#SHADOWRUN 5E CHARACTER SHEET FREE#

Take skills as your top priority slot because the skills are ridiculously underpriced in that case. Play a human, they're the best race in 5E because having high priority slots available makes your life much better. Crank willpower as high as you can to try to resist spells you don't see coming. Dump logic and charisma unless you're building a character around them. Do worry about intuition to avoid ambushes and max your initiative. Because maglocks are now subject to the locksmith skill, you don't even need to invest in logic in order to sneak into an out of most facilities.ĭon't worry too much about body and strength - the former gets swamped out by your armor for most practical purposes (damage resistance) and the latter has no practical purposes: just use gecko gloves for climbing, stun batons for fighting, and power tools for getting out of any situation that might require you to force something. The high agility has the nice knock-on effect that you become an excellent sneak thief. Combat sense guarantees you a chance to react to GM ambushes, a high reaction means you'll probably act before the ambushers, and a suitably high agility means that you can throw about 18 dice at spattering anything in your way. A particularly good trick is to max out your perception, agility and reaction by hook or by crook (read: by combining bioware and adept powers) and then pick up the combat sense adept power. Given the above, I'd suggest playing a luddite that can do some serious damage in one way or another. Get your power from stuff that can't be hacked like bioware and magic.ģ) magic stuff happening to you - if you shoot spirits hard enough they go down, if you shoot mages hard enough they go down (especially if you act before them).Ĥ) Social stuff - you as a player can always try so see through this even if your character has terrible skills. So instead I'll examine the general ways dicking can occur:ġ) nasty physical combat - OK, let's build a combat characterĢ) matrix stuff happening to you - there's nothing in this game that stops you from turning off all of your wireless gear. However, in general it's tough to make a character in Shadowrun that 'cannot be dicked with.' One of the premises of the game is that the team will cover each other's weaknesses.

#SHADOWRUN 5E CHARACTER SHEET FREE#

I can only speak in platitudes without specifics about how your last run went South, so feel free to provide those. I can offer some insight on charop based on that, but I know nothing about the splats.

That said, I'm a sucker for a new edition and I've played some 5E out of the core book. One particularly significant one is that 5E is a step backward from 4E in most respects. There are two ways to do this.I don't know if you're going to get a lot of 5E help here: the edition isn't so popular on the board for an assortment of reasons. Once you are approved, you can then set the sheet into career mode (make a backup of it first though). Simply follow the guidelines, post the app, and wait for review by GMs. The format for character applications are up on the forums. Hovering the mouse of any of these numbers can usually bring up the information on how it is calculated, in case you need referencing. This will help give you a quick summary of many key factors for that character, including movement, initiative, armor dice, and the physical/stun track monitor. On the right side of the above screenshot, you'll notice the 'Other Info' tab. Note you can only have 1 native language (unless you have the Bilingual quality).įinally, be sure to make a backup of the character sheet, and do not put it into career mode (or mark it as created) until AFTER the character has been approved on the forums. Set it to 0 skill points invested, and you'll see a rating of 'N', indicating it is your native language and you never need to make checks to speak it. When selecting knowledge skills, always take a native language (usually English). If there are no errors though, then you should be good to go. If any errors come up, it'll indicate what's wrong.

This will help double check for you very quickly if the character sheet is properly legit or not. After selecting your armor, gear, weapons, lifestyle, contacts and so forth with a character backstory and theme in mind, now it's time to check for character validity, which is found under the 'special' tab.

Shadowrun 5e character sheet