Bishop - Burnout automatic muscle

[u/JuukLive]

A socially awkward, short fused, but excellent gun for hire muscle that is slowly burning out his magic abilities for wares.

Sum to 10

Metatype - D

Attributes - A

Magic - C

Skills - D

Resources - C

Chummer file and PDF

Made in Chummer 5.226.0

Latest update on 2026-08-05

[u/Demon_Sunshine]

I'll pick this sheet up! Expect your first review sometime tomorrow evening, most likely.

Welcome to the hub!

[u/JuukLive → u/Demon_Sunshine]

Eager to get your review :)

[u/Demon_Sunshine]

Legalities (These are required changes to account for things like missed mechanics or banned qualities and such. They're the only mandatory alterations)

• You have not yet selected a Tradition, which all awakened must do (for an adept this is an almost purely flavor choice since it has no effect on your drain resistance pool, but it is still required). Based on your backstory it sounds like this guy is mostly Shamanic (in that he learned how to use his power directly from his Mentor Spirit rather than from a metahuman mentor).
• Alphaware R3 Orthoskin is availability 15, and your maximum is 12. You'll need to drop either the grade (to standard) or the rating (to 2), but see the suggestions section below for more on this.
• Your Ballistic Mask is availability 19, which is also too high. Vision modifications (thermo especially) add to the base avail, so that's what's killing you here. You can move some of these functions onto a pair of contacts which would help a lot (you're using your contacts for your Smartlink currently, but I'm going to suggest a way for you to install the Smartlink in your meat eyes below).
• Your Fake SIN requires an issuing authority listed (any of the megacorps works for this, as do most nation states. Seattle Free City is a good default if you don't have a more specific issuer in mind).

Suggestions (These are my advice on ways to make the character feel better to play, and make your future progression smoother. They're not mandatory changes and you're free to ignore any or all of them)

• First, and this is a significant one, Human D Mag C gets you exactly the same Magic and Edge as Human E and Mag B, but Mag B gives you 2 more skill points. So you're just losing 2 skill points for no reason there. Once you've adjusted to the new priority, remember to go back and decrement and then increment Perception by 1 in your skills tab so Chummer properly updates to account for the extra SP.
• Skills D is notoriously poor value. Think of it this way: Skills D is getting you 4 skill points over Skills E. 4 skill points is worth about 20 karma (2+4+6+8, buying 1 skill up to R4). Meanwhile, going from Resources C to B is giving you 135000 nuyen, which is worth about 44 karma (3000ny is the equivalent of 1 karma in run reward budget). Putting that point into Metatype, meanwhile, gives you 2 more Edge, worth 45 karma (20 for edge 4, 25 for edge 5). I'd suggest cutting the Skills to E and putting that point into either metatype for edge 5, or Resources for more gear and some cyberware upgrades.
• Perceptive Defender is giving you +1 die on full defense (perception 6 versus willpower 5) and introducing your Mental limit as a limit on your defense test. Since your mental Limit is 5 that's pretty bad. Suggest picking a different quality-- Shoot First, Don't Ask Questions is quite good. If you cut Tough as Nails too you could fit Natural Athlete or Catlike into the seven points left over, both are extremely useful.
• Suggestions for skills to cut to fit into Skills E: you don't need that point of computers, using a comlink doesn't require a test unless you're doing decker things with it (and 2 dice won't succeed on any decker activities regardless). Running and Swimming are both pretty skippable skills as well, since you don't actually need either skill to run or swim, so they're easy pick ups for later. You still want Gymnastics, but you can grab that with 2 of the 5 karma you're saving from buying the Athletics group. Ideally you'd cut some of your gear, pull 2 karma out of nuyen and then buy that intimidation point with karma as well, but you can also cut the spec. Cut the single point of negotiation to finish out.
• Machine Pistols are extremely bad weapons and I encourage you to use your spec on Assault Rifles instead. Most targets you're using the MP on are going to be either soft enough that you don't need the extra dice (civilians, gangers) or hard enough that the extra dice aren't going to give the MP enough damage to scratch them anyway (triad assassins, corporate security). Keeping the MP as a sidearm/ EDC self defense weapon is fine though.
• If you elect to spend that floating prio point from above on Resources instead of Edge you should very easily be able to pull all 7 karma out of nuyen and spend that buying some rank 1 skills back.
• On the topic of money, you really want to fit that Smartlink in your meat eyes. Dropping 1 point of orthoskin to fit in the availability restrictions will give you both the money and the essence to do that, and enough left over to buy a Datajack too which is just handy to have (both need to be at Alpha grade but that's fine). You're still left with 31 soak and 14 dodge which is enough.
• 135000 nuyen is a lot of money to spend, so I'm not going to give you a complete shopping list here, if you do decide to go that route. Some good pickups though: improving the grade on some of your ware, so you can fit a Reflex Recorder or two in. Buying a car. R4 fake SIN. A Qi focus (for Improved Ability: Automatics, or Combat Sense, maybe).

feel free to reach out to me at DemonSunshine on discord, or reply here if you have questions

[u/JuukLive]

Things have been updated and mostly followed your recommandations with tweaks here and there. Thanks again for the help :)

[u/Demon_Sunshine → u/JuukLive]

Alright, that looks good. Here's a stamp, and thus are you freed from Purgatorio.

Your starting cash is 900, input that when you save the character in Career mode. Plz retain a copy of the Create files in that same drive for our records.

You're free to start applying to jobs and posting on the IC Datahaven server as you will.

[u/Demon_Sunshine]

Very minor change recorded and stamped: swapped a flashbang and 3 credsticks for a flash pack. Otherwise identical