Pregen Rules

Any member of the ShadowHaven community can create a pregen runner. You are encouraged to work with the chargen team in this endeavour. As a new player resource, they are subject to more scrutiny than Player Characters. Apart from a chargen team review of the character, council will review and vote on the associated documents to approve the character's status as a pregen runner.

Design goals and guidelines

Pregen runners have a clear personal theme to allow players to get into character easily.
Pregen Runners are mechanically solid with an outlined area of expertise.
Pregen Runners are tied to the sixth world's factions and concepts by their contacts and history.
Part of a pregen runner's documentation is an "In Play" guideline. This document gives an overview over the abilities and tools at the character's disposal, including examples of how they work mechanically.
The flavor for these "In Play" examples is a fictional run the character was on, or the (slightly embelished) role of an NPC that played a significant part in a run, inspiring someone to create them as a pregen runner.

Mechanical Creation Rules

Pregen runners follow the same creation rules as regular runners: They are standard (that is non-prime) runners, created using sum-to-ten priorities.
Pregen runners can further benefit from a 5-10 RVP reward for their fictional run, illustrating the wrap-up of a mission.
Taskforce Haven will mechanically maintain pregen runners, tracking nuyen, karma, lifestyle costs, and key advancements.

Creation Reward

In order to fully flesh out this new system, the council is offering 20 GMP per premade. Remember, you can trade GMP, so feel free to work in teams and share the reward. This reward will be reduced in the future.

Using the Pregen Runners

Pregen Runners can be used to apply to games by any player, they can also be used as NPCs by GMs.
Players without approved characters have priority pick of the Pregen Runners.
GMs who need a certain role filled for their game are encouraged to give suggestions for appropriate Pregen Runners. For example stating something like "Requires a Matrix Character, if no approved matrix characters apply, an application as LastJack or NetRat is a surefire way to get into the game." in the session posting on reddit.

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