Also remember that attribs are better than skills in general

I spent 2 points each on skills and Attributes, 3 on meta type, and 1 on money, 2 on Magic.

Attributes are currently sitting at 8 Body, 5 Agility, 3 Reaction, 8 Strenght, 2 charisma, 3 Intiutioin, 1 logic, 3 Willpower, 1 Edge, 4 Magic.

No decisions made yet on Skills, Karma (Positive or Negative) investments, Money spent or Adept Powers taken.

The 2 points on Skilsl gives me 28 skill points, and 2 skill groups to buy, as I understand it.

I need some help pinning down what to pick up for skills/skill groups, Karma, and Adept Powers. Maybe a bit with gear.

Well

I do recommend always having at least one reliable ranged and fast stopping skill like pistols

Easy to get, cheap, and will do in a pinch

I'm leaning toward having the character favor duel weilding drum fed shot guns. The idea being there Comically oversized revolvers for something in a Troll Sized Range. (Also cause it's a Pink Mowhawk Game.).

With that strength, I'd also look into bladed weapons, which include polearms

Hmmmmm,

I have 2 skill groups, maybe just spend one of them on Close Combat and be good at basically any weapon I can get my hands on?

Also why go with 3 INT and 1 LOG

Arn't they sort of redundant?

They are radically different stats

What's the difference on them?

OH! god, Intution! I was inthinkg INT was IntellegencE1

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Logic boosts totally different skills

I've played too much D&D.

Initution is the one that effects initative and common sense, right?

Attributes only matter for STR, BOD, and limits unless you are a technomancer or a rigger

Skills are what do most of the actual work

(You want more attributes though, because you want HIGH limits)

Uh.... a roll is Attribute + Skill

They're both important

Attributes also key your limits

Though if you're using anything techy you're probably using the limit set by the equipment instead

Unless you're a techno or mage then your brain is the equipment

The biggest reason to value attribs more though
It's more expensive to get them up later

Will attribute also matters a lot, it's pretty much always part of your drain/fade soak, good chunk of magic resist, affects composure (iirc), and a bunch of other miscellaneous things

Which is the big reason I hate non-karma-buy chargen in shadowrun

Punishes you for not minmaxing the fuck out of yourself at chargen

Have you even seen the EXP buy

Also Lifemods work decently well

Yeah it's ~800, which actually lets you more easily be above-average compared to the priority system

The only thing that's needed

is you have to treat racial minimums as 1 instead of whatever they are

otherwise nobody will ever play a troll or ork

That's a problem with point buy too, point buy just hides it if they get their higher BOD/STR at chargen

Haven't messed with lifemods