It'd be an excellent battle form, though.

Fire panther, let's go!

The power of...THUNDERBIRD...ACTIVATE!!!

I've noticed a total lack of mage twinkage.  We've seen adept twinkage out the wazoo but no actual mage type.  I've seen maybe...-MAYBE- 3 in the 18 pages that we have?

Not just Adept, CYBERED Adept.

There's a difference.

Said it before and I'll probably end up saying it again: Magicians (not Mystads, they're a whole other story...), differ mostly in terms of spell selection, tradition and metamagics, and none of those really require you to change an actual sheet very much. The nice thing  is that luckily, mages don't really have to be all that different numbers wise: You can take the exact same sheets, mix up the spell selection and come out with a Seer-like character who detects lies and controls minds or you could end up with a full on Combat mage who casts Demolish Guns on people before levitating out of melee range and raining Manabolts on everyone. Low level Magicians often achieve twinkhood more through clever execution than through leveraging a sick character sheet.

And a magician is more prone to twinking out in one of two ways.  Summoning high level spirits for possession or not, and casting spells at well above their magic rating to kill someone cold.

That's it really.  And then it just matters which combat spell you chose to destroy people with and how well you are going to do it against other mages (cause counterspelling could spell your doom).

The latter way of twinking is also a single-fire weapon of doom.  You let off your force 12 manaball and then you fall over dead.

Character Name: Lucky Seven

Synopsis: Lucky hasn't it made it through life on his good looks (Which he lacks), his force of will and resolve (Which he lacks), his surprising degree of Logical Analysis (Which he lacks)...  He's alive today because, well, he just got lucky.

I'm not sure if I would call this character 'twinky', as it is lacking in several serious departments, with plenty of vulnerabilities.  However, with excellent Initiative, and plenty of perception, stealth, and automatics dice, Lucky can excel in a Recon/Scout role.  With only Body 4(5), and no unarmed combat skill, he'll prefer to engage from a distance, and with ample amounts of cover.

And, of course, if he ever finds himself in a position where he doesn't quite have the right tool, or skill, for the job a ridiculous Edge Attribute ensures he just might get Lucky.

Bottom Line: Might be a fun character with some perks, if you can get over some glaring disadvantages.

(DISCLAIMER: My head is pounding with a nasty hangover, as I drafted this up, so I haven't checked the math more than once.)

::Race: 0 BPs
-Human

::Primary Attributes: 190 BPs

Bod: 4(5)   Wil: 2
Agi: 5(7)   Log: 2
Rea: 5(9)   Int: 5
Str: 2(4)   Cha: 2

Initiative: 14
Initiative Passes: 3

::Secondary Attributes: 50 BPs

Edge: 7
Essence: 1.4
Magic: 0

::POS/NEG Qualities: 0BPs

Lucky
Aptitude(Automatics)
SINner (Criminal)
Spirit Bane (Ol' Janx Spirits)
Addiction (Alcohol)


::Skills: 98 BPs

Automatics: 7
Running: 4
Climbing: 4
Infiltration: 4
Etiquette: 1
--Street: +2
Perception: 4


::Cyber/Bio/Equipment: 50 Bps

::Cyberware: 51.1k, 4.0 Adjusted Essence

Cybereye System, Rating 3 - 1,000 - 0.4 Ess
--Recording Unit -- n/a - n/a
--Image Link -- n/a - n/a
--Smartlink -- 1,000 - 3 cap
--Ultrasound Sensor* -- 6,000 - 2 cap
--Thermographic Vision -- 1,000 - 2 cap
--Vision Enhancement, Rate 3 - 4,500 - 3 cap
--Vision Magnification -- 1,000 - 2 cap
--Protective Covers -- 100
-----Capacity 12/12----- (9.6k Total)
*Ultrasound Sensor is Headware, and I can't remember the ruling on combining Capacity, so I'm throwing it in anyway.

Cyberear System, Rating 4 - 1,500 - 0.5 Ess
--Recording Unit -- n/a - n/a
--Sound link -- n/a - n/a
--Audio Enhancement, Rating 3 -- 4,500 - 3 cap
--Damper -- 750 - 1 cap
--Spatial Recognizer -- 750 - 2 cap
--Balance Augmenter -- 5,000 - 4 cap
--Select Sound Filter, Rating 4 -- 4,000 - 4 cap
-----Capacity 14/16----- (16.5k Total)

Reaction Enhancers, Rating 2 - 10,000 - 0.6 Ess
Muscle Replacement, Rating 2 - 10,000 - 2.0 Ess
Plastic Bone Lacing - 5000 - 0.5 Ess

::Bioware:: 185k, 0.6 Adjusted Essence Cost

Platelette Factory - 25,000 - 0.2 Ess
Synaptic Booster, Rating 2 - 160,000 - 1.0 Ess

::Contacts: 12 BPs
-12 BPs unassigned for Contacts.

On a whim I decided to go for the almighty ELBIAN MYSTIC SHAMAN SOCIAL ADEPT!!!!!  PHEAR!!!!!!

Metatype : Elf
Mystic Adept

BP Breakdown:
Stats: 160 BP
Race: 30 BP
Edge: 20 BP
Magic: 97BP
Skills: 82 BP
Know./Lang. Points: 21 BP
Positive Qualities: 20 BP
Negative Qualities: -55 BP
Resources: 20 BP

=Attributes=
Body: 2
Agility: 4
Reaction: 2
Strength: 1
Charisma: 10
Intuition: 3
Logic: 4
Willpower: 4

Edge: 3
Magic: 6
Initiative: 1/1 pass
Essence: 5.28

=Active Skills=
Counterspelling: 3
Spellcasting: 5
Influence Group: 3
Gymnastics: 3  (For those flexible positions)
Perception: 2

=Knowledge Skills=
Bunch of languages, sex, and porn knowledge

Positive Qualities
First Impression
Mentor Spirit: Seductress

Negative Qualities
Addiction: Mild: Sex
Spirit Bane
Geas
SINner (Standard)

Cyberwares
Cosmetic Modification (Basic): Cyber Tats: Tramp Stamp
Datajack
Sim Module (Ya gotta have a meat puppet doll like the Yakuza have in their Bunraku parlors!)

Biowares
Tailored Pheromones: 3

Spells:
Fashion
Intoxication
Orgasm
Orgy
Magic Fingers
Control Emotions
Healthy Glow
Makeover
Sterilize
Mind Probe

Adept Powers
Improved Social Ability: 2
Kinesics: 5

Glasses and contacts with all the trimmings, Power 2 Spellcasting Focus, Force 6 Lodge, Plasteel Restraints, etc and so forth.  Could have done better but I did it on a whim to be a seductress porn starlet etc.  If you can make her better, go for it!

ROTFL...


Sadly enough, I've seen this char more than once on SR3 mu*s, she always denies she is one...but she always has that Tramp Stamp!!!

(Sorry, when you call it a Tramp Stamp in your Desc, you're a slut an you knowwit!)

All this debating lately about how worthless cyberlimbs and reaction enhancers are has got me feeling rather saucy, so I made a hacker (of all things) that combines both. And he actually doesn't suck, although he lacks the initiative passes to run with the big boys in a firefight. He can dish it out though if he happens to win initiative, however. I also strongly considered dropping his natural logic to one and picking up four levels of influence too, since logic isn't as vital as one would expect for a hacker. Critique away.

EDIT: I broke my own cardinal rule with this guy. I forgot to take perception at 4. I'm too damn tired to tweak it any further atm, but I imagine I'd just end up dumping the athletics group and taking gymnastics at 4 and putting some of those points in to perception, or else shave a couple of points off of logic. Regardless, the character is otherwise sound and those are easy fixes.

Metatype : Human
Mundane

Attributes
Body: 1
Agility: 1
Reaction: 5 (7)
Strength: 1
Charisma: 5
Intuition: 5
Logic: 5 (7)
Willpower: 5

Edge: 2
Initiative: 12
Essence: 0.9
 
  Knowledge Skills
: N Boatload of free points
 
   Active Skills
Climbing : 4
Gymnastics : 4
Running : 4
Swimming : 4
Computer : 4
Data Search : 4
Hardware : 4
Software : 4
Cybercombat : 4
Electronic Warfare : 4
Hacking : 4
Exotic Melee Weapon : 4
Automatics (Submachine Guns) : 6 (7)
 
 
 
Positive Qualities
Ambidextrous
 
   Negative Qualities
Weak Immune System
Addiction, moderate
Allergy com/mild
 
 
 
Cyberwares
2xObvious Full Arm w/
+ Agility (Rating 3)
Cyberarm Gyromount
+ Body (Rating 3)
+ Armor (Rating 2)
NOTE: One arm also has a fingertip compartment w/ monowhip

2xObvious Full Leg w/
+ Armor (Rating 2)
+ Body (Rating 3)
+ Agility (Rating 3)
+ Strength (Rating 3)
Reaction Enhancers (Rating 2)

 
   Biowares
Cerebral Booster 2
Synthacardium 3
Reflex Recorder (Automatics)
 
 
 
Weapons
2x Ingram Smartgun X
20x Explosive Rounds (10 shots)
 
   Armors
Urban Explorer Jumpsuit (this guy would DEFINITELY need coveralls...)
 
Commlinks
Commlink : Meta Link
OS : Vector Xim
Commlink : Meta Link modified for hotsim & response/signal rating 5, OS/firewall, rating 5
Datasoft (Rating 5)
Mapsoft (Rating 5)
Analyze (Rating 5)
Browse (Rating 5)
Edit (Rating 5)
Encrypt (Rating 5)
Reality Filter (Rating 5)
Scan (Rating 5)
Armor (Rating 5)
Attack (Rating 5)
Biofeedback Filters (Rating 5)
Decrypt (Rating 3)
Defuse (Rating 3)
ECCM (Rating 5)
Exploit (Rating 5)
Medic (Rating 3)
Spoof (Rating 5)
Stealth (Rating 5)
Track (Rating 5)
Sniffer (Rating 5)
Trodes
Subvocal Microphone
Skinlink
Tag Eraser
 
   Equipments
Fake Sin (Rating 4)
4x Fake License (Rating 4)
2x Fake Sin (Rating 1)
4x Fake License (Rating 1)
Contact Lenses
+Smartlink
Trauma Patch
2x Stimulant patch (rating 6)
Tiny amount of cash for random crap.

2 months low lifestyle

Contacts, 8 pts. worth
 

With Augementation having come out, I do believe it is time to revive this thread with twinky goodness!  So...lets see all those Type O bioware freaks and cyberlimbed hotshots come out of the woodworks!

You guys are amateurs. I haven't seen anything that my troll twink mage could not obliterate while playing with himself.

Though I do wonder, wtf is a Tramp Stamp? (I'm getting old, aren't I?)

Love to you all,

Poppa Kage

Tramp Stamp: a tattoo that a person puts on their lower back, right above their ass.

Thank you Imp and Melkir.

Especially Melkir. I always knew you'd go the extra (vertical) mile for me.

I love your twink bods,

PK

I need critiques for my Street Samurai template:

Ork
Body 5                      Willpower 4                 Edge 5
Strength 5 (7)           Charisma 2      
Agility 5   (7)             Logic 2
Reaction 5 (7)          Intuition 5

Krav Maga 1 (Take Aim as Free Action) (Iaijutsu Manuever)

Heavy Weapons 3
Perception 4
Dodge 5 (6)
Automatics 5 (6)
Athletics Skill Group 2
Stealth Skill Group 4

<Alpha> Wired Reflexes 2
<Alpha> Custom Full Synthetic Cyberarm (Body +2/Strength +3/Agility +3)
-   Cyberarm Gyromount
-   Agility Enhancement 1
-   Strength Enhancement 1
<Alpha> Cybereyes 4
-   Low-Light
-   Thermographic
-   Flare Compensation
-   Smartlink
-   Ultrasound Sensor
-   Vision Enhancement 3
-   Protective Covers
Muscle Toner 2
Muscle Augmentation 2 
Reakt
Metatype Change
Skill Reflex Recorder (Automatics)
Skill Reflex Recorder (Dodge)