ARCHETYPE
Choose your Archetype
Archetypes are quick way to create a character. They are pre-generated characters with attributes and skills tuned around a specific function. They are ready to select and play. You are not locked to this archetype and can grow your character however you wish.
Street Samurai
The Street Samurai is a freelance operative who follows a code of street honor. They are learned in the ways of the traditional samurai warrior and in the practices of modern combat. Samurai sell their skills for profit and work to take out the dishonorable scum that seem to breed in the urban sprawl.
Key Attributes: Body and Strength or Quickness
Key Skill: Close or Ranged Combat (or both), Throwing Weapons, Dodge
Mage
Mages specialize in the casting of spells but that doesn't mean they can't shoot guns as Well. Rather, magic is the center of their life. Their spells reflect a pure balance of the man-sphere and cover a wide range of magical effects from offensive damage attacks, to character augmentation or degradation spells, to healing spells.
Key Attributes: Willpower
Key Skill: Spellcasting
Decker
Deckers use a cyberdeck to jack into the Matrix - the worldwide information grid and computer network. By projecting their minds into the electronic world, deckers can find secrets others Keep hiden away. They use programs and Expert Systems to fight off the protections that megacorporation place in their way.
Key Attributes: Intelligence
Key Skill: Decking
Key Specialization: Expert Systems
Shaman
Shamans believe that their magic come from a great totem spirit that guides their life path - Bear, Cat, Coyote, Eagle or Racoon. Shamans relationships with their totems allow them to summon spirits and command them to do their bidding. Shaman have the skill to conjure spells that mages cannot.
Key Attributes: Charisma
Key Skill: Spirit Summoning (increasing this skill grants a sharman a totem benefit), Conjuring
Rigger
Riggers use cybertech to jack their mind into and control small robot-like vehicles called drones. Riggers use their rigging abilities to provide surveillance, support, and extra fire-power when required.
Key Attributes: Intelligence
Key Skill: Drone Control
Key Specialization: Drone Combat
Physical Adept
Adepts are magically-active characters who focus their magic internally to develop to their utmost potential - physically, mentally and spiritually. As Adepts unlock new abilities, they become honed physical machines, using their magic to enhance their close combat abilities.
Key Attributes: Body, Strength, Willpower
Key Skill: Chi Casting
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if you feel comfortable with the way characters are built in Shadowrun, you may create your own character by mixing skills and attributes as you wish.
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