Josie


Name: Unknown
Known Alias: Josie
RPG system: Shadowrun
Creator: Jan Baer
Type: Shapeshifter tiger (Similar to a were-tiger, but she's a tiger that takes human form.)
Genre: Cyberpunk
Personal Data: Josie took her name as a spin on a late 20th century animated television program. She works as personal secretary and bodyguard to the head of a large entertainment company in a Shadowrun campaign. As the scanners at the corporations' entrance would pick up any cyberware, and the company mages would detect any magicians, any would-be troublemakers wouldn't be ready to handle the surprise behind the receptionists' desk. As Josie can't fully change into human form, she does the best she can, using what would otherwise be considered an idealized human form. She is usually thought of as having had a masterpiece of a bodysculpting job done.
Game Stats:
Josie was written up about a year before the Shadowrun supplement that described using shapeshifters for characters came out. She has priority A for race, B for statistics, C for physical adept, and D for skills. The regeneration as written in the rulebook was considered too powerful so it has been changed. Josie heals one box of damage per minute (too slow for combat situations), similar to a AD&D troll. To compensate for having the regeneration cut back, she was given half strength immunity to weapons.
At the start of the campaign she had:
Body 5/10       The numbers before the slash are for humanoid
Quickness 5/7   form, while those after it are for tiger form.
Charisma 5      She eventually bought up all the human form
Intelligence 5  stats with karma points.
Willpower 4
Essence 8
Magic 8

Josie has allergies: plastics, nuisance, common
                     pollutants, nuisance, common
                     cold iron, nuisance, uncommon
                     silver, severe, uncommon

Skills:
unarmed combat (specialized: martial arts-claws) 8
athletics  6
stealth  6
singing (specialized: pop music-performing) 4

Abilities:
+1D6 increased reflexes  (cost 1 magic)
killing hands-Strength S  (cost 2 magic)
+4D6 athletics (cost 1 magic)
+3D6 stealth (cost 0.75 magic)
+4D6 falling (ability to drop an aditional 8 meters /
     cost 1 magic)
flare compensation, +2 perception (cost 1 magic)
thermographic vision (free)
high frequency hearing, enhanced vision (magnification),
enhanced hearing, enhanced sense of smell, tracking
scent (cost 1.25 magic)
regeneration (1 box/minute) (free)
armor (8 points vs impact/ballistic) (free)

Her attacks are:
Tiger form: +2 reach, 11S damage, impact
Humanoid form: 5S damage, impact
I typically used just her skill to attack with, saving
all combat pool dice for defense.
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