u/ecoolasice

4e Newbie looking for character building advice

Hello all, my friends and I are dipping our toes into Shadowrun 4e for the first time and I am looking for both general and specific advice today, things I should keep in mind when playing/char building and help bringing an idea I have to life (if it's viable).

405 BP, basically everything allowed (save WAR! I think?), building on Chummer
My current idea is a kid toting around a minigun, Kydd, the G.U.N. (Greatly Unwanted Neoteny), because that's hilarious to me. What I have so far is just a few Qualities for sure:
Metatype Human, for the Edge +1
Changeling SURGE III, to enable the "kid" bit.
Biocompatibility (cyberware), because I want to engage with that stuff
Escaped Clone, mainly for story hooks
Restricted Gear 1, for the GE Vindicator Minigun
Neoteny, the thing I saw that spawned the whole build really

I am willing to change most of these out if they are considered flat out bad or some such, even dropping Changeling and Neoteny entirely as I can just make them really short lol, I might end up as the party's driver too, so might have to budget in a minivan or something but that's not 100% either way

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u/ecoolasice — 2 days ago