the 2024 Character Creation Challenge this year. It will, indeed, be a little bit of a challenge because I will be away from my computer and the internet at least twice for a few days. Fortunately I have finally managed to get the post scheduling functionality working (this turned out to be more of a problem than expected because of timezone issues I didn't have when testing at home), so I should be able to keep up the "one post a day" thing...
My plan is to create 31 Shadowrun characters, all for 6th edition which does not get anywhere near enough love. I'll start the month of with some fairly standard character concepts, first five "mystic" characters (i.e. magicians, adepts or technomancers) of each of the classic metatypes (Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Orks, Trolls) covering each of the main five roles (combat, social, magic, matrix, wheels), then five mundane/technologically oriented characters covering the same.
Next up will be five metavariants (sub-types of the five main metatypes, for those not familiar with Shadowrun, such as Cyclopses instead of Trolls and Dryads instead of Elves). Each of those will cover a hybrid between two of the classic roles.
Then, things will start to get properly weird with five metasapient characters (intelligent nonhuman species like Centaurs and Nagah). They will still sort-of cover the five main roles. And then there will be six "freaks" - an animal shapeshifter (basically a werecreature... of sorts), an infected (vampires etc), a drake (half-dragon-shapeshifter), a changeling (humanoid, but... undergone drastic changes triggered by some mystic event), an AI, and (if I can find 6E rules for them) maybe a Free Spirit - if I can't find the rules, I'll probably add another shapeshifter, since they have a lot of variability.
I will use a worksheet on Google Docs to do most of the character creation work - I may fill in a nicer-looking character sheet in the end but no guarantees, editable character sheets for Shadowrun 6th Edition are hard to find, at least ones that don't have serious problems.
The first of these, a Troll Combat Adept, should go up tomorrow.
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