Character

At the heart of your experience in Shadowrun is your character. This is who you are in the Sixth World, the person whose story you will follow and develop throughout the missions and campaigns you undertake. The back of the book contains a character sheet that holds all the data you’ll need to quickly reference for your character. The character sheet may contain a bunch of numbers and other stats, but your character is more than that. The character is the combination of skills, inborn abilities, street smarts, and bleeding-edge gear that makes them dangerous— sometimes to others, sometimes to themselves, often to both. The numbers are there to give you a summary of your character’s skills and abilities, and to provide the information you need to resolve the various tests that arise. As a player, though, you can work within the numbers and every other part of the character to create a vivid personality who is part of the ongoing drama of the Sixth World.
The building blocks below are the critical elements that help make your character who they are.