I'm trying to gen a shadowrun character. And no, I'm not playing a hacker, technomancer or anything that relates to my supposedly real existence. It's far more fun to play something completely different. I'm going with a face+driver.
It seems Shadowrun is the game for accountants, assembly programmers and the kind of people who want everything a character owns nailed down. I was at character design about 5 minutes before I broke out KSpread and what I hoped was a final character sheet ended up at 4 sheets. Ok, so one of those was devoted to an insanely modified secure delivery van with pretty much every modification in the book strapped to it... but that's another story. Here's my point:
I've only skim read so far, but I notice you have a few programs you could do with at least at level one. Basically browse and command...(snip)... Analyze, Scan, edit, Decrypt and encrypt programs are also things you should put high on your list of items to obtain quickly, although they're not essential, just very helpful
And all I can think is but I don't pay for any of these now.
Browse: Firefox? Konqueror? Nautilus? Thunar? Rox?
Command: Bash/Zsh? ssh? vnc?
Edit: Well there's going to be a holy war here, but vim and emacs are out there and I have been know to use them. Also Notepad++ Kate, Gedit, Nano, Pico, Mousepad... I could go on
I could go on and start suggesting stuff that fits the analyse, scan, encrypt and decrypt description, but I'm sure anyone that's still following this has a pretty good idea of my point already. It just doesn't make sense to have to pay for these things.
This is why I don't play characters set up to magicly scare computers into doing their bidding. I'd spend the rest of my life arguing with the GM, however if I do get to challenge death, I'm going with shadowrun.
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