Take Advanced Dungeons and Dragons with the setting of Cyberpunk 2020 and you'll have Shadowrun . With both metahuman races and cybertechnology one might think that character generation is difficult. Actually, building a character is fairly simple. Character generation works off a priority point-spread system. The player rates amongst five categories of race, magic, attributes, skills, and resources.
Higher priorities allot higher amounts of points to spend in that particular category.
The number of successes determines how well the player performed the given task. The largest problem with this method, specifically in Shadowrun is that the number of dice can become quite excessive, especially in computer hacking rolls. The gamebook, while well-written, is not put together very well. Often a person will jump back and forth through the book just to compile information on one subject. However, the game is enjoyable and original enough to have captured its own following in the market.